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

Sweetgreen offers salads, grain bowls and protein plates, with the opportunity to customize them to customers’ tastes. —Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 25 Nov. 2025

Use beans as a protein source in salads and grain bowls. —Isabel Vasquez Rd Ldn, Health, 14 Nov. 2025

Toss them into stir-fries, salads, or grain bowls. —Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 3 Nov. 2025

Chef Kwang Uh opened the restaurant’s first iteration in 2015 in Hollywood, serving intricate grain bowls and pastas at low prices for three years. —Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 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