Chicken Recipes & Ideas

Of all the techniques for preparing chicken I learned in culinary school, spatchcocking is the one I return to the most. Sure, it’s great to know how to break down a whole chicken, but nothing compares to the satisfaction that spatchcocking provides. Luckily, you don’t need a culinary school degree to spatchcock. The process is simple — remove the chicken’s backbone and then flatten the bird — and immensely rewarding.

Tastes so good you’ll think you hit the jackpot.

The sauce is perfect.

Ooh la la.

It’s the easiest phở ever.

And the sauce is super flavorful.

Delicious with rice or naan.

And surprisingly easy to make at home.

They’re so cheesy.

It’s so flavorful!

The sauce is everything.

It’s unbelievably tasty.

They’re so comforting.

Make sure to soak up every bit of the sauce.

One-pot, no fuss.

This chicken is fall-off-the-bone tender.

So cozy.

It’s like the grown-up version of a chicken nugget.

It’s also one-pan!

It's cozy and creamy, with just the right amount of tang.

It gives it an incredible spicy flavor.

Editor’s Note: If you’ve cooked this beloved recipe before, it might look a little different these days! We recently improved it to make it even easier to follow and more delicious.From here on out, creamy chicken soup from the slow cooker shall be known as change-your-life chicken soup. Try to imagine all the goodness of chicken soup — moist, tender chicken, bites of sweet carrot and peas — but wrapped in a creamy broth flecked with black pepper.

The marinade is everything.

Anytime you find yourself with leftover baked chicken breasts, shredded chicken from the slow cooker, poached chicken breasts, or whole roasted chicken, consider it a very good thing. You can certainly go for a second round of last night’s dinner, but the wonderful thing about chicken is that it’s so easy to repurpose it into an entirely different meal.

You only need three ingredients for the sauce.

All the flavor with less of the work.

It’s the absolute best.

A chipotle marinade makes the chicken extra-flavorful.

It’ll be your new family favorite.

It adds unreal crunchiness and punchiness.

Bring Hawaii to your home.

And it cooks in just 20 minutes.

It’s bound to become an instant classic.

It’s all about the marinade.

And it cooks in under 15 minutes.

It should come as no surprise that chicken bites make a regular appearance on my dinner table. I’ve made garlic Parm chicken bites, bbq ranch chicken bites, and honey Dijon bites to name a few favorites, but these days my family only has eyes for these French onion dip chicken bites. Even my 5-year-old can’t get enough of this flavorful skillet.

Juicy summer bruschetta meets easy, one-pan chicken dinner.

It's all about the marinade.

At home, the guac isn’t extra.

My family asks for it every week.

This basic chicken breast technique gets meal prep done faster!

In need of a new winning chicken dinner? This is it! You just need five ingredients to bring this buttery, lemon-kissed chicken to the table. Serve it alongside crispy skillet-fried potatoes and roasted broccoli for an easy weeknight dinner. It’s sure to become a new family favorite that everyone will love! Here’s how to make it. Chicken: Use boneless, skinless chicken breasts.

Psst: It’s all about that marinade.

For all the times I have ordered chicken lettuce wraps at restaurants like P.F. Chang’s, inhaled entire “appetizers” by myself, and sighed with happiness while licking sticky sauce from my fingers, it never once occurred to me to try making this dish at home. Partly, lettuce wraps have always felt like an indulgence that needed restriction to restaurant visits only.

No messy breading and frying required.

It doesn’t get any better than this.

It’s so crispy!

And you only need six ingredients.

You'll want to put the sauce on everything.

Chop chop! Lunch is already made.

The spice blend is everything.

It's the only version I make.

Sticky-sweet BBQ chicken is the quintessential summer dinner that shouldn’t be limited to the lucky folks with backyard grills. I love BBQ chicken from the grill as much as anyone, but if we’re being really honest here, it is kind of time-consuming to do well. You’ve got to cook the chicken pretty perfectly without the sauce, and once the sauce is added you have to spend a lot of time flipping and basting to get that burnished-but-not-burned coating we all crave.