The Best Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl – Easy & Flavor-Packed!

This is the best homemade teriyaki chicken rice bowl which makes a great, easy weeknight dinner. This teriyaki chicken will be ready to serve under 39 minutes with tender diced chicken, homemade teriyaki sauce, rice, and fresh vegetables.

The Best Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl

Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl is simple to make, taste delicious. 

This homemade teriyaki chicken is a very simple stir-fry recipe which will be perfect to add to your weeknight dinner rotation.

Homemade teriyaki chicken bowl is easy enough to make on any weeknight which takes less than 30 minutes from start to finish.

Main and my favorite part about this teriyaki chicken bowl is homemade teriyaki sauce, it contains simple ingredients such as rice vinegar, sesame oil, honey and ground ginger, all these have mostly in your pantry.

If you love little spice to teriyaki sauce, then add some crushed red pepper flakes.

Once you prepare this homemade teriyaki sauce, you will never buy it from store. This sauce is that great!!

I like to make extra homemade teriyaki sauce and serve it over grilled salmon or tender beef for dinner late in a week.

It is so versatile and tastes so great on a variety of different proteins.

The best thing about this teriyaki chicken rice bowl recipe is how simple it is to make! Only few steps and few minutes are required, then you will have a tasty dinner to serve. 

You will start it by cooking your cubed chicken in a skillet. While it’s cooking, you can make your homemade teriyaki sauce.

To prepare this homemade teriyaki sauce, all you have to do is whisk together the ingredients.

While your chicken is cooked, pour this teriyaki sauce over it in skillet and let it cook until its thick.

When your chicken is ready, serve it with rice and with your favorite vegetables.

Why You Will Love This Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl

• Teriyaki chicken rice bowl cab be made quickly for a perfect weeknight dinner.
• Homemade teriyaki sauce is really delicious and it’s sure to become your new favorite!
• You can serve this teriyaki chicken with your favorite veggies.
• Sauce gives amazing flavor when you will soak down into the rice.
• Teriyaki Chicken tastes even better than takeout!
• This homemade teriyaki chicken is very simple to prepare with all ingredients you have probably.

 

Ingredients For Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl

• Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts: I love to use chicken breasts for this teriyaki chicken, but you can also use chicken thighs.
• Olive Oil: I love to use extra virgin olive oil for health benefits, but you can use also use vegetable oil.
• Low Sodium Soy sauce: It will cut down on Salt content in this teriyaki chicken and rice bowl recipe.
• Water: Needs for teriyaki sauce.
• Brown Sugar: This adds sweetness to homemade teriyaki sauce. You can use light or dark brown sugar.
• Rice vinegar: It is commonly used in Asian dishes.
• Sesame Oil: It adds a great flavor to your homemade teriyaki sauce, but this is also optional.
• Minced Garlic: I love to use fresh minced garlic over garlic powder.
• Ginger: Ground ginger is great for homemade teriyaki sauce. It is easy to use and most people have it on hand.
• Cornstarch: Adding this to teriyaki sauce with thicken the sauce to coat chicken.
• Rice for serving: You can quinoa, brown rice or white rice.
• Vegetables for serving: Use fresh steamed carrots and broccoli compliment this teriyaki chicken great.

How To Prepare The Best Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl

This teriyaki chicken is so easy and quick to make. It’ll take less time to prepare it, than to take order and pick it up.

Start it by heating oil in large skillet on medium heat, add cubed chicken.

Cook until no longer pink in the middle of chicken. Drain excess liquid if there.

While chicken is browning, make teriyaki sauce. Take a medium sized mixing bowl and whisk soy sauce, water, honey, brown sugar, rice vinegar, sesame oil, ginger, garlic and cornstarch together.

Once chicken is browned add homemade teriyaki sauce to skillet and continue to cook and stirring until sauce has thickened.

Serve immediately with brown or white rice and veggies you like. Garnish with sesame seeds & green onion.

If you love extra teriyaki sauce with your meal, prepare extra to drizzle on top of your rice bowl.

FAQ’s About Teriyaki Chicken And Rice Bowl

Can I Use Frozen Veggies In My Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl?

Yes, you can use frozen veggies, just remind to cook them before adding them to your teriyaki bowl.

I usually prefer using frozen broccoli and steaming it in microwave for 5-6 minutes.

Can I Use Grilled Chicken Instead Of Pan Frying For Teriyaki Chicken Bowls?

Yes, you can use grill chicken instead of pan frying it. Let your chicken rest before cutting into cubes to its juicy flavor. You can also use leftover chicken for this teriyaki chicken if you would like, those all are great options.

Can I Meal Prep Teriyaki Chicken?

Yes, I like to use this recipe as a meal prep for my family, it’s simple, delicious, and reheats well. Prepare teriyaki chicken simply as instructed below. Divide chicken and broccoli into 4 meal prep containers and add ½ cup of white or brown rice to each container. Drizzle extra teriyaki sauce if required, sprinkle sesame seeds and green onions and Refrigerate upto 4 days.

How I store leftover homemade teriyaki chicken?

If you have leftover teriyaki chicken and rice bowls, store rice and veggies in separate containers than the teriyaki chicken.

Place both containers in airtight container and store in fridge for up to 3 days. Storing rice and veggies in separate bowls will ensures that rice doesn’t get soggy from teriyaki sauce.

To reheat teriyaki chicken bowls, heat chicken, rice and veggies all separately in microwave until they were warm enough to eat, later put them together in a bowl.

Tips To Prepare Teriyaki Rice Bowls

• Sesame oil is optional for this teriyaki chicken rice. I can made this recipe without it and it tastes just as delicious, if you want a hint of sesame, just sprinkle sesame seeds on top of the bowl. This adds a nice crunch.
• Cut chicken into evenly to ensure even cooking. This makes all the chicken cooks evenly without having overcooked pieces of chicken.
• Use oil to get heat before adding chicken to the skillet, it will give a nice sear to your chicken.
• Not to overcook chicken, it not needs to become dry and tough.
• You can season your chicken with black pepper before browning, but I won’t recommend to add salt, there is enough salt in soy sauce which enhances taste.
• You can add any veggies whatever you prefer. Matchstick carrots, snap peas, zucchini or bell peppers are great additions.

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What to Serve With Homemade Teriyaki Chicken And Rice Bowls?

You can serve steamed broccoli and rice which are the best options while serving teriyaki chicken. Are you not a fan of rice? Noodles are great option and make a delicious teriyaki chicken noodles bowl. Or try this teriyaki chicken rice bowl with homemade chicken fried rice.

You can also serve this with steamed carrots and peas.

Main Popular Substitutions And Additions

If you want extra spice to this homemade teriyaki chicken and rice bowls, you can add a dash of red pepper flakes or crushed red pepper.

If you love bell pepper, use it by saute a few sliced peppers with homemade teriyaki sauce and serve with this teriyaki chicken rice bowl.

 

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