Happy Monday! I have so much to tell you today! Most importantly, I got to meet my co host, Tina
What a sweetie! She was in town to run the Rock n Roll Half Marathon. I will let her tell you all about it but spoiler alert: she crushed it!! We certainly need to cook together next time we get together. How great would that be? Please join us with your Meatless Monday recipe and do check out all of the great recipes below. That’s how we all grow!
Today I have a great Warm Salad bowl for you filled with grains, veggies and seeds. If you do a little advance prep, it can easily be thrown together for a quick filling meal. I like to make a batch of grains to use throughout the week to make meal prep quicker. The seeds can be toasted in advance. For this recipe, you can also pre roast the butternut squash and simply re heat when needed. For the dressing, I used juice from 1/2 lemon, lemon flavored Olive Oil and Balsamic.
Warm Rainbow Salad Bowl-Meatless Monday
Recipe Type: lunch/dinner
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Serves: 2-4
A warm whole grains salad packed with a rainbow of veggies
Ingredients
- 1 C Black rice-cooked according to package
- 1 C Quinoa-cooked according to pakage
- 2 C raw spinach
- 2 C Kale or Cabbage shredded
- 1 Butternut squash-cleaned and cut into chunks
- 1/4 c Hemp seeds
- 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/2 C blue cheese
- 1/2 C edamame
- 1 small red beet-spiralized (raw)
- Balsamic vinegar, lemon, olive oil to taste for dressing
- pepper & kosher salt
- siracha seasoning
Instructions
- Prep black rice and quinoa in advance and set aside
- Sprinkle Butternut Squash with salt, pepper and siracha seasoning and roast at 375 for 30 min or until softened
- Meanwhile, toast hemp seeds and sunflower seeds in toaster or skillet for 3-5 min until browned
- In a large bowl assemble:
- spinach, kale/cabbage, rice, quinoa, edamame, squash
- Sprinkle seed mixture and blue cheese
- top with spiralized beet
- Dress with lemon juice, Olive oil, balsamic, salt and pepper
Side note: My absolute new favorite spice is this Siracha powder! Simply genius-Have you seen it?
Warm Salad bowls-What do you think? Siracha powder-Have you tried it?
This warm salad looks amazing!! I love roast pumpkin in salads, and the spiralised beetroot looks divine…such a great combination of seeds and grains. Will have to find a sriracha seasoning to go with it!
I love the spiralized beets too adds a nice touch.
that salad sounds amazing and almost to pretty to eat! I love the idea of a warm salad dinner- yum! I pinned for future use! How fun to meet Tina in person! I know that a blast to say the least! Happy Monday!
It was great to meet in person she was so sweet and cute. Warm salads are great for dinner!
That looks so good! And Sriracha seasoning, huh? I will definitely have to try that out!
oh yes Siracha you have to try it!
I LOVED meeting yooooouu! That time was amazing, I could have sat there all day! 🙂 This salad, sounds ahhhhmazing! This is exactly the kind of salad I Looooovvee!
I know felt like connecting with my long lost little sis! Next time we have to spend more time together. I love the warm salads too!
This looks great! I love warm salads, especially when we’re still in cold weather season. My husband has been teasing me about Meatless Monday the past few weeks so I may have to find another day to sneak in something like this.
What teasing you?! This is really filling maybe he won’t notice but don’t tell anyone you could add chicken or shrimp on top shhh!
I have not tried sriracha powder but now I need to! Looks really good!
Oh you need to! 🙂
How exciting tgat you and Tina got to meet! Beautiful salad and love all the ingredients too!
It was great to meet her! I love the colors too!
So great to meet up! And, yes, you should cook together next time. I can be your taste-tester! That salad looks greta. I revamped an older vegetarian recipe post and linked it up!
Now that would be fun!!
Oh, this speaks to me. I loooove the colors and it’s just a gorgeous thing to look at (in addition to eat, I’m sure!). I’m glad you and Tina got to meet up — looks like it was fun!
It was great to meet in person! I love eating all the colors too!
Yum! I made a warm salad just the other day. I heated up some TJ’s grain salad and put it on top of a big pile of greens… added some nuts and feta and viola!
Your version looks amazing and it is sooooooo cool that met Tina! 🙂
thanks! I do love the warm salads too so easy!
This sounds so good! I’ve never tried black rice before, does it taste different than white rice?
I think it has more flavor and looks more exciting
Mm, love black rice! I’ve never heard of Sriracha powder, but that’s genius. Happy Monday!
Oh you have to find it yummy
That salad looks like perfection!! My recipe isn’t meatless this week, but I’ll be back to link up next week 🙂
I saw!! We’ll give you a pass
That salad looks fantastic!!! Mmmmmmm, now I want one!!
Thanks hope you give it a try
Looks delicious! I have never seen Siracha Powder but now that I have I’ll have to go and find some!
Yea you do!
Jealous!! You two are too cute! The salad looks delicious! I love it when meals are full of color and l bet it tastes as good as it looks!
It was fun to meet up! And yes yummy
This salad sounds absolutely delicious! Especially with the blue cheese…I could add that to any meal!
Me too! Thanks
Sriracha powder – omg I need this in my life. I would put this on everything. I love this warm salad as well – I need a better spiralizer like now – mine doesn’t make the best noodles and I get discouraged. This looks so much more appealing!! I simiply love black rice – what a great addition!
Well thanks and yes find the Siracusa powder
Yum! I adore warm salad bowls and this one looks divine. I’ve not heard of this sriracha powder you speak of. I’ll have to look for it.
It’s sooo good and spicy
My kind of meal 🙂 I LOVE butternut squash. I can’t roast it all in advance because I eat all of the leftovers! lol
Ha ha it is pretty good isn’t it!?
That salad bowl sounds absolutely delicious!!
thanks it really was hope you give it a try!
How AWESOME that you and Tina got to meet! This is a really pretty salad. I’m not much of a fan of beets but it looks good! Thanks for another great idea!
You could for sure leave off the beets I thought it made it look pretty 🙂
so fun that you got to meet tina! i was cheering for the racers on saturday but i didn’t get out to my spot (mile 11.5) until 9am. she was already long gone! 🙂
She is a speedy one!
BEAUTIFUL! Love warm salads… no I haven’t tried Sriracha powder, I bet I would like it though.
If you like spicy food yes it’s amazing!
so fun that you and tina got to meet up! next time I expect a dish! haha
I know! We were bummed we couldn’t cook together.
This salad looks amazing!
thanks I think you would like it!
My mindset has always been: the more colorful the dish, the more delicious it will be!
totally agree 🙂 Unless it’s chocolate
OK OK everyone is cooking with this black rice. I need to learn more because I have never seen black rice in the grocery store and I want to know how it taste and if I would like it. Hmmmm…..those spiralized beets look good too. YES!
You are going to have to come over for dinner one night :0
I love that you and Tina got to meet!!
I need to try the Siracha powder – I could control the spice better with that than the liquid form!!!
I need more warm salad bowls during the winter – I tend to stay away from salads during the cold weather because I want a hot meal.
I found it really satisfying and I like the warm salads too.
Yum, I love salad bowls. I do a lot of grain prep for the week as well. I have a hard time having a meal without a grain. I’m really into Farro right now!
I love farro too and use it a lot!
What a colorful salad. Looks delicious. I love spicy food. That powder I bet is so tasry. Can you get it at a local grocery store or do you need to get it a specialty store?
It is great! I found it at my regular grocery store. Let me know if you try it.
We need to eat more squash! It’s so versatile and I know my tot loves it! We just sometimes get stuck in a veggie rut, you know?
oh yes I know!! I do love squash though and it’s very versatile
Oh my gosh, totally going to make a version of this salad. I have beets in the fridge just waiting for this!
Oh great! I love beets too and was looking for something different to do with them. Thanks for stopping by!
Love warm salad bowls and butternut squash is my favorite!! YUM!
Me too!
That siriacha powder sounds awesome. When you make this for me, you can leave off the beets. ;o) They are pretty much that only veggie I don’t like.
Yes! You are welcome to come over and be my taste tester anytime!
Still so jealous you met Tina! You ladies are awesome!
This salad sounds delicious and it’s also quite beautiful to look at. So many pretty colors!
It was fun to meet her in person. Thanks I was happy with how yummy it was 🙂
This looks delicious! I prefer warm salads if I will be eating salads as a meal. I’ll definitely have to try this out!
Thanks! Warm salads for dinner are great 🙂
You had me at Beets. You won me at spirilized…then lost me at trying to spell that (fail)
Ha ha I don’t even think it’s a real word!
I love bowls especially warm. I’m so jealous you guys got to meet up. I want to meet you both!
Now that would be fun!
Anything with blue cheese sounds good to me 🙂
I love blue cheese too!
How awesome to meet Tina! And wow, look at those beautiful colors in your salad. I definitely need one of those spiralizers so I can make those gorgeous beets!
oh yes you do! They are fun and yes great to meet up with her. She is one speedy girl