Healthy Teriyaki Chicken Bowl Recipe

Teriyaki Chicken is healthy and delicious. Serve these Chicken Teriyaki bowls with traditional rice or Caulifower Rice for a low carb option. This healthy bowl is one of my original meal prep recipes, I come back to it over and over again.

This healthy teriyaki chicken bowl is extremely flexible. This meal prep bowl is one that I have made over and over again for many years.

Whenever I plan to make this meal prep bowl I plan on making a double batch of the protein. I make twice as much teriyaki marinade and prep twice as much chicken.

One bag goes in the the freezer to make later, and one bag goes in the fridge to make this week. It's my ultimate meal prep secret. Double batch it from the beginning.

What you're going to love about this recipe

• Easy
• Healthy
• Versatile

Recipe Notes

Healthy meal prep bowls are the foundation

Ingredients

• Chicken: For this recipe, you can use chicken breast or thighs.
• Teriyaki Marinade: Make a double batch of this recipe so that you can save time next week. You can always use a store-bought marinade but be warned a lot of times store-bought teriyaki has a lot of extra sugar.
• Sesame Ginger Dressing: The healthy sesame dressing is full of healthy fat and none of the preservatives.
• Veggies: This bowl is packed full of tons of healthy veggies.

Step by Step Instructions

Step 1: Make the teriyaki marinade.

To make this teriyaki chicken recipe, start by making a teriyaki chicken marinade.

Bottled chicken teriyaki sauce is full of sugar. Marinating your chicken in this chicken teriyaki marinade gives it a ton of flavor and is so much healthier than the bottled stuff.

• Garlic:  Fresh garlic is best But for ease of use, you can find jarred garlic usually in the produce section.
• Ginger: Fresh ginger is a root and is also found in the produce section. You can also find ginger jarred.
• Soy Sauce or Tamari: Use Tamari or even coconut aminos if you are gluten-free.
• Mirin: Mirin is a sweet cooking sake. It has a sweet but savory flavor.
• Seasoned Rice Wine Vinegar: Usually used to make sushi rice. Rice wine vinegar adds a salty-sweet taste to this marinade.
• Brown Sugar: I usually substitute coconut sugar here. I love the rich flavor that the coconut sugar adds to this marinade.

Step 2: Make the Sesame Ginger Dressing

The easiest way to make this dressing is to add all of the ingredients into a mason jar and shake.

PRO-TIP: Assemble the marinade and the dressing at the same time. I set up my jar and place a freezer bag (or 2) in a bowl so that you can add similar ingredients together. This is definitely a pro-tip but it will save you a ton of time.

I set up a bowl with a freezer back inside of it and a mason jar right next to each other.

Then I start prepping the Teriyaki Marinade and the Sesame Ginger Dressing, simultaneously.

1. Two teaspoons of garlic in the bag and then two teaspoons of garlic in the jar.
2. Two teaspoons of ginger in the bag and then two teaspoons of ginger in the jar.
3. Soy sauce in the bag, then soy sauce in the jar.

Step 3: Prep the Veggies

This bowl is full of healthy veggies. You can use whatever veggies you like.

I recommend using a few handfuls of lettuce and spinach as a base in this bowl.

Then I usually prepare a few carrots, some steamed broccoli, sliced red peppers, and cucumbers. Sometimes I make my Spicy Asian Cucumber Salad or Pickled Asian Vegetables.

Step 4: Cook the Chicken

These are my two favorite way to make teriyaki chicken.

Baked Teriyaki Chicken:

• Preheat the oven to 425℉. Place the chicken on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 20 minutes.

Grilled Teriyaki Chicken:

• Heat the grill to medium-high. Grill, the chicken for 4 to 6 minutes per side. Time will vary depending on the size of the chicken.
• The internal temperature of the chicken should be 165℉. Use a probe thermometer to get an accurate reading.

Other Meal Prep Bowls

• Healthy Burger Bowl
• Fish Taco Bowl
• Easy Burrito Bowl