Time: 15 min.
Complexity: easily
Servings: 1

The Buddha Bowl is not only a new vegetarian trend but also a harmoniously balanced meal that delights with its taste, appearance, and health benefits. The dish's name is believed to derive from the Buddha's bowl, into which people would offer alms food. The advantage of this meal is that it can be assembled to suit your taste, as long as the bowl is balanced: complex carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and fiber. A more substantial and dense base is placed at the very bottom of the bowl, and then garnished with small piles of additional ingredients, herbs, and vegetables. All the ingredients of a proper Buddha Bowl should be fresh, pleasing to the eye, and deliciously combined. Below is one such example.

Ingredients:

Bowl

• 0.5 cups boiled wheat
• 1/3 of a medium sweet potato, diced and baked with 1 teaspoon olive oil
• 0.5 cup microgreens or sprouts
• 1/4 cup canned chickpeas
• 1/4 of a medium cara cara orange
• 5 pods of sugar snap peas
• Half a medium Hass avocado
• 1/4 cup chopped watermelon radish or sugar beet
• 1 tbsp. pickled red onion
• 1 tbsp. shelled pumpkin seeds

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• 0.5 cups low-fat Greek yogurt
• 2 tbsp. l. olive oil
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 medium clove garlic, peeled
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
• 1/4 cup fresh basil

Substituting ingredients
Measuring containers used

1 glass (st.) - 250 ml.
3/4 cup (st.) - 180 ml.
2/3 cup (st.) - 160 ml.
1/2 cup (st.) - 125 ml.
1/3 cup (st.) - 80 ml.
1/4 cup (st.) - 60 ml.
1 tablespoon (tbsp) - 15 ml.
1 teaspoon (tsp) - 5 ml.
1/5 teaspoon (tsp) - 1 ml.

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sweet potato, chickpeas, sugar snap peas, Avocado, Oranges, radish, beet, pumpkin seed, wheat groats, lemon juice, yogurt, parsley, basil

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Preparation:

Step 1
• To prepare the dressingCombine the yogurt, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, and basil in a food processor. Process until smooth, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Step 2
• To collect the bowl, fill the bowl in sections, starting with the wheat, sweet potato, and microgreens. Top the base with piles of chickpeas, orange, sugar snap peas, avocado, radish, pickled red onion, and pumpkin seeds. Drizzle with a quarter of the dressing. Set aside the remaining dressing for another use.

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