Quick Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowls Recipe - Crunchy Creamy Sweet (2024)

FAQs

Why is teriyaki sauce sweet? ›

Teriyaki sauce has a complex flavour; a mixture of sweet and savoury, tangy and salty. The sweetness comes from the sweet wine and the caramelisation of the sugar, honey or syrup, which also gives the sauce its shiny glaze.

Panda Express Chicken Teriyaki Bowl With White Rice And Super Greens (1 bowl) contains 57g total carbs, 57g net carbs, 0g fat, 43g protein, and 535 calories.

While both sauces add depth and umami to dishes, teriyaki sauce is sweeter and more suitable for glazing, while soy sauce provides a bold and salty flavor to enhance the overall taste of a dish. Teriyaki sauce is a sweet and savory sauce made from soy sauce, sugar, and mirin.

Honey or maple syrup

Typically, you'll find a combination of honey and brown sugar in teriyaki recipes. I wanted this recipe to be entirely naturally sweetened, so I used all honey instead. If you want teriyaki sauce without honey, simply use maple syrup. It's great, too!

Teriyaki chicken rice bowls are a great meal for summer and can actually be a pretty healthy meal. One of the main things to make it healthy is to serve it with brown rice. One down side to brown rice is it does take longer to cook than regular white rice. However, the healthy benefits are worth the extra time.

Is Teriyaki sauce healthy? A. While the low amount of calories in teriyaki sauce makes it healthy, the presence of sodium in the sauce in abundance makes it unhealthy. Therefore, the amount of sauce consumed daily determines whether the sauce will prove to be beneficial or not.

There are 406 calories in 8 pieces (245 g) of St Pierres Teriyaki Chicken on Rice (Small).

Does teriyaki chicken have a lot of sugar? ›

Teriyaki chicken breasts contains 170 calories per 142 g serving. This serving contains 3.5 g of fat, 29 g of protein and 4 g of carbohydrate. The latter is 3 g sugar and 0 g of dietary fiber, the rest is complex carbohydrate.

Women should consume no less than 1,200 calories per day, while men should consume no less than 1,500 per day (unless otherwise instructed by a doctor). The generally recommended amount of calories that women should consume is around 2,000 calories per day while men should aim for 2,500 calories per day.

Cactus Club Cafe Teriyaki Chicken Rice Bowl (1 serving) contains 121g total carbs, 114g net carbs, 49g fat, 42g protein, and 1070 calories.

All these are topped with teriyaki sauce for a sweet and savory flavor that you'll love. This frozen entree is a perfect fit for those busy days when you don't have the time to cook. Each serving contains only 480 calories and is low in fat without compromising taste.

Nutrition Facts

There are 428 calories in a 1 bowl (340.000g) serving size of Rice bowl with chicken, frozen entree, prepared (includes fried, teriyaki, and sweet and sour varieties). The calorie breakdown is 11% fat, 71% carbs, and 18% protein.

If your food is too sweet...

Add an acid or seasonings such as lemon juice, lime juice, or vinegar; chopped fresh herbs, citrus zest, or a dash of cayenne for savory dishes, liqueur or instant espresso for sweet dishes.

Made from sweet wine or sake, and sometimes sugar or honey, most of the carbs in teriyaki sauce are in the form of sugar. Each tablespoon contains 2.2g of sugar.

Teriyaki is meant to be a cooking sauce, not a table sauce, but it's perfectly safe to use as a dip or a condiment.

This condiment is made from a fermented paste of boiled black soybeans, roasted grain, salt, water, and Aspergillus wentii mold, to which palm sugar is added. The strong sweet taste is contributed by a generous amount of palm sugar — the sauce may contain up to 50 percent gula merah or gula jawa (palm sugar jaggery).