bulgur

We love recipes that are fast, easy, and healthy! Like this recipe for a Mexican-flavored raw bulgur bowl from FitSugar reader Sprint2TheTable, who posted it in our Healthy Recipe group.

Did you know you can prepare bulgur RAW in 15 minutes?

The crunch from the raw bulgur was awesome, especially with the creaminess of the avocado. I think it's a lot like oatmeal so I ate it for breakfast. Think about it: many people put salsa on their eggs. You can often find avocado on breakfast sandwiches. Why wouldn't you put it on bulgur?

If you can't stomach Mexican that early, try it out at lunch! It's a great way to add more raw food (and protein!) to your diet.

Read on for the recipe.

A vegan lifestyle doesn't mean eschewing hearty meals like stuffed peppers. Here, GraceDickinson shares a lovely photo of her favorite recipe in the Savory Sights group.With a few last bell peppers still camping out in the summer garden, I snagged them all up this past weekend before they went to the ground. Initially planning on throwing them in with some other veggies and doing a veggie roast, I decided instead to do something more creative: stuffed peppers.

Check out Savory Sights for more pictures of her mouthwatering meal. Do you have an image of something delicious that you recently made or enjoyed? If so, be sure to upload it in our YumSugar Community!

I have always been a fan of the burger. In my vegetarian days, the scent of hamburgers cooking on the grill made my tummy rumble, and veggie burgers never satisfied my yearning for the all-American grillable sandwich. Taste buds aside, ground beef is not necessarily the healthiest choice. These days, I add whole grains to my hamburger patties. Not only does this add fiber to a food otherwise lacking, but the additional grains mean each burger contains less fat and cholesterol. For fortifying my burgers, bulgur is my grain of choice (it's a culinary tradition in healthy Mediterranean cooking to add this grain to ground meat), but brown rice works well too.

If you're grilling this weekend, check out this recipe when you read more

Traditionally, a falafel is a fried ball or patty made from ground chickpeas or fava beans that's served in a pita with an assortment of toppings. This recipe isn't exactly a falafel, it's more like a healthy burger inspired by the Middle Eastern specialty.

The slider-sized patties are a mixture of ground beef, bulgur wheat, and spices. The recipe calls for a quick yogurt sauce, yellow peppers, and cabbage to top off the pitas, but feel free to get creative. Feta cheese and tomatoes would be delicious. Get the uncomplicated and satisfying recipe when you read more