This red pepper and rosemary bulgur wheat salad is just the thing for a simple, quick healthy meal. Delicious hot or cold, it keeps you fuller for longer satisfying your hunger.
A bulgur what salad is just the thing for a healthy lunch box option.
Especially when you’re looking for something a bit different from your normal traditional packed lunch!
The recipe takes just half an hour to make and leaves you with four healthy, wholesome portions of a fantastically tasty bulgur wheat salad.
Not only that but bulgur wheat is an excellent source of complex carbohydrate which keeps you fuller for longer, and less prone to drops in sugar levels which can cause fatigue.
Healthy, wholesome, low calorie and providing nearly 50% of your daily recommended dietary fibre requirement.
I can’t think of any more reasons NOT to have this recipe as one of your quick healthy meal options! Can you?
If you’ve not heard of bulgur wheat before, it’s a chewy and nutty-tasting Middle Eastern whole wheat grain.
It’s not only delicious and healthy but rich in vitamins and minerals and low in fat and calories too!
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If you saw the update in the previous recipe, you’ll know that Lady Lynne and I do have plans for this coming weekend. We’re off to London!
So, just one more recipe to bring you this Thursday, baked spiralized sweet potato with spinach pesto (I’ve been at that spiralizer again) and then I’ll be leaving my kitchen (for a change) this weekend.
So, until Thursday and more spiralization, catch you then!
Red Pepper And Rosemary Bulgur Wheat Recipe
You can find bulgur wheat in most supermarkets near the pasta and rice section.
I’d also love to hear what you think of my recipe in the comments below and please do rate my recipe 5* if you like it! 🙂
Red Pepper and Rosemary Bulgur Wheat Salad
Ingredients
- 300 g bulgur wheat
- 450 ml hot vegetable stock
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 red pepper diced
- 6 spring onions sliced
- 100 g mixed salad leaves
- Salt and pepper to season
Instructions
- Place bulgur wheat in a small saucepan
- Add the hot vegetable stock, cover with a lid and simmer over a medium heat for 12 – 15 minutes until the bulgur wheat is tender and has absorbed all of the stock
- Combine the cooked bulgur wheat with the rosemary, red pepper and spring onions
- Serve on a bed of mixed salad leaves
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy
Rosemary is such an under-used herb, especially in the summer months. It’s such a same, as it’s one of our favourites and I love that you have used it in a salad.
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
I love rosemary Dannii. And I agree it’s definitely an under-used herb!
It’s so fragrant don’t you think? It compliments so many dishes and no just lamb, which I feel is kind of it’s traditional pairing. There’s so many vegetarian options too.
Susie @ SuzLyfe
I have never thought to pair red bells and rosemary, but I can see it being fantastic. And you know that I love bulghur! I need to pick some up, actually. And our weather has been more typical of yours lately–rain and fog and mist. BRING ON THE SUN, DAMN IT!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
So hoping that Lynne and I get a decent rain free weekend in London Suz. Plans are to do a fair bit of touring, hopefully from the top of an open top double decker bus where I can then try and get as many good pics as possible, of the main landmarks. As well as touring on foot too.
But yeah, the combination of the bulgur enthused by the rosemary really goes together well! Hope you get a chance to try it! 🙂
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha yes! When the lighting is MAGIC I quickly get a new recipe out or I have been reshooting OLD scary ones!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
So true Rebecca! I have a whole list of scary photographs that need re-shooting too! I’m constantly updating old photographs, as well as taking new ones.
It’s never ending is it? (But enjoyable 😉 )
Shashi at RunninSrilankan
Oh Neil, I cannot tell you how many times I’ve chased a sunbeam around my kitchen – heck sometimes even around my house! This salad sounds wonderful and your photos are well worth all the chasing you did!
I hope y’all have a wonderful weekend in London – I misunderstood and thought y’all went last weekend – but looking forward to hearing about it next week and the spiralized salad on Thursday!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
Thanks Shashi. But it’s a constant challenge isn’t it? Trying to get that “right” lighting situation. Some I get the way I want (like this recipe) and some I don’t. And the ones I don’t get the way I want then have to go back on the “re-do” list.
As I was just saying to Rebecca in the comment back to her, it’s never ending is it? But enjoyable and I wouldn’t rather be doing anything else! 🙂
Can’t wait until London. It’s such a short break this weekend, but it feels like I haven’t had any time off in ages!
GiGi Eats
I could try and make this with riced cauliflower! That would be very pleasant I think! 🙂 You’re always helping me come up with some new creative ideas!
neil@neilshealthymeals.com
This with riced cauliflower would be perfect Gigi. That is a brilliant idea.
Always happy to help with any new ideas! 🙂
Lynne and I made cauliflower rice pizza bases on Saturday and they turned out pretty good! 🙂