Breakfast Bowl that Reduces Inflammation

This colorful, satisfying breakfast grain bowl is a nutritional powerhouse, packed with ingredients like black beans, roasted broccoli and beets that fight inflammation to start your day. The egg is perfectly cooked, with firm whites and a slightly jammy yolk. If you want the yolk fully cooked, cook it an extra two minutes. This grain bowl is vibrant and interesting with plenty of textural contrast, and we know you won’t be able to stop making it.

Start your day off on the right foot with this Anti-Inflammatory Breakfast Bowl. It’s packed with legumes and veggies that have a wealth of health benefits to help fight inflammation. Quinoa, along with a jammy egg on top, delivers plenty of protein to keep you full and energized. When you have guests in town, this is the ideal weekend breakfast for the cool weather. And if you can’t get around to making it in the morning, it can double as a nourishing dinner. Continue reading for our best tips on how to prepare this delicious breakfast grain bowl, including possible substitutions for the ingredients.

These are the most important hints we picked up while developing and testing this recipe in our Test Kitchen to ensure that it works,
tastes great, and is also good for you! We use two baking sheets to cook the vegetables in this recipe because the squash and beets need a longer time in the oven to roast. To make keeping track of the cooking easier, start roasting the broccoli when the squash and beets have 15 minutes left.

The root vegetables and broccoli will all finish at the same time this way. If you have leftover roasted veggies from dinner the night before, use them in place of the ones here.
We love what we call a “jammy” egg in this recipe. The whites are completely set, but the yolk is soft and spreadable. Cook the eggs for an additional two minutes to achieve a firmer yolk.

In this recipe, substitute any other winter squash for the acorn squash. If you don’t care to work with red beets, yellow or chioggia beets work well, too. If you want to swap out the broccoli for something else, cauliflower or Brussels sprouts are both good options.
You can make quinoa using our Basic Quinoa recipe,

or use any leftover quinoa you may have on hand. To ensure that it stays hot, simply reheat it in the microwave just before you are ready to assemble the bowls.