What to do with a chicken breast?

U could use it as a filling for a pie or pasties. Add olive oil to a frying pan , soften a large onion , or leeks . Add a decent amount of mushrooms and fry until juices come out. Place in a bowl. Then add chopped chicken to pan fry until cooked.Add milk to cover and a stock cube simmer then add a teaspoon of cornflour let down in more milk. It will go in a lovely white sauce. Tip all this into bowl of veg . Make or buy a basic pastry. 200g plain flour, 100gmarg, rub together . Add tiny amount of cold water to bind together. Let pastry rest while filling cools. Oven temp 175, while u roll out pastry. U can roll a rectangle and pile it all on . Line a pie dish or cut around a saucer and make pasties. This recipe helps a small amount of chicken go further. I find lots of people like pastry in winter. It’s a really economical way to use leftovers and store cupboard essentials. If the recipe is too long in one go rub flour into marg then freeze. It’s handy as crumble mix or add water for pastry.

Flatten out a small chicken breast to about 1cm thick, coat in paprika and mixed herbs ( I like smoked paprika) and cook in a little oil for about 3 minutes each side. Delicious with a salad.

Haven’t you cooked that yet?
Best you feed it to the cat.

Love that Sunnyside and will bring trying it this week.

Marinate chicken breast in PiriPiri marinade sauce for hour or overnight. Heat olive oil in fry pan , cook chicken , when half way through, add extra olive oil with knob butter & chopped garlic along with small plum tomatoes, sliced mushrooms, with a good sprinkling of PIriPiri seasoning. Serve with basmati rice . Lovely.

Line an enamel baking tin with a double layer of foil. Place chicken breasts on the foil. Cover with a good amount of Geeta's mango chutney. Drizzle with a little oil and cover with more tin foil. Remove the top layer of tin foil half way through cooking and turn the chicken breasts over. Delicious!

So many great ideas here! Thank you! But if was cooking for that hubby I’d do the Chicken Schnitzel from GravyGranny13 , with the grated parmesan per kittylester. Yes, add capers on top too! It’s really delicious.
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Marinate chicken in spicy sauce. Chop onions, peppers and mushrooms, add all ingredients to wok or saute pan. Add taco seasoning and tomato salsa. Cook til chicken cooked and vegetables are soft. Warm some stand and stuff taco shells and fill. You can change your fillings as you like and or add cheese to top.

My fake Nando’s is always popular. Do a mix of chilli powder, smoked and normal paprika, garlic powder, salt, pepper, dried herbs, whatever you have to hand.
Thoroughly coat chicken breasts in mix, grill for 10/15 mins, depending on thickness, turning often. Slice thinly.
Mash up a ripe avocado, add cayenne, salt, pepper.
Serve with yoghurt, pittas or flat breads, any salad you fancy. If you can get flatbreads open, compile inside. Delicious, but messy! Otherwise just pile it on a plate.

'Please can you give me some more interesting ideas to do with a chicken breast?'
Give the hen a funeral in the back garden? She has no name so choose a pretty name for her. Say a prayer, read a poem, sing song, seek forgiveness for having had her murdered and her life cut so very short. Mark her grave with your tears.

Go into any supermarket and look for Maggi sachets, they are usually with packet mixes and herbs etc. I use them all the time, there are many flavours to choose ftom, garlic, herb, peri peri etc all using chicken breast. The chicken breast is always very juicy and delicious, also very quick and easy to do.

Stir fry, risotto, curry, chicken and mushroom pie, stuff with cream cheese and herbs wrap with streaky bacon and baked on a bed of cherry tomatoes with garlic, chicken cacciatore , make your own Kiev’s, lemon chicken on a giant couscous salad,

Slice into strips roll in milk/egg then breadcrumbs and fry. Stir fry strips with some peppers / mushrooms In soy sauce and have with boiled rice. Flatten between cling film then crumb as above and fry in oil and knob butter schnitzel style. Cut into pieces brown a little and put with tomatoes/tinned and dried or fresh herbs seasoning /mushrooms and serve with pasta. Just stir fry in bit oil with lots pepper and. It of salt serve with chips! Lots of stuff to do with chicken roasting probably the worst thing to kill it's flavour and texture!

Chicken breasts in an ovenproof dish sitting on crushed garlic cloves. Season with black pepper, then cover with sliced mushrooms and a knob of butter. Roast for 30 minutes.
Make a roux with plain flour and cup of white wine. Add juices from roasting, milk and cheese. Pour sauce over chicken and grill to brown.
We eat this with plenty of greens and it is delicious!

I have just fried up some cubed chicken with onion and garlic. I chucked in all the leftover veg from the fridge, all cut to bite size chunks. Meanwhile I cooked a pan of pasta. Combined the meat, veg and pasta in an oven dish and stirred a tub of Herby cream cheese through. This will have grated cheese put on top before I brown it in the oven later.

I stopped buying chicken breasts in favour of chicken thigh fillets. IMO they are less inclined to be dry, and are very versatile and quick to cook. I find they have more taste too. Lots of recipes available for them too.

Find Tandoori spice mix, Jalfrezi spice mix, Korma ditto - and the rest necessary to follow the recipe on the jar. Enjoy a few curries like this. Chicken with mushrooms and any flavour (maybe not soy). You can use more or less of the spice according to you preferences. Add rice of your choice, poppadum, mango chutney.

Stir fry with selection of veg and curry sauce added. I like the Aldi selection with separate dry spices to add first.

Paella.... add raw chicken in cubes toward end of cook time to poach gently in steam with lid on pot.

I get the North Indian style curry powder from seasoned pioneers it lasts for ages only need a traspoon and cook up with garlic ,spinach ,Onions and cubed potatoes . Although I mainly get thighs must admit .

I very much enjoy cold sliced chicken with some chips and Branston pickles.

What about a chicken stew like this one? Although they use thighs here.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-chicken-stew

Chop up with onions, grated potato, carrot, and apple, and use as pie filing.

Most chicken is bland and the consistency of damp cotton wool. If I were trying to make it taste better I'd marinade it for hours in soy sauce and miso paste before whatever method of cooking.

Dip it in egg and then in breadcrumbs, add salt and pepper then fry gently in oil or butter, as you would any other piece of meat.

Or cut into very thin strips, and cook in a wok or frying pan, add soya, brown sugar and vinegar to taste, then stir in a suitable amount of frozen stir-fry vegetables. Serve with boiled rice.

This made me smile as, once upon a time when I worked more than full time & DH less so, he said he was going to write a series of cook books, beginning with " what to do with a pair of breasts"! Alas, he never got round to it so I can't recommend it! I now never buy chicken breasts, only thighs, as they are not only much more flavoursome but also cheaper.