Quick Easy Chicken Recipes
Fricassee, Orange, Kiev and More
Follow these quick easy chicken recipes and you will be cooking like many people in France do everyday. Chicken fricassee, orange chicken, chicken Kiev, chicken cordon bleu and other French recipes are surprisingly simple to prepare.
Just like you, French people don't have a lot of time to be fussing over a meal, especially on weeknights. But just like you as well, they don't like to sacrafice the joy of a well cooked meal either. These chicken recipes are the solution
when you need something flavorful but quickly prepared. Enjoy.
Basque Chicken
This quick easy chicken recipe features lots of sunny colored bell peppers. Feel free to spice it up with
a little hot sauce and serve it over rice.
Breaded Chicken Recipe
Serve these breaded paprika chicken strips with lemon wedges and eggplant caviar for a super taste combination.
Chicken Chassuer
The chicken gets cooked and the sauce gets made all at the same time. This classic French recipe features
mushrooms, shallots, and cognac. Serve with rice and a baguette - you'll want to enjoy every drop of the
yummy sauce.
Chicken Cordon Bleu Recipe
This is a baked cordon bleu recipe, which means less mess and fewer calories. Although you could argue that this
recipe for chicken breasts rolled with ham and cheese is not actually French, it's name is and it is a very popular
dish here in France.
Chicken Dijon Recipe
With only a few ingredients, this mustardy chicken cooks up quickly in a skillet. Don't be afraid to cook with
mustard, its flavor completely mellows with cooking.
Chicken Fricassee
A fricassee recipe in France typically calls for browning the main ingredients in butter and then sprinkling
the dish with flour before adding a liquid. The resulting sauce in this recipe is richly divine, but very
easy to make.
Chicken Kiev Recipe
Flattened chicken breasts are stuffed with a luscious herb butter, breaded, and then either fried or baked
depending on which you prefer. Simple, elegant and divine tasting.
Chicken Marengo
A quick easy chicken recipe that commemeorates Napoleon's victory on the battlefield in Italy. Made with tomatos, mushrooms,
onions and white wine.
Coq au Vin
Once upon a time this would have been a glorious Sunday afternoon dish, but in our affluent times eating a
tasty bird has become commonnplace. This is chicken cooked in wine if you didn't know and it is as delicious
as it is easy.
Couscous Recipe
This is a all in one meal and meant for hearty appetites. It is testament to the Moroccan influences you will
find in French home cooking, and features harissa, ras el hanout and merguez sausages.
Crockpot Lemon Chicken Recipe
Throw the ingredients for this quick easy chicken recipe in the crockpot in the morning and come home to a
warm meal. Tart but not too tart.
Moroccan Chicken Recipe
Another dish showing the influence of North Africa in France, this recipe features preserved lemons and is
cooked in a tagine. You could use any sturdy pot as a substitute.
Orange Chicken Recipe
Try this yummy dish of chicken breasts, fennel and bacon cooked in orange juice. Serve on top of
rice for a healthy and easy French dinner.
Tarragon Vinegar Chicken
If you are looking for a new way to cook a tasty chicken dinner tonight, try vinegar. You'll be amazed at
the delicious tenderizing effect it has on chicken.
Chestnut Dressing
This is for when you are going to stuff your chicken (or any other bird as well). You can also make it as
a side dish and it could be served along a pork roast to very nice effect.
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