This scrumptious, Chicken Brown Rice Bowl is a simple one-bowl meal with hen breast, arugula, avocado, tomatoes, Gruyere with a sriracha yogurt sauce.

Chicken Brown Rice Bowl (Zinque’s Le Bowl)

This recipe is impressed by the LA restaurant, Zinque, a simple hen and rice bowl is ideal for lunch or dinner. It’s additionally a good way to make use of up leftover hen (or you should use turkey!). I at all times maintain frozen brown rice available to whip up these fast, simple bowls in beneath 10 minutes. You possibly can take a look at extra Wholesome Bowl Recipes right here!

Good day, I’m Heather Ok. Jones! I’m a dietitian, and the vitamin skilled for the Skinnytaste cookbooks.

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When my sister Lori despatched me this copycat recipe from a restaurant in LA, I wasn’t certain concerning the Sriracha and Gruyere combo. However Lori is a incredible cook dinner (she even received a cooking contest in Vegas a number of years in the past!), and he or she assured me that I’d love this bowl—and he or she was proper!

Easy substances (hen, tomatoes, arugula, brown rice, gruyere, Sriracha and yogurt) come collectively for a surprisingly tasty AND tremendous simple one-bowl meal. However don’t neglect this secret ingredient…

I imagine that LOVE is the key superpower in all recipes – meals made with love has a unique power and style. You possibly can undoubtedly really feel all the LOVE that Gina places into creating all of her Skinnytaste recipes, proper!?

I additionally select to cook dinner with meals handled with love, together with regionally grown natural produce and animals which have been humanely raised. I purchase lots from a farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley referred to as PolyFace, who imagine “crops and animals must be supplied a habitat that enables them to specific their physiological distinctiveness.”

And it’s not simply what you eat, but additionally the state you’re in whenever you eat. As a result of should you’re feeling offended, responsible, nervous or unhappy whenever you eat, your physique metabolizes meals in a really totally different method.

In the event you eat whereas your physique is in a stressed-out “combat or flight” mode (referred to as the sympathetic state), your digestive system doesn’t have the flexibility to course of its meals appropriately, which might result in (amongst a number of different issues) weight acquire.

The quickest option to get your physique right into a relaxed parasympathetic state (the “relaxation and restore” mode) that naturally prompts your digestive course of is thru deep respiratory. So, earlier than you eat something, sit down and easily take a number of deep breaths—slowly breath in via your nostril, after which push the air out via your mouth.

Taking a number of breaths earlier than you eat additionally places you in contact along with your physique’s knowledge. I like this from the superior mindfulness e-book, Find out how to Eat by Thich Nhat Hanh: “After we take a second to take a seat and breathe earlier than we eat, we are able to get in contact with the actual starvation in our physique. We are able to uncover if we’re consuming as a result of we’re hungry or if we’re consuming as a result of it’s time to eat and the meals is there. If we’re paying consideration and taking our time, we additionally know the way a lot to eat.”