I am so excited to be a stop on Zsu Dever’s blog tour for her fab new book Vegan Bowls! Zsu’s recipes are always fantastic and full of flavor, and this book is no exception!
I consider myself somewhat of a bowl expert. Chalk it up to owning a food cart that served bowl food, I know my bowls. Bowls may appear to be simple at first glance, but bowls are so much more than their appearance. It isn’t merely food that is served in a bowl. They have layers of flavors and textures that unfold as you dig in to the dish. Or at least the good bowls do. Zsu has mastered the art of the bowl with this book, and her recipes are fabulous!
This book is brimming with delicious recipes for bowls from around the world. From grain bowls to sautéed bowls, salad bowls, soup bowls, breakfast bowls and a whole section on building your own bowls, Zsu’s got you covered. But really the book shines with the flavors of the bowls. Thai Panang Spicy Ginger Polenta Bowl with Bol Choy and Chickpeas, Korean Bulgogi Bowl with Black Bean Ssamjang, Enchilada Bowl with Pumpkin Cream Sauce, A holiday bowl filled with many of the components of Thanksgiving dinner, Irish Stew Bowl, Mushroom Larb with Rice Noodle Bowl. The recipes are so full of flavor and enticing, I want to make everything and go on a bowl diet!
Most of the recipes appear to be gluten-free (with the exception of a couple that use seitan or couscous or frekah), but she often offers you tips on making it GF, and you could easily substitute something else or choose from tons of other recipes that don’t have gluten. I for one will be cooking my way through this book all winter!
Thanks to Zsu and her publisher Vegan Heritage Press, they are letting me share a recipe from her book and give away a copy of her book! So leave your name in the comment section and tell me your favorite sauce or bowl. Good luck!
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My favorite bowl right now is one that uses a tahini-citrus sauce. I swapped toasted peanut oil in the recipe for the toasted sesame out of necessity, but it gave the dish a pad thai vibe my spouse loved!
My favorite bowls are soul food related so the sauce would have to be barbecue and of course with greens and vegan mac n cheese. Totally not healthy but don’t judge 😉
I’m sort of obsessed with breakfast bowls right now. I’ve had one for dinner just about every night this week for dinner. Hash browns, trader joe’s meatless sausage- crumbled, tofu scramble, daiya cheddar, fresh tomatoes, lots of basil -and this vegan buffalo sauce that I make. It’s a monster…but I dig it!
My favorite sauce is tahini with plenty of
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I love fried rice with peas and onions and and other veggies, and if you serve a fried or poached egg on top, it makes a nice yolky sauce of sorts along with gf soy sauce. I’d love to win this book and get more great bowl ideas!
I am not a big fan of sauce or gravy so I usually omit them from my bowls unless the other components are really dry.
Our fav bowl lately has been a bbq bowl with Mac, quinoa, bbq cauliflower, butternut squash and creamy coleslaw. So good!
Thanks for this wonderful giveaway. It is really appreciated. My favorite bowl right now is something with kale, roasted sweet potatoes, marinaded and grilled tempeh or tofu, fresh sprout, spiralized beetroots with a miso gravy. Yummm…!
My favorite bowl dish is by far Stone Bowl Bibimbap! I’m a vegetarian, so I leave out the bulgogi (or other meats), but I add some pan fried tofu with the gojujang paste and I seriously can’t get enough of it! I’m a sucker for soup, too, though…any soup haha and pretty much anything that’s Asian…
Right now my favorite bowl is from Isa Does It. Quinoa, tofu, greens all smothered in an amazing curried peanut sauce. I’d love to branch out, though. This book looks great, and would be just what I need to do that.
My favorite bowl is your famous Mississippi Bowl, and if you are loving this book, I know that I will, too! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway, Julie. I’m going to make the Panang recipe tomorrow night!
I generally make a peanut sauce because it’s so easy, but the brown sauce from Forks Over Knives is tasty too!
I’m a sucker for sauces and gravies in general, but right now I’m super into peanut sauce.
My favorite bowl is hearty, beany chili
Any bowl with peanut sauce i fine by me!
This recipe looks amazing! I love any type of coconut milk/curry combo recipe.
I checked the book out from my library and just love it. I made the simmering seitan and then used it in the Seitan Ossobuco bowl the next day. Wow! It was delicious!
My favorite bowl is anything with broccoli in it! Thanks for the chance to win.
I love peanut sauce! It’s the perfect sauce for any bowl.
Anything Thai!
Burrito bowls are always delicious!
Red beans and rice
My favorite sauce is probably scallion ginger sauce from Salon.com (not Momofoku). So simple 3 ingredients!) but full of buttery salty flavor – no actual butter needed.
I love burrito/taco bowls. Or a kale, sweet potato, black bean bowl with garlicky sauce.
Is this internationally open? 😀 My favourite bowl is something with roasted pumpkin, seeds, spinach, quinoa and asparagus, topped with a spicy almond sauce – yum yum! I’m always looking out for new ideas for simple ingredients though- one can easily eat the same thing every day. 🙂
I like lots of sauce and lots of umami. So something along the lines of a tahini-miso sauce or maybe a maple-mustard or a spicy peanut. There are so many delicious sauces!
coconutty sauce and i’m sold!
I have Vegan Bowls checked out from the library now and I would love to own a copy. My favorite bowl lately is sweet potatoes, black beans, and some sort of green – usually spinach. I recently made one that was rice noodles, tofu and veggies. I’m not really big on sauces. Love bowl meals … they are fantastic.