Healthy Chicken Recipes

All you need to know about cooking chicken healthily.

Like many families, we enjoy healthy chicken recipes at least once a week. It’s such a versatile meat, and children love it.

Click on the headings for a selection of chicken recipes.

Baked Chicken Recipes
From Spicy Baked Chicken with Rice, to Slow-baked Aromatic Chicken.
Chicken Curry Recipes
From Thai Green Chicken Curry, to Tandoori Chicken.
Lemon Chicken Recipes From Citrus Grilled Chicken, to Tangy Lemon Chicken with Mushrooms.

You know what happens when you buy cheap meat, from a battery-reared chicken. It gives off scads of fatty juices as it cooks, the meat is stringy and greasy, the flavour pathetic. Know why? Battery-reared chickens are obese. They have no exercise, but are fed a calorie-rich diet. So they put on lots of fat – but no muscle.
Free-range organic birds, on the other hand, roam outside for 10 weeks or longer and forage for a better diet. Their bodies develop without abnormal amounts of fat. Roast an organic chicken, and it will yield only a few spoonfuls of intensely flavoured rich juices. The meat is firm and full-flavoured. That bird was reared humanely, saw blue sky and was fed good food. It costs more, but taste-wise, it's in a different league.
So, buy the best chicken you can afford, and enjoy the difference. Look out for the Freedom Food label in the UK.
Often, you can remove the skin of the chicken to make the dish lower in fat. Trim off visible fat, as well. There are often quite big pieces, especially on chicken thighs.

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