Chicken Burrito Bowls: A deliciously comforting one pot meal for your Taco Tuesday — or any day of the week, really!
Check out what we’re making today! Enjoy these Chicken Burrito Bowls, an Easy One Pot Recipein the March 5, 2017edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around ingredients that are either on sale or generally affordable.
The reasons for this week’s recipe are twofold: Boneless skinless chicken breast has been on sale all over town, and last weekI told you that we’d tried out these pressure cooker chicken, black bean, & rice burrito bowlsin the Instant Pot.
Those were pretty good, so inspired me to incorporate a few more tweaks and reverse engineer this one pot chicken burrito bowls recipe on the stove top for you guys. Now those of you without an Instant Pot canalso enjoy! My kids surely did…
Chicken Burrito Bowls — An Easy One Pot Recipe
Ingredients
2 Tbsp olive oil 1/2 of a medium yellow onion, diced 1-1.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, cut into bite-sized pieces 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 tsp chili powder 1 tsp cumin 1/2 tsp Kosher salt 1 can black beans, drained and rinsed 1 cup uncooked long grain white rice 1 cup chipotle salsa (or salsa of choice — chipotle is recommended, though) 2 cups chicken or vegetable broth (I used homemade vegetable broth)
Directions
Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering. Add onion and chicken, then saute for about fiveminutes until onion is softened and chicken is no longer pink on the outside, stirring occasionally. Stir in garlic, salt, and spices and cook for another minute. Stir in rice, broth, beans, and salsa and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to medium-low, cover skillet with a tightly fitting lid, and let everything simmer over medium-low heat for 20-25 minutes or until rice is done and has absorbed most of the liquid. Remove from heat and stir. Replace lid and let sit covered for 5 more minutes to thicken up (will still be slightly goopy), then serve in bowls.
Top each chicken burrito bowl with diced avocado, green onion, shredded cheese, and/or other burrito bowl fixings of choice.
Yum!
These filling & easy chicken burrito bowls pack a lot of flavor for such a simple one pot recipe. Start to finish, estimate about 40 minutes to make these — and since most of that time is hands off, chicken burrito bowls are a great weeknight dinner option. Chicken burrito bowls are naturally gluten free, and also dairy free if you don’t top with cheese.
They’re also pretty affordable: This entire pan ofchicken, black beans, and rice for my family of four came in under $5.00. I just servedsome fruit on the side, and we ended up withenough chicken and rice left over to make lunch for me the next day. (I win… 😉 )
These filling & easy chicken burrito bowls pack a lot of flavor for such a simple one pot recipe. Start to finish, estimate about 40 minutes to make these — and since most of that time is hands off, chicken burrito bowls are a great weeknight dinner option.
1-1.5lbsboneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, cut into bite-sized pieces
2clovesgarlic, minced
2tspchili powder
1tspcumin
1/2tspKosher salt
1can black beans, drained and rinsed
1cupuncooked long grain white rice
1cupchipotle salsa (or salsa of choice — chipotle is recommended, though)
2cupschicken or vegetable broth
Instructions
Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering.
Add onion and chicken, then saute for about fiveminutes until onion is softened and chicken is no longer pink on the outside, stirring occasionally.
Stir in garlic, salt, and spices and cook for another minute.
Stir in rice, broth, beans, and salsa and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to medium-low, cover skillet with a tightly fitting lid, and let everything simmer over medium-low heat for 20-25 minutes or until rice is done and has absorbed most of the liquid.
Remove from heat and stir.
Replace lid and let sit covered for 5 more minutes to thicken up (will still be slightly goopy), then serve in bowls.
Top each chicken burrito bowl with diced avocado, green onion, shredded cheese, and/or other burrito bowl fixings of choice.
Notes
Chicken burrito bowls are naturally gluten free, and also dairy free if you don’t top with cheese.
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Burrito Bowls are basically the guts of a burrito – chicken, rice, beans, salsa, and guacamole – scooped inside of a bowl versus a tortilla, so they're gluten free and lower in carbs than a traditional burrito.
Your choice of freshly grilled meat or sofritas served in a delicious bowl with rice, beans, or fajita veggies, and topped with guac, salsa, queso blanco, sour cream or cheese.
A burrito bowl is healthier simply by virtue of eliminating the tortilla. Not only are big burrito tortillas high in calories, they're also made with white flour, which is low in fiber and nutrients.
Like most meals, a burrito can be as healthy or unhealthy as you want; it depends on what ingredients you include and what you're avoiding. If you're trying to eat fewer carbs, a burrito bowl can be a better choice than a traditional burrito – and easier to take home if you want to cut back on portion sizes.
Is a Bowl Healthier Than a Burrito? A bowl may be a healthier option based on how you build it. A bowl with higher-calorie ingredients like pollo asado, guacamole, sour cream, and cheese or queso Blanco can have 1,120 calories, 66g of fat, and 80 g of carbs.
Unwrap that burrito, and you'll save about 300 calories to start. For a healthy bowl, go with brown rice, black or pinto beans, and grilled chicken or lean steak. Top with lettuce and salsa, which packs plenty of flavor for just 5 calories a tablespoon.
Chipotle Burrito Bowl Without Rice, With Meat And Cheese (1 One Burrito Bowl ) contains 2g total carbs, 1g net carbs, 14g fat, 27g protein, and 260 calories.
Business Insider tested this claim, comparing the weight of a burrito bowl's contents with those of its wrapped namesake. Sure enough, for the same price, ordering a burrito bowl means ordering significantly more food. In that specific case, the bowl's weight was astoundingly almost 71% more than the burrito's.
You can think of any burrito filling ideas and make it work. Traditionally, the essentials contain beans, meat or veggie protein and salsa, wrapped up in a flour tortilla. Extra vegetables, sour cream, guacamole, cheese and rice are also frequently added to the mix.
Around here, all you need to know is that we use long-grain white rice. We have always been committed to preparing real food made with real ingredients. You know, the kind you can recognize and pronounce. In fact, we've listed every single one of them right here.
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Burritos are filled with savory ingredients, most often a meat such as beef, chicken, or pork, and often include other ingredients, such as rice, cooked beans (either whole or refried), vegetables, such as lettuce and tomatoes, cheese, and condiments such as salsa, pico de gallo, guacamole, or crema.
Authentic Mexican burritos consist of two thin flour tortillas filled with a variety of ingredients. Although the ingredients can be as creative and unique as one's imagination, a traditional burrito is filled with meat, vegetables, and beans. However, rice and guacamole are two very common additions.
The key ingredients in Chipotle Chicken al Pastor are spicy adobo chicken, a marinade with seared morita peppers and ground achiote, pineapple, fresh lime, and hand-chopped cilantro.
For burrito bowls, this is the caloric baseline, clocking in at about 705-1250 total calories, depending on your guac, protein selection, and additional fixings. For burritos, add a flour tortilla (300 calories), and you're looking at a range of about 1085-1550 total calories, depending on topping selections.
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