These easy rice bowl recipes are the perfect meal for those busy weeknights. Use your choice of rice and top with a variety of vegetables, protein, beans, cheese and more. Drizzle flavorful sauce on top and you’ve got a meal that everyone will love!
25 Easy Rice Bowl Recipes
What everyone loves about rice bowls is you can make them to to suit your tastes but picking and choosing the ingredients and toppings you add.
Check out these delicious rice bowl recipes. There’s something for everyone whether you enjoy beef, chicken, fish, shrimp or even vegetarian meals.
Want to turn these into low carb rice bowls? You can swap out the high carb rice for lower in carb cauliflower rice to create your own low carb or keto version of these rice bowls.
Korean Chicken Bowls
These Korean chicken rice bowls are the perfect 20-minute meal. With a sweet, soy sauce and a pop of color from edamame, you’ve got everything you need in one perfect bowl.
Looking for a fast meal to make on those busy weeknights? Then this unstuffed egg roll in a bowl recipe just might be the dish you're looking for. Grab a skillet and in 20 minutes you can have this family friendly meal on the table in a flash.
Sausage Veggie Rice Bowls Recipe – Fast and Flavorful!
These speedy Sausage Veggie Rice Bowls make a fuss-free lunch or dinner! It’s fun mixing and matching toppings for a completely new rice bowl every time.
This Copycat Chipotle Pork Carnitas Burritos Bowl recipe starts with flavorful, juicy pork that cooks all day in your slow cooker. Turn it into a delicious burrito bowl by laying the pork with your favorite toppings including rice, black beans, salsa or pico de gallo and more. Top with some fresh cilantro. So good! Perfect for lunch or dinner.
This Shrimp Fajita Rice Bowl is loaded with fluffy cilantro lime rice, grilled peppers and onions and is topped with juicy seasoned shrimp. This rice bowl recipe is so easy to make and can be turned into a meal prep meal.
A quick and easy, 15-minute Korean tuna mayo rice bowl recipe (deopbap) made with garlic butter, tuna, vegetables over a bed of rice & drizzled with mayo & sweet soy sauce.
Liven up your rice bowl with spicy kimchi, pickled vegetables, and Asian seasonings! Marinated chicken adds protein to this bowl packed with vitamins and minerals. The thinly sliced cucumbers balance the hot ingredients with a light, cooling sensation.
This Big Mac salad rice bowl is a healthier, and just as delicious, version of the traditional Big Mac! It’s a gluten-free salad recipe that will kick your fast-food cravings to the curb.
This Teriyaki Chicken Bowl is absolutely Irresist-A-Bowl! Tender juicy chicken, glistening in tasty sauce, alongside Asian coleslaw, and creamy avocado. All atop a bed of hot rice. Yum!
Learn how to make a simple poke bowl with salmon, avocado, rice, green onions, and cucumbers. Takes just a few minutes to prepare with all the flavors of sushi.
Crunchy and creamy Hawaiian Shrimp Poke Bowl is made with tender cooked shrimp, sweet fresh pineapple, crunchy veggies, creamy avocado and drizzled with the best spicy mayo sauce. It’s a perfect lunch or dinner for all sushi flavors’ fans!
Make these easy Polynesian Rice bowls featuring the delicious Chick-fil-A sauce! Filled with chicken, veggies, and fruit it’s a complete meal served over rice.
Furikake Salmon Buddha Bowl is a flavorful and super nutritious, well-balanced dinner that is quick, easy to make and will satisfy all your sushi cravings. It is made with salmon baked with Furikake (Japanese seaweed seasoning), brown rice, fresh greens, veggies and finished with flavorful honey ginger dressing.
This 15-minute Korean beef bowl is a quick and delicious weeknight meal. It’s made with ground beef bulgogi stir fried with a savory Korean sauce made of brown sugar and soy sauce!
These loaded rice bowls are packed with yellow rice, chickpeas, fajita seasoned peppers and onions, salsa, lettuce, and all the extras! They’re a great way to use up whatever veggies you have on hand in a delicious bowl recipe.
Thai inspired pineapple fried rice recipe. Healthy, quick, and vegan! Includes tips on how to stop your fried rice sticking together. Perfect side dish or main meal!
The best quick and easy recipe for Sweet & Sour Chicken! A Chinese takeout favorite that's homemade, gluten-free, paleo, and allergy-free! This healthier unfried version is made in a wok or skillet on the stove and tossed with a sweet and sticky sauce that's naturally sweet!
What kind of rice should I use for these rice bowl recipes?
The base ingredient for these bowls is rice. You can easily swap out different types of rice for these recipes. Choose your favorite type of rice…..white rice, brown rice, minute rice, basmati rice, jasmine rice or make your bowl keto by using cauliflower rice.
Don’t bother making flavored rice for these dishes. Stick with plain rice or just add a bit of salt and black pepper to the rice. Each of these dishes includes other ingredients and sauces that will add plenty of flavor to your choice of rice.
Can I make my rice ahead of time?
You sure can!
If you are planning on using rice for more than one meal in that week it’s easy enough to double the batch to use in both meals.
To reheat the rice try sprinkling a tablespoon or two of water over the rice when you reheat it. This will add some moisture back to the rice. This helps with the texture of the reheated rice.
Best dessert to serve with these rice bowls:
Looking for a delicious and easy to make dessert to serve with delicious rice bowls? Then you’ll love this Pineapple Coconut Dump Cake.
This is a family favorite. With just 3 simple ingredients you can quickly make up this dump cake. The tropical, fruity flavors make a tasty dessert to serve with the baked crack chicken.View the recipe.
Here’s another easy to make dessert that tastes great with all of these rice bowls.
These Pumpkin Macaroon Cookies are a quick to make recipe. Similar to the cake above it uses a box of angel food cake mix as a base for these cookies. Add in a can of pumpkin and some shredded coconut and you have fresh cookies in about 5 minutes. View the recipe.
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