You know the best thing about boneless chicken breasts? You can do all sort of culinary things with them and yet everything will taste exquisite! You can grill them, you can fry them, you can bake them and yet each dish will delight your family members each and every time with absolutely no one complaining. So, here I give you a few lip smacking and yet amazingly easy recipes for boneless chicken breast portions which won't take up much of your time in the kitchen and besides, chicken recipes never go out of style!
Grilled Boneless Chicken Breast Recipes
Grilled Barbecue Chicken Breasts
Grilling is an art and you can try this dish if you are trying your hand at grilling for the first time. Say for a group of 4, you'll need to have with you,
- Whole chicken breasts, 4 (skinless)
- Peanut oil, 2 tbsp.
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Watermelon, 1 cups (deseeded and cubed)
- Jicama, cup (diced)
- Cilantro, cup (fresh and shredded)
- Honeydew melon, cup (cubed)
- Cantaloupe, cup (cubed)
- Red onion, cup (diced)
- Jalapeo pepper, 1 (chopped)
- Lemon juice, 2 tbsp.
- Maple syrup and salt, to taste
First, mix all the ingredients of the barbecue sauce together and blend. Then place this condiment in a lidded jar and allow it to stand in the refrigerator for a minimum of an hour. Next brush the grates with some oil and heat the grill beforehand. Rub the boneless chicken breasts with the peanut oil. Temper with salt and black ground pepper to your preference and then put it to grill. After 5 - 6 minutes cover the chicken with the condiment and turn it over for the other side to cook. Apply the barbecue sauce again, wait for 5 minutes and voila! It's ready to gorge! Easy, ain't it?
Grilled Garlic Lemon Chicken Breast
This will be enough to feed a party of twelve. Gather around,
- Chicken breast, 12 (halved)
- Olive oil, cup
- Lemon juice, 4 tbsp.
- Garlic cloves, 4 (minced)
- Cumin powder, 2 tsp.
- Black pepper, 2 tsp.
- Salt, to taste
On a flat rimmed dish, place the chicken and then slowly introduce the other ingredients to it. Blend everything well and rub it on both the sides of the meat and make sure both the sides are well and uniformly covered. Cover the dish with cling film and place it in the refrigerator for at least 8 hours. You then have to take it out and make sure that each side is covered and grilled for nothing less than 10 minutes. Prepare this just before serving as it has to be eaten hot, hot, hot!!!
Grilled Chicken Ratatouille
"If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff." - Rmy in Ratatouille (2007).
This classic Provenal dish, perfect for the summers, is loaded with minerals, like sodium, potassium, folate and magnesium, along with vitamin A and C, and has a maximum of 324 calories. Make sure you have:
- Chicken breasts, 4 (boneless, skinless, about 1 pounds, trimmed and tenders removed from the underside)
- Plum tomatoes, 4 (halved lengthwise)
- Eggplant, 1 (small, cut into -inch-thick discs)
- Red bell pepper, 1 (halved lengthwise, stemmed and seeded)
- Red onion, 1 (medium, cut into -inch-thick discs)
- Zucchini, 1 (medium, halved lengthwise)
- Basil, 3 tbsp. (fresh, chopped)
- Extra-virgin olive oil, 3 tbsp.
- Marjoram, 1 tbsp. (fresh, chopped)
- Red wine vinegar, 1 tbsp.
- Salt, 1 tsp.
- Pepper, tsp. (freshly ground)
- Canola oil cooking spray
Begin by mixing the basil, the marjoram, the olive oil and the salt thoroughly. Once you have a uniform mixture, scoop out a tablespoon of it and keep it aside. Let the rest sit separately. Next, preheat the grill to a medium-high temperature. Now, spray the canola oil on all the sides of the vegetables (bell pepper, eggplant, onion, tomato, zucchini) and grill them. Remember, the coating should be thorough and the veggies should be grilled until they soften with a few charred spots. Turn them on the grill at least once. For best results, grill the onions and tomatoes 3 minutes per side, the eggplant and zucchini 4 minutes per side and the bell pepper for not more than 5 minutes per side.
When the veggies are being done, marinate the chicken with the tablespoon of mixture you kept aside earlier. Coat both sides well and then sprinkle them with the pepper. Your chicken will be ready for grilling. Remove the veggies from the grill and put the chicken on for grilling for 5 minutes per side. You will know that the chicken has been cooked through once it is no longer pinkish in the center.
In the meantime, cut all the grilled veggies into -inch pieces and throw them into the bowl with the vinegar. Toss well and then combine with the remaining herbal mixture. Once they are thoroughly coated, place them beside 1 grilled boneless breast piece per plate. You can serve four people with this preparation. Go ahead and enjoy it while you watch the Disney delight with your family!
Baked Boneless Chicken Breast Recipes
Baked Hawaiian Boneless Chicken Breast
A gang of 6 can be satiated with this dish. See that you have,
- Chicken breasts, 6
- Pineapple, 2 cups (cubes)
- Pineapple juice, 1 cups
- Sugar, 1 cups (grainy)
- Sherry, cup
- Butter, cup
- Brown sugar, cup
- Soy sauce, 3 tbsp.
- Vanilla extract, 1 tbsp.
- Ginger, tsp. (freshly cranched)
- Garlic cloves, 2 (minced)
- Cinnamon stick, 1
Mix all the ingredients, other than the pineapple chunks, together and then cover the chicken with it. Allow it to stand undisturbed for 4 hours and then remove it from the marinade. Place it in an ovenproof dish, bake it for 40 minutes on 350 F in the oven. Do not cover it while baking. Occasionally take out the chicken and baste it with the reserved marinade. In the meanwhile, take a little bit of the pineapple juice, the chunks of the fruit, the marinade and allow it to simmer for just a few minutes. Take out the chicken breasts and place the pineapples around it.
Boneless Chicken Breast Supremo
You'll need to have on you,
- Chicken breasts, 6
- Sour cream, 2 cups
- Butter, cup
- Lemon juice, 3 tbsp.
- Worcestershire sauce, 1 tbsp.
- Celery salt, 2 tsp.
- Paprika, 2 tsp.
- Garlic cloves, 4 (minced)
- Salt and pepper, tsp. each
- Dry bread crumbs (seasoned)
Blend together the sour cream, butter, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, celery salt, paprika, minced garlic, salt and pepper to form a uniform marinade and coat each breast piece well with it. Place the pieces in a lidded container and refrigerate overnight. Next day, rub butter on the surface of and ovenproof dish. Next coat the chicken with the bread crumbs, place it on the greased dish and bake it for 1 hour in the microwave at 350 F. And ready the delicacy is!
Finally I shall give you two of my favorite boneless chicken breast recipes. Try them out soon.
Chicken breast with Crab Filling
I agree that this dish is full of calories, so do not indulge in it like regularly. Once in 4 - 6 months is fine. For 5 people lay your hands on,
- Chicken breast halves, 5 (skinned)
- Crab meat, 6 oz.
- Cream cheese, 8 oz. (thawed)
- Savory herb with garlic soup mix, a pack
- Eggs, 2 (whipped)
- Bread crumbs, cup
- All-purpose flour, cup
- Olive oil, 2 tbsp.
- Butter, 1 tbsp.
Blend the crab meat, cheese and soup mix and store. Now, cut open each breast horizontally so that it resembles a pouch and fill it up with the crab meat mixture and press the opening well to secure it. Now set to preheat the microwave to 350 F and in the meanwhile, coat the breasts with flour, then egg and then the dry bread crumbs. Heat the butter in a frying pan and fry the breasts for not more than ten minutes. Remember to heat on a medium flame and after 5 minutes of frying, turn the breasts over only once. When the breasts take on a brownish tinge, gently place them on an ovenproof dish, greased with olive oil, and let them bake for 25 - 30 minutes in the microwave. Serve it with rice and some veggies!
Cheddar Garlic Chicken
Last but not the least, you can make this dish in all of 60 minutes, for about 8 mouths and feed them a protein-rich, carbohydrate-rich diet! Don't make it too often though as it has a high cholesterol content of nearly 130 mg and very, very little fiber (0.3 g). So, you'll need to have,
- Chicken breast halves, 8 (pounded and flattened)
- Cheddar cheese, 1 cup (sliced finely)
- Bread crumbs, cup
- Parmesan cheese, cup (shredded)
- Butter, cup
- Garlic cloves, 4 (minced)
- oregano, tsp. (dried)
- Parsley, tsp. (dried)
- Black pepper, tsp.
- Salt, to taste
Put your oven to heat at 175 C beforehand. In another vessel blend together the parsley, oregano, pepper, salt and both the sorts of cheese along with the bread crumbs. Then take a cooking pan to melt butter in it, on a low flame. Throw in the garlic and saut until it becomes slightly brown and remove from flame. Now coat each breast first with the butter-garlic mixture and then with the cheesed crumbs. Now grease an ovenproof dish with some butter, place the breasts into this dish and mizzle some molten butter from top onto the breasts. Now place it into the microwave and bake for about 35 minutes. When the chicken loses its pinkish tinge and all the juices start to run clear, know that it's ready to tingle those taste buds. Mmmmm....
Hope you enjoy these grilled or baked chicken breast delicacies immensely. With those exquisite 7 easy boneless chicken breast recipes, I bid you goodbye with a solemn promise to return with yummier culinary delights that can potentially leave you gastronomically gormandized!
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