Month: August 2018

Cauliflower Rice BBQ Chicken Burrito Bowl

 

Cauliflower Rice Burrito BowlLoves! Have you tried cauliflower rice yet? Do you know how to make it? Check out this week’s Luv Cooks YouTube video for ALL the cauliflower rice how-to’s!

Cauliflower rice is currently ALL the rage on the internet, so I decided to give it a go for myself. And you know what? I’m loving it.

In fact, so does my nutritionist friend Suzanne Pirkle. She developed this week’s easy breezy cauliflower rice BBQ chicken burrito bowl and I couldn’t be more stoked about it! It’s creamy but dairy-free, and full of fiber and protein all the good-for-you veggies. PLUS it builds on all of the other things you can make ahead of time, like our 2-ingredient slow cooker BBQ chicken AND easy blender BBQ sauce.

The other thing I LOVE about cauliflower rice is that it carries the flavors of other dishes. It’s a perfect, low-carb and keto-friendly option to highlight not only our delicious BBQ chicken, but you can throw it into so many other dishes as a rice replacement.

Let’s get this burrito bowl gooooingggg!!!

Cauliflower Rice BBQ Chicken Burrito Bowl

What You Will Need:

  • Cauliflower Rice (**steps to make this in our Luv Cooks YouTube video above**)
  • Shredded BBQ Chicken (click HERE for the recipe)
  • Frozen Corn (**thawed; extra credit for sautéing it in a cast iron skillet beforehand for nice char!)
  • Black Beans
  • Diced Red Onion
  • Sliced Zucchini
  • Diced Tomato
  • Diced Avocado
  • Shredded lettuce
  • Hot sauce or BBQ sauce, for topping

What You Will Do:

  1. Start your bowl off with cauliflower rice. Then top to your hearts content with BBQ chicken, corn, black beans, red onion, etc.
  2. Top with your favorite hot sauce and ENJOY!

 

Gluten Free Sweet Potato BBQ Chicken Nachos

Y’all- who says nachos can’t be good for you?!

In my opinion, they are the PERFECT vehicle to get more veggies into your life. I mean- what child doesn’t get pumped when you say the word “NACHOS?”

So wether you are feeding your fam, your crew, your partner or yourself- this recipe is a WINNER winner chicken dinner. My ahhmazing friend and nutritionist Suzanne Pirkle developed this recipe for us, and not only is she an expert in feeding her family, she is SO great at finding easy, healthy and simple ways to make food your friend.

The beautiful Suzanne Pirkle! Check out her site for more info and recipes!
The beautiful Suzanne Pirkle! Check out her site for more info and recipes!

And this week we are capitalizing on the past few weeks of Luv Cooks barbecue recipes. From this super easy and vegan blender BBQ sauce to our TWO ingredient slow cooker BBQ chicken now it’s time for the fun stuff because for the rest of August I will be showing you ALL the ways you can turn these recipes into super fun meal options, from nachos to gluten free wraps, to cauliflower rice burrito bowls!

So get pumped, throw on that slow cooker and cook up some BBQ chicken, then layer it on gluten free sweet potato chips (I love this brand) and you are ready to get that nacho goodness going!

Sweet Potato BBQ Chicken Nachos

Gluten Free Sweet Potato BBQ Chicken Nachos (recipe by the lovely nutritionist Suzanne Pirkle for us!)

What You Will Need:

  • Gluten free sweet potato chips (I like the Food Should Taste Good or Jackson’s brand)
  • Shredded Cheddar Cheese, Raw Cheddar Cheese or Goat’s Milk Cheddar Cheese
  • Shredded BBQ Chicken
  • Homemade BBQ sauce 
  • Cilantro
  • Chopped Cherry Tomato
  • Diced Red Onion
  • Any other favorite toppings like diced avocado, chopped olives, hot sauce, etc.

What You Will Do:

  1. Preheat oven to broil.
  2. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Distribute sweet potato chips evenly on parchment paper.
  3. Top with chicken, BBQ sauce, and cheeses of your choice.
  4. Put chips in the oven to melt cheese; about 2 minutes!
  5. Top with whatever yummy veggies you like! For this recipe I used cilantro, tomato, and red onion. Top with more crumbled goat cheese and BBQ sauce and enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

Easy Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken

Friends!

I hope that you have had the easiest, sweetest time getting back into the swing of things so far this August. Whether it was with your little ones, your work, coming back from vacation- I know sometimes that transition back into scheduled life can be tough!

So to make this process easier on all of us, I am partnering this month with the ahhhmazing nutritionist, Suzanne Pirkle, to dream up some easy, breezy back-to-school goodies we can make quickly, easily, and with healthy ingredients that are probably going to make you feel like a million bucks! Hellloooo super women!

Slow cooker BBQ chicken

Last week’s easy blender BBQ sauce is so tasty and was such a hit that we are going for round two with this dynamite slow cooker chicken! This easy slow cooker BBQ chicken requires only TWO ingredients- SAUCE + THIGHS.  Plus, if you can’t make the homemade version, Suzanne lists her favorite sauces to buy at the store!  Happy back-in-the-swing my friends!

Suzanne’s favorite store-bought BBQ sauces:

Stubb’s Original BBQ sauce

Tessamae’s organic BBQ sauce

Schultz’s hot cooking sauce

Trader Joe’s 

Annie’s organic BBQ sauce

Slow cooker BBQ chicken

Easy Slow Cooker BBQ Chicken

What You Will Need:

  • 2 pounds boneless skinless organic chicken thighs
  • 10 ounces BBQ sauce (check out our LC version!)

What You Will Do:

  1. Put chicken thighs and barbecue sauce in the slow cooker. Turn thighs to cover with sauce.
  2. Cook on low for four hours or high for two.
  3. Remove thighs, shred chicken and ENJOY!

 

EASY Blender BBQ Sauce

Loves!! It’s time for some easy, homemade, vegan, healthy blender BBQ sauce!

This week’s recipe is brought to you by one of my dear friends who is also a FANTASTIC nutritionist. Suzanne Pirkle is a gifted female- and you know how I feel about supporting the amazing creative women we have in this world- and she has BLESSED us with a month full of healthy, fun recipes to feed you and your family! So make sure you check out her site for more info!

Homemade Barbecue Sauce

Starting with this fantastic barbecue sauce. Oh, and you don’t EVEN have to turn on a stove to make it. YOU MAKE IT IN A BLENDER. It’s as simple as pouring your ingredients and blending. Brilliant! Plus, you may already have all of these things on hand! (Especially if you are like me and find that you can put applesauce  in pretty much anything to make it taste great).

Why, might you ask, would I make this homemade? One- it tastes amazing. But two- a lot of the barbecue sauces you find in the store have sugar or high fructose corn syrup listed as one of the first ingredients (some even, according to Suzanne, have modified food starch). So this way you can make your own, it’s super simple, and it has all the good stuff in it!

Also- you guys- have you subscribed to the Luv Cooks YouTube channel yet? If you haven’t, you TOTALLY should, so you can stay up to date on all of these fantastic barbecue recipes as they are released! This month we will have a TWO ingredient slow cooker BBQ chicken, plus FIVE different ways you can eat that chicken in a week! So get ready, ’cause it’s going to be a barbecue party around these parts!

Homemade Barbecue Sauce

EASY Blender Barbecue Sauce (brought to you by Suzanne Pirkle!)

What You Will Need:

  • 1 cup filtered water
  • 6 ounces tomato paste
  • 1/2 cup organic applesauce
  • 3 tablespoons molasses
  • 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon onion powder
  • 1 tablespoon garlic powder
  • 3 tablespoons dijon mustard
  • 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil

What You Will Do:

  1. Pour all ingredients into a blender and blend until completely combined. Store in a glass jar in the fridge until ready to heat up and eat!