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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.
Dinner Lunch

Easy Chicken Breasts in the Oven

There are two things in my opinion that comes to cooking chicken breasts (or any chicken for that matter) that you don’t want to do. You don’t want to overcook it, and you don’t want to under season it. No one wants dry and bland chicken, and it is easy to over cook it in the oven.

I have noticed that several electronic food thermometers have presets for different meats, and some them are way past the safe temperature for chicken. The internal temperature for chicken breasts should be 165°. So here is an article from the Food Network if you would like to read more.

We eat a lot of chicken and we use this recipe a lot for several different meals. We put them in our Copycat Freshii Bowls with our Spicy Yogurt Sauce, our Chicken Bacon Salads with Homemade Ranch, and sometimes we just eat it as is with a little hot sauce!

Chicken breasts and ingredients

For this recipe you only need 5 ingredients: Salt, pepper, olive oil ,chicken of course, and your favorite no salt seasoning. We get ours from Costco because it is very well used. You can also find it here on Amazon!

Let chicken breasts rest for 5 minutes before cutting

Ingredients

  • 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • salt and pepper (about small pinch of each for each side of chicken)
  • about 1/4-1/2 teaspoon of no salt seasoning per chicken breast

Directions

  1. Preheat your oven to 350°.
  2. Coat all sides of your chicken breasts with the ingredients, and honestly I really don’t measure mine because we make it so often, I just sprinkle some on to coat the chicken.
  3. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until your meat thermometer measures 165°.
  4. Remove from oven and let rest on a cutting board for about 5 minutes before cutting because you want to let it rest. Enjoy!