This irresistible Asian Zoodle Buddha Bowl is the perfect way to enjoy fresh veggies for Meatless Monday! To be honest, this Buddha bowl is the perfect way to enjoy fresh veggies any day, it doesn’t have to just be Monday! With fresh zucchini noodles, chopped veggies, quinoa and sunflower seeds all topped with an Asian inspired peanut sauce. This vegan, low fat zoodle bowl is a great way to get more veggies into your everyday. Heck I ate this three days in row and even had it for lunch and dinner one day #truestory. 
Have you ever heard of a Buddha bowl? I have seen these all over the internet lately and I’m always drooling. I had to google “Buddha Bowl” to get an understanding of what exactly this was and was pleasantly excited to learn that it was described as “a bowl that is packed so full that it has a rounded “belly” that appears at the top of the bowl so it looks like the belly of a Buddha” via the Urban Dictionary. Well you know when this Buddha belly is packed with fresh veggies, I’m going to be all over it!
This Asian Zoodle Buddha Bowl is very easy to adapt to whatever you have on hand. Feel free to add your favorite veggies as well. I have a special affinity for sugar snap peas and fresh radishes, especially in the summer. This dish doesn’t require you to turn on the stove at all! Using leftover quinoa from meal prep, this vegan bowl is ready is ready in under 10 minutes (even faster if you have good knife skills or buy pre-shredded carrots). Even without quinoa, this Asian Zoodle Buddha bowl is plenty filling, so if you don’t have any in the fridge, no worries! Leftover rice works great here as well!
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The peanut sauce on this bowl is sinfully delicious. It’s secret is peanut flour! Have you tried this yet? You may have heard about this before, some people use PB2, which is a great product but I prefer Peanut Plus Peanut Flour, since it doesn’t have any added sugar or ingredients. It’s called peanut flour, but for a simple explanation is they roast peanuts, and remove the peanut oil from the ground peanuts and what is left is is ground into a flour.
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Peanut flour can be added to anything! It’s great mixed in oats, muffin batter, cookie dough, to make frosting or you can simply mixed with water or milk to create a low fat peanut butter. This peanut butter can be spread over apple slices, banana, celery sticks or as a peanut sauce to put on salad, zoodles, on grilled tuna or shrimp. Once you try it I think you will love it too!
If you haven’t bought a vegetable spiralizer yet, I hope this post changes your mind! I’m convinced its a kitchen essential and just bought one for my mom for mother’s day. In a healthy eating kitchen, the ability to make fresh veggies that you can replace pasta with is just a no brainer! I love how simple the spiralizer is to use and how I don’t feel weighed down after eating a big bowl of zucchini noodles like I would with traditional pasta!
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Asian Zoodle Buddha Bowl
Ingredients
- 2 large zucchini - spiralized
- 1/4 cup shredded carrots
- 1/4 cup chopped sugar snap peas - about 15 pea pods, chopped
- 1 radish - chopped into matchsticks
- 1/2 cup cooked quinoa
- 1/2 red bell peppers - cut into matchsticks
- 1 avocado - seed and skin removed, sliced thin
- 1/4 cup sunflower seeds or peanuts
Asian Peanut Sauce
- 7 tbs. peanut flour
- 2 tbs. reduced sodium tamari or soy sauce
- 2 tbs. rice wine vinegar
- 6 tbs. water
- 1 tbs. ground ginger - I buy a jar of ginger that I keep in the fridge
- 1-2 tbs. sriracha - optional
Instructions
- Spiralize the zucchini and chop the veggies.
- Divide the veggies between 2-4 bowls depending on your own personal preference (this made 3 in my family)
- Add quinoa and sunflower seeds to veggie bowl.
- Mix the Asian Peanut Sauce and pour over the veggies and quinoa mixture.
- Feel free to add your favorite protein of choice.
- Stir and enjoy!
Asian Peanut Sauce
- Combine all ingredients into a small bowl. Whisk with a spoon or a fork until all clumps from the peanut flour are removed and sauce is smooth. Add sriracha to taste or leave out completely.
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What about you?
- What did you think a Buddha Bowl was the first time you heard of it?
- What is your favorite summer veggie?
- Do you have a spiralizer?
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Dee Welsh
This is the most delicious peanut sauce I’ve ever made! I usually use peanut butter but liked this version so much more. I used PB Fit since I couldn’t find peanut better flour in my local store (I’ll find out elsewhere soon). Super easy.
Kendra @ www.joyinourhome.com
Looks soooo good! Pinning it to try soon :) Thanks for sharing at Your Turn To Shine…. featuring you tomorrow :)
Sam
Thank you for featuring me!! Hope you enjoy it :)
Deborah Davis
Yummy! I could eat this Asian Zoodle Buddah Bowl everyday! Thank you for sharing this healthy and delicious recipe with us at the Healthy Happy Green and Natural Party Blog Hop. I’m pinning and sharing. I can’t wait to see what you share with us next!
Cathy
This is amazing! What a yummy recipe! I would love for you to share this at my link party Making Memories Mondays going on now! :-)
Cathy
Karly
What a fabulous dinner idea! Thanks for linking up with What’s Cookin’ Wednesday!
Lisa @ Fun Money Mom
I LOVE veggies and this looks so good! Thanks so much for sharing at Share The Wealth Sunday!
xoxo
Lisa
Elizabeth Hollands
This looks absolutely DELICIOUS. Thank you for a wonderful new recipe to try.
Jen
Yes. Making. I just zoodled up 2 zucchini’s today and nee a new recipe. We have all the ingredients! And I just picked up the trader joe’s sriracha a week or so ago. I was nervous it wouldn’t be as good as the original – but I love it!
Sam
Jen I’m always so impressed with Trader Joe’s and their sriracha is great! Hope you and the boy enjoyed this!
stephanie
What a beautiful, colorful dish!! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! This post has been pinned on the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! I love having you and can’t wait to see you next week!
Steph
Sounds delicious – can’t wait to give it a try!
Nancy Andres @ Colors of Joy Blog
Thanks Sam for sharing this colorful and delicious recipe for Buddha bowl. You taught me something new about why it’s called a Buddha bowl. Nancy Andres
Sue @ This Mama Runs for Cupcakes
I love anything peanut flavor especially asian food. This looks amazing!
Ashley @ Fit Mitten Kitchen
Well this certainly looks amazing! I’ve been craving Asian lately, will definitely be giving this a try soon! Pinned, for SHO ;-)
Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner
I love these and have a few different variations in my regular rotation. Thanks for linking up with us today for MM! Have a great week
Lauren @ The Bikini Experiment
Looks great! As much as I love the Joe, I have never tried the siracha. I need to change that!
Ashley
Did you say peanut sauce??? Sign me up! These bowls look absolutely fantastic! I can see why you ate it so many times!! :)
Jess @hellotofit
Mm pour peanut sauce on a bunch of delicious veggies and count me IN!! Looks awesome, Sam!
Susie @ SuzLyfe
I want veggies so badly right now. So badly. This is not helping!
jill conyers
I had my first buddha bowl after reading Scott Jurek’s Eat and Run (great book by the way) and have been hooked ever since. I love the idea of making them with zoodles. Pinning for menu planning.
Time to go study :/
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy
Look at all the colours in this! Anything that I get to put sriracha on has to be a good thing. I am loving all the flavours in this.