Easy Chicken Recipes
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There are a lot of easy chicken recipes and that is because chicken is probably the most famous protein in the world. Almost every culture, country and continent kitchen contains a signature dish containing chicken.
Why is chicken so popular?
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First of all for its low price.
Chickens are small animals that are breded in large quantities. Huge
barns filled with thousands of these little feathered buggers are big
business. Not only their eggs are popular, chicken meat is too! Chickens don’t need a lot of care, only enough food to grow
fat in a short period of time.
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If kept at home or on a small farm they mainly provide for
themselves, pecking away the whole day. They can survive in colder and
rougher conditions like the mountains.
Secondly chicken is very easy to prepare.
Cooked, stewed, grilled, fried, steamed, roasted… Lots of easy chicken recipes, it’s hard to mess it
up. Chicken not only consists of breasts, wings or thighs. Other parts
can be used as well. Its liver and heart are mainly used for paté,
terrines or stirfries. In China chicken feet, necks and even combs are
cooked or fried. What’s left is the carcass. It’s a perfect for chicken
soups or stock: boil the carcass with some vegetables and fresh herbs.
Another advantage of chicken: kids especially love it.
Its simple taste and texture are better to handle than red meat.
Chicken provides the necessary proteins kids need. Because of its low
fat and low calories chicken is recommended in many diets.
Chicken
cuts are sometimes sold in large quantities. Keep aside in the fridge
what you’re planning to prepare soon. The rest can be frozen. Portion
the cuts in smaller plastic bags. Once frozen chicken changes into one
stubborn clump of meat. Knocking off pieces will destroy the meat. How
long can you keep fresh chicken in the fridge? The best thing to do is
to buy fresh chicken on the very day you intend to cook it. In case
something unexpected happens, it’s OK to keep it in the fridge
overnight. It won’t spoil that fast. After 2 days fresh chicken should
be thrown away. You don’t want to food poison yourself. Anyway if
chicken smells or looks funny, don’t eat it. Cooked chicken will survive
the fridge for 2 to 3 days.
One little thing I want to tell you in case your frozen chicken is defrosted (especially fillets and breasts): a slimy glue-like substance very often coats the chicken meat. This is a true goldmine full of aweful bacteria. So before using the defrosted chicken parts I always rinse them well
under cold running tap water and dry them with kitchen paper to be sure that tacky stuff is gone for good. Avoid it!
Enough talk now, let's start cooking! These chicken recipes below are the popular ones here at home. Inspiration comes from traveling and books!
One book about chicken recipes I particularly love is this one: Chicken (what did you expect??) from the Williams-Sonoma Collection. Recommendable!
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