grain bowl

noun

plural grain bowls

: a dish typically consisting of an individual portion of a cooked grain (such as rice, quinoa, or farro) served in a bowl with accompaniments such as vegetables, beans, meat or fish, and sauce

Like many cooks I know, I don't always follow recipes for grain bowls at home. Instead, I tend to use up what I have in the fridge and pantry, mixing and matching, figuring out how to make odds and ends delicious.

—Tejal Rao

Arrange, don't mix. Part of a grain bowl's appeal is the visual distinctiveness of its various parts—toss it all together, and it's no longer eye candy.

—Carrie Dennett

Examples of grain bowl in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Try incorporating black beans into salads, grain bowls, and soups for a boost of protein. 15. —Jillian Kubala, Health, 10 June 2025

The restaurant offers plenty of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options including salads ($10 to $15), grain bowls ($11 to $16) and protein-forward entrées (around $15). —Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 July 2025

Pizza, grain bowls with your favorite dressing, and tacos are all fantastic and flexible options, too. —Karla Walsh, CNN Money, 9 June 2025

Best of all, the grain bowl and other options will be available for pre-order on most Alaska Airlines flights over 1,100 miles. —Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

2000, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for grain bowl

• bankroll
• bedroll
• borehole
• cajole
• catchpole
• charcoal
• condole
• control
• dipole
• downhole
• enroll
• extol