Today on the blog we share one of our favorite simple recipes: the Baja Bowl. This meal can be made as a healthy light dinner or can be made the night before and taken for lunch the next day. It is simple, light, and the whole family will love it.<\/p>\n
Overnight (or at least for 1 hour) Marinade 4 whole chicken breasts<\/strong> in:<\/p>\n \u00bc cup olive oil<\/strong><\/p>\n Zest of 1 lemon plus juice of 1 lemon <\/strong>(or lime if you prefer)<\/p>\n 2 garlic cloves, chopped<\/strong><\/p>\n Sea salt\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Pepper <\/strong>(to taste)<\/p>\n 1-2 tsp paprika\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00bc tsp turmeric<\/strong><\/p>\n (Note: Make your baja bowl vegan by using tofu or tempeh instead of chicken. Marinading not required. Add the spices just before cooking.)<\/p>\n Cook chicken in a pan uncovered for approx 6 minutes on each side or until internal temperature reaches 165 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n Let the chicken rest about 10 min before slicing to let juices distribute\u2026then slice into strips!<\/p>\n Saut\u00e9 2 bell peppers and \u00bd onion<\/strong> (cut into strips) in a pan on high heat<\/p>\n Warm up some beans! (I like black but you can use pinto, or any other kind)<\/p>\n Serve in a bowl!<\/p>\n You can top it with salsa<\/strong>, lettuce<\/strong>, cilantro, greek yogurt<\/strong> \u2013 or whatever you want!<\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n Have a great recipe that you would like to share? Tag us on twitter, and share your link. @nwcnaturals use #NWCrecipe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today on the blog we share one of our favorite simple recipes: the Baja Bowl. This meal can be made as a healthy light dinner or can be made the night before and taken for lunch the next day. It is simple, light, and the whole family will love it. Baja Bowl Recipe Overnight (or Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,182,131,187],"tags":[212,173,166],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diet-weight-loss","category-food","category-healthy-eating","category-recipes","tag-baja-bowl","tag-healthy-recipes","tag-nwc-naturals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nwcnaturals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}While your chicken is resting:<\/h4>\n