What's your favorite way to doctor up plain chicken breasts?

[CarbFiendDC]

Whoa, such great ideas and recipes- thanks!! Will have to think about my favs to contribute, but most warn all that I am not a gourmet or even frequent cook by any means.

[kimlou]

Thanks for the ideas

[Charski]

I cook up half a dozen breasts at a time so I can have "planned overs" during the week.

One of our favorite ways to reheat them is to put a tablespoon each of any salsa you like and the Tostitos Salsa con Queso cheese dip on them, then reheat in the microwave. It makes such a good sauce!

[JacquieSR]

Okay, so I stole this recipe from Rachel Rae and modified it a tad.

Slice your chicken breasts into tender size, saute in olive oil. Throw in a little green pepper and mushroom and some garlic. When it's almost cooked, throw in some fresh spinach and feta cheese.

AWESOME stuff!

[marlena]

Brown on both sides. Mix up thawed chopped spinach with parmesan and a little nut meg. Put chicken in casserole, cover completely with spinach mix, add a little HOT chicken broth, cover tightly with alum. foil. Bake in 350 oven for about 30 min. Last 5 or so, sprinkle well with mozzarella.

Simmer in a jar of salsa, just don't eat all the salsa - whatever kind you like.

Coat with crushed hazelnuts, saute in butter and olive oil mix, add some orange oil, parmesan and thyme to some cream in the pan for a sauce, after you take out the CBs and voila - very snazzy eats This works best with thin CBs or cutlets.

[jswalker1992]

Wanted to get this thead active again...

When I find split breasts on sale for .99/lb, I buy them. One of the things that we do is boil up a bunch of the breasts, cool them off, skin them, shred them and fry the meat in a pan with butter, salt, pepper, and garlic powder (powder tastes better in this recipe than fresh) til crisp. The kids love it this way also. Sometimes we will eat the chicken like this with buttered green beans and dumplings (anyone have a low carb dumpling? ) and sometimes we take the chicken and mix it with eggroll veggies. It's all good! This also works really well (if not a bit better) with whole chicken.

[debbiedo]

My kids like the left over chicken cut up, seasoned and fried with potatoes. Not low carb but kid love it so make for them.

[nicky]

I love this post...

azjacque-- Im glad you liked the "famous" chicken... It is my fav!

[ataran]

A quickie...

Boil some boneless frozen chicken pieces for about 15 minutes.

Cool off, then dice the chicken.

Dump the water and use the same pan to add the chicken to some canned/boxed chicken broth, add salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning to taste.

Heat the chicken broth up to a boil, and break up some Dreamfields spagetti into it.

Cook until the noodles are done and serve.

[Bev-Ann]

I made this recipe in my pre-LC days at least once a month and it's great with pork too. The only difference now is using a sugar sub for the honey. It tastes so close to the original that I don't miss the honey. I've never tried this, but if you have some commercial LC honey sub, you could use that for the sweetener.

1 tbsp cooking oil
4 boneless/skinless chicken breast halves -or- pork loin chops
1 can low-sodium cream of mushroom soup
1/2 can water
3 tbsp Dijon mustard
sweetener equivalent to 1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp dehydrated onion flakes -or- 1/2 tsp onion powder

In a large skillet, brown meat in oil. Combine remaining ingredients, pour over meat, cover and simmer 35 to 40 minutes.

[kumquat]

Chicken with Almonds and Parmesan

Mix a together some grated parmesan, ground almonds, dried thyme, salt, chopped coriander leaves (or parsley), red chili flakes. Dip chicken breasts in olive oil and then into the mixture. Put the remaining mixture on top. Bake at 400 F for 20 mins or till done. Very very good!

[jswalker1992]

Wow! That looks like dinner tonight! I can't wait!

[Wine2]

Originally Posted by kumquat

Chicken with Almonds and Parmesan

Mix a together some grated parmesan, ground almonds, dried thyme, salt, chopped coriander leaves (or parsley), red chili flakes. Dip chicken breasts in olive oil and then into the mixture. Put the remaining mixture on top. Bake at 400 F for 20 mins or till done. Very very good!

Thanks...this sounds good!

[annabanana76179]

Oops.....too late.

[Trents]

these sound great

[crystallong]

I love the Weber's Kickin Chicken dry rub spice...YUMMO!!

[HevinMonkey]

If this is the hall of fame for chicken recipes we can't forget Cleo's Buffy Wings!

This thread is awesome...any more ideas? I could really use something new about now.

[DWhalen4]

Awesome stuff everyone! Here is what I think is pretty basic however some of the "basic" stuff yall put it- I would have never thought of lol.

I make this for hubby not to fond of hot stuff myself.. however I found a tweak this week that makes it work for me too!!! And Induction Friendly!

Cajun-ish Chicken Scramble
I use Olive oil to fry with, add a small amount to the bottom of frying pan add Frozen or Fresh Boneless Chick breast, coat with cajun seasoning-add hot sauce to the pan ( generously ) flip chicken coat other side with cajun ( I recoat pretty much everytime I flip hubby likes it hot ) cover and simmer till done.

This smells soooooooooooooo yummy when cooking. Now I find it to hot, but the other day I took one of his breasts and cut it up into chunks, scrambled up some eggs, then mixed the eggs and chicken together and sauteed the whole thing in Butter and garlic powder. I had for lunch at work the next day it was awesome! The butter cut the hot but left the flavor!!! Got Chicken and eggs And unless i'm mistaken its induction friendly.

[FloridaMary]

I like to put some oil in a pan, add rosemary or rosemary blend seasoning (from Sam's Club) swirl around in pan then add the chicken to pick up herbs in oil,turn to coat both sides then cook till done. I think putting the herbs in oil first brings the flavor out more.