Buddha Bowl
In the warm months of summer, all I crave are buddha bowl for dinner. Actually, I crave buddha bowls for dinner all year round. They have the perfect combination of fresh and cooked ingredients, grains, beans, and delicious sauces. I am a huge fan of meals that combine several different textures and flavors, because eating this way helps eliminate cravings and increase satisfaction from food. Today, we are making an amazingly delicious buddha bowl. It’s easy and quick, and very flavorful. My favorite part, surprisingly, are the Brussels sprouts. I have never been a huge fan of them, until I found this genius cooking technique for them that uses absolutely no oil, but makes them taste extremely delicious, and eh, weird to say, but meaty! There is something very meaty about Brussels sprouts. Watch the recipe video:
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Vegan Brussels Sprout Asian Bowl
Now, let’s get back into our recipe. If you get your delicious box from above, you will be able to use the tamari and almond butter for the delicious sauce in this recipe! 
There are also many replacements for this recipe. A few I’d like to note are to replace the brown rice with quinoa, millet or amaranth, add or remove any veggies you’d like, and replace the mixed baby greens with kale. Go crazy, have fun!
Easy and Quick Vegan Buddha Bowl Recipe
Ingredients
For the bowl
- 1 large handful frozen green beans
- 1 cup sweet onion chopped
- 2 tablespoons coconut aminos
- 2 cups Brussel’s sprouts chopped in half
- ½ English cucumber or 1-2 Persian cucumbers
- 2 green onions
- 2 large handfuls mixed greens
- ¼ cup sprouted brown rice
- ¼ cup dried wakame
For the sauce
- Make about half of this insanely delicious Asian sauce recipe here
Instructions
- Steam the green beans until soft (about 10 minutes).
- Cook brown rice according to package instructions.
- Dry sauté sweet onion by placing it on a hot pan for about 15 minutes, until it turns golden brown. No liquid is necessary. Simply slice it up and cover it with a lid, and allow to turn golden.
- When onions turn golden, add the coconut aminos and Brussel’s sprouts. Cover and let cook until the Brussel’s sprouts are completely soft when pierced with a fork (about 20-30 minutes).
- Chop up cucumber. You can do this according to my method in the video , or any other way you like.
- Chop the green onions, and roughly chop the green beans when they are done steaming.
Assembly
- Place greens on the bottom, add brown rice, cucumber, green beans, sauted onion and Brussels sprouts, wakame, and sprinkle with green onion.
- Drizzle with the insanely delicious Asian sauce!
Fantastic! I am not vegan but wanting to switch to a more plant based diet.
That’s great! The more plant-based meals you can include the better, always 🙂 Give this a try, I am sure you will love it!
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