Chicken and rice is a great nutritious meal that is clean and provides both complex carbohydrates, fibre and a huge amount of complete proteins.

Having said that if you’re just eating chicken and rice it can get extremely boring, and you cannot and should not stick to a boring diet. Why would you? So let’s check out some awesome chicken and rice recipes.

1.) Spicy peanut butter chicken and rice.

1. Alright so for this recipe you need to start off by cooking the chicken in the oven until fully cooked.
2. While it’s cooking mix the soy sauce, rice vinegar, sriracha sauce and smooth peanut butter into a warm bowl (to allow the peanut butter to melt).
3. Cover the cooked chicken in the sauce mix and serve with rice.

Ingredients: 1 chicken breast, 1 portion of rice, 1tbsp of reduced salt soy sauce, 2 tbsp smooth peanut butter, 1 tbsp rice vinegar. 

2.) Chinese style stir fry with egg fried rice

1. Chop the chicken up into chunks and fry with some olive oil
2. Add the spring onions and soy sauce once cooked.
3. Simmer for a few moments and add the rest of the vegetables.
4. Once cooked remove and add the cooked rice to the pan, add soy sauce and an egg.
5. Stir fry and once cooked remove and serve.

Ingredients: 150g chicken breast, spring onions and stir fry veg. 2 or 3 tbsp of soy sauce to taste, 125g cooked rice, 1 egg

3.) Chicken curry 

One of the best recipes i’ve ever done, check it out here.

4.) Fajita spiced chicken and rice.

1. Mix together the cumin, chilli powder, garlic salt and paprika in a bowl.
2. Cover the chicken and cook until fully cooked.
3. Add in the tomato paste and coat.
4. Remove from the pan and serve with rice, peppers and tomatoes.

Ingredients: 150g chicken breast, 1tbsp chilli powder, 1tsp cumin, 1 tsp garlic salt, 1 tsp paprika, 1 tbsp tomato puree (paste), 1 pepper, 1 tomato and 125g rice.