Vegan Poke Bowl Recipe

When I first ate a poke bowl, I was sold right away! Poke bowls are so delicious. Not only that, but they also look beautiful and are often packed with fiber and vegetable proteins.

Traditionally, raw fish is central to a poke bowl recipe, but we make this vegan poke bowl recipe with tofu and lots of other tasty ingredients. We’ll also tell you exactly what a poke bowl is and where it comes from.

What Is Poke Bowl?

Poke means cutting into slices or cross-cutting into pieces and a bowl, well, is a bowl. A poke bowl is therefore a bowl with sliced ingredients. This dish originated in Hawaii and is now known all over the world.

In Hawaii, it has been a traditional dish for centuries, but in recent years it has only become hip worldwide. There are even restaurants now that only serve poke bowls. Poke, by the way, is pronounced as a poh-keh.

The original main ingredient of a poke bowl is raw fish, supplemented with vegetables and sticky rice. We replace the raw fish with tofu, but you can also choose tempeh.

Typical poke bowl ingredients include avocado, soybeans, and cucumber. The great thing about a poke bowl is that there are no fixed rules attached to it. So you can put ingredients in your poke bowl that you like. Do you like seaweed? Put that in your bowl (as we do in this recipe)!

And also nice about a poke bowl: there is not much cooking involved. Of course, you have to prepare the rice and tofu, but the rest is just cutting. Read on to learn how to marinate tofu.

Vegetarian Poke Bowl

This recipe is both a vegetarian poke bowl recipe and a vegan poke bowl recipe. The ingredients we use are: sushi rice, tofu, spring onion, avocado, mango, radishes, soybeans, cucumber, seaweed salad and sesame seeds.

As a dressing we make a sauce of vegan mayonnaise, lemon juice and chili flakes. If you like spicy food, put a lot of chili flakes in it.

Prepare Tofu

Tofu is a perfect meat substitute and is made from soybeans. If you’ve never prepared tofu yourself, it can be quite difficult to prepare tofu. Especially since tofu tastes like “nothing” itself.

It’s the best thing to marinate tofu. Tofu takes flavors well, which is perfect. But how do you marinate tofu best? In our blog post, how to marinate tofu, we describe in detail how to do this best, but we will also describe it briefly below.

Tofu is packed with a lot of moisture. Before you start marinating the tofu it is useful to get all that moisture out of the tofu. This can be done by draining the tofu, dabbing dry and/or by wrapping the tofu in a kitchen cloth and putting something heavy on top. You can also buy a special tofu press to squeeze the moisture out of the tofu.

Now that all the moisture is gone, the marinade can be better absorbed. And if you poke holes in the tofu with a fork, the tofu can take the marinade even better!

For our poke bowl recipe we marinate the tofu with soy sauce, red pepper, garlic, ginger and agave syrup. Leave the marinated tofu for a moment, so that the tofu can absorb the marinade completely. After that, the tofu is ready to be (stir) fried.

TIP! Try our vegan rainbow Buddha bowl too!

How to Make a Poke Bowl

When the rice is cooked, the tofu is fried and all the vegetables are cut, then it’s time to put the poke bowl together! You do this by first placing rice in the bowl and then decorating with the other ingredients.