Fried rice breakfast bowl, healthy

If you’re tired of rotating the same two things for breakfast all the time, try this healthy fried rice breakfast bowl. It’s not fried, but it kinda tastes like fried rice. This satisfying savory breakfast idea with eggs is also simple to turn into a meal prep recipe too.

We've been told “this ain’t no fucking sushi bowl” before about a recipe, so how worse can it get? Well, this much. We made something that was born out of a craving we rarely had before: “we want something bland”. We want something that is satisfying, but kinda low-key. Kinda like sushi. Kinda like fried rice. And all that for breakfast. No spices (except wasabi and tamari sauce), no overwhelming flavors, something comforting that won’t make us want to sleep for 2 hours after. This tasty breakfast rice bowl with eggs was born.

Moreover, recently we've been doing intermittent fasting on and off and having this bowl with salmon, but for lunch or dinner. So satisfying!

Healthy Rice Breakfast Bowl Ingredients

Eggs. You need two eggs for this bowl and you can prepare them in any way you find most satisfying and simple. We just scrambled ours, boiling would also be a good healthier option and we'd like to try making them into an omelet like this one.

Cooked rice. We love plain, white rice – it’s simple to cook and it’s so versatile. We are aware white rice has a high glycemic index, so if you’re looking for a healthier option, we recommend using quinoa or brown rice.

Green vegetables. Scallions, cabbage, avocado and cucumbers were what we wanted and had on our plate. Wouldn’t change a thing, but you can also add some spinach, some herbs like cilantro or basil, or steamed or stir-fried broccoli.

Sauce ingredients. We made the sauce by combining tamari, wasabi and sesame oil, although you can also go with just one of those things and it will be good. The combination is good though.

How it comes together

The first thing you start with is cooking some rice. We do not own or know how to cook rice in a rice cooker, so we do ours on the stove following the instructions on the package or in our head if we've thrown out the package. It goes: wash rice, add to a pot with twice as much water, bring to a boil, reduce to simmer covered until water is almost gone and then let sit. This works 99% of the time. The exception is when we forget we have something on the stove and let it burn burn burn the ring of rice and then cry myself to sleep.

Next, prepare the cabbage and the eggs. As we mentioned already, you can prepare the eggs however you like them – we usually go for scrambled, because eggs taste the same to us and it’s the only way we know how to prepare them without failing 50% of the time. Someone’s been using a lot of statistics today. Probably because we want you to know that we are intelligent and pretty and not just a hunchback who can type.

For the cabbage, just chop it roughly, as you would do if you were lazy or scared to use knives, then sear it in a nonstick pan on the stove for 3-4 minutes. You do not want to overcook it to the point where it’s soft, you want it to still be crunchy.

Next, wash and chop the other vegetables. Cucumbers, scallions and avocado. Scallions – thinly, cucumbers and avocado – roughly.

Mix the “dressing”. Combine wasabi, sesame oil and tamari sauce.

Put everything in a bowl, and have a bite of everything with the sauce.

Enjoy it!

Options and Meal Prep

This healthy breakfast rice bowl recipe, for us, makes one serving. Gaical doesn’t share food as we know. So if you do want to share it with someone else or with your future self during the next, 2-3 days, we recommend just making more of everything.

More rice, more vegetables, more eggs (we recommend using another cooking method – maybe trying the omelette thing or turning the eggs into baked egg cups). Keep it all separate to be able to heat up whatever you want to be warm. For example, we like to heat up the rice in the toxic incubator called the microwave. You can add a bit of water when reheating if your rice is dry.

Other options will be to use different:

• Grain: choose between quinoa or brown rice if you’re going for a healthier option. Not sure we'd love cauliflower rice here.
• Vegetables: Broccoli, cilantro, spinach, kale, basil or zucchini will also be great additions here.
• Protein. If you can’t have eggs, you can try some tofu or salmon to make this recipe.

Okay, now let’s get more specific.