Description
Prepare delicious and healthy honey mustard chicken quinoa bowls perfect for meal prepping. This recipe features tender chicken, fluffy quinoa, and fresh vegetables all tossed in a tangy honey mustard dressing.
Ingredients
Scale
Instructions
- Cook quinoa according to package directions.
- While quinoa cooks, cut chicken breast into bite-sized pieces.
- Season chicken with salt and pepper.
- Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Add chicken to the skillet and cook until browned and cooked through, about 5-7 minutes.
- In a small bowl, whisk together Dijon mustard and honey to make the honey mustard sauce.
- Once chicken is cooked, remove from heat and toss with half of the honey mustard sauce.
- Once quinoa is cooked, fluff with a fork.
- Divide cooked quinoa among four meal prep containers.
- Add cooked honey mustard chicken to each container.
- Distribute shredded carrots and cherry tomatoes evenly among the containers.
- Drizzle the remaining honey mustard sauce over the chicken and vegetables in each bowl.
- Seal containers and refrigerate until ready to eat.
Equipment
Recommended kitchen tools: Digital Food Scale, Glass Meal Prep Containers and Insulated Lunch Bag.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 25 minutes
- Category: main dish
- Method: meal prep
- Cuisine: american
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 bowl
- Calories: 480
- Sugar: 10
- Sodium: 450
- Fat: 12
- Saturated Fat: 2
- Unsaturated Fat: 8
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 48
- Fiber: 6
- Protein: 45
- Cholesterol: 100
Keywords: honey mustard chicken, quinoa bowls, meal prep, healthy chicken, chicken and quinoa, weight loss meal, easy dinner, lunch prep
