These sweet chili chicken bowls are packed with goodies: mango chunks, guacamole and cashews! Ready in 30 minutes using slow cooker sweet chili chicken.
Note: this is part of a recipe series where I provide one base slow cooker recipe and provide three recipes to use it in! Here’s the base slow cooker sweet chili chicken recipe.
Well, here we are, at the very last recipe in this 3-in-1 slow cooker series. I’m always a little tired by the time we get to the fourth recipe of the week, and I really can’t believe some food bloggers are able to create and photograph four recipes in a week!! Cray cray.
But I really truly love doing these 3-in-1 slow cooker series because testing the recipes is so much fun! With the sweet chili chicken, I just kept ending back up with tropical flavors. It took all my will-power not to add a tropical fruit salsa on yesterday’s sweet chili chicken tacos.
But for today’s sweet chili chicken bowls, I haddddd to add a tropical fruit component. And the sweet mango absolutely makes these bowls!
Today’s sweet chili chicken bowls recipe is kind of a non-recipe. It’s just a big bowl full of delicious goodies, really! No dressing or anything (you don’t need it with the guacamole!)
I contemplated calling them burrito bowls. What exactly defines a burrito bowl? Does it need beans? Or just rice and guac?
Anywho think of these ‘bowls’ as a total blank template…swap the rice for quinoa, add in whatever veggies you’d like (bell peppers, grilled zucchini, shredded carrots, etc). Just don’t skip the mangoes…or the guac…or the cashews…or the sweet chili chicken. Mmm-kay?
The most time-consuming part of this recipe is making the rice. So that pretty much tells you that this is totally in line with the sweet chili chicken quesadillas and sweet chili chicken tacos. Aka: fast and ridiculously easy to prepare.
So. I’m hoping you enjoyed this latest 3-in-1 slow cooker series. I have a few more planned out, but I’m not totally sure when I’ll have time to execute them…probably not until October. In the meantime, feel free to check out all the other 3-in-1 slow cooker series I’ve done…I think this makes the 6th time I’ve done this!
Happy Saturday! See you on Monday with the most delicious peachy salad you ever will taste!
Check out these other sweet chili chicken recipes:
1. Slow Cooker Sweet Chili Chicken (base recipe)
2. Sweet Chili Chicken Quesadillas with Peach Salsa
3. Sweet Chili Chicken Tacos with Yogurt Sauce
Sweet Chili Chicken Bowls With Mango & Cashews
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup uncooked rice (I prefer basmati)
- 2 cups slow cooker sweet chili chicken
- 2 ripe mangoes
- 4 cups mixed veggies (such as cabbage, shredded carrot, bell peppers, grilled zucchini, sweet potatoes would probably be great!!)
- 1/2 cup cashews
- 2 tablespoons cilantro, minced
Guacamole
- 2 ripe avocados
- 1/4 cup tomatoes, diced (optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- juice of half a lime (roughly 1 1/2 tablespoons)
- 1 clove garlic, minced
Instructions
- Cook rice according to package directions and set aside to cool.
- Prepare the guacamole.
- Divide ingredients between 4 bowls.
- Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Calories 485 // Fat 19 g // Saturated Fat 3 g // Cholesterol 0 mg // Sodium 230 mg // Carbohydrate 57 g // Fiber 10 g // Sugars 15 g // Protein 24 g
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Serving Size | 1 rice bowl |
| Amount Per Serving | As Served |
| Calories 485 Calories from fat | |
| % Daily Value | |
| Total Fat 19 g | 29% |
| Saturated Fat 3 g | 15% |
| Cholesterol 0 mg | 0% |
| Sodium 230 mg | 10% |
| Carbohydrate 57 g | 19% |
| Dietary Fiber 10 g | 40% |
| Sugars 15 g | |
| Protein 24 g | |
Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs:
| Calories | 2000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Fat | Less than | 65g |
| Sat Fat | Less than | 25g |
| Cholesterol | Less than | 300mg |
| Sodium | Less than | 2,400mg |
| Total Carbohydrate | 300g | |
| Dietary Fiber | 25g | |
Products used in this recipe:
*the mango pitter is on my wish list for now!
These bowls look absolutely gorgeous, Denise! I love anything with sweet chili and all of three meals would be a hit at our house! I’ll take a double serving of the mango and guac too please 🙂
Getting (4) recipes done in one week is a feat — there’s no other way to put it! Especially when they’re quality recipes too, which all of these have been. I love these bowls and the mango is such a great touch!
LOL I think I’m still recovering from last week. Thanks, Marcie!
I’m assuming you just sprinkle cashews on the finished bowl at the end? They are in the name of the recipe but aren’t listed in the ingredients or the directions.
Hi Katie thanks for the heads up! I’ve added them into the recipe. You are correct, they are just sprinkled on top 🙂
Oh my gosh, this looks ah-mazing! So fresh and flavorful, a perfect lunch recipe after all of those heavy holiday meals. Need to make this soon!