The Endless Variety Of One Dish Chicken Recipes

By Earlene McGee


Sometimes it can be a challenge to prepare meals that family members are willing to eat and you are happy to pay for, especially when they all have such varied tastes. One's gone paleo, while another one won't touch red meat with a ten-foot pole. You can't get takeout every day of the week, so one dish chicken recipes are a fabulous way to stick to a budget and make sure everyone eats healthily.

Chicken is cheap and popular. It is one meat that wannabe vegetarians confess to including in their diets. It is low in fat and there are an endless variety of dishes that can be prepared. There are numerous ways to purchase poultry. It is sold as whole birds, which can be taken home and either roasted whole or cut into pieces.

Poultry parts consist of wings, drumsticks, thighs, and breasts. They may be sold with or without the skin, or with or without bones. The bones give you something to boil for soup and stock, but they also make the meat difficult to handle. Boneless meat is slightly more expensive, but a lot easier to deal with.

A word of caution. Do not rinse it in water before cooking. Food hygiene experts say this only increases the possibility of contaminating your kitchen with Campylobacter, a bacterium that causes severe food poisoning. It does this by being splashed around in the water used to clean it. You may think you are protecting your family, but the diseases Campylobacter can cause can be deadly to small children and older adults.

Cooking an entire chicken in the oven is the most straightforward method of serving it. If you decide to stuff the body and/or neck cavity, be sure to adjust the cooking time accordingly. For an entire one-pot meal, simply add potatoes, carrots and/or other vegetables. You can roast the whole kit and caboodle in the oven on low heat or in a slow cooker.

Boneless thighs are awesome. You can open them up, beat them with a tenderizing hammer, dip them in a mixture of eggs and milk, coat with flour or panko and fry them up. Omit the coating for the low-carb, gluten-sensitive people. You can also cut them up and serve in a stir fry in a giant wok. Add chopped vegetables and toss with cooked noodles and the sauce of your choice.

Chicken soup or stew is another one-pot meal that is easy to rustle up. Make up a basic soup of whatever you have lying around and add the meat that has been browned in oil. Marinate it for a half hour or up to overnight and cook it on the barbecue. When the barbecue is rained out, you can always serve with pasta or rice and sling a pre-made sauce over it.

Chicken is one of the tastiest, cheapest and healthiest meats available. It's got lots of protein and little fat. What fat there is has a high ratio of omega-3 fatty acids. It comes in a variety of different forms and is one of the most versatile meats on the planet.




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