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

And Netflix persuaded Jennifer Lopez, Florence Pugh, Tina Fey and John Cena to come all the way to a film studio on the Hudson River, before wining and dining media buyers with burgers, booze and grain bowls in one of its empty soundstages. —Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2026

Why is quinoa considered a healthy base for grain bowls? —Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026

Spring gathering season is here, and the humble grain bowl is having a moment — fluffy, fast and easy to scale for a crowd. —Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026

Try black bean tacos, lentil soup, tofu stir-fry, chickpea curry, or edamame grain bowls. —Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 8 May 2026

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