Have I mentioned before how much I love rice bowls? I think they are the perfect way to serve a family dinner. They can be cheap, super fast and healthy to boot. And the best thing of all? They are fully customizable to your family’s tastes.
Here are a few things I love about rice bowls:
- Letting kids make their own bowl is a great way to get them to eat their dinner
- Gluten free
- Can be Paleo/low carb friendly (substitute cauliflower rice)
- Easy to make ahead
- Makes great leftovers for lunches the next day
- Can be made out of whatever food you have on hand
- 15-30 minutes to the table
Since rice bowls can be whatever you want them to be, you don’t necessarily need a recipe. I usually don’t use a recipe (I mentioned how I make my rice bowls in this post).
That said, there are some fantastic rice bowl recipes out there. The following are some of my favorites.
Rice Bowl Recipes
Damn Delicious shares a super quick, Easy Burrito Bowl recipe.
Steak Fajita Bowls with Garlic Lime Rice recipe from Little Spice Jar
Wholefully offers this healthy, vegetarian Roasted Veggie and Black Bean Rice Bowls recipe
Love Chipotle and Qdoba? Try this Copycat Qdoba Chicken Burrito Bowl from Gimme Delicious
Blackberry Babe shares this great Asian Chicken Rice Bowl recipe
These Greek Chicken Bowls from Eazy Peazy Mealz can be served for dinner and divvied up for several lunches
If you love eggs and avocados (like me!), you’ll love this Rice Bowl with Fried Egg and Avocado from BonAppetit
Here’s a great alternative to a traditional sushi roll – a California Roll Sushi Bowl from Wonky Wonderful
Customize your rice bowl. Hapa Nom Nom shows different ingredients and sauces you can use to Build Your Own Bowl to your tastes
I love rice bowls. All your suggestions look great, Amanda! Thankfully I am reading your post after a heavy meal. Otherwise I would have headed out to eat after reading this 🙂 I like all of them, however, what I feel like having for dinner is the Asian Chicken rice bowl…
Thanks, Michael! Rice bowls are one of my absolute favorite meals too. 🙂 So easy, yet so tasty – and cheap too!
We have a rice cooker and do a lot of rice dishes. You definitely put together a tasty collection here. A steak fajita bowl might have to be in my future 🙂
Good thing it’s almost dinner time, because this post made me hungry!
I go back and forth on buying a rice cooker. I’ve heard it’s so much easier to clean up and I only have one burner that keeps the rice at a nice simmer. Definitely considering it!
We occasionally do Chipotle ‘style’ bowls, but that is starting to get a bit old. Thanks for the suggestions, as I’m eyeing the recipe for Asian Chicken rice bowl.
I try to avoid too much rice due to the carbs and try to stick to brown rice when possible. I need to give cauliflower rice another try.
My kids love Korean ground beef, so we do that at least twice a month in addition to a Chipotle style bowl. Lately, I’ve also tried to cut back on the carbs, so I use a veggie base, like cauliflower and it’s still tasty.
holy cow – I’m suddenly STARVING and, sadly, a rice bowl isn’t on the menu. But I think I know what I want tomorrow! That steak fajitas bowls looks amazing.
The steak fajita bowls are great! You should try it, Ty! 🙂
Thanks for sharing! These recipes looks great. I can’t wait to try the copycat qdoba chicken and the asian chicken rice bowl.
That looks so delicious and healthy!