IDEAL BALANCE

Greek. Meal. Bowls.

That’s fine. Say no more. I am on board.

In this particular situation, I’ve not photo’d the tzatziki sauce, but it will be in your recipe. I mean, it’s just a big bowl of Grecian goodness that will not leave you bored. At all. It is the more complicated of the bunch, but it’s not that bad. We can do this. I mean, we can’t take a photo without my housedress. But we can make and enjoy this.

Shopping list:

• 1 lb chicken breasts
• 2 cups cooked brown rice
• 2 lbs grape tomatoes
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 red onion
• Olive oil
• Garlic
• Lemon juice
• 1 cup plain low fat greek yogurt
• Pita bread
• Red wine vinegar
• Dried oregano
• Dried dill
• S&P

Recipe:

• Chop chicken into small pieces. Place in container to marinade with 1/4 cup olive oil, 1 TBSP red wine vinegar, 1tsp oregano, 2 tsp garlic, 1 tsp lemon juice, Cook 2 cups brown rice according to packages.
• Start/Cook rice according to package.
• Next, make cucumber salad. Chop & slice 1 & 2/3 cucumbers. Thinly slice 1/2 red onion. Add in 1 TBSP lemon juice, 2 TBSP olive oil, 1 TBSP red wine vinegar, 2 cloves garlic, pressed & 1 tsp dried oregano. Refrigerate.
• Next, make Tzatziki sauce: Mix 1 cup greek yogurt, 1/3 finely diced (or food processed) cucumber, 1 TBSP garlic, 1 TBSP dill, 1 TBSP lemon juice, salt & pepper. Refrigerate.
• In hot oil, fry greek chicken mix until done to internal temp of 160.
• Chop olives, red onion & tomatoes.
• To make the tzatziki sauce, combine Greek yogurt, cucumber, garlic, dill, lemon juice, lemon zest and mint in a small bowl; season with salt and pepper, to taste. Drizzle with olive oil. Refrigerate for at least 10 minutes, allowing the flavors to meld; set aside.
  Divide rice into meal prep containers. Top with chicken, cucumber salad, tomatoes and tzatziki sauce.

Meal prep:

• Put 1/5 chicken mixture in microwave-proof container.
• Put 1/5 rice in microwave-proof container.
• Using 5 small separate containers or baggies, put 1/5 cucumber salad mixture in microwave-proof container.
• Using 5 small separate containers or baggies, put 1/5 tzatziki mixture in microwave-proof container.
• Using 5 small separate containers or baggies, put 1/5 olives & tomatoes mixture in microwave-proof container.
• Using 5 small separate containers or baggies, divide pita bread into 5 small servings.
• Package all together into 5 separate lunch containers.