Roasted Cauliflower Buddha Bowl Recipe with Dill Dressing • Steamy Kitchen Recipes Giveaways (2024)

Easy roasted cauliflower “steaks” take center stage in this healthy Buddha bowl recipe with grilled fish, mixed greens, and a simple dill dressing served over lemony couscous.

When it comes to eating sustainably and colorfully, we’ve really embraced preparing simple, nutritious one-bowl meals.

Essentially, a Buddha bowl is a one-bowl arrangement of nutritious foods. The term comes from the appearance of the bowl, packed so full of goodness that it resembles the rounded belly of Buddha!

It starts with a base of grains or greens. Then you scoop in two big handfuls of vegetables. Add in a lean protein. Finish it with a savory sauce or dressing plus a sprinkle of crunch.

Use this handy breakdown:

Which brings us to this Roasted Cauliflower Buddha Bowl

• For GRAINS: Couscous serves as a soft and bouncy, pasta-like background for the roasted cauliflower to shine in all its nutty bittersweetness. You also can’t go wrong with rice, or a similarly tender grain.
• For VEGETABLES: Consider yourself lucky, because cauliflower is a vegetable, after all. We’ll teach you how to make it! In addition, try throwing some mixed salad greens, in all their rawness, to contrast with the drier cauliflower.
• For PROTEIN: Reel in any fillets of fish you have on hand, whether they’re leftovers, fillets you can easily cook, or simply canned sardines. Lemon is the leading flavor here, so any of the many other protein sources that get along with it are fair game.
• For SAUCE: We’ll teach you how to make a creamy dill dressing that brings the whole Buddha bowl together, as well as a non-creamy version that’s just as easy.
• For CRUNCH: Keep it simple with some chopped toasted almonds! Or pick toasted croutons if you like–it’s hard to mess this part up.

A preview of this Buddha Bowl:

Let’s talk about Couscous.

In the wild, you’ll most likely run into three kinds of couscous:

A quick comparison of finished couscous dishes:

Relax – I’m going to go easy on you today! For the sake of ease and simplicity, we’ll default to Moroccan couscous.

See also: This quick and easy recipe for Israeli couscous

Whichever variety you go for, use 1 1/4 times the amount of water, or broth, for every cup of couscous.

• Start it off like you would pasta; get the water boiling, add some salt, but just a pinch or two, and add the couscous. After that, you’ll just cover the pot and remove it from the heat.
• Let the couscous steam until tender. Add a little water if it’s getting too dry before it’s even done!
• When done, mix in some lemon zest if you wish. Hint: that lemon will come in handy for the rest of this recipe!

Roasting the Cauliflower

Take the whole head of cauliflower and slice it lengthwise through the core to make a couple of large slabs. Let’s go ahead and refer to them as “steaks.”

You’ll brush them with oil, lemon juice, garlic, red pepper flakes, and whatever else you like. Keep it to stuff that doesn’t burn too easily! Feel free to coat the steaks fully now, or brush more on halfway through cooking time.

Roast at 400 degrees F until tender, 30 to 35 minutes, while you move through the rest of the recipe.

Finally, the Creamy Dill Dressing.

Remember those supporting characters for the cauliflower? It’s encore time! We’re bringing most of them back to make this light but creamy yogurt-based dressing. Simply combine:

• 1/2cupplain yogurt
• 1clovegarlic, minced
• 2-3tablespoonschopped dill
• Squeeze of lemon juice
• 3tablespoonsolive oil
• Salt and fresh black pepper

Play with any herbs you prefer – basil, chervil, chives, cilantro, or parsley, anyone? – and feel free to add heaps more! Keeps in the fridge for 2-4 days.

But if you’re not digging dairy or eggs right now, don’t worry. For a quick and easy vegan version, try this formula:

• Handful of dill, chopped
• 1garlic clove,roughly chopped
• 1 1/2tablespoonsapple ciderred or white wine vinegar
• 1teaspoonDijon mustard
• 5-6tablespoonsmild olive oil
• Salt and fresh black pepper
• Pinch of sugar if needed

See also: Four Homemade Salad Dressings

Inspirations for this Cauliflower Buddha Bowl recipe

Grains:

• What is Couscous?
• How to Cook Israeli Couscous

Veg:

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