Jul 13, 2009

Let Chicken Breast Recipes Be Your Healthy Choice

By Chef Paolo Sorelli

Chicken breast recipes are generally a staple food for those on a diet. This delicious lean meat is low in fat and calories. You can adapt any chicken recipe for chicken breast, even if the recipe does call for a whole cut-up chicken. You can do many things with chicken breasts that you cannot do with the other parts of a chicken so easily.

Some chicken breast recipes are especially good and you can use them to create an exceptionally elegant dinning experience. For instance, you can pound out chicken breasts and then stuff them. Chicken rolls are easy to make and present an elegant dinning layout. Using the technique of cutting a pocket into the side of a chicken breast and fill it, with stuffing is quite delicious.

For example, favorite chicken breast recipes would be chicken Florentine, chicken cordon bleu or chicken with cornbread stuffing. All of these recipes can be made into roll-up logs and sliced for presentation. Whether you use the pocket method to bake your chicken breast with cornbread stuffing or use spinach and cream cheese or ham and Swiss cheese to make chicken breast recipes in rolls you slice, all you have to do is add some rice or a baked potato and you have a meal.

Chicken breasts go well with sauces as well. For instance, you might make a buffalo chicken breast by adding some blue cheese crumbles and Tabasco. Dipped in Mango chutney, honey Dijon cream sauce, tequila lime sauce or Italian pesto as well as a butter garlic sauce is quite tasty with chicken breasts. Sauces can provide moist and unique flavors to your chicken recipes.

One of the biggest mistakes of making chicken breast recipes is that of overcooking or not keeping the chicken breast moist. It is essential to use ingredients that provide moisture to this meat; this is one reason why sauces work so well with chicken recipes.

Chicken breasts can be baked or grilled. The are popular sliced, grilled and used as toppings on Caesar salads, fillings in fajitas and breaded, fried and served with dipping sauces. There are so many chicken breast recipes that your options are only limited by your imagination or the size of your chicken breast recipes book.

A club sandwich of ham, chicken, bacon, tomato and lettuce is popular. You can serve chicken whole or in cubes and then add rice or pasta, some cream of mushroom soup; cheese topped with potato chips or cracker makes a nice casserole that the whole family can enjoy.

Even if you are on a diet, there are many tasty chicken breast recipes that are low calorie and on the Atkins diet, you can even have a chicken breast sauted in real butter and add cream. From there you can season with garlic, lemon pepper, white wine, dill, rosemary, Dijon mustard, honey or celery salt and have different chicken breast recipes every night of the week that are low calorie, low in carbohydrates and very tasty. Chicken recipes offer a lot of versatility and Chicken breast recipes offer a wide range of variety and flavors.

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