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Our Weight Watchers Burrito Bowls are a delicious meal prep recipe! This meal is perfect for dinner, but also is a perfect lunch to meal prep. Prepping Weight Watchers lunch recipes ahead of time is a great way to stay on track for your daily points!
The whole family loves them because they can customize their flavors to include all of their favorites (and to leave out the things they don’t love). This particular delicious Weight Watchers recipe is just 3 Blue Plan Points | 7 Green Plan Points | 0 Purple Plan Points | 2023 Points: 3 points per serving, not including toppings.
If you are looking for a great choice on those days when you are nearly out of points till evening rolls around, our Weight Watchers burrito bowls are the answer! You can enjoy a delicious chicken burrito bowl that will keep you full and satisfied without going over on your points or skimping on your dinner options.
Weight Watchers burrito bowls are an easy way to pile on the flavors without packing on points and calories. Did I mention that this meal is cooked in an Instant Pot? Less dishes to wash, I call that a win!
Where’s the Recipe?
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Ingredients in Weight Watchers Burrito Bowls:
- Frozen skinless chicken breasts: Frozen chicken breasts are a must for this recipe.
- Uncooked brown rice: You do not want cooked rice for this recipe. You’ll use uncooked brown rice and it will cook in the instant pot. We prefer using brown rice for the health benefits, but you may also use white rice. Just be sure to recalculate the WW points value using the WW app.
- Dry black beans: (not soaked) You are looking for the bag of dry black beans from your local grocery store. You do not want to used canned black beans, as the beans in this recipe will cook while in the Instant Pot.
- Diced tomatoes: We always try to find the canned diced tomato with no sugar added.
- Minced garlic: You’ll definitely want real minced garlic for this recipe. Fresh garlic is always more flavorful than garlic powder. If you are out of minced garlic, you could substitute garlic powder if necessary.
- Cumin: Cumin is one of my favorite spices to cook with. I love the complex flavor it brings to a dish when combined with other spices such as onion powder and chili powder.
- Onion powder:
- Chili powder: We love a little spice in our spice mix, but if you are sensitive to heat, feel free to leave this out.
- Chicken stock: We try to find low sodium stock and broth whenever possible.
- Optional Toppings for WW Burrito Bowl:
- Romaine lettuce:
- Cheddar cheese: Opt for non-fat or low-fat cheese.
- Avocado:
- Salsa, chopped tomatoes, or pico de gallo:
How to make Weight Watchers Burrito Bowl in the Instant Pot
- Combine all the ingredients in the Instant Pot. Lock the lid into place and seal the pressure valve.
- Using the manual mode cook on high pressure for 25 minutes. When done release by turning the pressure valve to open, be sure to use a long spoon or a silicone oven mitt to move the valve.
- Open the lid and remove the chicken to shred. I use my mixer to shred chicken–it’s SO easy to do! Just make sure to stand right there and watch because the chicken goes from shredded to ground chicken pretty quickly. You may also shred the chicken in a large bowl by using two forks.
- Add the chicken back into the Instant Pot, stir well.
- Measure and place the romaine lettuce in your bowl. Top with 1/4 of the beans, rice, and shredded chicken.
- Measure out and sprinkle with cheese, salsa, and avocado if you’d like!
Recipe Tips
- Remember that with most WW programs you can add fresh vegetables that are zero points! You can also add things like sour cream, greek yogurt, cilantro, or a squeeze of lime juice. This recipe is really versatile and can benefit from all kinds of toppings!
- This meal is perfect for meal prep. We recommend making it and then portioning it out into meal prep containers. These are our favorites, but any container will be helpful in portioning out your healthy recipes for the week.
- We don’t add extra salt and pepper to this recipe, however you are welcome to do so. Taste the recipe first before adding any additional salt and pepper.
- The beans in this recipe can be a little tough–if by chance the beans you purchased at the store happen to be a little old, they need longer to cook. Know that you might have to allow them to sit a little longer or turn the pot back on for a few minutes, depending on your elevation, size of pot, and age of dry beans in your pantry.
- You must use frozen chicken breasts for this recipe. You also can’t substitute canned beans and or other ingredients for this recipe. These particular ingredients work together because of the liquid they give off/soak up/require and their similar cooking times in the Instant Pot.
- If you make changes to the recipe you’ll have to adjust cooking times, liquid ratios, and more. It’s just messy and doesn’t come out right when you sub in different types of ingredients.
- You can easily double this recipe and you don’t need to adjust the cooking times for that! If you want to meal prep or are just feeding a larger crowd these chicken burrito bowls are a great option.
- The Instant Pot makes everything easier. If you don’t have one yet, check out this post that details the difference between all the various models and upgrades.
- Making this in the Instant Pot works because everything has similar cooking times which is why I don’t have slow cooker or stovetop instructions for this particular recipe.
Healthy Eating Plan Points
Weight Watchers Points for our chicken burrito bowl is: 3 Blue Plan Points | 7 Green Plan Points | 0 Purple Plan Points | 2023 Points: 3 points per serving, not including toppings. We love that this recipe can be zero points depending on which plan you follow!
If you do add any optional toppings, you’ll need to recalculate how many points this is worth. You are welcome to do that in the WW app to help calculate your new points.
Other Weight Watchers Dinner Recipes
- Weight Watchers Cajun Chicken Pasta
- Weight Watchers Tuscan Chicken Pasta
- Weight Watchers Meatballs
- Weight Watchers Beef Stroganoff
- Weight Watchers Mini Meatloaf
Weight Watchers Burrito Bowls – 3 Points Per Serving
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breast frozen
- ½ cups brown rice uncooked
- ½ cup dry black beans not soaked
- 15 oz diced tomatoes no sugar added
- 2 tbsp garlic Minced
- 2 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 tbsp Onion powder
- 2 tbsp Chili powder
- 1 ½ cups chicken broth low sodium
Optional Toppings for Weight Watchers Burrito Bowls
- romaine lettuce
- cheddar cheese
- salsa or pico de gallo
- avocado
Instructions
- Combine all the ingredients in the Instant Pot. Lock the lid into place and seal the pressure valve. 2 chicken breast, ½ cups brown rice, ½ cup dry black beans, 15 oz diced tomatoes, 2 tbsp garlic, 2 tbsp ground cumin, 1 tbsp Onion powder, 2 tbsp Chili powder, 1 ½ cups chicken broth
- Using the manual mode cook on high pressure for 25 minutes. When done release by turning the pressure valve to open, be sure to use a long spoon or a silicone oven mitt to move the valve. *If you notice that your beans are not done yet, do a natural pressure release.
- Open the lid and remove the chicken to shred. I use my mixer to shred chicken–it’s SO easy to do! Just make sure to stand right there and watch because the chicken goes from shredded to ground pretty quickly.
- Add the chicken back into the Instant Pot, stir well.
- Measure and place the romaine lettuce in your bowl. Top with 1/4 of the beans, rice, and shredded chicken. Measure out and sprinkle with cheese, salsa, and avocado if you'd like! romaine lettuce, cheddar cheese, salsa , avocado
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Can you use fresh chicken? Is there a difference in time?
Because of the dry ingredients in this recipe, no–you can’t use fresh chicken. It won’t have the liquid it needs or the time it needs to cook the rice and beans.
Can you double this recipe?
Absolutely!
Did you change the time when you doubled the recipe?
I didn’t!
Hi, I am not a fan of black beans and am curious if I could substitute different dry beans, maybe pinto?
Hey Jen! I haven’t tried it with pinto, but I found this post that gives a quick summary of the cook times for different beans (down in the printable recipe) and it looks like the cook time is pretty similar–I think you’re safe trying it! https://greenhealthycooking.com/instant-pot-beans/
I’d love to know how it turns out for you!
This recipe looks really yummy. Just curious, have you tried adding canned black beans after cooking?
We haven’t tried that but it should work just fine if you drain the beans before adding, and then mix together until the beans are warm.
Not a fan. Followed recipe exactly with frozen chicken breast. Came out bland and the chicken was very tough. I found it barely edible, but my wife couldn’t even finish one serving.
I’m sorry that the recipe didn’t work out for you! I hope you try it again :)
So many great flavours. And healthy too! This burrito bowl’s a winner, thank you!
Looks really delicious! Thanks for sharing!
This is such a yummy recipe! Burrito bowls are always a hit around here!
These were SO good! I didn’t leave dinner still feeling hungry and they had a ton of flavor. Thank you!
I tried this recipe last night and I had to cook it longer because the chicken was tough the beans and the rice weren’t cooked all the way through, still TOUGH. I put The chicken back into the instant pot and cooked it for 10 more minutes and it was delicious !
I’m so glad you liked it! Yes, as I’ve mentioned in the recipe the beans can be a bit of a pain. It seems there are several things that can affect their cook time, including how long they sit on the grocery store shelf before you even buy them. I wish it were easier to know right away how long they need :)
what woud be the green and purple points for these bowls? Tahnks. I am going to try it tomorrow.
7 green points, 1 purple point – not including your toppings :)
can leftovers be frozen? i’m new to the meal prep train and already have the rest of my week done. somehow i didn’t plan for the 2 leftover portions.
Yes! We like to place in individual containers and freeze until ready to eat :)
If I use canned beans but addbth at end, do I need to use less water?
Yes :)
Can you make in a crockpot?
Hi there,
We haven’t tried this in the crockpot but would love to hear how it turns out if you do!
Okay, just tried this. I think this is a great base recipe to tweak. I think next time the chili powder and cumin I will cut in half. I found a bitterness with the full amount of seasoning. I also added a dash of paprika, pepper, and salt, and used a rinsed can of black instead of dried beans. The beans held up and werent mush. I did not use the normal function mentioned to cook. I used the poultry setting for 25mins. I worried about it not being fully cooked. I used frozen chicken breast. I made sure they were thin not the big thick cuts of chicken breast. Cut them in half if that is the case. I of course will eat this batch, but I learned less spice is better. I also increased the liquid to about 3/4 cup more chicken broth so the brown rice had time to soak it all in. All in all 4 out of 5.