Make Ahead Meal: Lemon Chicken with Broccoli & Rice

We’ve always leaned on slow cooker recipes and make ahead meals to help when we get super busy and this recipe for Lemon Chicken with Broccoli and Rice is beyond perfect. We are doing our best to eat a little cleaner these days and just to prove it, I used vegan coconut butter in the video, not real butter. I’m sure you were wondering what I was talking about after I plopped a 1/3 cup of butter into the chicken pan. Lemon is always a huge hit in this family so I figured to make something that is guaranteed to be eaten and enjoyed I had better squeeze some into a butter sauce along with some chicken.

If my daughter won’t eat anything, it’s a sure bet she’ll at least eat some rice. I can’t even begin to tell you how easy it is to cook rice in a rice cooker. We’ve had a rice cooker at every restaurant I worked at and for good reason. It’s easy to use and keeps the rice warm after it’s cooked so that it doesn’t turn to mush. Using a rice cooker allows me to prep the other parts of this dish like the chicken and the broccoli.

There are tons of great make ahead meals out there, and if your family is a big lemon butter chicken fan then this make ahead meal is the perfect start to this upcoming school season! Happy prepping!