This Mexican hen burrito bowl begins with scrumptious cilantro lime rice topped with our sticky Mexican hen after which pile on all of the toppings! I’m right here for allllll the toppings — corn, peppers, onions, tomatoes, avocado, cheese and avocado cilantro lime dressing! Drooling!

For some purpose, I’m bowl obsessed. There’s one thing about all of the flavors and textures that makes me all giddy. It simply feels so thrilling to me! It’s additionally a family-friendly, reasonably priced, wholesome and straightforward weeknight meal.

What’s a Burrito Bowl?

It looks like Chipotle was the restaurant to make the burrito bowl fashionable, however now you could find them virtually all over the place. A burrito bowl is principally the filling of a burrito put right into a bowl as a substitute of wrapped in a tortilla. They’re decrease in carbs with out the tortilla making them fairly fashionable and in addition gluten free. And they’re so versatile, you may make them precisely the way you need them.

Components for a Hen Burrito Bowl

This recipe is a little bit totally different than our typical recipes since you begin with three of our different favourite recipes to assemble an entire bowl. I’ll briefly describe every of these recipes (head to these particular person posts for the total recipes). after which end off with the elements to make these burrito bowls.

Cilantro Lime Rice

• Components: rice, water, unsalted butter, hen bouillon, garlic, cilantro, lime, and inexperienced chiles
• Time: 25 minutes
• PRO TIP: It is a copycat recipe for the rice served at Cafe Rio. It’s really easy to make at house!

Sticky Mexican Hen

• Components: hen breasts, taco seasoning, olive oil, inexperienced onions, honey, and lime juice
• Time: 10 minutes
• PRO TIP: You solely want 6 elements for this easy recipe, and the flavour is phenomenal!

Avocado Cilantro Lime Dressing

• Components: avocado, cilantro, lime juice, jalapeno, tomatillo, garlic, apple cider vinegar, honey, coriander, olive oil, Kosher salt, and water
• Time: 5 minutes
• PRO TIP: Might be made as much as a day forward of time. The flavour truly will get higher if it sits for a number of hours earlier than serving.

Toppings

• Greens: be at liberty to decide on no matter is your favourite — blended greens, all romaine lettuce or inexperienced leaf
• Corn: recent corn on the cob with the kernels sliced off is greatest, however you too can use frozen corn if wanted, provides sweetness and crunch
• Crimson and Orange Bell Peppers: seeds eliminated and diced, provides taste, shade and texture
• Crimson Onion: provides taste, shade and texture
• Jalapeno: provides warmth and taste
• Avocado: provides a creaminess and wholesome fats
• Cherry Tomatoes: provides brightness, shade and juiciness
• Queso Fresco: Cotija cheese may also be used and each shall be discovered within the cheese part of the grocery retailer
• This Little Goat Mexican Salad Topper: from Walmart or different native retailer, provides crunch
• Toasted Pepitas: these may be made at house with smoked paprika and used as a substitute of the salad topper in case you can’t discover it

The measurements for all of the elements to assemble the bowl may be discovered within the recipe card beneath.

Doable Variations

One of many beauties of burrito bowls is that they’re so versatile and might actually be individualized by every individual. There may be a lot room for altering issues up, so listed here are some concepts:

Why You Will Love This Recipe

I’m biased in terms of these burrito rice bowls, however there are one million causes to like this recipe. Listed below are just some:

• Taste: Charring the corn, peppers, onions and jalapeno add probably the most scrumptious smoky to the greens used. These mixed with all the opposite parts, and each chew is exploding with daring flavors.
• Wholesome: The entire elements are clear, lean and healthful with no added sugar.
• Texture: Decide a texture and you’ll discover it in these mexi bowls. Now we have creamy within the avocado and dressing, crunchy within the salad topping and veggies, and chewy within the rice and hen.
• One Bowl: You’ve your complete meal in a single bowl!
• Customizable: Every bowl may be fully individualized for whoever is assembling the bowl.
• Any Meal: I completely love meal prepping these bowls for lunch as a result of everyone knows that lunch is the worst meal of the day! And naturally, these at all times make an ideal weeknight.

What to Serve with a Burrito Bowl

Nothing! No severely, it is a full meal multi functional bowl! You’ve protein, grains, and masses greens all in a single chew. One more reason it’s such a successful recipe!

Storing and Reheating Ideas

This bowls will retailer way more efficiently if the elements are saved individually. I wish to retailer the rice, hen and charred veggies collectively to allow them to be reheated on the identical time. The opposite chilly toppings needs to be retailer individually and added simply earlier than serving.

I choose to reheat these rice bowls on the range prime. Add a little bit butter or oil to a skillet over medium warmth after which add the rice, hen and veggies. Simply warmth lengthy sufficient to heat by way of after which add the chilly toppings.

I invite you all to affix me in my bowl obsession! I’ve little doubt that one chew of this Mexican hen burrito bowl and also you’ll be simply as obsessed as I’m!

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