Quick and Easy Chicken Dishes for the
Palette
Chicken is one of the all time favorite food. Both kids and adults enjoy having
chicken whether in their sandwiches, salads, pasta, as appetizers, and as full
meals. On the plus side, it is relatively inexpensive and can be quite easy to
prepare. It is a good source protein, zinc and iron and depending on the
preparation and cooking is relatively healthier than red meat. You can have a
fulfilling meal with just quick and easy chicken dishes. There are several of
these recipes which you can easily buy off the shelves of bookstores or even
read on the internet.
Don’t worry too much on the chicken parts you are using. Believe me when I say
that you won’t run out of recipes for each chicken part. All you need are the
right ingredients and you can have a delicious meal in no time. You can combine
these simple recipes with some useful cooking techniques which will make the
whole process even easier and the resulting dish much tastier.
For example, when baking or grilling chicken, it would be best to leave the skin
on first to make the meat tastier. You can remove the skin afterwards when you
serve or eat it. Most of the fat of the chicken is stored in the skin. You can
have a low fat chicken dish just by removing the skin. When you do prepare
chicken dishes, I would suggest sticking with baking, broiling, and grilling. As
much as possible, avoid frying the chicken. There are a lot more delicious and
healthier ways to prepare and cook chicken aside from frying so let’s do that.
Let’s see, you can cook a tasty chicken dish with cream of mushroom soup. What
you do is place sliced and skinned chicken on a pot and mix a can of cream of
mushroom soup. Add another can of mushrooms but make sure the water has been
drained. Add water and onion soup mix into it. You can cook this in low fire
until the chicken is tender. Add salt to taste. And that’s it. Although, this
recipe may take longer since you will have to cook the chicken in low fire to
get that taste but the recipe is easy and the preparation is simple.
If you’re craving for pasta, you can add chicken into it to have a fuller meal.
What you do is cut boneless and skinless chicken breasts into bite-sized pieces
and sauté it together with garlic, green pepper, some onions and mushrooms. Make
sure the chicken is cooked already when you add the vegetables. In a few minutes
the vegetables should be done as well. At this point mix in your tomato or
spaghetti sauce. You can cook your pasta while you’re doing this so by the time
you’re done with the chicken, the pasta is firm and ready to be served. Sauce
your pasta and top with grated cheese or parmesan cheese.
If you like a different approach, mix olive oil to your pasta instead of
spaghetti sauce. That sounds interesting. When you combine pasta and chicken it
seems that you can’t go wrong. Both dishes are very easy to prepare individually
and combining the two is just simply mixing the dishes.
You see, by having some quick and easy chicken dishes in mind, you can save your
family and yourself a lot of time in preparing your meals. Start reading and
looking for those quick recipes.