How to Build the Perfect Buddha Bowl

It doesn’t have to be a Buddha bowl or a power bowl to be delicious. Just pack a bowl with some basics for a healthy one-dish breakfast, lunch, or dinner. 

Start with grains for the base
Here, we have steel-cut oats but use what you’ve got. Other suitable grain bases include rice, quinoa, pasta, and even veggie noodles to satisfy low-carb diets.

Add fresh veggies
This bowl is packed with greens, including arugula, and avocado for some of that healthy fat. We thinly sliced radish to add a little extra spice—but mostly to make this bowl look pretty with those splashes of fuschia. You can try any other fresh veggies you have on hand. 

A little protein
Try the fried egg or go for toasted chickpeas to keep it vegan. Seafood, or some cubed-up leftover chicken, beef, or any protein will also do just fine.

Some sprinklings
Sprinklings like the everything bagel spice mix, which also happens to go with everything, add extra nuttiness, crunch, texture, protein, and flavor. You can also sprinkle with sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, sesame seeds, other chopped nuts, and more.

And Special Sauce
What’s a bowl without a little dressing? It can be as simple as a little extra-virgin olive oil and lemon, or a quick take on a nut-butter dressing like this one here.

Need some inspiration to get started? Bastyr University nutirition students and faculty put together a few healthy bowl recipes to get you started.