Slow Cooker Brown Rice Veggie Bowl
Slow Cooker Brown Rice Veggie Bowl has zucchini, red bell pepper, and Feta for an easy meatless meal or side dish that’s a great way to use extra zucchini! And this has a lot of veggies, so it’s lower in carbs than you might think!
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Summer means garden-fresh vegetables, and this Slow Cooker Brown Rice Veggie Bowl is a simple way to cook them without heating up the house. I made this with my nephew Jake and even though we ended up tasting it at the end of a long cooking day when we had sampled lots of other things, we gobbled this up and I was excited to have the leftovers another day.
The recipe couldn’t be simpler. Start by cooking brown rice in the slow cooker with vegetable stock, spices, and a chopped onion until the rice is nearly done. While the rice cooks, chop up vegetables of your choice; we used zucchini and red bell pepper, but you could also substitute other vegetables that taste good with Feta. (And if you have a lot of zucchini that needs to be used, you can use even more zucchini in this recipe!)
Add the vegetables and cook until they’re tender, then stir in some crumbled Feta and serve, topped with a little more Feta sprinkled on top. Personally I think this would be fabulous for a meatless dinner and it would also be great as a side dish when it’s zucchini season but you don’t want to heat up the house!
How to Make Slow Cooker Brown Rice Veggie Bowl:
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- Chop up a medium-sized onion. Put the onion, brown rice, vegetable broth, Greek Seasoning (affiliate link), Spike Seasoning (affiliate link), and dried dill weed (affiliate link) in the slow cooker and cook for 1 hour 20 minutes hours on high. (I used Uncle Ben’s Brown Rice (affiliate link); other types of brown rice may take longer to cook.)
- Cut up about 3 cup of zucchini pieces. I cut each zucchini into six or eight long pieces and trimmed away the middle white part before I cut the smaller pieces.
- Chop up one red bell pepper.
- After one hour and 2 minutes, check the rice; it should be close to done but still have some bite.
- Gently stir in zucchini and red pepper and cook about 45 minutes more. If you want the veggies more well-done you might want to cook it 5-10 minutes longer.
- While the vegetables cook, crumble up 6 oz. Feta, more or less to taste.
- When veggies are done, stir in most of the crumbled Feta, saving enough to sprinkle a little on the top of each serving, Enjoy!
- This makes six servings if you’re serving as a side dish or small bowl meal. If the bowl is going to be the entire meal it is probably only 4 or 5 servings.
More Meatless Dinners with Rice:
Slow Cooker Spicy Brown Rice and Black Bean Cheesy Bowl
Cheesy Vegetarian Brown Rice Casserole with Broccoli and Mushrooms
Slow Cooker Brown Rice Mexican Bowls
Slow Cooker Brown Rice Veggie Bowl is an easy meatless meal or side dish from the slow cooker. I'm a fan of Uncle Ben's Brown Rice (affiliate link); other brown rice may take a bit longer to cook. You can use either zucchini or yellow summer squash. If you have a lot of zucchini this is a good recipe to use even more zucchini! I used a Crock-Pot 3.5 Quart Slow Cooker (affiliate link) for this recipe, but any slow cooker that’s 3-4 quarts will work. This recipe created by Kalyn with suggestions and tasting assistance from Jake. Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.
Slow Cooker Brown Rice Veggie Bowl
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6
Serving Size:
1
Amount Per Serving:
Calories: 144Total Fat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 25mgSodium: 845mgCarbohydrates: 15gFiber: 2gSugar: 5gProtein: 7g
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
The vegetables in this Slow Cooker Brown Rice Veggie Bowl are good low-glycemic choices, but the use of rice makes this limited to Phase 2 or 3 for the original South Beach Diet. (I like Uncle Ben’s Brown Rice (affiliate link) in recipes like this, and the converting process makes the rice lower on the glycemic index. This is probably high in carbs for traditional low-carb diet plans, although if you look at the nutritional information you’ll see it’s not as high in carbs as you might imagine.
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8 Comments on “Slow Cooker Brown Rice Veggie Bowl”
Ann, hope you enjoy!
Thanks Zerrin! We really liked it.
What an amazing combination! Would make a great light lunch.
This sounds delicious and I have all the ingredients so will give it a try.
Ann
Thanks Lydia and Joanne. We really loved this for an easy meal that's heavy on veggies. I'm going to try it again with fresh green beans when they're in season.
Whoa! This is veggie loaded in a crazy way. Love it!
I always forget about making rice in the slow cooker. What a great way to keep the kitchen cool in the summer, and still incorporate summer veggies into a completely cooked in the slow cooker meal.
Janel, hope you enjoy!
I love bowl meals. What an easy way to make rice. I definitely want to give this a try.