Sweetgreen is an award-winning healthy salad chain known for their delectable bowls, featuring ingredients rich in umami (an irresistibly savory taste). Their signature harvest bowl can easily be recreated at home.
This delicious meal utilizes inexpensive yet healthy ingredients to produce a delectable dish. To make it vegan-friendly, switch out chicken for chickpeas or tempeh and use an equivalent cheese substitute that offers similar creamy, nutty notes as traditional goat cheese.
Fresh kale
A delicious harvest bowl, this meal features warm wild rice, roasted sweet potatoes, goat cheese, apples, and almonds topped off with just a touch of maple syrup for extra taste and fulfillment. It will leave you satisfied yet full.
Prepping this salad ahead of time makes it ideal for healthy work lunches! All of its components can be stored separately in the fridge to preserve its nutrients without risk of wilting kale or browning apples – perfect for prepping ahead!
Warm wild rice
Sweetgreen is a fast-casual restaurant offering healthy salads and warm grain bowls at great value. Their Harvest Bowl is one of their signature offerings: featuring kale, warm wild rice, roasted sweet potatoes and chicken with apples, toasted almonds, creamy goat cheese and an easy balsamic vinaigrette dressing for added flair!
Roasted chicken and sweet potatoes are enhanced by adding umami seasoning for an irresistibly savory bite. Create your own blend with onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, cayenne pepper and kosher salt to get just the flavor you’re after!
Roasted sweet potatoes
This Sweetgreen Harvest Bowl copycat recipe brings one of their signature salads right into your own kitchen! Enjoy warm wild rice, roasted sweet potatoes and chicken, crunchy apples and almonds, creamy goat cheese or avocado plus homemade balsamic vinaigrette dressing!
Cook the rice or quinoa according to package instructions while cutting your sweet potatoes halved and thinly sliced into halves or quarters and placing on a baking sheet drizzled with oil and salted with an addition of some spices before roasting for around 20 minutes.
Rotisserie chicken
If you have ever visited Sweetgreen, chances are you have tried their harvest bowl – an irresistibly delectable combination of warm wild rice, roasted chicken and sweet potatoes, fresh kale, crispy apples, roasted almonds and creamy goat cheese.
This copycat recipe is easy and deliciously satisfying – the perfect meal prep option! Enjoy its healthy ingredients as well as its refreshing balsamic vinaigrette that provides the ideal combination of sweet, savory, and crunchiness!
Apples
Sweetgreen is an award-winning health salad chain known for their commitment to using seasonal, locally sourced ingredients in its signature Harvest Bowl salad. Served warm wild rice, roasted chicken and sweet potatoes, crispy apples, crunchy almonds and creamy goat cheese or avocado served with their homemade balsamic vinaigrette dressing makes the Harvest Bowl one of their most beloved offerings!
This recipe makes it simple and satisfyingly filling to recreate this restaurant classic at home, perfect for lunch! And each component can be prepped ahead and stored safely until needed.
Almonds
Sweetgreen is a nationwide salad chain with hundreds of locations that specializes in salads and warm grain bowls, such as their harvest bowl featuring kale, roasted sweet potato, rotisserie chicken, almonds and other toppings.
A balsamic vinaigrette makes an elegant finishing touch for this dish, and can easily be made in your own kitchen using just a few ingredients. Not only is this salad packed with calories and protein but it’s also full of micronutrients from its wide array of foods!
Goat cheese
Sweetgreen is an innovative healthy salad chain known for using quality ingredients in its Harvest Bowl dish – one of the most beloved offerings from Sweetgreen that is easy to recreate at home!
It is a delicious combination of warm wild rice, roasted sweet potatoes, chicken breasts, apples and goat cheese, finished off with balsamic vinaigrette for extra zest!
To create the salad dressing, blend olive oil, balsamic vinegar, honey, mustard and salt until well mixed. Next, pour one tablespoon of this dressing on to your kale and massage with your hands (it can get messy but totally worth it!) before adding additional ingredients. Let your kale soften before you add additional toppings or components.
Balsamic vinaigrette
Sweetgreen is a well-loved fast casual restaurant known for their colorful, nutritious bowls. Their Harvest Bowl recipe boasts warm wild rice, roasted sweet potatoes and chicken, crunchy apples and almonds, creamy goat cheese and an easy balsamic vinaigrette to top it all off!
Homemade balsamic vinaigrette is easy to make, tastes better than store-bought dressing and costs significantly less than its store-bought equivalents. Once made, it can be stored in an airtight glass jar in your refrigerator for up to one week for optimal results.