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Teriyaki Chicken Recipe With Rice And Broccoli – An Easy Meal Prep Idea For 5 Days
Sticky and sweet teriyaki chicken made in a delicious homemade teriyaki sauce. The perfect addition to your list of easy meal prep ideas for lunch or dinner. If you’re looking for a quick, easy and yummy teriyaki chicken recipe then keep reading!
You wouldn’t believe that I missed out on lunch for nearly a whole week! Life can get sooo busy at times and meal prepping is such a great way to save our precious time and reduce last minute trips to the shops. To avoid missing any more lunches I started meal prepping. Nothing fits in perfectly than this one pan teriyaki chicken meal prep recipe, you can literally cook this in 30 minutes and have your lunch meal prepped for 5 days!
Meal prepping standard chicken, rice and broccoli lunches can become so boring and can be quiet tasteless. This easy Asian-style teriyaki meal prep recipe will fast become one of your favourites, it’s full of delicious flavours such as garlic, honey and ginger.
Say hello to your new meal prep lunch box for the next 5 days and wave goodbye to staring at an empty fridge!
How To Meal Prep For Beginners
The very first step to meal prepping whether it’s for your lunch, breakfast, dinner or all three is to plan, plan, plan. Planning makes meal prepping so easy, you’ll be aware of what you’re going to eat for the week therefore you’ll know what you need to buy.
Once you’ve jotted down the food you’ll be eating for the week, you can write down your shopping list and buy your ingredients. With your meal plan and ingredients brought, it’s time to get cooking! Finally, you’ll have to store your food in meal prep containers.
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If you’re looking for more meal prep ideas and recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, check out my 21 meal prep recipe ideas. Sooo easy meal prep ideas you can make them with your eyes closed in under 30 minutes!
Homemade Teriyaki Chicken Recipe Ingredients
This teriyaki chicken recipe is a meal you can literally cook in 30 minutes! The chicken cooks in a matter of minutes because there’s no need to marinade the chicken overnight or for hours. This is what makes this meal prep idea so quick.
It’s so easy to make this teriyaki chicken, rice and broccoli meal prep with this homemade teriyaki sauce. It’s only a mixture of soy sauce, vinegar, chilli flakes, honey and a small splash of water. Simple right!!?? Made with ingredients you’re likely to have in your home already and perfect for those of you who are into clean eating!
How To Make Easy Teriyaki Chicken
For this teriyaki chicken recipe, I used boneless chicken thighs and served it with broccoli and rice. The best thing about meal prepping is that you can substitute ingredients and mix and match with a variety of flavours.
Step 1: Prep your ingredients. Dice your chicken into bite-sized pieces and sprinkle black pepper, salt and cornflour over the chicken and mix. This would be a great time to get your veg and rice going.
Step 2: Stir fry the red peppers and spring onions over a medium heat for 10 minutes. I cut my red peppers into long strips, though you can dice them into smaller pieces if you like. You could also roast these bell peppers in the oven if you prefer.
Step 3: Add the chicken, continue to stir until all sides have cooked. Do not fully cook the chicken, it will cook completely when it simmers in the sauce. This process should take another 5-10 minutes depending on your quantities.
Step 4: Add the homemade teriyaki sauce. Combine the soy sauce, honey, vinegar, water and chilli flakes and mix together in a bowl. Pour this mixture over the chicken and add your ginger and garlic to the pan. Keep mixing for a further 15 minutes or until the sauce has thickened and the chicken is coated in the teriyaki sauce.
What To Serve With Teriyaki Chicken
Want to know what goes with teriyaki chicken apart from rice and broccoli? Below are a few dishes that compliments teriyaki chicken really well:
- Tenderstem Broccoli (yes, it’s still broccoli but tastes way better)
- Vegetable Stir-Fry
- Noodles
- Roasted asparagus
- Wraps
Related: Chinese crispy beef recipe
Easy Lunch Meal Prep – Teriyaki Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- 600 g Chicken Thighs
- 500 g Rice
- 900 g Broccoli
- 5 Spring Onion
- 5 Garlic Cloves
- Thumb-Sized Finely Chopped Ginger
- To Taste Black Pepper
- 3 tbsp Cornflour
- To Taste Salt
- 3 Bell Peppers
Homemade Teriyaki Sauce Ingredients
- 6 tbsp Soy Sauce
- 6 tbsp Honey
- 3 tbsp Vinegar
- 6 tbsp Water
- To Taste Chilli Flakes Optional
Instructions
- Prep your ingredients. Dice your chicken into bite-sized pieces and sprinkle black pepper, salt and cornflour over the chicken and mix. This would be a great time to get your veg and rice going.
- Stir fry the red peppers and spring onions over a medium heat for 10 minutes. I cut my red peppers into long strips, though you can dice them into smaller pieces if you like. You could also roast these bell peppers in the oven if you prefer.
- Add the chicken, continue to stir until all sides have cooked. Do not fully cook the chicken, it will cook completely when it simmers in the sauce. This process should take another 5-10 minutes depending on your quantities.
- Add the homemade teriyaki sauce. Combine the soy sauce, honey, vinegar, water and chilli flakes and mix together in a bowl. Pour this mixture over the chicken and add your ginger and garlic to the pan. Keeping mixing for a further 15 minutes or until the sauce has thickened and the chicken is coated in the teriyaki sauce.
Nutrition
And you’ve just made a super tasty lunch meal prep for the next 5 days! Have you tried this teriyaki chicken recipe? Let me know in the comments below and tag me on Instagram @MyMorningMocha, I would love to see it!
Martha
Yum, I love chicken teriyaki, and this recipe looks amazing. Thanks for sharing! I need to be more proactive and making lunches in advance like this to help with saving time on workdays.
Michelle
Hi Martha, I’m glad you like the post. Yes, it really does save so much time!