Teriyaki Chicken Bowls Recipe
on Jan 18, 2023
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Teriyaki Chicken Bowls Recipe is a quick and easy Japanese dinner that can be made within 15 minutes. Tender chicken is tossed with sweet, savoury, and garlicky teriyaki sauce and then served with rice and steamed broccoli. No marinading needed! It’s better than takeout from your favorite Asian restaurant!
There’s no secret I love Asian food. Beef Stir Fry, Spicy Salmon Roll, and this Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls are on our weekly rotation recently.
Teriyaki bowl is chicken breast seared in a skillet with teriyaki sauce and then served with rice and vegetables. It’s so quick to prepare and perfect for busy weeknight dinners. If you have sous vide machine at home, you can also try our Sous Vide Teriyaki Chicken. You can also use this for meal prep as it lasts for 4 days in the refrigerator.
The homemade sauce is addictive and so much better than any store-bought bottles. You will want to drizzle it on everything including the rice and steamed broccoli!
Chicken Teriyaki Sauce Ingredients
The best part of the teriyaki chicken bowl recipe is the sauce! It’s made of a few simple ingredients you probably already have on hand:
- Soy Sauce: (I recommend using low-sodium)
- Vinegar
- Sugar
- Garlic
- Cornstarch
- Optional ginger or ginger powder
How to Make Teriyaki Chicken Bowls
- Sear cubed chicken breasts until golden brown.
- Make chicken teriyaki sauce and add it to the pan. Cook with the chicken until the sauce thickens.
- Mix the chicken with sauce thoroughly.
- Serve cooked chicken on top of steamed rice in a bowl with broccoli.
Quick and easy! Teriyaki chicken rice bowl will be on your dinner table in no time!
Can I Make it Ahead?
Yes, this recipe is great for meal prep and it reheats well. Store it in an airtight container and it’ll last for 4 days in the refrigerator.
Is Teriyaki Bowl Healthy?
This homemade recipe is much healthier than the restaurant version. It’s best to use low-sodium soy sauce to reduce the salt intake. You can also cut down the amount of honey or sugar to make it even healthier.
How to Serve Teriyaki Chicken?
Traditionally this recipe is served with rice and broccoli, but it’s also great with pasta and other veggies such as green beans, carrots, and asparagus.
Tips for Making the Best Teriyaki Bowl
- Both chicken breasts and chicken thighs work for this recipe. Cube them into 1-inch pieces for quick cooking.
- You can also use mirin and sake to make authentic teriyaki sauce if you have them. Use 1:1:1 ratio among soy sauce, mirin and sake. Add sugar according to your personal taste.
- Serve it over rice for teriyaki chicken rice bowl. Or you can cook pineapple with your chicken for teriyaki chicken pineapple bowl. For a healthy recipe you can serve with lettuce wraps or brown rice.
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Teriyaki Bowl Recipe (+VIDEO)
Ingredients
Teriyaki Chicken:
- 1 1/2 lb chicken breasts, cubed
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons honey, (or sugar)
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar, (or apple cider vinegar)
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- optional 1/4 teaspoon ginger powder
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
For Serving:
- steamed rice
- broccoli
Instructions
- Mix together soy sauce, honey, vinegar, garlic, cornstarch, and optional ginger powder in a small bowl.
- Heat a large pan on medium-high heat. Add oil.
- When the oil is hot, add chicken breasts. Fry for about 3 minutes per side (5-6 in total) until golden brown.
- Add teriyaki sauce to chicken and stir until the sauce thickens.
- Remove from heat. Serve the chicken on top of rice in a bowl with steamed broccoli. Enjoy!
Video
Notes
- Nutrition info doesn’t include broccoli or steam rice.
Nutrition
Nutrition information provided is an estimate only and will vary based on ingredient brands and cooking methods used.
Very good and easy to make! Although it is a different recipe from the video I saw on Pinterest! That one had honey, ginger in it and couldn’t find it when I looked on your site. I ended up adding ginger to it and some red pepper flakes!
Same here! I didn’t see those ingredients in the recipe. I did make it though and it was a hit at home! I might substitute the sugar with honey to make it a bit healthy. The flavour was delicious regardless 🙂
Same here as well! It was still very delicious and I will definitely make it again. The sauce was not as dark as shown in the video or picture. I would like the recipe for the video. Cider vinegar not rice vinegar and honey not sugar was used in the video.
Great recjpe!
Thanks Sandy. Glad you like it.
Simple and delicious!
Thanks, Patricia. Glad that you like the recipe.
Pretty good,made it as a lunch and it was amazing. Would totally try again.
Hi Kavesh. Great to hear that you like this recipe. Thanks for letting me know.
This was simple and easy to make. I am not someone that has a flair for cooking so when i made this my housemates were surprised 😅😅😅
I dont love it