Shredded chicken bowls recipe, healthy

If you’re craving something fresh, spicy and satisfying for dinner this week, you’ll love these healthy shredded chicken bowls. Packed with protein, vitamins and minerals this simple healthy dinner recipe is satisfying and versatile! An simple low carb meal prep recipe that is just great for clean eating. Use leftover chicken to speed things up and make this Mediterranean-style paleo and keto-friendly, gluten-free and dairy-free dinner bowls in about 30 minutes!

Healthy Shredded Chicken Bowls Recipe

We had a vision for this recipe and we did the whole thing. Brought back to life the vision board we burned in March 2020. Then we started working on what was supposed to taste like the “döner” we used to eat when we were a student in Berlin, Germany. Those were some sucky times and that döner was the highlight of the years we spent there. We remember the S-Bahn, grey skies and that döner.

And now you’re like, WTF is döner? What do you keep saying that weird word that nobody should ever say out loud, whisper, write or even hear?

Answer: Because it’s food. It’s pretty much the Turkish version of the Greek Gyros aka the original Greek god. (and now we know we're dead to both of these countries) Can’t go anywhere anyway right now, so live in the moment, mkay?

While we're at it, let us spread some more rumors that might get us banned from countries…we read somewhere that döner was originally “discovered” in Germany where many Turkish people live. Idk. Please protect us.

The döner that we ate was a reliable in town. There was always a huge line in front of that food truck of approximately 32378 people and their mothers. And cats. Just to get close to those hard-working, sweaty guys who were cutting meat, frying vegetables and putting it all in a gluten-loaded pita bread.

10 years after we know gluten = the devil, but those food memories still haunt us. Anything bad that happens in the world right now – blame it on gluten. He’s okay, he’s used to being blamed for everything.

Why Low Carb?

Our plan was to turn that döner into a bowl, but make it healthier and lower carb. Since finding out this year that pretty much everyone in our family is diabetic or pre-diabetic, we've been trying to eat more foods that keep our blood sugar consistent and don’t spike it too much. So for the most part we've cut out bread, all grains beside quinoa, we don’t eat that many potatoes and we're watching our portions when it comes to healthy sweets.

If you want to add some more carbs to this bowl you can make some hummus, you can serve with rice or quinoa, sweet potatoes – these are all good healthy options.

How it comes together

So long story short, instead of the fried potatoes and fried meat we made these changes to make a satisfying, healthy dinner that is solid for gluten free dairy free clean eating:

• We used shredded chicken! Lately we've been loving adding shredded chicken to our meals, it’s simple and simple. Boil some chicken breast, shred it and then use it in salads, in bowls, in lettuce wraps…
• Made these healthy 10-minute roasted vegetables! It’s a fast recipe with cauliflower, peppers and zucchini and it tastes satisfying.
• We also made a simple healthy tomato cucumber salad and used a lot of garlic, because it’s summer 2020 and we’ve got to survive.
• Made a healthier sauce. Every time we would go to get that döner, they’d ask us: Spicy or garlic sauce? Why not both? They don’t cancel each other out…And without using mayonnaise? That’s what we did with some almond butter, garlic, hot paprika and lemon juice.

While there was no bread or mayonnaise in this recipe, this healthy meal was satisfying. True, it was definitely not the same, but it was satisfying and we didn’t feel like we needed a nap after.

How it comes together

There are probably millions of versions for shredded chicken on the internet, but we like to keep it simple. Because simple means versatile. Here’s how to make shredded chicken, the simple way:

• boil chicken breast for 12-15 minutes with salt and pepper
• use 2 forks to shred it in pieces (as shown here)

We've also seen videos about shredding chicken with a mixer. Hoever we feel like that might get a bit messy and into our hair, so we let go of the need to run a mixer through that boiled chicken. For now.

The great thing about preparing your chicken this way is that you can then use it in salads, wraps or cook with some sauce of choice with vegetables and herbs and then eat it.

Meal Prep

To meal prep this recipe we recommend making everything ahead except for the salad, because it spoils faster than we can think. FIY: it takes us hours to form a thought.

Whatever you decide to do, we hope you enjoy this simple, satisfying recipe and we hope you’re still enjoying your summer!

-Gaical

(that’s right, we started signing our posts, let’s see how long it lasts!)