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ThisSweet Potato, Squash and Kale Buddha Bowl is a delicious way to enjoy roasted fall root vegetables – just add some tahini dressing!
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Ingredients and substitutions
- Olive oil – or another neutral cooking oil of your choice.
- Sweet potato – swap out for another root vegetable like carrots, parsnips, turnips or butternut squash.
- Acorn squash – see substitution notes above.
- Portobello mushrooms – use another veggie like cauliflower or bell pepper.
- Beet – see substitution notes above.
- Red onion – white or yellow onion would also work.
- Kale – substitute for another dark leafy green such as spinach or collard greens.
Roasted chili lime chickpeas
- Canned chickpeas – cooked lentils or tofu would also work.
- Olive oil – or another neutral cooking oil of your choice.
- Lime juice – freshly squeezed or bottled lime juice can be used.
- Chili powder – make your own using a blend of cumin, paprika and cayenne.
- Garlic powder – onion powder would also be good.
- Salt – to taste.
Cilantro tahini dressing
- Tahini – sunflower butter, cashew butter or almond butter are the best substitutes here.
- Lemon juice – use lime juice or rice vinegar instead.
- Chopped cilantro – leave this out altogether if you’re not a fan of cilantro.
- Garlic – freshly minced garlic is best but jarred minced garlic will work in a pinch.
- Salt – to taste.
How to make a buddha bowl
- Make the crispy chickpeas.
- Cook the veggies.
- Prepare the tahini dressing.
- Assemble and serve!
How to make the tahini sauce
This tahini sauce will last in the fridge for up to 5 days – you're going to want to use it on everything! Here's what you need to make it:
- ¼ cup tahini
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ cup chopped cilantro or parsley (cilantro is my fave)
- 1 clove minced garlic
- 1/4 tsp salt
Blend it all up together in whatever appliance suits you best, and you've got dressing for days!
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the 5 key components of a buddha bowl?
The five key components of a buddha bowl are: grains, veggies, protein, dressing and sprinkles. For this buddha bowl, I left out the grains, but feel free to add in some quinoa. The veggies can be adjusted based on whatever you’re craving, the protein comes from the roasted chickpeas and the dressing is the cilantro tahini sauce. In terms of sprinkles, add on some sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds or coconut chips!
Is this recipe healthy?
Yes! This buddha bowl is super healthy. It’s packed full of amazing nutrients and is low in calories with just 338 calories per serving.
How do you make the crispy chickpeas?
These chickpeas are the perfect snack, so consider making a double batch and using half for your weekly snacks. You can also make them up to 2 days in advance for these bowls. If you want them to have even more crunch, leave them in the oven for longer.
Storing and reheating
You can store the leftovers in the fridge for up to 5 days. I'd recommend storing the chickpeas separately to help them retain their crunch and not get soggy, and you should also store the dressing separately so everything stays as fresh as possible.
Reheat any components you like on a sheet pan in the oven, or microwave for 1-2 minutes until warm, then toss in the dressing and serve!
Freezing components of this recipe
You can't freeze these buddha bowls per se, but you can freeze the cooked chickpeas, sweet potato and squash. It doesn't necessarily make sense to me to do any freezing, but these are the options you have if you'd like to make components ahead of time.
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Sweet Potato, Squash and Kale Buddha Bowl
ThisSweet Potato, Squash and Kale Buddha Bowl is a delicious way to enjoy roasted fall root vegetables – just add some tahini dressing!
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Servings: 4 people
Calories: 338kcal
Author: Taylor Stinson
Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour hour
Total Time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 sweet potato sliced
- 1 acorn squash sliced
- 2 Portobello mushrooms sliced
- 1 beet sliced
- 1 small red onion sliced
- 1 cup kale
Roasted Chili Lime Chickpeas
- 1 can chickpeas drained, rinsed and dried
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- 2 tsp chili powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
Cilantro Tahini Dressing
- ¼ cup tahini
- 2 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- ½ cup chopped cilantro or parsley
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1/4 tsp salt
Optional toppings
- sesame seeds
- pumpkin seeds
- Coconut chips
- Sliced avocado
Instructions
Preheat oven to 450 F. Toss chickpeas with olive oil and seasonings, then spread out on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake for 20 min, removing from oven and tossing halfway through.
Meanwhile, prepare other veggies, tossing all (except for kale) in olive oil and a pinch of salt, and placing on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Roast for 30 minutes. In the last 5 minutes of cook time, add the kale.
While veggies are roasting, make the dressing in a food processor, Magic Bullet or blender.
Once everything has finished cooking, toss all together in a large bowl. Drizzle with dressing and serve immediately.
Notes
*Nutrition info does not include optional toppings.
Make a big batch of crispy chickpeas to snack on throughout the week.
Add extra protein to your bowls using lentils, steak, chicken or shrimp.
Store all the components separately in the fridge for up to 5 days. Reheat any components then assemble your bowls fresh.
Freeze the chickpeas, sweet potato and squash for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
Calories: 338kcal (17%)Carbohydrates: 41g (14%)Protein: 11g (22%)Fat: 17g (26%)Saturated Fat: 2g (13%)Sodium: 735mg (32%)Potassium: 1041mg (30%)Fiber: 9g (38%)Sugar: 5g (6%)Vitamin A: 6976IU (140%)Vitamin C: 39mg (47%)Calcium: 133mg (13%)Iron: 3mg (17%)
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Hey there, my name's Taylor! I’m the founder of The Girl on Bloor, a food blog where I share healthy meal prep recipes for busy people. I'm a busy city girl living in downtown Toronto on (you guessed it!) Bloor Street. I've got 10 years experience meal prepping, along with a Master's degree in journalism, and you can find my work across the internet featured on publications such as Buzzfeed, HuffPost, Women's Health, Reader's Digest and more. I also run the awesome 5-Day Meal Prep Challenge, which is a free email course and Facebook group where I share my meal planning strategies and easy meal prep tips and recipes. Be sure to check out my free beginner’s guide to meal prep and follow me on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram to get my latest recipes and meal prep tips!
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Jill LaVeck says
OMG! This is the best salad/ buddha bowl I ever made! If I bought this in a fancy restaurant I would have been very happy. My husband loved it! I will be making this again. Lots of prep and ingredients but Oh So Worth IT!!!Reply
Taylor Stinson says
I’m so happy you enjoyed!
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Janine Waite says
Oh my goodness, this is delicious! I made it for the family tonight, and everyone loved it! Thanks for such a tasty and healthy recipe. It is definitely a keeper!Reply
Christine says
This recipe looks delicious! I am planning on meal preparing it for lunch this week, do you have any recommendations for the best way to store it? Just mix everything together and divide it and store and then reheat when ready?
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Taylor Stinson says
Thanks so much Christine!!! I would just mix everything together and then store in some glass/plastic containers. You can reheat when ready or eat cold 🙂
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Brandi Parsons says
I love almost any and every vegetable, with the exception of mushrooms… Most of the time I just omit the mushrooms from the recipes, but today I’ve finally decided to ask, what can I replace them with??
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Taylor Stinson says
Hey Brandi…I don’t know that you necessarily need to! There are a ton of veggies in these bowls. If you wanted another veggie option I would definitely suggest bell peppers or zucchini 🙂
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Brandi Parsons says
My daughter and I made this tonight for our quite large family, most of whom are meat eaters, so to help fill then we added brown rice and quinoa.. This was AMAZING!!! Even the most pickiest of the eaters from the bunch was full of compliments!! Will be a much saved recipe in our books!!
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Taylor Stinson says
I’m so happy that you all liked it Brandi!!! Love the addition of the quinoa, good for extra protein! Thanks so much for sharing with me <3
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Austin says
My husband and I are SO EXCITED to make this recipe tonight. My husband is a picky eater and doesn’t always feel right after eating meat so we have recently switched to being vegetarians ( I try my best but still have the occasional craving for a steak since I’m pregnant and just can’t help myself!) If we can do an all vegan meal, we love that too! This looks amazing. I couldn’t find tahini at my local store ( we live in the middle of nowhere in the mountains) so I took the rest of a jar of dry roasted peanuts that were lightly salted and food processed them with a little bit of sesame oil until it creamed together and I’m hoping that will suffice as a good substitute! Roasting up my chickpeas now, so excited and can’t wait to try it all together!!
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Taylor Stinson says
Hey Austin! I hope you loved these bowls, I’m so happy to hear how excited you are to try them!!! They’re so filling and wholesome. Good call on the peanuts – for future reference almond, cashew, sunflower or natural peanut butter would probably work as well in place of the tahini 🙂
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Terri Hayes says
DO you have a recipe for the cilantro tahini dressing?
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Taylor Stinson says
So sorry Terri – it was listed there but there wasn’t a clear heading to differentiate it from the rest of the ingredient list (looks like an error with my recipe plugin). I have updated it so it’s easier to see 🙂
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Sonia says
This dish tastes wonderful. The recipe relies too much on guesswork though (it doesn’t specify whether or not to peel the squash or how thickly or thinly to make slices of the various vegetables for example), which may explain the seriously undercooked beets. Also, I know I am a slow chopper but I don’t know how anyone could prep all these vegetables and chickpeas and a sauce in 15 minutes. Despite this need for some tweaking, it is indeed a very tasty recipe.
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Taylor Stinson says
Hi Sonia – I’m so glad you liked it! I will have to take your recipe notes into account for the future. Looking back I can say that it would definitely take you longer than 15 minutes to prep the veggies, and I did cut the veggies into smaller pieces. I’m going to update the recipe to recommend smaller cuts now. Thanks again for your feedback and for letting me know how it turned out 🙂
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Rowena says
The print link on this recipe doesn’t work, it goes to #404
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Taylor Stinson says
Oh no! I’m sorry about this Rowena – I’m going to look into it today. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
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Taylor Stinson says
Okay, I have an update for you! 🙂 The link now works! Thanks again for letting me know so I could fix it!
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VirtuDiaries says
Also tried printing this just today and not working for me. Gremlins.
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Joy says
Layers of flavors and textures! I love love loved this. I felt full and satisfied without that heavy feeling. Super clean eating. I didn’t do the avocado or mushrooms and I didn’t feel it was missing a thing.
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Taylor Stinson says
I’m so happy you liked it Joy!!! Yeah there are a lot of veggies in here – it doesn’t matter if you leave a couple out hahah. Thanks for coming back and sharing with me 🙂
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Chelsea @ Chelsea's Healthy Kitchen says
Yessss I love all the fall veg in this! Plus roasted chickpeas and tahini sauce? Basically my ideal bowl right here.
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Taylor Stinson says
Thanks so much Chelsea 🙂
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