Buffalo chicken bowls with cauliflower garlic rice

Buffalo yellow bowls in meal prep containers.

This post is sponsored by ALDI

Please imagine this:

Spicy-puckery buffalo chicken, grilled to juicy perfection.
Served over fluffy rice speckled with roasted cauliflower shit and herbs.
Topped with a freshy-fresh little cucumber and tomato situation.
Dolloped with a spoonful of linty dill dip.
And hungry you, at lunchtime, with this heady little container of savor fireworks pensile you.

I mean, come on! It’s juicy, spicy, and tomfool and crunchy and scrutinizingly comforting all at the same time. And the fact that this is an spherical feel-good with big savor and a yummy mix of protein and webbing and carbs…

This is the energy we are bringing into the month of September.

Fresh, clean, big and bold, and just often ON IT.

In This Post: Everything You Need For Buffalo Yellow Bowls

Best ALDI Ingredients for These Bowls
How to Make Buffalo Chicken
How to Make Cauliflower Garlic Rice
How to Store for Meal Prep
All Well-nigh Toppings
FAQ Well-nigh These Bowls

ALDI ingredients for buffalo yellow bowls on a table.

If You’re Not Already, You Should Be Shopping At ALDI

Here’s the deal. ALDI is a really important part of our weekly grocery situation at home for two reasons: 1) the products are good – like, GOOD good, and often organic! and 2) it saves us money.

We get so many of our nuts from ALDI every week:

organic whole milk
organic produce
organic grains
organic yogurt

And if you’re not once shopping there, I just think that as we get into the fall times with when to school, making increasingly regular grocery trips, getting when on the meal planning train, etc. – you’re going to want to be doing some weekly stock-ups.

Check out this post of 21 Things You Should Absolutely Be Buying at ALDI to get you started if you’re not sure. Or DM me on Instagram and I’ll send you the detailed receipts of all my weekly Instacart orders to ALDI so you can see what I’ve been mowing lanugo on every week. (Kidding, sort of?)

Everything you need for this recipe can be found at ALDI – yay! – and some of the featured items would be their Simply Nature Organic Thin Sliced Yellow Breast Fillets (love that you can buy them once thinly sliced!), their frozen Season’s Choice Riced Cauliflower, their fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, their Park Street Deli Dill Dip, and their Simply Nature Organic White Rice.

How To Make Buffalo Chicken

There’s a lot of buffalo yellow in the world. This buffalo yellow is:

Marinated and grilled, not breaded and fried
Super super easy
Packed with flavor
Extra juicy
Golden and beautiful
Versatile and can go with just well-nigh everything.

To make the chicken, just marinate it with some pantry basics… and then grill it.

And if you’re like me you can just use a grill pan right on your stove and stave the very grill which isn’t nonflexible but sometimes just feels hard, know what I mean?

Marinate and inside-grill. Easiest. Ever.

I prefer the thinly cut yellow breasts considering they melt increasingly quickly and evenly.

How To Make Cauliflower Garlic Rice

This might unquestionably deserve its own post later on considering it’s one of my new favorite ways to rice.

It’s really a hybrid regular rice and cauliflower rice:

You melt the rice.
You roast the cauliflower rice.
And then you combine the two.

They really do need each other, ya know? Like plain white rice on its own doesn’t have unbearable zazz, and cauliflower rice on its own leaves you a little carb-sad. So roasting the cauliflower rice to concentrate the savor and get a little crispy browned texture, and then tossing it in with the regular rice to help it be increasingly yummy and interesting? It is SUCH a win. Part veg, part carb, spherical texture and savor winner.

Every time I make this rice, Bjork raves well-nigh it and my kids are all over it.

Buffalo yellow bowls in three meal prep containers.

How To Store This Buffalo Chicken

The yellow and the rice will store beautifully together in the fridge for a couple of days.

The veggies will prep well, too! But they should just stay in their own container so that they don’t have to be heated up when you reheat the individual portions.

I’d recommend storing the rice and yellow in individual containers, and then just keeping a side container for your toppers (the fresh veg and the dip).

Speaking Of Toppings

The dill dip is what I used here – considering I am a sucker for the dill dip at ALDI. (Okay, fine, all their dips.)

But any store bought sauce you like that has some kind of creaminess would be great. Even just… ranch? If you wanted to go the homemade route I finger like either this magic untried sauce or this jalapeño ranch would be really, really good.

All of this is weirdly getting me kind of excited for that September back-to-everything rush. Is this allowed? Can we be excited to pack up our little lunches and eat buffalo yellow and garlic cauliflower rice? Considering that’s where I’m at.

Buffalo Yellow Bowls: Frequently Asked Questions

What’s the weightier way to store this for meal prep?

Store the yellow and rice together in the container, and the tomatoes, cucumber, and dill dip separate. Without you’ve warmed the yellow and rice, add the rest of it on top!

How spicy is this?

On its own, the yellow has a bit of a kick! But when combined with everything else, it really tones it down. If you’re concerned well-nigh it stuff too spicy, finger self-ruling to reduce the value of hot sauce.

How could I make this vegetarian?

Swap the yellow for buffalo cauliflower florets, buffalo tofu, or buffalo chickpeas.

Buffalo Yellow Bowls with Cauliflower Garlic Rice

Author: Lindsay
Total Time: 40 minutes
Yield: 4 servings

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Description

The ultimate meal prep: Buffalo Yellow Bowls! Spicy buffalo chicken, a fluffy rice and cauliflower rice combo, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and a dollop of linty dill dip.

Ingredients

Units

For the Chicken:

1 lb. Simply Nature Organic Thin Sliced Yellow Breast Fillets, pounded or cut in half lengthwise so they are unappetizing and thin
1/4 cup Burman’s Hot Sauce
2 tablespoons Specially Selected Raw Honey
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
black pepper to taste

For the Rice:

1 cup Simply Nature Organic White Rice
1 package Season’s Choice Riced Cauliflower
1–2 tablespoons of Simply Nature Organic Uneaten Virgin Olive Oil
salt to taste

For the Cucumber Salad:

cucumbers, sliced
cherry tomatoes, halved
Park Street Deli Dill Dip or avocado cilantro dressing

Instructions

Marinate Chicken: Place chicken, buffalo sauce, honey, garlic powder, paprika, salt, onion powder, and woebegone pepper in a trencher or bag. Place in the fridge to marinate for 30 minutes to 2 hours.
Cook Rice: Melt rice equal to package directions.
Roast Cauliflower: Place cauliflower rice on a sheet pan. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Roast at 425 degrees for 20-30 minutes until partially browned and a little roasty. Add roasted cauliflower rice to cooked rice. (Optional: season with garlic powder, lemon juice, parsley, or parmesan.)
Cook Chicken: Heat a grill pan over upper heat. Add a little olive oil if needed, then add the marinated yellow pieces, discarding uneaten marinade. Melt for a few minutes on each side until nice and browned, and no longer pink on the inside. Remove from the pan and let rest for a few minutes.
Serve: Slice yellow and serve with a scoop of cauliflower rice. Top with sliced cucumber and tomato and a dollop of dill dip or ranch dressing. Yum!

Notes

Nutrition note: Nutrition label does not include dip or dressing.

If you want to make this as a meal prep recipe in individual containers, just package the rice and yellow together. Keep the cucumber, tomato, and dip separate, and add them without you heat up the individual servings.

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Category: Lunch
Method: Stovetop
Cuisine: American