Easy and Healthy High Protein Trader Joe’s Poke Bowl Recipe

This delicious 15-minute poke bowl recipe is super easy to make for dinner, and it packs 35 grams of protein and a wide variety of healthy ingredients.

Ingredients

Makes 2 servings, one for dinner and one for lunch.

• 1 Pouch of organic 3-minute microwaveable frozen brown or jasmine rice.
• 2 Persian cucumbers.
• 1 Pack of shelled edamame with sea salt.
• 1 Pack of hot smoked salmon. Substitution- 1 Pack of sesame crusted hardwood smoked ahi tuna.
• 1 Small red onion. This is optional depending on your taste preferences.
• 1 Pack of organic roasted seaweed with sea salt snack. This is optional depending on your taste preferences.
• 1 Pack of crumbled feta cheese. This is optional depending on your taste preferences.
• Soy sauce.
• Fresh cilantro. This is optional depending on your taste preferences.
• Fresh green onion. This is optional depending on your taste preferences.

What Makes This Such a Great Meal

First and foremost, it takes just 3 minutes to make the perfect rice. It is already cooked so all you have to do just is just pop it in the microwave. Also, probably the cleanest product from the frozen section- I mean all it takes is boiling water or steam for Trader Joe’s to make it and put it on the shelf. I do recommend brown rice as it’s healthier and better for glycemic control.

Also, edamame is such a great source of protein and fiber, and it will add 9 grams of protein to one meal. Speaking of the protein, the hot smoked salmon will add another 18 grams of protein, and it will have you experience salmon from a deliciously new angle as it is completely different from the classic lox smoked salmon.

Finally, the seaweed snack will add a touch of our oceans’ micronutrients and taste. All in all making this a very healthy, fresh, delicious and nutritionally dense meal.

Cooking Instructions

1. Place the rice pouch in the microwave for 3 minutes and then let it cool. Divide rice into 2 bowls.
2. Break up the smoked salmon or the ahi tuna into small bites and spread it around on top of the rice.
3. Pierce some holes in the edamame pouch and microwave for 2 minutes and 30 seconds. Let it cool. Place 1/3 of edamame into each bowl on one side of the rice.
4. Cut Persian cucumbers into half circles and place them on the other side of the rice in each bowl.
5. Cut as much red onion as you prefer into thin quarter circles or dice, and then sprinkle over the entire bowl.
6. Add a few dashes of soy sauce.
7. Crumble up 1 tablespoon of feta cheese into each bowl.
8. Chop up green onions and sprinkle over the entire bowl.
9. Pinch off some cilantro leaves and decorate on top.
10. Place 1 to 2 sheets of seaweed snack to top it all off.

This bowl makes a satisfying and protein-packed dinner, and the second serving is perfect for lunch the next day. Meals like this make healthy eating feel easy and sustainable. However, healthy eating is just one piece of the health and wellness puzzle. Another important piece of the puzzle is exercise.

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