Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Make Chicken Breast Recipes 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.

Chicken with cornbread stuffing, chicken Florentine and chicken cordon bleu are all wonderful chicken breast recipes. You can make roll-up logs and then complete your meal by including some rice for stuffing or a baked potato. Alternatively, you may include spinach and cream cheese or ham and Swiss in your chicken breast recipe for roll-ups.

Chicken breasts are very versatile with sauces, too. You can make a buffalo chicken breast by adding Tabasco and some blue cheese crumbles, or a honey Dijon cream sauce is good. Mango chutney, Italian pesto, or tequila lime sauce gives a chicken breast some unique, moist flavors. Of course, you can never go wrong with a butter garlic sauce.

Keeping the chicken breast moist is the most essential requirement of making chicken breast recipes. Overcooking will dry them out. Using ingredients that have moisture such as sauces helps the chicken breast stay moist. This is the biggest mistake while preparing and drying out any chicken breast recipe.

You can grill or bake chicken breasts, they are scrumptious sliced, grilled and then using them for toppings on your Caesar salads, or as fillings for fajitas. You can bread and fry them and then serve them with dipping sauces. Chicken breast recipes are most versatile. Your options while using them are limited only by your knack for cooking or perhaps the recipes included in 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.

Chicken breast recipes are wonderful while dieting since they are low in calories. While on the Atkins diet you can enjoy chicken breast sauted in real butter and cream, seasoned with rosemary, dill, garlic, celery salt, lemon pepper, Dijon mustard and honey. When you crave something delicious that is low in carbohydrates and calories, you can prepare a different chicken breast recipe every day. Chicken breast recipes and chicken recipes are adaptable and can provide you with a rich variety of flavors to savor.

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