These Chicken Tinga Bowls are the BEST! Made in just 15 minutes, all on a sheet pan. My favorite kind of meal prep!

Chicken tinga on a sheet pan.

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This chicken tinga is juicy and delicious, brain-less, totally hands-off (hello sheet pan), generously saucy, and paired with some buddies like roasty bell peppers and quinoa and black beans to round it out into a meal that tastes like my favorite tacos of all time and yet is practically the same as a salad.

Chicken tinga in a bowl for meal prep.

These chicken tinga tacos remain, to this day, one of my favorite taco recipes ever. Which is saying a lot. I love tacos. I dream of tacos. I eat a LOT of tacos.

So this week’s meal prep situation is my solution to the WANTS TO EAT TACOS BUT WANTS TO ALSO BE HEALTHY dilemma.

Here we go.

Meat in a dish and a host of foods to cook it with.

First, throw the peppers and chicken on a sheet pan. Roast it up.

Various colors of peppers on a baking sheet with chicken breasts.

Yes, you are a meal prep genius, and yes, you need to be grammin’ this.

While it’s roasting, make your sauce, which I don’t have a picture of. Just imagine a sizzling pan of onion, garlic, oil, tomato, chipotle, etc.

And then, because I am lazy (or smart?) I just shred that chicken right on the sheet pan and pour my sauce right on there.

Sheet Pan Chicken Tinga with multi-colored peppers.

Done! Chicken Tinga Meal Prep. Made on a sheet pan.

You will likely have a little extra sauce which has never, in the history of ever, been a problem for me. I’m confident you can find some extra space in your bowls for that lil spoonful of chipotle goodness.

Chicken Tinga Bowl in a clear dish.

This is one of those times that I’m getting jealous of my own lunch.