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Dinner Lunch

Copycat Pangoa Bowl from Freshii, Easy

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I love a good Pangoa Bowl from Freshii but I would much rather make it myself at home. Once I started making these at home they just don’t hit the spot when I buy one. You can add your proportions just as you like with the perfect amount of sauce, so good.

This is my second re-creation from Freshii, and my absolute favorite is the Oaxaca Bowl with Spicy Yogurt Sauce. Every time I make these my husband raves about them and says how much better they are. We also love how many veggies are in these and we feel so good about this meal! It’s healthy, delicious and easy to make into a vegetarian meal.

Pangoa Bowl from Freshii

So like I said earlier, I like my bowls better because you can tweak them to your liking. The original recipe calls for brown rice and doesn’t come with chicken or tortilla strips. I have also tried it with a little kale and that wasn’t my favorite so I switched it to white rice and no kale. My husband likes the brown rice so it just depends on what you prefer.

I say it all the time here on my blog but I love sauce! The more sauce the better in my opinion, and the spicy BBQ sauce in this bowl is amazing. I found the recipe for the BBQ sauce here. These bowls are not only good the first time, but they make great leftovers to take for lunch.

This recipe is very loosely made because with many of my recipes, I don’t measure what I put into the bowl. I just add in the proportions to my liking and so should you!

Copycat Pangoa Bowls from Freshii

Blaire B
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Main Course
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups cooked white rice use brown rice if you prefer
  • 2 chicken breasts cooked follow recipe below
  • 1 cup black beans drained and rinsed
  • 1/2 cup sharp white cheddar cheese shredded
  • 1/2 cup corn rinsed
  • 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes chopped
  • 1/4 cup fresh cilantro rinsed and chopped
  • 1/4 cup red onion finely chopped
  • 1 lime cut into wedges
  • 1/2 cup spicy BBQ sauce recipe linked below
  • 1/2 cup fritos optional

Instructions
 

  • Cook rice as directed. Cook chicken as you like, I linked my recipe below.
  • Prepare all your other ingredients while rice and chicken are cooking.
  • Add rice to your bowl first and then add all other ingredients to your liking, add Fritos, drizzle with spicy BBQ sauce and squeeze fresh lime juice over top. Finish and enjoy!

Here is the recipe I use when cooking my chicken breasts. Using basmati rice is my favorite for this recipe but use brown rice if you prefer.

Here is the recipe for the delicious spicy BBQ sauce.

Dinner Lunch

Copycat Freshii Bowls with Spicy Yogurt Sauce

I love eating out and trying new places, but when I find something I love, I want to figure out how to make it at home. This is one of our favorite dinners to make because you add what you like and it’s full of veggies. Freshii bowls can be a little expensive as well so it so much more cost effective to make them at home.

One of the main things I love about this bowl is the homemade spicy yogurt sauce. I have said it here before and if you know me, I love sauces! We love to store our extras in these squeeze bottles because they are so convenient.

Homemade spicy yogurt sauce
Finished Freshii Bowl

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of dried quinoa
  • 2 baked chicken breasts (find the recipe here) or use hard boiled eggs for protein if you don’t want chicken
  • 1/2 can sweet corn drained
  • 1/3 cup grated pickled beets
  • 1 cup diced cherry/grape tomatoes
  • 2 cups chopped fresh kale
  • 1 half of an avocado diced
  • 1/2 cup black beans, drained and rinsed (we sometimes mash ours and heat them up with a little salt)
  • Spicy yogurt sauce
  • hot sauce (we love Sriracha)
  • Corn chips to top (optional but adds a great crunch!)

Directions

  1. Bake your chicken how you like, this is our favorite way to bake our chicken.
  2. While your chicken bakes, cook your quinoa according to the directions on your package.
  3. While your quinoa cooks, rinse and chop your veggies.
  4. Add everything to your freshii bowls, we really don’t measure anything, we just add what looks good to our bowls and we definitely don’t use all the quinoa that this recipe makes.
  5. Once everything, except your corn chips, is in your bowl, give it a good stir and then add your corn chips last. You don’t have to do this but it just helps them from getting soggy.