Pressure Cooker Greek Harvest Grain Bowls

This is a super easy and fairly healthy meal, ready in less than 30 minutes! If you use steam in the bag spinach, it's even one pot.

1 lb ground lamb
1 onion
3 cloves of garlic (adjust to your tastes)
16 oz chopped frozen spinach
16 oz bag of Harvest Grain blend from Trader Joe's
Lamb stock if you can find it, beef stock or water.
Salt, Greek seasoning

1. Turn on pot, hit saute and start.
2. Add chopped onion, garlic and ground lamb to pot once hot.  Break up lamb and stir well.  Cook until lamb is brown and onion is translucent. Turn off pot.
3. Add grain blend to pot. Add stock or water.  Add 1 tsp salt and 2 tsp Greek seasoning.  Add additional tsp salt if you are using water or unsalted stock.  Stir well.
4. Put on lid, lock and seal.
5. Cook on high pressure for 7 minutes.*
6. While pot is going, cook the spinach.  Drain and squeeze water out.
7. Let pot sit 5 minutes before releasing the pressure.  Then open pot, add cooked spinach and stir well.

*When I made this I cooked it for 5 minutes and waited 5 minutes more before release. It was cooked well except the garbanzo beans which were a bit hard for my tastes but edible.  So I increased the time a bit.  There are a few recipes online using the product in a pressure cooker.  Time varies from 3 minutes with a 10 minute NPR time, to 10 minutes.  You may want to adjust accordingly. 

Meal Plan for August 1-15

It’s August! Summer break is flying by. I’ll be going to visit my family for a week from the 15th-21st (sadly the hubs just started a new job so he can’t take time off to go) so not really making a monthly meal plan. Still eating mostly out of the freezer and pantry- trying to save money by only buying produce, dairy, bread and any other perishables.

Here’s my plan for the first half of August:

-Instant Pot Cheesy Taco Pasta with green salad 
-Greek marinated chicken with baked potatoes and whatever veggies we have around 
-Chicken Burrito bowls w/ Mexican squash casserole 
-Greek Harvest Grain bowls (Trader Joe’s Harvest Grain blend cooked with lamb and spinach) 
-Beef Fajitas probably with salad
-Leftover veggie and black bean burgers from the freezer with carrot “fries”

I’m sure while I’m gone my husband will likely eat frozen stuff from Trader Joes and/or anything he can make in the toaster oven (mini pizzas) and air fryer (chicken or fish, and of course, tater tots). Hopefully he’ll remember to eat a vegetable or two.