Teriyaki Chicken and Rice Bowl

Tasty Teriyaki Chicken and Rice Bowl - the flavours in this yummy dish will be a hit for the entire family. 

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• How many Calories in Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl
• Ingredients for Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl
• What is Teriyaki?
• Can I swap the protein?
• Best Rice For Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls
• More Rice Recipes
• Recipe Card

How many Calories in Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl

This recipe serves 4 people and is 460 calories per serving for a delicious filling meal that doesn't compromise on flavour, doesn't feel like diet food and is suitable for the whole family.

There are lots more recipes around this calorie value in my 400-500 calorie recipes

If you are using these recipes as part of a calorie controlled diet or healthy eating plan, you can calculate your daily calories by using a calorie calculator, as this will vary per individual depending on various factors.

Ingredients for Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl

for this easy Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl you need the following ingredients.

• red bell pepper
• green bell pepper
• carrot
• courgette,
• boneless skinless chicken thigh
• soy sauce - I used half dark and half light
• ground ginger
• garlic powder/granules
• onion powder/granules
• maple syrup
• rice vinegar
• spring onions (green onions/scallions)
• cooked chilled long grain rice
• sesame oil
• cooking oil spray

See the recipe card for full quantities.

Once all the ingredients are prepared, you can get ready to make this easy recipe.

What is Teriyaki?

So what exactly is teriyaki? Teriyaki is a Japanese style of cooking of meat or fish that is grilled or broiled with a delicious sauce that consists of soy sauce, sake (or mirin), sugar, ginger and garlic.

Although you will find many variations on the sauce. In fact, probably no sauce is the same, it can vary so much in quantities of ingredients.

Sake or Mirin which is usually a main part to the sauce can sometimes be hard to obtain, usually only found at specialist Asian stores, so I just use Maple Syrup for the sweet part of the sauce or if you don't have maple syrup you can always use honey.

The rest of the components are ingredients most will have in their store cupboard, so pretty simple.

Instead of cooking the chicken on its own like it would come if you ordered Teriyaki Chicken from a takeaway. For this Teriyaki Chicken and Rice Bowl, I like to combine everything all in one pan.

It means the rice also gets coated in those amazing teriyaki sauce flavours and resembles a fried rice dish - Yummy!!!

Can I swap the protein?

Don't fancy chicken? Feel free to use beef, pork or shrimp. You could even skip the protein altogether and just keep it as a Teriyaki Flavoured Vegetable Fried Rice as it's packed with plenty of veggies or add in some tofu or meat replacement strips to add some vegetarian protein.

Best Rice For Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls

For this recipe I basic long grain white rice, it doesn't go too sticky like jasmine rice and absorbs more of the flavouring from the sauce which I find basmati rice doesn't tend to do so well.

Another rice I sometimes like to use for this is Japanese short grain or medium grain rice which is a sushi type rice, it can be sticky like jasmine rice, but tends to hold it's shape well and is great for fried rice dishes. My favourite brand is Kokuho Rose or Nishiki

More Rice Recipes

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• SPICY BEEF, BEANS AND RICE
• CHICKEN FRIED RICE

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