Veggie Bowls

Veggie Bowls by Orathay Souksisavanh is a vegetarian cookbook for anyone looking for more varied, visually appealing ways to eat plant-based food. Featuring more than 80 recipes, it shows how to turn vegetables, grains, noodles and other ingredients into complete meals served in a bowl, combining contrasting colours and textures. Alongside complete recipes, the book provides building blocks and guidance for creating your own bowls, making it useful for both committed vegetarians and people beginning to explore plant-based eating.

• Best for: Varied, visually appealing veggie meals
• Includes: 80+ recipes, plus guidance for building different types of bowls
• Meal types: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, salads and sweet bowls
• Dietary options: Vegetarian
• Skill level: Beginner
• Cooking time: Includes a section of recipes that can be made in under 15 minutes

Recipes in Veggie Bowls

The recipes in Veggie Bowls are simple, colourful and flexible, ranging from quick meals and fresh salads to more comforting dishes and sweet bowls. The book is designed so that individual elements can also provide inspiration for assembling bowls in different combinations, rather than requiring you to approach every meal as a fixed recipe.

• Next Level Noodles: instant noodles, greens and smoked tofu in an under-15-minute meal
• Goat's Cheese Salad with Dark Berries: green beans, avocado, blueberries, blackberries and goat's cheese
• Dhal with Roasted Vegetables: creamy red lentil and coconut dhal paired with roasted vegetables

Build your own bowls

As well as complete recipes, Veggie Bowls explains how to construct different styles of bowl from a basic formula, including smoothie bowls, Bircher muesli, chia pudding and savoury bowl cakes. The guidance breaks these down into elements such as bases, liquids, toppings, sweeteners and optional flavourings, giving cooks a framework they can adapt with different ingredients.

To guide and support the assembly of your bowl, each recipe has an image, showing either the finished bowl or its component ingredients.

More plant-based bowl cookbooks

If you're looking for cookbooks similar to Veggie Bowls, these books also focus on colourful, plant-led meals served in bowls, but place their emphasis on different aspects of this style of cooking.

• Rainbow Bowls: Easy, Delicious Ways to #EatTheRainbow by Niki Webster: A vegan collection spanning breakfasts, lunches, dinners and desserts, with a stronger focus on eating a colourful variety of fruit and vegetables.
• Bowls of Goodness: Vibrant Vegetarian Recipes Full of Nourishment by Nina Olsson: Another bowl-focused collection centred on vibrant, nourishing food, but with a vegetarian rather than vegan approach.