7 Chicken Recipes You Need to Know
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, everybody has turkeyon the brain. But right now we're daydreaming about another bird: chicken. With our 10 essential chicken recipes, you'll be pecking your plates clean.
Chicken is often thought of as the "plain Jane" of birds, commonplace with little taste. But there are several ways to dress up your chicken to make it extraordinarily craveable - even the classic roasted chicken can get a pick-me-up! As one of the most popular ingredients used in cooking, chicken can be incorporated into so many different dishes in several ways. You can roast it, grill it, fry it, or sauté it, and each method changes and enhances its flavor profile.
In our 7 Chicken Recipes You Need to Know, you'll find recipes inspired by all different cultures, from a riff on the traditional Buffalo chicken to a healthier version of chicken Parmesan, Mexican chicken taquitos, and a version of chicken pot pie that would be perfect for a fall entrée.
Cook these versions of this versatile bird to add new flavorful staples to your Rolodex of recipes.
Chicken Taquitos
Add a flavor of Mexican with this Chicken Taquitos Recipe that will spice up your plate.
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Beasley's Chicken + Honey Fried Chicken
Chef Ashley Christensen of Beasley's Chicken + Honey in Raleigh, NC shares her recipe for old fashioned, Southern fried chicken. Served hot off the stove or chilled in the fridge, this dish is the perfect summertime entree.
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Tarragon Chicken Salad with Creamy Blue Cheese Dressing
A main-dish salad layered with flavors, this chicken salad delivers the best of the herb garden along with the wonderfully warm, creamy flavors of blue cheese, honey, and tarragon.
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Perfect Peanut Whole-Wheat Pasta with Chicken and Vegetables
Looking for an easy, balanced meal that's easy on the budget? Try this pasta recipe that's a complete meal in a bowl, with whole-grain carbohydrates from the pasta, protein from lean chicken breast, and plenty of fiber, vitamins, and minerals from the vegetables.
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Toasted Tuscan Chicken Sandwich with Roasted Red Peppers, Fontina, and Pesto Mayonnaise
This is a sure-fire and colorful way to use up that leftover chicken. If you don't have pesto, use regular mayo. I always drizzle the chicken with a tiny bit of oil and vinegar for a little added zip.
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Weeknight Chicken Parmesan
Dinner during the week is often not allotted a lot of time, so this recipe using Del Monte's canned diced tomatoes and canned green beans helps you put together a delicious and healthy meal in minutes.
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Buffalo Chicken Skewers Recipe
The combination of chicken, Buffalo sauce, and blue cheese is one of the most classic ones out there, yet it's most frequently eaten in the traditional manner: Fry the chicken wings, toss them in wing sauce, and dunk them in blue cheese dressing. But there are still plenty of ways to get your Buffalo fix without having to bust out the deep-fryer.
These Buffalo chicken skewers use ground chicken, which is much leaner than wings, mixes the sauce and blue cheese right into the mix, and gets a bake in the oven. Not only are they great for parties, they're also a whole lot less greasy than their bony bretheren!
INGREDIENTS
1 pound ground chicken
1/8 pound Danish blue cheese, crumbled
1/3 cup plus
1/2 cup Frank's RedHot Sauce
Salt and pepper, to taste
Cooking spray or vegetable oil, for the baking sheet
2 tablespoons butter
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a mixing bowl, combine the ground chicken, blue cheese, and 1/3 cup of the hot sauce. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
Roll the chicken mixture in your hand into small balls, a little smaller than a golf ball, and add 4 pieces to each of 4 skewers. Line the skewers on a well-oiled baking sheet, and bake for 30 minutes.
While the skewers are baking, combine the remaining wing sauce with the butter in a microwave-safe bowl, cover, and heat for about 1 minute, until the butter is melted. Stir to combine.
Place the chicken on a serving plate, and spoon the wing sauce over the top, leaving the rest on the side for dipping.
Recipe Details
Servings: 2
-Elyse Cromer, The Daily Meal
