This homemade vegan Bibibop bowl has everything you love about the Korean-style bibimbap. With purple rice, teriyaki tofu, sesame broccoli, and fresh toppings. Build the ultimate restaurant-style bowl right at home!
Welcome to my homemade Bibibop series!
I'm recreating Bibibop favorites, inspired by ingredients that Bibibop actually uses. Easily made at home - for the flavors you love about Bibibop. Cheaper, meal-preppable, and restaurant-style at any time!
This post is the finale! A full Bibibop-style rice bowl with all your Bibibop faves!
Pick out your favorites from all my Bibibop-style recipes and assemble, for a vegan friendly bibimbap bowl at home!
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Why You'll Love This Homemade Bibibop Bowl
- Bibibop at Home - All the classic flavors in an easy homemade meal
- Fully Customizable - Choose your rice, hot toppings, protein, veggies, and toppings - mix and match your favorites
- Meal Prep Friendly - Make the components ahead and assemble bowls throughout the week
- Budget Friendly - cheaper than Bibibop! Prep everything at home for a fraction of the cost
What Goes In a Bibibop Bowl?
The classic bibibop bowl consists of a base of rice or kale, hot toppings like beans and broccoli, protein (tofu!), and cold toppings like kale, carrots, kimchi, and cucumbers.
I have recipes for all of these, but you definitely don't need to make every single component for a delicious bowl. Pick your favorites, grab a store bought version of something you don't feel like prepping - whatever works for you!
Choose Your Rice
Bibibop's purple rice is iconic and is a classic base for a Bibibop-style bowl. I make it with a simple combo of white rice and black rice, which cook together to create a stunning purple color!
My recipe: Korean-style purple rice
- Purple or white: feel free to skip the black rice and just make a pot of plain white rice
- Make it your base: Use as much or as little rice as you like depending on how hearty you want your bowl to be - feel free to use kale as some or all of your base as well
Pick Hot Toppings
I created my homemade version of Bibibop's sesame broccoli as well as a simple homemade bean recipe. You can also grab some bean sprouts and roast potatoes.
My recipes: Roasted Sesame Broccoli and Simple Homemade Black Beans
Pick Fresh Toppings
Bibibop offers a variety of fresh toppings, including their classic honey citrus kale, and sesame flavored carrots. And more "premium" toppings like avocado or pineapple.
My recipes: Honey Citrus Kale, Pickled Red Onions, Sesame Carrots
What I'd buy from the store:
- A cucumber to slice
- Pre-made kimchi
- Avocado to dice up
- Canned corn
- Pineapple, if that's your vibe
Protein & Sauce
Bibibop's vegan-friendly protein option is a tofu that's got a teriyaki-esque sauce. And their vegan sauce option is also teriyaki. So I've got a delicious homemade teriyaki tofu, plus extra teriyaki sauce for drizzling.
My recipes: Bibibop-Style Teriyaki Sauce, Homemade Bibibop-Style Tofu
Cooking order
You can easily prep everything on this list in an hour or two. You can always meal-prep bowls for the week ahead.
But if you want to eat a warm bowl immediately after cooking, here's the cooking order I recommend:
- As much chopping as you can - if you can get organized to chop your onions, kale, carrots, broccoli, etc. it makes the whole process more smooth
- Pickled Red Onions - start with this because it benefits from sitting longer in the pickling liquid
- Honey Citrus Kale - cold topping that stays fresh for a long time
- Soak the Rice - if you're making purple rice be sure to start soaking about an hour before you want the finished rice
- Sesame Carrots - do require a minute or two on the stove to steam, but then can sit and get cold
- Beans - easily simmer on the stove on low heat. You can turn on the heat to super low and forget about these
- Teriyaki Sauce - need to prep before you cook the tofu
- Tofu - cooking next to last because it's quite quick and the thing you want to stay warm
- Sesame Broccoli - only takes 10-15 minutes in the oven
- Last-minute fresh toppings - a quick slice of your avocado or cucmber
Elizabeth's Kitchen Notes
- More than just a rice bowl: every recipe in this series uses ingredients that Bibibop lists on their website. I've never worked at Bibibop and don't know exactly how they prep each food, but I do know flavors! I took each food and used Bibibop's descriptions to create a home-cook method. The result is a bowl that really does taste like Bibibop, not just another rice bowl.
- Meal prep: these recipes are excellent for meal prep. Because there are so many components, making every single one on a weeknight is a bit much. But an hour or two of prep on the weekend can give you easy Bibibop bowls all week.
FAQ & Expert Tips
Yes! I highly recommend it. Prepping the fresh ingredients like kale, carrots, red onions, and making the teriyaki sauce can help make the day-of prep super easy.
Store hot and cold components separately. That way you can reheat rice, beans, veggies, and protein in the microwave, without nuking your kale or carrots.
Recipe Prayer
Thank you God for this delicious meal. Thank you for our favorite restaurant foods that we can make at home and enjoy. Allow this food to nourish our bodies. Amen.
Related Recipes
My Homemade Bibibop Series
- Homemade Black Beans (Bibibop-Style)
- Homemade Honey Citrus Kale (Bibibop Style)
- Homemade Sesame Carrots (Bibibop Style)
- Homemade Pickled Red Onions (Refined Sugar Free)
- Homemade Roasted Sesame Broccoli (Bibibop-Style)
- Homemade Korean-Style Purple Rice
- Bibibop-Style Teriyaki Sauce
- Homemade Bibibop-Style Tofu
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📖 Recipe
Homemade Vegan Bibibop Bowls
Ingredients
Homemade Bibibop Recipes
For bowls
- Kimchi
- Avocado
- Cucumber
- Bean Sprouts
- Pineapple
Instructions
- Do as much chopping as you can - if you can get organized to chop your onions, kale, carrots, broccoli, etc. it makes the whole process more smooth
- Make the pickled red onions - start with this because it benefits from sitting longer in the pickling liquid.
- Prep the honey citrus kale - a cold topping that stays fresh for a long time
- Soak the rice - if you're making purple rice be sure to start soaking about an hour before you want the finished rice.
- Make the sesame carrots - do require a minute or two on the stove to steam, but then can sit and get cold.
- Get the beans on the stove - they can easily simmer on the stove on low heat.
- Make the teriyaki sauce - which you'll need to prep before you cook the tofu.
- Cook the tofu - cooking next to last because it's quite quick and the thing you want to stay warm.
- Make the sesame broccoli - which only takes 10-15 minutes in the oven.
- Gather any last-minute fresh toppings - a quick slice of your avocado or cucumber.
Nutrition information is an estimate.
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