Little Help Please

Since my family doesn't like fish (poo) and scoffs at vegetarian, I've been serving more chicken. Whenever I google chicken recipes I'm not all that impressed. So I was wondering if anyone had any interesting chicken recipes. The ways I've made it are:

Cossack
Cordon Bleu
Fajita
Quesidilla
Parmesan
Moroccan Lemon (cooked in crock pot)
Grilled kebab with Italian seasoning marinade
Satay

I also make a grilled ginger chicken but I use a premade marinade to which I add ginger and would love a marinade recipe. I also use premade spices for the fajita so if anyone has a good fajita marinade recipe I'd appreciate it.

Whenever I google chicken recipes I'm not all that impressed.

Well don't google them! There are a lot of food-specific sites, sashac.

Even our very own LPGS is one of zillions (even if LPGS is one of the three food sites on which I post).

So do you have a good chicken recipe tony?

If he had his way, Mr. Nutrax would eat chicken every day of the week. I have done chicken six ways from Sunday.

I'd suggest getting your hands on The Best Chicken Recipes from Cook's Illustrated. See if Amazon or some oth rplace will give you a better price. Or, better still, patronize a real brick & mortar book store.

I was very happy with this Greek chicken with yogurt-cucumber sauce - easy to make and the cinnamon on the chicken smells wonderful as it cooks and doesn't overpower the dish.

http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/greek-chicken-with-yogurt-sauce

Midwesterner - the pillsbury link didn't work. I got a message that it can't take me to the page right now. But I'm definitely going to keep trying. That sounds really good and exactly the kind of dish I was looking for.

Thanks!!!

I got the same error message, but I tracked it down. See if this works. It's basically breaded chicken with a tzatziki/cacik sauce.

Sorry about that, and thanks for the link correction, nutrax. Note that the chicken is not breaded.

One of the easiest things to do is my version of a casserole:

Brown chook, take out of pan
Add chopped onions and garlic, swish around till translucent
Add a spoon of flour, cook till the flour smell goes
Add a bottle of white wine
Add salt & pepper
Add a handful of tarrogon (or lemon thyme or sage or rosemary - you choose)
Cook until chook falling apart. I use boneless thighs.

Or and favourite is:

Chick breast sliced in the paillard style
Pan fry in quite a bit of oil and butter (as this forms part of the sauce)
Once cooked, remove chook from pan and quickly add chopped parsley, juice from 1 or 2 lemons and about a quarter cup of capers. Reduce a little until it's syrupy, then pour over the chicken. Serve with boiled potatoes and steamed beans or asparagus.

I guarantee that both of these will become regulars in your repertoire.

Try "Hainanese Chicken Rice"(basically poached chicken with rice) which is almost a national dish in Singapore and some major towns/cities in Malaysia and parts of Thailand as well as Jakata,Indonesia.
Alternatively,'Thai green curry chicken' is yummy if you like something spicy and aromatic.

Now we're cookin! Thanks guys, I have saved these recipes and will be trying them soon.

Nutrax - what would we do without you?

I like roasted or fried chicken. Any chicken cooked too long becomes bland.

Spicy apricot chicken... NOT the disgusting '70s version.

roughly chop 1 onion & a few garlic cloves & put them in a casserole dish.

Remove excess fat from chicken thighs, leaving skin on & arrange on top of the onion skin side up.

Slice a green pepper, halve a handful of dried apricots & quarter a handful of dried peaches, then scatter them between the thighs.

Do likewise with some dried birds eye chilis, season with black pepper & add chicken stock mixed with a little cornflour & a pinch of ground ginger to almost cover the thighs.

Cover with alfoil & cook 1 hour at 180C. Remove alfoil & continue cooking until juice is reduced to half. The exposed skin should be crispy & the sauce reasonably thick.

Serve on top of mashed spud with LOTS of the sauce & accompany with al dente steamed broccoli.

This is my own recipe & I've served it to many friends & basked in their accolades!

Henning - I also like roasted or fried chicken. My family on the other hand will only eat roasted chicken if accompanied by a dipping sauce and hates fried chicken.

Phoggi - that also sounds really good, although we are quite fond of ginger so I'll probably add more than a pinch. Thanks!
And - my family hates broccoli so I'll probably serve a salad with it.

Edited by: sashac001 for broccoli bashing

Chicken Caesar wrap, simple but delicious.

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2244,155182-226200,00.html

Phew! When I saw Dave Thomas was here I thought I was going to get a Wendy's chicken sandwich recipe. ;)

That looks good too Dave. Although I would use grilled chicken instead of canned. Same as I do for a chicken Ceasar Salad.

Thanks!

Edited by: sashac001 who briefly forgot her manners.

Canned chicken !?!

Who knew.

I actually used it once in a recipe. It wasn't as bad as I was afraid it would be, just bland. Grilled chicken adds much more to the flavor.

So do you have a good chicken recipe tony?

I bought some boneless and skinless chicken thighs a few days ago, sashac. I froze them but I intend to defrost on Sat night and stuff them with Boursin (French cream cheese with a touch of garlic and herbs), chopped bacon and leeks and roast them on Sunday. I'll serve with Jersey Royal potatoes (which are superb but have a very short season), a chicken jus and another veg yet to be decided.

I also like chicken thighs - skinless but on the bone - in curries. I often make a pathia: a sweet, sour, hot dish.

Ginger root, garlic, tomatoes, various spices, chili, lime, sugar, salt. I don't usually add sugar or salt to curries but the lime needs salt and sugar methinks.

Chicken and egg curry laced with spinach is good too!

Have you tried Thai railway station chicken? Bash up some scraped, chopped coriander root with garlic and salt and rub it all over the chicken, then rub in some palm or brown sugar and a bit of fish sauce and leave four hours. Grill the chicken and serve with a sweet chilli dipping sauce. Buy from your supermarket or search on here for a complicated recipe I gave years ago.

Awesome!

Now I'm really getting hungry. And tonight it probably going to be a simple dinner night. My family might just get sick of chicken by the time I'm done with all of these!