Buffalo Chicken Bowls with Cauliflower Garlic Rice

This post is sponsored by ALDI

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Please imagine this:

• Spicy-puckery buffalo chicken, grilled to juicy perfection.
• Served over fluffy rice speckled with roasted cauliflower bits and herbs.
• Topped with a freshy-fresh little cucumber and tomato situation.
• Dolloped with a spoonful of creamy dill dip.
• And hungry you, at lunchtime, with this exciting little container of flavor fireworks awaiting you.

I mean, come on! It’s juicy, spicy, and cool and crunchy and almost comforting all at the same time. And the fact that this is an all-around feel-good with big flavor and a yummy mix of protein and fiber and carbs…

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

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

In This Post: Everything You Need For Buffalo Chicken 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 About Toppings
• FAQ About These Bowls

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 basics from ALDI every week:

• organic whole milk
• organic produce
• organic grains
• organic yogurt

And if you’re not already shopping there, I just think that as we get into the fall times with back to school, making more regular grocery trips, getting back 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 down 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 Chicken Breast Fillets (love that you can buy them already 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 chicken in the world. This buffalo chicken 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 about 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 avoid the actual grill which isn’t hard but sometimes just feels hard, know what I mean?

Marinate and inside-grill. Easiest. Ever.

I prefer the thinly cut chicken breasts because they cook more quickly and evenly.

How To Make Cauliflower Garlic Rice

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

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

• You cook 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 enough zazz, and cauliflower rice on its own leaves you a little carb-sad. So roasting the cauliflower rice to concentrate the flavor and get a little crispy browned texture, and then tossing it in with the regular rice to help it be more yummy and interesting? It is SUCH a win. Part veg, part carb, all-around texture and flavor winner.

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

How To Store This Buffalo Chicken

The chicken 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 chicken 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 – because 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 feel like either this magic green 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 chicken and garlic cauliflower rice? Because that’s where I’m at.

Buffalo Chicken Bowls: Frequently Asked Questions

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Thank you to ALDI for sponsoring this recipe!

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