main course
Ideas to serve as main course or entrée.
Yogurt marinated grilled chicken
Chicken meat can dry when grilled. Marinating the meat before grilling helps to keep the chicken moist and tender. Milk or plain yogurt are two of the most common ingredients for soaking or marinating chicken pieces to make them tender and juicy.
Southern fried chicken with gravy
Tender chicken pieces coated in lightly spiced flour and fried until crispy brown.
Fried chicken with bacon and gravy
Easy recipe for fried chicken served the traditional way, with gravy. The other popular accompaniment are biscuits.
Chicken stir fry
Serve chicken stir fry with Chinese noodles or steamed rice. The chicken in this recipe can be easily substituted with other meat.
Chicken cordon bleu
Chicken cordon bleu is a recipe to look good with little effort. Not really expensive, as chicken breast produces a good quantity of meat. The fillets are flattened until very thin and look larger than they are.
Poached chicken breasts
This recipe for poached chicken breast recommends a goat cheese and herb stuffing and tomato butter sauce to make interesting what otherwise would be a very plain dish.
Yorkshire chicken
Yorkshire chicken is a dish of boiled chicken served with oven cooked stuffing, a perfect recipe to take advantage of boiling fowl, not as tender as young chicken but much cheaper.
Szechuan pepper chicken
A chicken recipe with Chinese inspiration and the spicy taste of Szechuan pepper. White rice is a lovely complement to the flavorful chicken.
Braised garlic chicken
Serve braised garlic chicken with potatoes, sauté or steamed, and steamed green beans.
Chicken paprika
An easy recipe for braised chicken. Serve with pasta or mashed potatoes.