Breakfast Power Bowls can easily be gluten free and include almost anything you want. This one is a combination of healthy super foods, with bacon and hollandaise sauce for a little weekend indulgence. Adventurous cooks learn to vary the bowls they love and keep their meal rotation exciting.
Some sources refer to power bowls as quick and easy. Grabbing a jar of overnight oats or a homemade muffin is quick and easy. My Breakfast Power Bowl is a leisurely weekend meal. Roasting a sweet potatoes for twenty-five minutes, while I drink coffee, is fine with me. My son can whip up his blender hollandaise sauce because he's made it so many times. Creating beautiful bowls can be quick, but we're going for the weekend vibe in our kitchen.
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Ingredients
These are the breakfast ingredients my family likes so that's what went into this bowl. (Okay, they didn't pick quinoa, I did.)
- sweet potato
- quinoa
- bacon
- spinach
- avocado sliced
- cherry tomatoes halved
- eggs
- cilantro
Blender Hollandaise Sauce
- egg yolks
- lemon juice
- butter
See recipe card for exact amounts.
Instructions
In my kitchen we love anything that can be swirled, scattered, drizzled or dotted on a plate. For this plate a decadent drizzle of hollandaise made this an upscale weekend breakfast bowl.
Substitutions
Be inspired by what's in your fridge, your favourite foods and maybe something that's a bit of a stretch. That's how you'll find new combinations you love.
- Sweet potato - Substitute plain potatoes, cooked how you like. If you're travelling store bought gluten free hash browns might be the best choice.
- Quinoa - Substitute with cooked brown rice, extra points if you have some leftover in the fridge.
- Bacon - Go meatless or substitute with sausage or an extra egg.
- Spinach & avocado - Substitute with anything green like broccoli, arugula or kale. I'd use roasted broccoli if I had it in my fridge. A bit of garlic is fine for my breakfast bowl.
- Cherry tomatoes - Substitute sliced fried tomatoes if that's your thing.
- Hollandaise sauce - Substitute spicy homemade chipotle mayonnaise for a little heat.
Variations for Power Bowls
Modern interpretations of Breakfast Power Bowls have no rules. I suggest several power foods like greens, vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds and grains. I included five superfoods from this list I found at Healthline.com.
| Dark leafy greens | Nuts and seeds | Turmeric |
| Berries | Kefir and yogurt | Salmon |
| Green tea | Garlic | Avocado |
| Eggs | Olive oil | Sweet potato |
| Legumes | Ginger | Mushrooms & Seaweed |
Top Tip: Weekend Power Bowls
It's all about the timing so work together in the kitchen with the morning vibe you like. With only a few ingredients that need to be warm the beginning prep is key and the final bowls come together easily. Efficiency comes when you repeat the same recipe just three times.
Breakfast Power Bowl
Ingredients
COOK SWEET POTATOES
- 2 cups cubed sweet potato
- olive oil for roasting
- salt and pepper
POWER BOWL
- ½ cup quinoa, cooked (will make about 2 cups)
- 4 slices cooked bacon diced
- ½ bunch spinach (fresh, wilted or sautéed)
- 1 avocado sliced
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes halved
- 4 eggs
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro
BLENDER HOLLANDAISE SAUCE
- 3 egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- pinch of salt
- ½ cup butter melted and warm
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Toss sweet potato cubes with oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake for 25 minutes.
- Cook quinoa according to package directions. Stir bacon into quinoa and set aside.
- Add raw spinach or briefly cook it until just wilted (steamed in a pan with water or sautéed in some of the bacon grease). Set aside.
BLENDER HOLLANDAISE SAUCE
- Combine yolks, lemon juice and salt in blender.
- Slowly drizzle in melted butter with blender running. Together the blender and the hot butter cook the egg making a silky, smooth hollandaise sauce. Use as soon as possible.
ASSEMBLE POWER BOWLS
- Arrange all ingredients any way you like in a bowl or on a plate.
- Cook eggs to your liking and place in center of each bowl.
- Drizzle with hollandaise, sprinkle with cilantro and serve. Makes 4 large bowls.
Notes
Nutrition
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