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Okay, back to the rice bowl. The hippie rice bowl.... Called so because my Husband often like to refer to my food as 'hippie'. Funny thing was, this dinner wasn't given this title by him, I gave it this, as I was very surprised he didn't tease me at all, au contrare.... he said it was great!
Ingredients:
brown rice
chicken, I used thighs, but whatever you have will work
veggies
I used a mixture of raw and cooked veggies which gave the bowl a nice texture.
I sauteed up some onion, celery, carrot, peppers and my broccolini
Then I grated some zucchini, beet and had sprouts and avocado as well.
soy sauce
marinade for chicken
a whole lemon, olive oil, garlic, thyme, s & p.
homemade aioli
lemon juice, egg yolk, dijon, olive oil, s & p
The first thing I did was marinate my chicken. I took boneless, skinless chicken thighs, but you could use any chicken really.
I chopped up about 4 garlic cloves and about a tbsp of fresh thyme. Then grated a couple tsp of lemon zest and squeezed the whole lemon for its juice. I put these in my magic bullet (thanks Kati!!) with about half cup of olive oil. I blended this up and tossed it on the chicken to marinate for a few hours.
Then I made my aioli. This was my first time doing this, but as lover of mayo I had to try it! And the lemon made it sound extra yummy....
I used my wire whisk on my kitchen aid mixer (thanks Mr. Hillis!) and first put in the egg yolk and a half tsp of dijon to mix together. I then drizzled the olive oil in the bowl while it was whisking away. I used about a half cup of oil before it looked the right consistency (thick!). I then added the juice from half a lemon.
Now I wasn't going to add garlic, but the aioli at this point tasted kind of bitter. So I chopped up three cloves and transferred the whole lot to my magic bullet. I added some salt and pepper to taste and blended it all up. In retrospect, this was the best idea! It turned even creamier and thick and was oh so tasty and garlicky!
I tossed this in the fridge with my marinating chicken.
I did all this earlier in the day, but when dinner time came around the first thing I did was to start cooking my rice and my chicken. With these cooking away I moved on to the veggies.
I chopped them all up and with about 10 minutes till the rice was ready I started to cook.
Carrots, onions and celery went in first for about 4 minutes, then peppers and broccolini. These only take a couple of minutes till cooked. I put a bit of soy sauce in at the end to give it a little flavour and called it done!
When everything was ready I started the fine art of layering the bowl. I seriously believe this makes the dinner!!
First hot rice in the bottom of the bowl.
Then raw veggies... zucchini, beet, sprouts. I kind of put these in little piles on one side of the rice.
Hot veggies.... peppers, broccolini, carrot, onion, celery. I put these on the other side of the rice.
Chicken... sliced up and put right on top of all veggies.
Aioli... drizzled all over hot chicken.
Avocado...sliced on top
My Husbands comment was "Did you seriously just make this up?" Which translates to a successful dinner. Also, my 5 year old at her whole bowl! And the 2 year old......Well, she was grumpy, so that doesn't count!
All in all a wonderful hippie dinner!
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