Tuesday, March 3, 2015

The Endless Variety Of One Dish Chicken Recipes

By Earlene McGee


Feeding the family has never been more challenging. Not only is it getting harder to stay within the budget, everyone seems to have different dietary needs. One has gone paleo, while another one has discovered a gluten sensitivity and Dad has decided to go on Atkins. You could buy individual pre-packaged meals, but this is expensive. Save money and keep everyone happy, apart from maybe the vegetarians and vegans, with one dish chicken recipes.

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.

When dealing with fresh poultry, avoid the temptation to wash it before cooking. This is because bacteria in the meat can splash around the kitchen during the rinsing process, increasing the risk of food poisoning. The most common bug is Campylobacter, which can cause serious illness or even death, particularly in young children and the elderly. You may think you are protecting them by washing the meat, but you are really exposing them to more harm than by just preparing it as is.

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.

You can make chicken stew with just about anything. For the diet conscious, make up a basic cabbage soup, brown the chopped or diced meat and then add to the soup. Serve with bread, or not, for the carb-free clan. You can stir fry it or toss it with endless permutations of vegetables and flavorings. It's great on the barbecue. Marinate in whatever sauce you can get your hands on. To really save time, buy pre-made sauce and serve with rice or pasta.

Cooking with poultry is cheap, versatile and healthy. It has lots of protein, little fat and contains those omega-3 fatty acids that everybody is always raving about.




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