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Customers find this cookbook offers many delicious ideas and is easy to follow, with beautiful photos for each recipe. The book is versatile with many combinations, and customers appreciate its health benefits, with one noting it’s suitable for both vegetarians and meat eaters. While the nutrition information is appreciated, some customers find the ingredient lists long.
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Mealtime is stress-free with these healthy recipes for 75 customizable grain, poke, and salad bowls—including vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options!
Want to cook healthier low-stress dinners, improve your lunch game, and find meals that can be prepped mostly in advance? Bowls are for you! This bowl cookbook helps you compose 75 creative bowls full of flavor and texture—while streamlining meal prep to keep things casual and fun.
Choose your base, then build your bowl from there! Inside you’ll find:
• 75 yummy recipes for Salad Bowls, Bean and Grain Bowls, Noodle Bowls, and Soup Bowls
• 100+ suggestions for improvising with interchangeable bases, toppings, and dressings
• Expert recommendations for assembly, storage and serving, pantry staples, and equipment
• Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free variations—plus nutritional info for every recipe
The beauty of building a meal in a bowl is its versatility and ease. Almost everything can be made in advance! From a Seared Tuna Poke Bowl to Vietnamese Beef Pho; from Beet Tzatziki sauce to Savory Seed Brittle . . . The Bowls cookbook gives you everything you need to make healthy, one-pot meals that suit your own tastes, diet, and schedule.
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: Denise C.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This is the best cookbook!
Review: Easy, interesting recipes with unique flavor profiles. I have cooked many recipes from this book, and they are healthy and don’t require extensive cooking time. I highly recommend the spiral bound version, even though it costs a little more. There are vegetarian recipes and adaptions are included for many of the recipes, as well as ways to customize the dishes for your preferences. Oh, and all of the recipes have pictures! Love it! Definitely a keeper!
Reviewer: Joanna D.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Bowls done by America’s Test Kitchen
Review: Great book. We already have in our small town, two bowl restaurants and though I LOVE Poke Bowls and Playa Bowls (health bowls with smoothie type ingredients), it’s really expensive to eat there regularly. So what’s next best (or even better) are your own and here are recipes by America’s Test Kitchen so they are well crafted recipes that have been put together with skill and thought.So what kind of bowls? First, I looked for Poke, which are a specialty of Hawaii and the one time I was in Hawaii, that ended up about all of us would eat because they are so good. Generally, the bowls are a kind of “scattered sushi” (fish on rice with seasoning) The poke bowl recipe here is pan-seared tuna with mango, avocado and salad but not Japanese rice, so it’s lighter and really, it’s what the French call “salad compose” or composed salad, one you build in the bowl. I was surprised NOT to see more Poke recipes nor are there any for the health bowls like acai bowls that we get at another “bowl restaurant.”What you do get is a way not only to follow recipes but to build your own with a repertoire of ingredients that you can prepare ahead if you want, such as vinaigrette, tzatziki, dressings, crunchy toppings, ramen noodles, “zoodles” (veg shaved noodle strips) etc. Then you can toss together people’s favorites into a good combination and really make a quick meal from ingredients on hand.If you are doing chicken you can keep poached chicken strips (try them using a sous-vide cooker, they come out very juicy) or tuna, or vegetarian beans.While I was a bit disappointed not to see some of the traditional Hawaiian recipes I really love, I do love the book’s instructions on how to build bowls and keep ingredients handy that will make a quick meal. These bowls are very good for kids as you can customize to their tastes or use up leftovers, and good for people watching what they are eating for health as salads can get boring and a lot of these “bowls” are really salads with entree toppings.
Reviewer: K R T
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful cookbook
Review: Love this one. Health ideas, easy to follow. Photographs on each page.
Reviewer: Inspector
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Delicious but more complex than expected
Review: I have done 4 recipes so far. They have all been delicious! But, I find it a very confusing book to use. Individual ingredients listed in a recipe (like roasted cauliflower, seared flank steak, crispy tempah or Tahini Sauce) are really separate recipes. So, each bowl recipe really has 2, 3 or 4 recipes involved in it – from different pages. You have to look closely, look up all the “hidden” recipes, be sure to have the ingredients for all of them, and then either make some parts ahead or be very good at sequencing while flipping back and forth. And because most of them are quick cooking, it is a fast-paced juggling act. The other challenge is many recipes have an ingredient that is really obtuse (Pomegranate molasses, mirin, etc.). The nice thing, the food is very unique – not your average American Fare, and delicious. Just not a beginner’s cookbook, at all.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I wish I took pictures of my dishes to show ya’ll!
Review: First of all, I am a married, working mother of two (almost 6yo and 7y5mo) that decided to stay home for in-person schooling. To help make this financially work out, I decided to be the person who does the majority of meal planning, shopping, cooking and packing up of lunches and meals-on-the-go to eliminate eating out. This cookbook has been a huge game-changer and lifesaver! I mean, I feel like a pony in a five horse circus..If you’re a person who needs traditional recipes, this book has them. All of the recipes are AH-HA-MAZING! I did not think the results would have been so pleasant based off these recipes; the ingredients “look” plain.If you are a person, like me, who constantly gets odd and ends from people’s gardens and are not sure what to do with it all, this book has solutions that work. In the back are separate recipes for grains, vegetables, proteins, dressings, etc. Simply pick a recipe for what you have, throw together in a bowl, and watch something delicious happen. Really!Each dish has been really healthy too. All food groups usually are represented on each plate. Nothing is deep fried. Nothing requires special equipment like an air fryer. However, you could easily use those things too if you have them. Meat is not the center star of these meals, however; the dishes center around mostly whole grains and vegetables with a protein added. Almost all recipes can be made gluten, dairy and/or meat free. They usually have something raw in them too. You can make them as basic or as complicated as you want. Many recipes offer in-can or bottle suggestions if you’re that exhausted, like balsamic dressing, but also offers the made from scratch in a hurry version as well. I highly recommend taking the steps to make any of the quick pickles (especially with red onions, carrots and/or cucumbers) and doubling the recipe and keeping them in the solution in the fridge for future uses. We actually pick at them now for snacks and put them in morning eggs, they’re so good.As for the kiddos, they’re just not gonna eat anything spicy, fermented or pickled. So what I do is keep a serving each of protein, grain, veges and carbs set aside with a bottle of ranch dressing and use what’s leftover as directed. Everyone’s happy and I’m not making two different dinners.Now, if you are in a similar economic “bowl” as I am, I look through my freezer, pantry and refrigerator for what I currently own and I will go through all my cookbooks and pick out recipes that have similar ingredients. That way, I am only shopping for the missing ingredients and saving a ton of money. Because of the versatility of this book, I can usually find a recipe that will use up any leftover ingredients. (I’ve also been saving these grocery and recipe lists for future use and to streamline the time spent on this lol.) This book is unique for that too and saves me time. Plus, I can now spend one afternoon prepping all the ingredients so that way I’m only literally spending 15-30 minutes max cooking per night with minimal clean-up. I can usually have everything cooked, and cleaned by the time it all is ready to eat!To keep me motivated to stay cooking, I like to look through the back of the book for an ingredient that I have no idea what it is, order it and use it. Red miso and gouchujang is a staple now. Where have they been my whole life??!Since the recipes are so big and easily doubled/tripled if needed, packing up for grab-and-go meals is a snap. In fact, my husband’s lunches are so beautiful and delicious, co-workers have been asking for recipes and have been offering me their pantry and garden extras if I would pack up a lunch for them! Unbelievable! If they only knew that I love hotdogs and tuna noodle casserole too…
Reviewer: Ultra Violet Iris
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I considered licking the bowl
Review: My new favorite cookbook. I have been cooking my way through this cookbook to liven up my salad game. I am on my 6th week of making salad bowls following the instructions precisely. This is by far the most I have ever learned from a cookbook.Technique on poached chicken, seared chicken, and tofu.Flavors: spicy, sweet, umami.Texture: creamy, crunchy, fresh.I have purchased 4 books now as gifts.
Reviewer: joanne tomlins
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Lovely tasty recipes with great photos.
Reviewer: Robyn Emms
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I’ve had this cookbook for 2 weeks and have made 5 recipes so far. I love that the recipes are healthy, easy, and quick to make. There are ingredient swap suggestions too, which is handy in case you don’t have a certain ingredient on hand. Buy it, you won’t be sorry!
Reviewer: GreenTea
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Lets just get the bad thing out of the way first: all units in the book are US units only. I was a bit disappointed when I saw this as I expected a big outlet such as ATC to do better. Oh, but at the end of the book I found conversion tables. And realized they converted food volumes to milliliters. So someone realized that cups and spoons are volume and not weight measurements, and simply converted to equally useless ml. Hmm.. so I guess I’ll have to decide on using either 1/3 cup chopped parsley, or I simply use 79ml instead. Yeah.That aside, the book looks very interesting as an inspiration. Calorie amounts are given, and at the back there’s a bit table with all nutritional information. I’ll find out at some point how well this lines up with my own count. Most recipes are in the 400-500kcal range, but can easily extended to bigger portions of course. So from the food point of view this seems a very yummy and useful book for me. I’ll keep it, but the units do annoy me.
Reviewer: Madalina Voiculet
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I have used the book as inspiration for lunch and dinner boxes and the recipes are very easy and with a lot of substitutes
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Nice book
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