Bowls? healthy bowls with a variety of ingredients
You are healthy, colorful, delicious and on everyone's lips? Bowls. The special feature of the food trend is the serving of diverse healthy ingredients in a round bowl. Bowls can do without any extra fat and sugar and allow a balanced diet with many different nutrients. We would like to introduce you to some popular bowl variations below and gradually try out and publish recipes for the different types.
The trend is coming (which is a surprise) from the US and has spread worldwide thanks to social media. There are now countless names for the colorful dishes: Buddha Bowl, Good Life Bowl, Rainbow Bowl or Superfood Bowl, That's because the concept of the bowls is to make ingredients according to taste, appetite, and what the fridge does, according to the modular principle where there are no limits to creativity. Of course, there are also sweet varieties in the form of smoothie bowls with delicious fruits in bright colors and pretty toppings. The eye eats as you know.
Bowls are great thanks to the free composition of food prepare seasonally and also Leftovers can be easily recycled, Depending on the diet you can eat bowls of meat as well as vegetarian or vegan. Also low carb and gluten-free bowl dishes are easy to conjure. In addition, they are relaxed and easy to eat as the ingredients are cut into bite-sized pieces in advance. All you need is a fork or a spoon to enjoy your healthy bowl of delicacies.
The food trend has long since arrived in the catering industry. There are restaurants that focus on bowls and serve the most diverse creations. Very popular are also Japanese-inspired poke bowls or sushi bowls. Currently, one bowl cookbook after another - whether Buddha Bowl, salad bowl or categorized after breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The following types of bowls are a selection from the colorful Bowl Jungle and may also inspire you to try it yourself.
Smoothie bowls
Smoothie bowls are the perfect healthy breakfast, The basic ingredient is simply pureed fruit, which creates a particularly creamy smoothie for spooning. Smoothie bowls not only taste good, they also look beautiful with their fancy toppings. No wonder Instagram has already shared more than 2 million posts with the hashtag #smoothiebowl.
When preparing the bowls, the imagination knows no bounds. Out Berries, bananas, but also exotic fruits like mango, kiwi or pineapple you can create delicious meals. You can use both fresh and frozen fruits. Green smoothie bowls are often made with green vegetables such as spinach and avocado. Other ingredients can Yogurt, skimmed quark, milk, nutmeg or coconut water be blended in the blender with the other foods. Coconut flakes, nuts, chia seeds, crunchy cereals, cocoa nibs, brittle and (leftover) fruit serve as decoration. Fruits that I find especially pretty to decorate are any kind of berries, physalis and pomegranate seeds.
If you like it cold, you can easily make a Nicecream Bowl from your Smoothie Bowl by mashing the fruit frozen.
Buddha bowls
Among the hearty bowls, the Buddha Bowl is probably the best known and most popular. Here it applies, with good carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and healthy fats to put a colorful mixture in the bowl to allow a balanced diet.
On the Internet you will find many different data, from how many percent of carbohydrates, proteins, etc. the Buddha Bowl should exist. In the end, of course, that can each one to taste and diet determine themselves, A possible rule of thumb:
- 25% carbohydrates
- 25% proteins
- 40% vitamins
- 10% healthy fats
Here is a list of which foods contain a high proportion of the respective nutrients:
The great thing is that it is infinite many variations and combinations of ingredients in the Buddha Bowl gives. With vegetables alone, the taste can be varied. Whether raw food, cooked, fried or from the oven? The various preparation options never make it boring in the bowl. On delicious dressing and toppings complete the colorful bowl. Try honey-mustard dressing, hummus, peanut sauce or a refreshing yoghurt dressing. On top of it, berries, nuts and sprouts are doing well.
Poke Bowls
We already know raw fish from sushi. All ingredients are packed in a Nori leaf and rolled up. It is different in the Poke Bowl, in which the food is nicely separated from each other in a bowl. Poke, a raw fish salad, is originally from Hawaii.Poke bowls are inspired by Japanese cuisine. Raw fish such as salmon or tuna is served with rice or quinoa, salad and vegetables, The dressings are common sharp by chili, ginger and wasabi or fruity sweet with mango, pineapple and honey. For example, if you prefer to fry shrimp, you can of course do that too.
Noodle bowls
Noodle bowls are also inspired by Asian cuisine. It will be Pasta with vegetables and meat served in a delicious broth or sauce, Rice noodles, glass noodles, ramen or typical Japanese noodles like soba and udon are popular. Soba are long thin noodles made of buckwheat and Udon thicker noodles, which consist only of wheat flour, salt and water. The sauces are with Curry, coconut, garlic and ginger experimented. Also popular are the typical soy sauce, sesame and peanut sauce, teriyaki sauce or sauce with miso (Japanese soybean paste). A great Low carb variant of the bowls can be combined with zoodles, noodles from zucchini, prepare.
It can be argued whether Noodle Bowls are not just noodles or noodle soups with side dishes. Anyway, the beautiful serving in deep round bowls has prevailed here and they taste delicious.
I hope you got a small overview of the different bowl types and create your own favorite bowls. As already mentioned, we want to try out the variants in the near future and publish recipes for the different bowls.
