Quinoa Burrito Bowls are a way of life in our house. And this one is hands down, one of my favorites!
We probably have some form of a Burrito Bowl for dinner at least twice a week. They are beyond easy to throw together and it's a medley of my favorite flavors. It all starts with some kind of base. We go back and forth between quinoa, rice and farro, but quinoa won today. So let's go with it. Quinoa Burrito Bowls - ready set go!
Quinoa on the bottom. Black beans on top of that. Every other topping you'd want in a burrito.... meat, cheese, salsa, guacamole... you get the idea. I love keeping a handful of homemade (or fresh store bought) salsas on hand so I can easily change flavor profiles of these versatile bowls!
Quinoa Burrito Bowls
My favorite ground chicken taco meat is making an appearance in these Quinoa Burrito Bowls!
Ingredients
For the Quinoa Burrito Bowls
- 2 cups cooked quinoa
- 2 cups black beans (store bought is totally fine too)
- 2 cups ground chicken taco meat
- 1 cup shredded cheese
- 1 recipe tomatillo salsa
- 1 cup corn (raw or frozen) if frozen, then thawed
- 1 cup pico de gallo
- 1 avocado, diced
- Chives and or Cilantro for garnish
Instructions
- Divide the quinoa into 4 serving bowls.
- Spoon ½ cup of the black beans on top of each portion of quinoa, followed by equal amounts of the cooked ground chicken taco mixture.
- Add toppings to the quinoa burrito bowls and serve immediately.
Notes
Use all of your favorite burrito fillings! You can also sub in more beans for the chicken to make these vegetarian.
Nutrition Information
Serving: 4g | Calories: 613kcal | Carbohydrates: 61g | Protein: 40g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 12g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 119mg | Sodium: 655mg | Potassium: 1401mg | Fiber: 14g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 641IU | Vitamin C: 10mg | Calcium: 194mg | Iron: 5mg
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I'm sitting at my desk eating this for lunch and I'm so happy!! This chicken is everything!
I used your chipotle salsa recipe and I was informed by my BF that I need to make it weekly ... it's SO good and full of flavor! I agree with one of the other comments about the beans - I LOVE spicy food and these were really up there. I actually squeezed 2 limes into it and added cilantro to calm it down a bit. I wonder if the measurement is off slightly? Either way, totally fixable and worth it ... this is DELISH. It will go on the weekly rotation for awhile I'm sure. Thank you Gaby! We love your recipes and I LOVE that there are 47,000 other bowl recipes that I have yet to try!
The beans were so spicy 🙁
I made these last night, they were SO good! I had some smoked cheese in the fridge to use up and it really worked well, especially as I used basic tomato salsa and bought guacamole, ran out of time to make fresh.
This reminds me of Chipotle Grill but so much better!
Simply gorgeous! I love mixing everything together and eating it too... best way to do it! A million bursts of yummy flavours!
Love, love, LOVE that you used quinoa in these! So much better than rice. Love it! 🙂
Oh, yum! What a fab idea for a fast, protein-packed lunch!
these look amazing - some foods that don't look good are always the best!!
Lunch, dinner, lunch, dinner, lunch, dinner. You read my mind! I could eat this every day!
Mmmm yummy!! I love making burrito bowls at home!
We eat quinoa burrito bowls for dinner all of the time. One of our favorites!
these look delicious and quintessential California Fresh!!
Burrito Bowls are awesome! Love that you used quinoa!
Wow, you read my mind! I'm having friends over for lunch this weekend and I was going to make a Mexican themed lunch party! I've added this to the list of food 🙂