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This Quinoa Kale Power Bowl is packed with vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and filling protein! 

This Quinoa Kale Power Bowl is packed with vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and filling protein! Plus it is a super easy recipe that is perfect for lunch or dinner!

Oh hey! Culinary school has taken over my life the past few weeks, but I’ll fill you in on that at another time. Today, today is about food!!! More specifically filling, healthy food!

Even I cannot live on bread alone. Yes, I can. But it’s best if I don’t!

This Quinoa Kale Power Bowl is packed with vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and filling protein! Plus it is a super easy recipe that is perfect for lunch or dinner!
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Indeed you know the ubiquitous Power Bowl that has popped up at every food establishment? The one that has a sprinkle of quinoa, a few leaves of kale and a whole lot of filler; and yet somehow they still justify charging $15 for it?

The first week of school I traded some fudge brownies for one such salad (Best trade ever, by the way!) and I decided for free it was awesome but for $15 I could do so much better!

This is my version. It is downright full of healthy, fresh vegetables, filling protein and just a hint of sweet from the grapes. It’s just how I do.

This Quinoa Kale Power Bowl is packed with vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and filling protein! Plus it is a super easy recipe that is perfect for lunch or dinner!

Triple protein from the quinoa, turkey and feta; healthy and filling fat from the avocado; and vitamins and minerals from the kale, peppers and grapes! It is seriously packed to the max with healthful fresh ingredients.

A good approach is to warm up the quinoa and turkey before assembling the bowl, but it tastes delicious cold packed for lunch too. I should know…I ate it everyday for over a month!

But seriously, how could you not want to dig right into a salad that looks like that?

The COLORS!!!

Makes me happy.

And when you are exhausted and starving and trying to cram both eating and resting into your 30 minute lunch break, color is everything.

This Quinoa Kale Power Bowl is packed with vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and filling protein! Plus it is a super easy recipe that is perfect for lunch or dinner!

Drizzle it with a low-fat rosemary thyme balsamic vinaigrette, and you have yourself a filling meal that will power you through lunch, the afternoon crash, your workout and beyond.

This Quinoa Kale Power Bowl is packed with vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and filling protein! Plus it is a super easy recipe that is perfect for lunch or dinner!

This is also quite possibly the easiest lunch or dinner ever. I’ve been making it with rotisserie chicken or turkey breast that I pick up on my way home from the gym.

“Hi my name is Lazy, I mean Lindsey, and I am too tired to roast my own chicken.”

Whatevs. Something has to give.

If you have 10 minutes and some spare chicken breasts, I suggest my ridiculously easy, foolproof Rosemary Chicken Breasts. They are so easy it’s actually embarrassing that I ever buy rotisserie chicken.

Half the time I omit the turkey or chicken and add an extra ¼ avocado and a sprinkle of toasted walnuts to make an equally filling and vegetarian salad.

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Quinoa Kale Power Bowl

This Quinoa Kale Power Bowl is packed with vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and filling protein! Plus it is a super easy recipe that is perfect for lunch or dinner!
Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 15 minutes
Total: 20 minutes
Servings: 4 people

Ingredients 
 

For the Salad:

  • ½ cup uncooked Quinoa
  • Roasted turkey or chicken breast
  • Sprinkle paprika
  • Pinch salt
  • 4 cups baby kale
  • 1 avocado
  • 1 cup sliced sweet bell peppers I use a mix of mini peppers. They’re cute. I can’t help it
  • 4 ounces feta
  • Sliced red grapes
  • Toasted walnuts

Low Fat Balsamic Vinaigrette:

  • ½ cup balsamic vinegar
  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
  • 2 teaspoons honey more to taste
  • 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary minced
  • ¾ teaspoon fresh thyme leaves only
  • kosher salt to taste
  • pepper to taste

Instructions 

General instructions for cooking quinoa:

  • I cook a huge batch of quinoa at the beginning of the week but I use a 2:1 ratio of water to quinoa, so for every 1 cup of quinoa, I use 2 cups of water. Rinse your quinoa, add to a pot with the water, several tablespoons of olive oil and several pinches of salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat, cover and reduce the heat to low; simmer on low for 10-15 minutes or until the quinoa has absorbed all the water and is tender.

For the salad:

  • Combine everything in a bowl. Sprinkle quinoa and turkey with paprika and a pinch of salt.
  • That’s it. Criminally easy.

For the Balsamic:

  • Combine everything in a jar or salad shaker. Shake vigorously until combined. Taste an adjust honey, salt and pepper.

Nutrition

Calories: 427kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 29g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 17g | Cholesterol: 25mg | Sodium: 400mg | Potassium: 737mg | Fiber: 9g | Sugar: 10g | Vitamin A: 8076IU | Vitamin C: 116mg | Calcium: 341mg | Iron: 3mg
Course: Salad
Cuisine: American, Peruvian
Calories: 427
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This Quinoa Kale Power Bowl is packed with vitamins, minerals, healthy fats and filling protein! Plus it is a super easy recipe that is perfect for lunch or dinner!

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27 Comments

  1. I love all the beautiful colors in this power bowl! It looks amazing and exactly the kind of lunch I would love to have every day too! Hope you are enjoying school so far 🙂

    1. Thanks, Kelly! The colors are the best part…well aside from the test! I am enjoying school but it has been crazy!!!

  2. Sounds like a great salad. Love the colors as well. Will have to give it a try for my daughters, they eat salads pretty well.

  3. Lindsey! I love a good power bowl and this one looks great! I’m going to be even lazier than a rotisserie chicken and crack open a can of chickpeas to make my vego-version 🙂
    Sometimes a girl needs a power bowl she can make to keep herself feeling like a rainbow even though she is busy as all get out 🙂
    Good luck with school!

  4. this power bowl looks super healthy! Hope you are having fun at culinary school Lindsey 🙂

    1. It is that…trying to counteract all the sweets! I am totally loving school…an update to come soon! 🙂

  5. Can’t wait to hear more about Culinary school!! Hope you are enjoying it! I LOVE quinoa bowls like this!!!! pinned!!