Delicious Honey Lime Chicken with Coconut Rice! A delicious dinner recipe that makes chicken marinade and a sweet and tart sauce all in one! Serve with ripe avocados, pickled onions, and crispy cucumbers!

These Honey Lime Chicken and Rice bowls are a life saver on weeknights.

Simple ingredients make this a breeze to make, and the results are extraordinary! 

It helps the all the ingredients are mostly pantry or refrigerator staples. Make the marinade, then let the chicken hang out it in. Grill the chicken and cook the marinade to create a delicious sauce that you can pour all over the bowl. 

The sweetness from the honey balances out the tart lime and ugh! These bowls are just incredible. The creamy coconut rice adds another layer of flavor and the buttery avocados work perfectly with the pickled red onions.

Honestly, it’s perfection!

• Chicken pieces: I like to use boneless chicken breast but boneless skinless chicken thighs or even chicken tenders would work here too.
• Spices: I use kosher salt, along with garlic powder, red pepper flakes, and black pepper to give this dish plenty of flavor.
• Fresh lime Juice: squeeze fresh, it works best. I don’t use lime zest in the marinade but you could if you wanted too.
• Garlic: freshly minced gives this more flavor.
• Honey: plays a start role in this recipe. During the cooking process, keep the heat lower than typical to keep the sugar from caramelizing too quickly. For stove top cooking, toggle the heat between medium-low and medium.
• Cilantro: adds fresh earthiness to the dish
• Oil: avoid olive oil as we’ll be cooking this chicken at a temperature higher than 375ºF. I prefer avocado oil, but any high heat oil will work here.
• Prepared Rice: I like to make a batch of coconut rice in my instant pot, but cilantro lime rice would work here too. You could even make quinoa in your rice cooker and use that instead.
• Pickled onions: adds just the right amount of acid to balance the sweetness in this recipe.
• Cucumbers: crisp and cooling. These are a blank canvas and give you plenty of texture!
• Avocado: buttery and soft they add to the texture and creaminess to the chicken and rice bowls.