This Green Goddess Buddha Bowl recipe is loaded with fresh veggies, grains, plant-based protein, and a creamy vegan herb tahini dressing! Get your daily greens in just one vegan veggie bowl!
The perfect Buddha Bowl with green vegetables
This Green Goddess Bowl is all about fresh green veggies served on a warm bed of wholesome grains and topped with a delicious, creamy tahini herb dressing.
The Green Goddess Bowl contains lots of healthy vegetables, both cooked and raw. It can be adapted and prepared with seasonal vegetables depending on the time of year.
Get your daily greens
In this recipe, I serve my bowl with broccoli, chard, spinach, cucumbers, radishes, edamame, avocado, scallions and cress. However, other vegetables like asparagus, fennel, kohlrabi, zucchini, peas, lettuce, etc. are perfect vitamin-rich ingredients for this green power bowl too!
If you’re using cucumbers, zucchini, or carrots, you can either slice or dice them the classic way using a knife or mandoline, or use a spiral slicer or vegetable peeler to cut them into pretty vegetable noodles or ribbons (like my carrot lox)! Should you love being creative, you can also cut the radishes into flowers or make a pretty avocado rose.
Complex carbs keep you full and stop junk food cravings
I use farro as the base for my Green Goddess Bowl, but you can of course use other wholesome grains like quinoa, millet, bulgur, buckwheat, rice or whole wheat pasta. If you want to serve the bowl as a side salad, you can also use just lettuce or other leafy greens as a base.
The Best Green Goddess Herb Dressing
Prepare either the Green Goddess Dressing according to this recipe for your bowl, or whip up this creamy green herb sauce! If you don’t have fresh herbs, you can also serve your Buddha Bowl with my best peanut sauce, a Mexican chipotle dressing, or a light vegan yogurt dressing.
Ingredients for a healthy vegan power bowl
Bowl basic ingredients
- Farro: or other grains such as quinoa, buckwheat, millet, rice or pasta.
- Broccoli: or cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, potatoes, etc.
- Green leafy vegetables: such as chard, spinach, lettuce, or arugula.
- Cucumber: or zucchini.
- Radish: or kohlrabi or fennel.
- Edamame: or other beans, chickpeas, tofu or tempeh.
- Avocado: drizzled with lemon juice and sesame seeds.
- Olive oil & salt: for frying.
Toppings (optional)
- Scallions: or chives or finely chopped regular onions or shallots.
- Fresh herbs: e.g. parsley, basil, dill.
- Microgreens: e.g. cress or raw sprouted shoots.
- Seeds, nuts and seeds: e.g. hemp seeds, sunflower or pumpkin seeds, chopped walnuts, pistachios or pine nuts.
- Green Goddess Dressing
How to make the perfect Green Goddess Bowl
As always, I recommend checking out these step-by-step instructions first. Then you’ll find the full recipe with exact measurements in the recipe card below!
Step 1: Prepare farro & vegetables
First, cook the farro or other grains in vegetable broth according to package directions. Meanwhile, prepare the vegetables (wash and chop) and cook the broccoli.
Step 2: Cook broccoli
- Cook broccoli in a pan: heat a little oil in a frying pan or wok and sauté the broccoli florets for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then sprinkle with some salt and add a bit of water, cover the pan and steam on low heat for another 5 minutes.
- Roast the broccoli in the oven: combine the broccoli florets on a baking sheet with olive oil and salt and roast in a preheated oven at 392 °F (200 °C) for about 15-20 minutes.
Step 3: Assemble & serve
Finally, just blend all the ingredients for the dressing until creamy. Then divide the cooked farro into bowls and assemble with broccoli, lettuce, cucumber, radish, edamame and avocado. Garnish your bowl with scallions, fresh herbs, microgreens and seeds as desired and serve with the Green Goddess Dressing. Enjoy!
How to prepare and store bowls?
Not only is this green power bowl delicious, healthy, and nutrient-dense, but it’s also perfect for Meal Prep! You can prepare the grains, dressing, and broccoli ahead of time and store them in airtight containers in the fridge for up to 1 week.
Then all you have to do is chop up some fresh veggies and you can make a delicious, healthy bowl for lunch in no time! Of course, you can also put all the components in a lunchbox and then take it to school, college or work.
This Green Goddess Bowl is:
- Vegan, Vegetarian
- Gluten-free
- Dairy-free (lactose-free)
- Quick and easy to make
- Healthy
- Nutritious
- Loaded with green vegetables
- Packed with vitamins and antioxidants
- Low in calories
- High in protein
- Delicious
- The perfect bowl as a side dish or light main course for warm summer days or barbecue parties!
More vegan veggie bowl recipes to try
- Watermelon Tuna Poke Bowl
- Quinoa Buddha Bowl
- Mexican Burrito Bowl
- Vegan Poke Bowl with Tahini Sauce
- Vietnamese Noodle Salad Bowl
- Crispy Sesame Tofu Broccoli Bowl
- Korean Bibimbap
- Mexican Pasta Salad
- Greek Orzo Pasta Salad
- Mediterranean Chickpea Salad
- Thai Noodle Salad with Peanut Sauce
- Vegan Caprese Pasta Salad
- Peanut Veggie Noodle Bowl
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Green Goddess Buddha Bowl
Author:Ingredients
- 1 cup (180 g) farro or other grains like quinoa, buckwheat, millet, rice, pasta
- 3 cups (250 g) broccoli florets
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 pinch of salt
- 2 cups leafy greens e.g. chard, spinach, lettuce, arugula, coarsely chopped
- 1 cucumber or zucchini, sliced
- 8 radishes or kohlrabi or fennel, sliced
- 2 cups (240 g) edamame or other legumes or sesame tofu or tempeh
- 1 avocado drizzled with lemon juice and sesame seeds and sliced
- 1 recipe Green Goddess Dressing
Toppings (optional)
- scallions or chives or finely chopped regular onions
- fresh herbs e.g. parsley, basil, dill
- microgreens e.g. cress, sprouts
- seeds and nuts e.g. hemp seeds, sunflower seeds, pepitas, chopped walnuts, pistachios, orpine nuts
Instructions
*Note: Feel free to check out the recipe video + tips + step-by-steppictures above!
- Cook the farro in vegetable broth according to package directions.
- Heat the oil in a skillet or wok and sauté the broccoli florets for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then sprinkle with salt and add a little water, cover the pan and steam on low heat for another 5 minutes. (Oven method: combine broccoli florets with olive oil and salt on a baking sheet and roast in a preheated oven at 392 °F (200 °C) for 15-20 minutes).
- Divide the cooked farro into bowls and assemble broccoli, lettuce, cucumber, radishes, edamame and avocado on top. Garnish with scallions, fresh herbs, cress and seeds as desired and serve with the Green Goddess Dressing.
- Enjoy your green power bowl!
Notes
- The nutritional values are calculated for 1 bowl including dip/dressing.
- More tips and information about the recipe, including meal prep and storage tips as well as suggested variations for other vegetables, protein sources, grains and toppings, are mentioned in the blog post above!
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