Buddha Bowls: 100 Nourishing One-Bowl Meals [A Cookbook]

First I apologize if any of my list of recipes in this book is a mess, there's a lot of them so I used dictation and though I tripled checked it, I'm sure a goof or two got left in (seriously, even with spellcheck and my eyeballs reviewing it, this almost got posted with "LamP kebab" left unedited)..

Okay now that, that is out of the way, I'd recommend this book to anyone who is enjoying simple bowl breakfasts, lunches, or dinners. I gave up meat last year and things like bowls (and salads) just make life easy for me, especially since the hubby, who didn't give up meat, also likes them (he describes them as burritos without the tortilla).

While this book does have a lot of meat based recipes, it also has a lot of vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free options and they're all labeled. I do feel like most of the meat based ones could also be used as recipes for those with plant based diets by substituting. There's always tofu but nowadays there's also brands like Gardein and Beyond Meat who make excellent meat replacements for those of us who don't care about cooking enough to cook them up from scratch. I am definitely one of the ones not making my own meat alternatives as I kind of hate cooking. That's another reason I'd recommend this book. If you too dislike page after page of ingredients and directions. Bake this, fry that, boil this? Most of the things in this book don't require much skill. Some do require multiple types of cooking but overall it is mostly basic enough for me.

Sauces and dressings:

- Avocado Green Goddess Dressing
- Avocado Sauce
- Basic Everyday Vinaigrette
- Chimichurri Sauce
- Creamy Feta Sauce
- Essential Pesto Sauce with Any Herb or Leafy Greens
- Light and Creamy Goat Cheese Sauce
- Miso-ginger Sauce
- Peanut sauce
- Raita
- Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
- Tahini Sauce
- Yogurt Sauce

Breakfast Bowls:

- Coconut Quinoa
- Apple Pie Farro
- Blackberry Millet
- Maple-Vanilla overnight oats
- Pomegranate and Freekeh breakfast Tabbouleh
- Maple-Masala Winter Squash
- Chai-spiced Multigrain Porridge
- Sweet potato breakfast bowl
- Slow cooker Miso oat and egg
- Golden milk chia seed
- Vitamin C Papaya
- Spinach and mushroom pesto
- Black bean and chorizo
- Slow cooker Congee
- Buckwheat and black bean
- Scrambled chickpea
- Crispy potato and smoked salmon
- Tofu scramble with kale and brussels sprouts

Fish and seafood bowls:

- Lentil and smoked salmon nicoise
- Almond-quinoa and salmon
- Smoked salmon and soba noodle bowls
- Moroccan salmon and MIllet
- Bittersweet citrus and salmon
- Salmon teriyaki with miso-braised kale
- Tomato-braised cod and barley
- Sesame tuna
- Shrimp summer rolls
- Vietnamese zucchini noodles and shrimp
- Balsamic shrimp and farro
- Freekah w/ caramelized onions, warm tomatoes, and seared fish
- Superfood salmon
- Brown rice with seared fish and chimichurri

Chicken and turkey bowls:

- Ginger peanut soba noodle
- Green curry chicken and quinoa
- Quinoa and chicken taco bowls with cilantro lime dressing
- Dukkah-crusted chicken and barley
- Harissa chicken
- Warm autumn chicken and wild rice
- BBQ chicken quinoa
- Chimichurri chicken
- Peachy basil chicken and rice
- Spicy Thai chicken and brown rice
- Quick chicken and sweet potato Pho
- Chicken Kofta
- Herbed chicken and root vegetable
- Smoky lemon Brussels sprout with turkey meatballs
- Turkey and cabbage stirfry with almond butter sauce

Beef and lamb bowls:

- steak fajita spaghetti squash
- Summertime green goddess steak
- Beef and broccoli
- Korean-style beef with zucchini noodles
- Miso noodle bowl with stir-fried beef
- Ginger beef
- Winter chili bowl with beef, beans, and greens
- Greek power bowl
- Stuffed eggplant with spiced Lamb
- Lamb kebab
- Lentil meatball with sweet potato noodles and green Tahini
- Lentil quinoa with Harissa lamb meatballs
- Cauliflower Tabbouleh with lamb meatballs
- Lamb and roasted cauliflower taco bowl with chimichurri

Vegetable Bowls:

- super green quinoa
- Crispy white bean and pesto
- Green goddess quinoa with crispy tofu
- Za’atar chickpea
- Brown rice and kale pesto
- cauliflower falafel power
- Herb chickpea and Bulgur
- Butternut squash and kale
- Lentil and roasted tomatillo
- Banh Mi
- Thai coconut curry
- Vegetarian sushi
- Spring soba
- Broccoli rice and egg
- Cauliflower pad Thai
- Spicy sesame tofu and rice
- chili maple tofu
- Masala chickpea
- Spiced bean and mushroom with roasted red pepper sauce
- harvest macro
- Turmeric-ginger cauliflower and lentil
- Sweep potato and lentil taco
- Chipotle sweet potato
- Moroccan-spiced chickpeas
- Winter squash and farro macro
- Beet falafel
- Ethiopian-spiced red lentil with greens
- Turmeric-roasted vegetable
- Chili-lime portobello

Fruit bowls:

- Summer fruit salad
- Strawberry banana nice cream
- pumpkin pie cheesecake
- Winter fruit salad
- Creamy Freekeh with honey balsamic stewed strawberries
- Ricotta and honey roasted plum with crunchy buckwheat
- Lime-avocado pudding
- chamomile poached pear
- chocolate-tahini Chia pudding
- coconut Chia and tropical fruit

My book came in today and I was so excited to start planning my bowls. My only suggestions would be, I would love to see nutritional information for each bowl and a photo of each bowl. It would make my decision making so much easier.

This is a large very comprehensive book on Buddha bowls. If you are new or just curious and starting out it's a MUST buy!

Very easy to digest it takes you through the basic sauces and ingredients, even teaches you how to make non-gluten rice if that is something you are interested in. There some really good recipes if you like to follow rule by rule, while still allowing for the more creative person to exchange or interact with the recipe as they see fit. This book will give you a very grounded understanding of Buddha bowls, a nice selection of recipes, and a foundation of knowledge on how to create your own recipes.

There are not a lot of pictures. There are enough to make the book pretty and ones for certain recipes but if you have to see a thing before you can make it some of these will be harder to follow. The instructions are very simple but some people are just visual learners.

There is SO much this book has to offer, and it is a nice sturdy book. Ignore the damage in the pictures at the bottom that was done by my local UPS who must have forced the bloody thing into the mailbox with their foot I swear because I could barely get it out! This was well packaged and should have gotten to me in pristine condition.

It arrived on time. And was a steal at under nine dollars!

I received a copy of this book through NetGally and the publisher for an honest review.
I love reading cookbooks and trying out new recipes so when 'Buddha Bowls' by Kelli Foster was received and as I began to read I was amazed at the layout, the recipes, and the very much needed 'how to cook grains cheat sheet'. I was drawn to the breakfast bowls section. It is very cold in the southern hemisphere right now and having a healthy warm breakfast is very much on my timetable. Any dish that has healthy, warm oats is a priority in our household. The Chai -Spiced Multigrain Porriage Bowls was great first choice and was consumed with many MMMMmms. The 'Sweet Potato Breakfast Bowl' was excellent and the extra added honey made it a very become a family Favourite. The final recipe tried was 'Apple Pie Farro Breakfast Bowls. I love warm apple. The sharp taste of Granny Smith apples and the sweetness of maple syrup just makes this bowl breakfast an extra treat. The cookbook was set out well and the illustrations were an asset to the book. It is sad that there were not more illustrations to show the reader, how many of the bowls recipes were supposed to look. We live in a world where the visual is needed, and to show what the end result of a recipe is meant to look like this would have made book a little better. That is my only gripe about this book. The cookbook as a whole was a treat to read. I recommend this book and give it 4 stars.

Did not expect so many meat recipes for "Buddha" bowls. Recipient was disappointed.

My family has loved this book so much - it has become part of our weekly rotation. We now have "Tuesday Night Buddha Bowls" each week and love that the theme is the same but there are so many creative options to choose from, including easy weeknight recipes. The sauce section is really fantastic and when I have it together enough we do some sauce or veggie prep on Sunday to really make pulling together one or two of the bowls during the week super easy. The kids also love to help pick the recipe for the week and then layer on the toppings or sauce themselves. Big hit!

I absolutely love this cookbook. The creative and varied dishes really satisfy - from vegan to meats. As exciting are the bowls for breakfast and dessert, which takes the creativity to a new level. My favorite meat dish is the Harisa Chicken Bowl, a real feast with wonderful flavors. For dessert, it’s the strawberry banana nice cream bowl. Lastly, I can’t overstate the value of the chapter on basic sauces and dressings. These recipes are key to mixing it up with the bowls and making sure every meal is new and delicious.

This book was just what I was looking for - page after page of healthy and delicious real-food meals. They can be time consuming (lots of ingredients, lots of chopping), but I found some shortcuts the 2nd or 3rd time I made a recipe. It's great if you can make 2 bowls in one week that use the same sauce, just double it early in the week and have the leftover sauce later in the week!
This is NOT a vegetarian book, but many of the recipes explain how you can adjust the recipe to make it vegetarian/vegan/etc. (and just use common sense - sub tofu for the meat). My favorite bowl so far is the shrimp summer spring roll bowl. So, so good.

Excellent cookbook! So many healthy, creative recipes; beautifully photographed with easy instructions. My kids even love them! Delicious! Thank you.

To me this is a paradigm shift book. It brings to me and our family a whole new way of cooking healthy, simple, satisfying, and affordable meals. It's what I needed to take me to the next step in healthy, doable, and likable cooking without any real ethnic bent. Just good, healthy, simple but way beyond the ordinary in terms of creative potential. Awesome. Congrats to the author!