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Are you a fan of cauliflower rice bowls yet? Friend, get on board. You’re going to happily devour these Sheet Pan Balsamic Basil Chicken Cauliflower Rice Bowls. (I know. That’s a mouthful.)
Let’s get lots of good veggies in one dish with minimal prep, minimal cooking time, and minimal mess. Yes? Yes!
It’s a bowl of veggies that doesn’t feel like a bowl of veggies. The very best part may just be that everything cooks together on one sheet pan.
BOOM. Mind blown.
No need to prepare one ingredient one way and another a different way. Let’s just not, okay?
Did I mention that this dinner only takes 30 minutes from start to finish? 30 minutes. So you can live your life and then throw this together at the last possible minute.
The chicken and broccoli roast in balsamic vinegar plus the chicken gets a little extra love from minced garlic and fresh basil.
Layer in roasted red onion and cauliflower rice. You have yourself a fantastic good for you bowl of yum.
I’ll warn you now. This is one of those recipes that just starts to smell amazing almost as soon as it goes in the oven. Isn’t that the best?
I love when everyone in the house knows something good is happening. Meanwhile I’m off doing other things because this dinner almost makes itself. (Well as close to that as we can manage.)
Sheet Pan Balsamic Basil Chicken Cauliflower Rice Bowl
Ingredients
- 2 cups riced cauliflower
- 3 cups broccoli florets
- 1 medium red onion, sliced
- 4 chicken breasts, diced, boneless, skinless
- 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
- salt & pepper to taste
- 3 tbsp olive oil, extra virgin
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 1/8 cup fresh basil, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Spread diced chicken in a single layer on one side of your baking sheet.
- Add broccoli florets to baking sheet in a single layer beside your chicken. Cut any large florets in half or thirds.
- Spread sliced red onion in a single layer on baking sheet beside the broccoli.
- Add cauliflower rice to baking sheet beside the onion. (If you're ricing your own cauliflower just add florets to a high powered blender and blend until cauliflower has a rice or pearl-like consistency.)
- Drizzle 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar over the chicken and broccoli.
- Add minced garlic to your chicken.
- Add salt, pepper, and olive oil to everything on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and separate the chicken if it's sticking together. Place back in the oven and bake for 5 additional minutes or until chicken is cooked through..
- Layer your cauliflower rice, red onions, broccoli, and chicken in bowls. Add a little more balsamic vinegar if you prefer a stronger taste (I always do) or more salt and pepper. Top with basil.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I notice there isn’t any oil in the recipe. Does everything just dry roast or do I need to add oil?
It doesn’t need oil because of the balsamic vinegar. 😉
This sounds great!
I wonder if the time would be the same using salmon filets…
Mmmm let me know if you try salmon!
I have this in the oven as we speak. It definitely smells great, but unless you have an industrial sized cookie sheet, I have no idea how you fit everything on there. I have a large cookie sheet and was only able to fit two chicken breasts, the broccoli, and the onion. I’ll have to cook the cauliflower rice separately…which isn’t a huge deal, but now it’s not a one sheet. Maybe you could update with which size to use?
I use large sheet pans (mine came from Costco) and are deeper and much larger than your average cookie sheet.Â
Sounds yummy! I get riced cauliflower in the frozen section. Would I microwave it and still add it to the sheet pan?
You don’t need to cook it in advance but I would thaw it out so you don’t have excess water in the sheet pan.
Can you use frozen cauliflower rice?
You can but I might thaw it first so you don’t end up with excess water.
This may be a silly question, but do I cover it to bake it? I usually do when roasting my veggies, but have never done a sheet pan meal with meat.
I actually never cover when I’m roasting veggies and I don’t cover for this recipe. Let me know if you try it how you like it! <3
Love this dish, didn’t love my balsamic vinegar is there a brand you use.
My current favorite is Monari Federzoni Balsamic Vinegar of Modena. I likely got it at Walmart. Hope this helps and I’m happy you enjoyed the recipe!
This is really good second time making it.
Was really hoping this would be delicious as it looked but was just ok. Super easy, all great ingredients and followed the instructions to a T, but we really didn’t care for it:(
I can’t wait to try your recipes and get back on my Whole 30
Thank you! I hope you enjoy them!