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I have never commented on a blog recipe. THIS IS THE BEST RECIPE EVER. I’m so in love with it!! Definitely worth the effort. Thank you!
Kenna
Bliss Bowls! ♡
What a trendy + delicious + healthy little bliss bowls situation we’ve got going on, and just in time for these icy-cold winter days when you need that plant power more than ever but all you want to eat ever is turkey with gravy and mashed potatoes and every morsel of stuffing ever made. Topped with more gravy. Or no – just me?
This bliss bowl combo is the answer to the question WHAT DO I EAT IN WINTER TO STAY HEALTHY while NOT eating a cold and crunchy leafy salad. I do love a good cold and crunchy leafy salad, and I know you do, too. But friends. Have you been to Minnesota lately? It is a tundra. Maybe even The Tundra. Also 😃 beautiful, clean, generally quiet, full of Disney animals, and an almost perfect place to live (repeats mantra to self x 100). But there is a dark side to those truths, and the dark side is that I’m sitting in our studio right now sending all my positive energies to the little old heater in hopes that I will only have to wear my jacket in here for half the day. Plzzz.
Warm bliss bowl > cold salad.
And anyway, eaters gotta eat. Just look at that heaping-bowl-o-yum: bliss bowls were made for the real eaters of the world.
WE LOVE YOU BLISS BOHHHWWWL! 📢
*true story* – I guess I should have done this sooner, but literally right at this moment I just jumped over to Google to look up what bliss bowls are, technically, you know, like formally and officially.
The only reason I called this a bliss bowl in the first place is because I follow a bunch of super-creative fitspo-food people on Instagram and they always post pictures of these beautiful things they call bliss bowls. But now that I’m looking it up, I’m realizing that maybe this isn’t as widespread a food phenomenon as I thought? And possibly it’s named after an item at a restaurant that I’ve never even been to? Too late now. I’ve been calling it a bliss bowl for the last 800 meals and it’s just too pretty to go back now, so bring on the bliss bowl rainbow.
This ultimate bliss bowl “recipe” is not really much of a recipe.
It’s more of a formula: falafel, greens, roasted veggies, spicy peppers and nuts and tahini / olive oil / lemon juice / honey for topping. <- I mean, that’s seriously it. That’s everything.
You should probably use an exact recipe for the falafel, because that’s a little trickier to get just right. But the whole idea behind bliss bowls as I define them is to just pack in a bunch of pretty and flavorful and multi-textured and colorful plant-based foods into a dish and eat it all together in its combined wonderfulness. This recipe-formula is so flexible, so adaptable to whatever veggies you like or have on hand, and so AMAZING for make-ahead lunches.
Not to spoil any future blog post surprises or anything, but I’ve also been just taking everything in the bliss bowls and stuffing them into naan or pita bread (but mostly naan, because warm, pillowy garlic naan is for sure the meaning of life) and obsessing over some of the most epic lunch sandwiches that have ever come out of my kitchen.
It would NOT be a bad idea to double the roasted veggies here. Prep everything up, get it stored in separate containers in the fridge, and at lunchtime just toss it all together.
It would also not be a bad idea to eat these every day between all those holiday meals. Power-house-nutritious, filling, colorful and so absolutely yummy. THIS IS HOW WE DO WINTER. 💪
Go team B.B.!
The Ultimate Winter Bliss Bowls
- Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
- Yield: 4 bliss bowls 1x
Description
Keep your glow all winter! Easy homemade falafel, roasted veggies, and flavorful sauce all in one big bliss bowl! vegetarian / vegan / gluten free recipe.
Ingredients
For the Roasted Veggies
- 5–7 carrots
- 1 head cauliflower
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 teaspoons cumin
- salt and pepper to taste
For the Bliss Bowls
- 8–10 pieces of Simple 5 Ingredient Baked Falafel
- 2–3 cups spinach
- 1–2 cups chopped red cabbage
- 1 jalapeño, cut into slices
- 1/4 cup crushed pistachios
- tahini, lemon juice, honey, and/or olive oil for drizzling
Instructions
- Falafel: Make this falafel so you have it all ready to go! It takes about 30 minutes.
- Roasted Veggies: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Peel the carrots and cut into thin strips and place on a roasting pan (a jelly roll pan works well because then the veggies don’t slide off). Chop the cauliflower into small florets and place on a separate roasting pan. Drizzle each pan with oil and sprinkle each pan with cumin, salt, and pepper. Toss around on the pan to combine. Bake for 20-30 minutes – stir occasionally, but not too often otherwise you’ll disrupt the browning process. To get more browning, bake for an additional 10-15 minutes. When the veggies are done, remove from oven and set aside to cool.
- Bliss Bowl Assembly: Assemble spinach, red cabbage, falafel, carrots, and roasted cauliflower in the bowls. Top with jalapeño and pistachios. Drizzle with tahini, lemon juice, honey, olive oil, and salt and pepper as needed.
Notes
Nutrition information is for THE BASE of the bowl (the fresh veggies, the roasted veggies, and the nuts), without falafel, and without dressing. The falafel post includes its own nutrition label so you can tally up the total as needed.
Generally speaking, the amounts will vary greatly with this recipe because a lot depends on how much and what you use for toppings.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: Mediterranean
Keywords: falafel bowl recipe, roasted vegetable bowl recipe, bliss bowls
Hi! I love this recipe. My falafel’s tasted amazing, but never got to a consistency of handling them into a patty. They were mushy and I added 4 tablespoons of flour. Are you supposed to let the lentils cool? I did follow directions.
Try letting the lentils cool actually to see if that helps. That can sometimes help form a less “wet” falafel.
I made this for my family and they all said it was the best meal they have ever had! Thank you so much for the recipe. It was outside of my normal comfort zone 🙂
These are really wonderful. I’m nothing close to vegan but meals like this make me wonder if I should be! I followed the recipe pretty closely except I did a quick braise on the cabbage and also added farro and Brussels sprouts. Trader Joe’s has a delicious falafel in their freezer section so I made things easier on myself by using that instead. Currently eating the leftovers now and it’s just as delicious on day 2.
This was THE FREAKING BEST. I followed the recipe exactly, but added a sliced and roasted sweet potato. Such a good combo of flavors and pretty sure I’m set for dinner for the rest of the week 🎉 my partner who is a big time meat eater loved this. I sense a biweekly bliss bowl tradition starting… now.
So glad you both enjoyed it, Lia! Love the biweekly bliss bowl idea!
Hi there! Love your recipes! Does the nutritional info for this recipe include the Baked Falafel, or should we add the calories from that recipe to get the total for the bowl?
Hi Dana! Nutrition information is for the base of the bowl (the fresh veggies, the roasted veggies, and the nuts), without falafel, and without dressing.
This looks delicious! Just curious – the description says “flavorful sauce” but the recipe just lists possible options for sauces – do you have a specific sauce recipe in mind for this? Excited to try it this week!
We don’t have a specific recipe, but we like to combine tahini, lemon juice, and honey into a sauce for drizzling!
thank you for sharing this with us
Enjoy!
Excellent recipe! Excellent flavor, and fantastic step-by-step explanation with appropriately-paired photographs. Thank you so much for sharing!
wow, this definitely looks like the ultimate winter bliss bowls <3 I am definitely in love with this idea!
Enjoy!
This worked out really well! I used pre-made falafel and did everything else from scratch. I used curry powder instead of plain cumin and added plenty of salt and pepper, and used coconut oil to roast the veggies, tossing them with the spices. With whole, salted roasted pistachios it needed no dressing at all for every bite to be flavorful. It took awhile, but I can’t argue with the results! It was absolutely delicious and beautiful to look at, too.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, Jaime! 🙂
I use this recipe regularly for my meal prep for lunches at work- it’s soooooo good!!
The perfect cozy meal prep lunch! ♥️
Hey Lindsay,
I’ve made this recipe tons of times because I absolutely LOVE the taste of the falafel. The issue I have is every time I make it, by time I get it in the bowl, the falafel falls apart really easily and is kind of dry. I’ve tried to adjust the level of liquid, the amount of flour, etc. but I just can’t figure it out.
Any idea what the issue could be? I haven’t had this problem with other falafel recipes using chickpeas but I just like the taste of these ones best!
Hi Kianna! Sorry to hear that. Since this falafel is baked, it just tends to be a little crumblier in nature. You could give frying a try to see if it holds together better!
Thanks Jenna! I’ll likely stick to baking it because its still delicious regardless 🙂
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Yum. This sounds tasty. I promised myself I would start doing more cooking at home so it’s not always my other half doing it! This looks fairly straightforward (even for me) and really tasty so I’ll give it a go. Will be sure to come back and let you know how it goes. 🙂
Foods with Green Peppers in it in it’s raw state possibly contributes to losing belly fat and tightening up the midsection. But I don’t know about juicing green peppers and drinking the juice by itself. Like this food blog shows, I think I’ll stick to eating them sliced raw in food because I need time to adjust to raw juice from GP..lol
I love easy dinner recipes, especially when they turn out to be something my whole family loves!. This one also looks tasty.
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Thanks for sharing a great recipe will try this weekend , best regards
hey Lindsay,
I got to give props where props is due. You always have good blogs about amazing food dishes and never ceased to be creative in your food blogging endeavors. I commend you for being a “side hustle food blogging millionaire,” and turning passion into residual profit. Keep doing what you’re doing my friend! 🙂
My wife and I made this, it was so delicious!
Very good winter recipe.
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