Best Buddha Bowl Recipe

Power-packed vegan buddha bowl recipe that has your essential grains, greens and proteins. So many possibilities and such less work, this is your go-to everyday recipe.

Hello HTS Community

Let’s start with the question, what is a Buddha bowl? A Budhha bowl is often a vegetarian meal that serves small portions of essential food items, namely, Grains, Greens and Proteins. These food items are not mixed and rather served artfully on in a bowl or plate.

In this Buddha bowl recipe I’ve incorporated quinoa, chickpeas, spinach, kale, broccoli, sweet potato, carrot, radish and a tahini-lemon dressing. For more amazing salad and dressing recipes refer to my Everyday Salad post.

Buddha bowls are easy to make and you can use whatever is available in your kitchen. I’ve listed down multiple options under each category that you can choose from. But don’t stick to just these, and use your imagination.

• Grains: Quinoa, Bulgar, Dalia, Rice, Brown rice, Oats, Barley
• Greens: Broccoli, Zucchini, Brussels sprouts, Lettuce, Cabbage, Microgreens, Kale, Spinach, Bok choy, Okra, Asparagus, Arugula
• Protein: Chickpeas, Tofu, Paneer, Red kidney beans, Soyabean, Lentils, Mushrooms, Edamame
• Other optional elements: Carrots, Beets, Radish, Green Peas, Toasted sesame, Avocado, Pumpkin, Sweet potato, Eggplant, Tomatoes, Peanuts, Walnuts

The idea is to include all nutritional elements packed in a bowl. I often use a dressing on top of the buddha bowl to maximize flavor and aroma.

Ingredients you will need:

• Cooking Quinoa
  • Quinoa- 1/2 cup
  • Water- 3/4 cup
  • Salt- to taste
• Preparing Chickpeas
  • Boiled or canned chickpeas- 1 cup
  • Oil- 1 teaspoon
  • Salt and black pepper- to taste
  • Paprika- 1 teaspoon
• Other vegetables
  • Broccoli- 1.5 cup
  • Carrot- 1 medium
  • Sweet potato- 1/2 cup, cooked and chopped
  • Spinach and Kale- handful each
  • Radish- 1 small, thinly sliced
• Dressing
  • Tahini- 2 teaspoons
  • Garlic- 1 clove
  • Lemon juice- 1 teaspoon
  • Salt and black pepper- to taste
  • Sugar- 1/2 teaspoon
  • Water- 2 teaspoon

Steps to make Buddha Bowl:

• Start with rinsing the quinoa with water and then adding 3/4 cup water with salt to cook it. Cover the pot and cook quinoa for 15 minutes on medium flame. Turn off the heat after that and use a fork to fluff it. Keep aside and let it cool down.

• While the quinoa cooks, in another pan heat oil and add cooked chickpeas along with the spices mentioned in ingredients. Mix everything and cook for 1 minute. Set aside.

• Time to steam broccoli and carrots. In a pot boil water and steam these vegetables for a minute. Keep aside once done. We want to lightly steam them and preserve the crunch, else, they will feel mushy.

• Chop radish in thin slices, and sweet potato in chunks. Keep all prepared vegetables in a plate.

• The next step is to make the dressing. Add all ingredients of the tahini dressing in a bowl and mix them to make a creamy dressing to put on top of our buddha bowl.

• To assemble the buddha bowl, start plating the leafy greens, followed by quinoa and other vegetables. Put the prepared chickpeas in one side of the bowl. Finish by drizzling the tahini dressing.