Friday, February 27, 2009

Tasty chicken breast recipes

By Foong

The healthiest part of the chicken is probably the chicken breast because of its lack of fats. However, it is also very easy to cook and quite a versatile meat. You could prepare a lot of different dishes using chicken breast by baking it, grilling it, roasting it, stir frying it, deep frying it and even add all sorts of sauces and condiments to it to make it delicious as ever.

Baked chicken breast meat, without its skin, is by far the healthiest option for protein other than eating baked fish. However, it need not taste horrible or bland at all. There are so many different sauces and ways to prepare the chicken breast meat that baked chicken breast meat will never be plain, old boring food ever again.

There are chicken recipes aplenty for you to try out but which recipes are really suitable for chicken breast meat? The breast meat is probably one of the most versatile meat you can have so you can actually prepare it in many different ways. One of the easiest ways is to grill the chicken breast meat using either a griller or an oven. You only need to season the chicken with some special chosen sauces and grill it. Simple as that.

If you chop the chicken breast meat into small pieces, you can actually stir fry it for some healthy wholesome chicken dinner. There are some stir fry techniques you will need to learn first before attempting this so that you won't burn your chicken! However, the secrets to some tasty stir fried chicken breast is to season it before stir frying it.

So, if stir frying it not your cup o tea, you can try roasting. Roasting is not only confined to whole chicken but also to chicken breast meat. You can slather on some sauces and condiments onto the meat before you roast it for some great tasting treat. Otherwise, go for the most tasty favorite way to prepare chicken, deep frying. You will need to marinade your chicken with some buttermilk first. Then dip it into egg whites and cover it with breadcrumbs for extra crunchiness. Then you deep fry it to a golden crispiness.

Other that these methods, you can also mince the chicken breast meat and referring to some really great chicken breast recipes, use it for homemade burgers, in pasta sauce, anything. There are so many different chicken recipes out there that you are really spoilt for choice. Whatever method you like, cooking chicken breast meat is easy enough but always remember not to overcook it or else you may just end up with some really tough chicken meat that you will find hard to chew. - 16650

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