This easy chicken rice bowl is the kind of recipe that earns a permanent spot in your quick, meal-prep rotation. It’s simple, fresh, and flexible. You use the Viral Costco Chicken, fluffy cooled rice, and a lemony olive oil dressing that makes everything perfectly moist and not too salty. This recipe comes together fast and can be served as-is in bowls, stuffed into wraps or pitas, piled onto toast or scooped over greens. It’s a recipe so easy that you’ll wonder why you were dreading meal prep.

❤️ Why You’ll Love This Viral Costco Chicken

• Effortless but Fresh: This recipe takes rotisserie chicken, rice, and dressing, it’s so simple with minimal prep but packs big flavor.
• Great for Meal-Prep: This Viral Costco Chicken holds up beautifully in the fridge for a few days, making lunches and quick dinners so easy for those busy weeks you feel like you have too much on the go to meal-prep.
• Versatile: This recipe can be served in a multitude of ways. You can eat it straight from the bowl, wrap it in a pita, spoon it over greens, or load it onto toast. It doesn’t get boring even if you have it multiple days in a row.

Ingredients

Rotisserie Chicken: Using rotisserie chicken keeps this recipe quick while delivering juicy, well-seasoned flavor. For the best texture, pull it by hand while it’s slightly warm. By doing it this way, it’ll stay tender and avoid the stringy, overworked feel you can get from forks or a mixer. If you don’t have a Costco membership, any grocery store rotisserie or leftover baked chicken will work for this recipe.

Dressing: This simple dressing is the perfect balance of just enough olive oil to lightly coat everything without turning greasy, and just enough lemon to keep it bright, not sour. Whisking it separately lets you control the texture so the rice and chicken stay moist. You can also get creative and make a dressing that you love or use something you have pre-made in the fridge.

How to Make This Viral Costco Chicken Recipe

1. Cook the rice: Add the rice to a small pot with 1 cup of water and pinch of salt. Bring to a boil over high heat and once boiling, turn to medium-low to keep at a simmer with the lid mostly on for 10-12 minutes or until the rice is tender and no water remains. Remove from the heat and put the lid on the rice for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, fluff the rice with a fork and set aside with the lid off to cool.
2. Remove the chicken from the bones and pull it into pieces. Add the chicken to the bag.
3. Add the sliced cucumber, sliced tomatoes, fresh chopped parsley, sliced red onion, sliced red pepper and crumbled feta cheese.
4. Once the rice is cooled, add it to the bag as well.
5. In a small bowl whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, pressed garlic, kosher salt and ground pepper to combine.
6. Pour this dressing over everything in the bag and gently shake to combine. Taste and adjust seasoning with more salt and pepper if desired.

Tips and Tricks

• Let Rice Cool: Adding warm rice will soak up too much dressing and dry things out. Cooled rice keeps everything fluffy.
• Shred Chicken By Hand: Pulling the chicken with your hands gives you tender, bite-size pieces and better texture than forks or a mixer.
• Whisk the Dressing Separately: This helps you control the oil-to-lemon ratio so the salad is coated, not swimming or overly salty.
• Season in Layers: Lightly salt the rice and taste again after mixing. The feta and chicken already bring salt to the recipe so you want to make sure you don’t overdo it.

Variations

This recipe is just a starting point. You can totally add-in ingredients to make this your own. Here is so inspiration to get you started:

• Mediterranean Twist: Add kalamata olives, chopped dill, and a spoonful of hummus or tzatziki for extra creaminess.
• Buffalo Style: Toss the chicken with a bit of buffalo sauce, swap feta for blue cheese, and finish with celery and green onion.
• Ranch Vibes: Use a light ranch dressing (or half ranch, half lemon-olive oil) and add corn, avocado, and crispy bacon bits.
• Upgrade the Protein: Add chickpeas or white beans and swap the rice for quinoa or farro for a heartier, grain-forward bowl.
• Wrap or Pita Version: Skip the rice, keep the chicken and veg, and stuff everything into warm pita or a tortilla with extra feta.

Best served with

• Pickled Red Onions
• Pita Pocket Recipe
• Greek Tzatziki Sauce

How to Store Leftovers

Store leftovers in an airtight container for up to 3-4 days in your fridge. This recipe is great for meal-prep to have on hand during those busy weeks.

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Viral Costco Chicken 🐔

Created By: Maria Koutsogiannis

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This viral Costco chicken rice bowl is fresh, flavor-packed, and comes together with minimal prep using rotisserie chicken, fluffy rice, and a bright lemony dressing. It’s perfect for meal prep and easy to enjoy as a bowl, wrap, or salad throughout the week.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 20 minutes mins

Course Salad

Cuisine Greek-Inspired

Servings 4 lunch servings

Calories 518 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• ½ cup dry basmati rice
• 1 Costco rotisserie chicken in the bag, chicken removed from the bones
• 1 cup diced English cucumber
• 1 heaping cup halved baby tomatoes
• ¼ cup fresh chopped parsley
• ½ cup diced red onion
• 1 cup diced red pepper, about 1 large red pepper
• ½ cup crumbled feta cheese
• ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 3 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 large garlic clove, pressed
• 2 tsp kosher salt
• ½ tsp ground pepper

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Instructions

 

• Cook the rice: Add the rice to a small pot with 1 cup of water and pinch of salt. Bring to a boil over high heat and once boiling, turn to medium-low to keep at a simmer with the lid mostly on for 10-12 minutes or until the rice is tender and no water remains. Remove from the heat and put the lid on the rice for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, fluff the rice with a fork and set aside with the lid off to cool.
• Remove the chicken from the bones and pull it into pieces. Add the chicken to the bag.
• Add the sliced cucumber, sliced tomatoes, fresh chopped parsley, sliced red onion, sliced red pepper and crumbled feta cheese.
• Once the rice is cooled, add it to the bag as well.
• In a small bowl whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, pressed garlic, kosher salt and ground pepper to combine.
• Pour this dressing over everything in the bag and gently shake to combine. Taste and adjust seasoning with more salt and pepper if desired.

Notes

• This viral salad makes great meal prep lunches!
• If you love this recipe, try our Healthy Chicken Salad Recipe

Nutrition

Calories: 518kcal | Carbohydrates: 36.4g | Protein: 35.1g | Fat: 29.1g | Saturated Fat: 7.5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 14.1g | Cholesterol: 95.4mg | Sodium: 888.4mg | Fiber: 7.7g | Sugar: 5.9g

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