Chicken Burrito Bowl

Name: Chicken Burrito Bowl
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 lb chicken (thighs); 2 tbsp chipotle in adobo (minced, plus sauce); 2 unit lime (juice, divided with the rice); 2 tsp cumin (ground); 3 clove garlic (minced); 1 ½ tsp salt; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 ½ cup cilantro lime rice (the catalog's, a full batch); 2 cup black beans (warmed with a little cumin); 1 cup salsa; 1 cup cheese (Jack or cotija, crumbled); ½ cup crema (or thinned sour cream); 2 cup lettuce (shredded)

Noodles & Rice · American · Latin American & Caribbean

13 ingredients · 45 minutes · 4 servings

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1163kcal76.6g protein39.9g fat124.4g carbs*

Contains dairy · sometimes contains gluten — check the label

Restrictions

ContainsdairyIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Sometimes contains — check the labelgluten (guacamole)Some brands have it, some do not. The recipe cannot tell, so this is the one you check yourself.

Diets

No porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

2 lb	chicken (thighs)
2 tbsp	chipotle in adobo (minced, plus sauce)
2 unit	lime (juice, divided with the rice)
2 tsp	cumin (ground)
3 clove	garlic (minced)
1 ½ tsp	salt
2 tbsp	vegetable oil
1 ½ cup	cilantro lime rice (the catalog's, a full batch)
2 cup	black beans (warmed with a little cumin)
1 cup	salsa
1 cup	cheese (Jack or cotija, crumbled)
½ cup	crema (or thinned sour cream)
2 cup	lettuce (shredded)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

1 cup	guacamole (the catalog's — made day-of)
⅓ cup	pickled red onions (the catalog's)

Steps

Marinate20 min
chicken + chipotle + half the lime + cumin + garlic + salt
twenty minutes to overnight — the adobo-forward marinade that the bowl chains built an empire on; thighs over breasts for the same reason as every grilled-chicken entry in this catalog
Sear12 min
medium-high, 5-6 min a side, rested then chopped
the thighs hard-seared until charred at the edges and cooked through, rested five, chopped into bowl-sized pieces — the char against the sweet adobo is the flavor headline
Prep10 min
the line: rice, beans, and the cold bar in separate containers
- cilantro lime rice
- black beans
cilantro lime rice made per its own entry, beans warmed, everything else staged — separately, which is the meal-prep covenant: components hold four days apart and about four hours combined
Top3 min
built hot-under-cold, dressed at the end
rice, then beans and chicken (the hot layer), then lettuce, salsa, cheese, crema, guacamole (the cold one) — the temperature stack that makes the first three bites of a good burrito bowl what they are; lime wedge over everything, because this catalog has a position on finishing acid and this bowl is it