Recipes with chicken

Cooking with chicken

Chicken is the most versatile protein on the site, from 15-minute wraps made with cooked chicken to slow curries and stews. Thighs and pieces on the bone usually cost less than breast fillets and stay juicier when cooked longer.

This page has 36 recipes with chicken: 32 dinners and 4 lunches. 18 are ready in 30 minutes or less, and the quickest is Chicken Avocado Wraps at 15 minutes. In these recipes, chicken most often goes with garlic, onion and lemon.

Short on time? Try Chicken Avocado Wraps (15 min), Chicken Mayo Sandwiches (15 min) and Chicken Fried Rice (20 min).

Tips for chicken

• Don’t wash raw chicken. Splashing spreads bacteria around the sink and kitchen, and cooking kills them anyway.
• The reliable check is a thermometer: 75°C in the thickest part. Without one, cook until it is steaming hot all the way through with no pink meat in the thickest part.
• Keep raw chicken covered on the bottom shelf of the fridge so its juices can’t drip onto other food.
• Cooked leftover chicken goes into wraps, sandwiches, fried rice and chicken à la king.
• Chicken livers cook in minutes and usually cost less than other cuts.

Sources: Public Health Agency NI: don’t wash raw chicken