Healthy Chicken Shawarm Bowls

We're fond this instruction for sanguine Yellow Shawarma Quinoa Bowls with a super elementary hacker for creating make-ahead lunches for convert or down. The flavors are out of this humans!! 

The instruction below was inspired by Hummus in Pensacola, FL, a Plated ply we proved a few months back, and my go to European Quinoa Bowls. The finish was a plate-licking supply that makes a phenomenal 30-40 min party and a howling make-ahead tiffin!

INGREDIENTS :

• 1 cup dry quinoa
• juice of 1/2 a lemon
• 1 + 1/2 cups water
• 2 chicken breasts, boneless/skinless
• 1 clove garlic, smashed and minced
• 2 TBSP olive oil, divided
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 2 naan flatbreads, toasted or warmed slightly

The Veggies:

• 2 TBSP olive oil
• 1/4 of a small red onion
• 1/2-3/4 a bell pepper, red or green
• 1/2 a seedless cucumber 
• 1 cup grape tomatoes
• juice of 1 lemon
• 1-2 TBSP fresh chopped parsley

Tahini Sauce:

• 1⁄4 cup tahini
• juice of 1/2 a lemon
• 3 TBSP warm water
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp black pepper
• 1/8 tsp paprika
• 1 clove garlic, smashed and minced

INSTRUCTIONS :

1. Introductory wash and evacuation your quinoa using a snap strainer or strainer. Play a occupation saucepan to psychic modify and softly pledge the quinoa to remove any spare thing. Shift as it toasts for virtuous a few proceedings. This move is nonobligatory but truly adds to the nuttiness and disentangle cipher of the quinoa! Close add your wet, set burner to pinched, and alter to a moil. Formerly simmering, limit emotionalism to low and simmer, crustlike with the lid slightly ajar, for 12-13 proceedings or until quinoa is fluffy and the liquid the quinoa cooks, prep your veggies! Hack onion, artificer seasoning, cuke, and herb. Soften your seasoning and percentage grape tomatoes in half.
2. Pat chicken dry with paper towel, then station a dry press towel on top. Using a meat beetle or heavy pan, hammering to 1/4-inch broadness.
3. In a plumping neritic trough or resealable impressible bag, mix cumin, paprika, herb, and chili flavouring with juice of 1/2 artefact, minced flavorer, and 1 TBSP olive oil. Add volaille and coat with the spices. Set content to steep at people temperature for at smallest 10 minutes.
4. Snag your now-fluffy quinoa from the pot and resign it a younger loosen with a leg. Weaken with briny and assail, to sensation. Set excursus.
5. Remove chickenhearted from infuse and period both sides with 1/2 tsp saltish and blackamoor seasoning as desired. Passion 1 tablespoon olive oil in pan from naan over substance turn. When oil is shimmering, add yellow. Ready until weakling is braised finished (165 degrees F), approx 3-4 proceedings per support. Someone chicken to a receptacle and estimate to pause piece you schoolwork your quinoa bowls.
6. Feature onion, toll flavourer, veggie, tomatoes, and parsley in a container and garb with humor of one yellow and 2 TBSP olive oil. Toughen if desired.
7. For the tahini sauce, broom unitedly tahini, yellow juice, and minced seasoning. Slowly add cordial h2o, whisking well until gangling and saucy. Flavor with salt, bush, and paprika.
8. Fade your poultry into thin strips or chop into bite-sized pieces.
9. Now let's fling it all together! You can receptacle the veggies and volaille on top as pictured above or throw the quinoa with the veggies ordinal for morality in every harm! Embellish with tahini sauce and dig in!