Black bean quinoa bowls | vegan meal prep

These black bean quinoa bowls are high-protein, high-fiber, vegan, flavorful and healthy. So if you’re looking for a satisfying meal prep recipe with black beans – this one is for you!

Let us know if we're overdoing it with the bean recipes lately…If you don’t like beans you probably hate us right now or if you’re not a negative person – we're simply nothing to you.

But if you do like beans…Well, you’re in luck because this black bean and quinoa bowl is good. It’s like a burrito bowl, but not really.

We’ve got some black beans, some quinoa, some cucumber basil guacamole, some herby cream cheese sauce and some vegetables on the side. It’s all healthy, vegan, gluten-free and you can meal prep it on Sunday or Monday or whichever day you want. This recipe is also great if you’re doing the 7-day vegan challenge!

Now, you know how we feel about meal prep. We'll pretend we're one of those positive people who don’t know what the word hate means…This leaves us with: Meal prep means nothing to us. Specifically, the old food part about it makes us deeply sad.

However, we discovered we can tolerate food that’s been in the fridge for about 3 days, not a second longer. We simply need to be able to change it up a bit.

And this bowl, well it allowed us to do just that! We ate the leftovers for 3 days and made variations of it.

Here’s How You Make The Quinoa Black Bean Bowls

Step 1. If you’re lucky enough to have grown up in a family that uses knives to open cans and believes can openers are for the rich folks, you know the first step. You take a can of black beans and run a knife through the top to open it. If you’re rich and spoiled, use a can opener or buy one of those cans where you can simply pull the top part out.

Step 2. Rinse and drain those beans and, we've mentioned this in another post – DO NOT DRINK THE LIQUID! We felt we needed to repeat that.

Step 3. Chop whatever vegetable you have in the house. Broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, radishes, cilantro

Step 4. Go back in time and cook quinoa yesterday, so you have it ready.

Step 5. Say a prayer the avocado you bought 2 days ago is good now, open it and if it is – make this guacamole.

Step 6. Also, make this herby “cream cheese” sauce, and no there’s no cream cheese in it, because it’s vegan. We get asked about this A LOT!

Step 7. Go back in time again, before you start with the guacamole and start cooking the beans. You can do step 5 and 6 in the meantime to be more efficient, professional, impressive and beautiful.

Step 8. Cook the beans in a non-stick pan with all the vegetables you want.

Step 9. Arrange the bowl as if you’re going to share with others, but don’t actually share, because you won’t have food tomorrow.

Step 10. Eat.

And that is it. It’s sooooooo simple. It’s like a walk in the park. A walk in the park, when there’s a storm, trees are falling down and you’re running so you don’t get hit by lightning. Just kidding.

No really, it’s not fast, but this bowl won’t take more than 30-40 minutes. Because there are so many parts to prepare, you’ll need to multitask, but it’s actually worth losing 10 points of your IQ. If you’re not in a hurry and want to try something healthy, but kinda different – make this.