The Buddha Bowl is a delicious and easy-to-make dish, a preparation with multiple vitamins and fiber, extremely beneficial for health. It is a versatile preparation in which multiple ingredients can be included, all healthy and balanced. It is ideal for maintaining a healthy weight, as well as helping digestion and other body processes. In practice, a buddha bowl can be a vegetarian dish, but according to each person’s preferences, animal proteins can be added. In the case of this recipe, chicken is used, a source of proteins of high biological value that intervenes in the development of muscle mass. Avocados, meanwhile, contain healthy fats and high levels of vitamins E, which promote cardiovascular health. Ingredients: For the sauce: 1 ripe avocado 1 medium onion ½ green paprika 3 cloves of garlic 2 lemons 1 branch of parsley 1 branch of coriander ½ cup of vegetable oil ½ cup of vinegar Salt to taste Ground black pepper For the bowl: 1 and ½ cup mixed leafy greens (arugula, watercress spinach, lettuce) ½ cup grated carrot ½ cup shredded cabbage 1 sweet potato or medium sweet potato 4 cherry tomatoes 1 sliced radish 1 chicken or turkey breast How to prepare Buddha Bowl: Prepare the sauce. Peel and chop the pulp of the avocado, bathe with the juice of the two lemons to prevent it from oxidizing. Reserve.Chop the onion, paprika, parsley and coriander into small pieces. Add the avocado pieces, oil and vinegar. If a creamy texture is desired, it is mixed by hand, if a more liquid sauce is preferred, it can be blended. Add salt and pepper to taste. To preserve the sauce for a longer time, at the moment of saving the avocado seed is added and it is removed when serving. Peel and chop the sweet potato into thin slices. Brush with vegetable oil, add a pinch of salt and pepper. Bake at 160º for 15 minutes and reserve. Season the chicken breast with salt and pepper, bake at 180º for 15 minutes, remove the skin from the breast, brush with olive oil and bake for 10 more minutes. Reserve. Put the bed of green leaves, the cabbage, the grated carrot and the sliced chicken breast. Add the avocado sauce and finish with the cherry tomatoes, quartered. The Buddha Bowl is an easy recipe that can be combined in multiple ways, changing the vegetables and proteins and even preparing a vegan version by substituting the latter with tofu or falafel. Enjoy a healthy meal anytime or anywhere.
