Easy Chicken Recipes

Discover the tastiest baked chicken recipes on the Internet! In fact, both of these recipes continue to get great reviews. Since baked chicken is part of a balanced diet. It is both good for you and when added to a great recipe, it is simply delicious!

1.) Chicken Broccoli Bake

2 Cups chopped cooked broccoli
2cups soft bread cubes
2 cups cubed cooked chicken
1 jar Heinz Homestyle chicken gravy
Dash Pepper
2 cups grated sharp cheese
1/2 cup undiluted evaporated mild

In buttered baking dish, layer broccoli, chicken, bread cubes, and cheese. Combine gravy, mild, and pepper. Pour over chicken. Bake on 375 for 30 minutes.

2.) Chicken Casserole

6 pieces of chicken
1- 3 oz. can of mushrooms
1 can of beef bouillon soup
2 bay leafs
5 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 cup butter
3 tbsp. flour
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1 clove garlic

Saute chicken. Cook in butter until fine. Remove chicken and brown mushrooms. Remove mushrooms, pour off most of fat. Make sauce of Bouillon and flour with fat in skillet. Season with remaining ingredients. Stir until thick and add mushrooms. Place chicken in casserole, pour sauce over it. Cook in slow over on 300 degrees. for 1 1/2 - 2 hours, covered.

* Fresh Chicken: Chicken is kept cold during distribution to retail stores to prevent the growth of bacteria and to increase its shelf life. Chicken should feel cold to the touch when purchased. Select fresh chicken just before checking out at the register. Put packages of chicken in disposable plastic bags (if available) to contain any leakage which could cross-contaminate cooked foods or produce. Make the grocery your last stop before going home.

At home, immediately place chicken in a refrigerator that maintains 40 °F, and use within 1 or 2 days, or freeze at 0 °F. If kept frozen continuously, it will be safe indefinitely.

Chicken may be frozen in its original packaging or repackaged. If freezing longer than two months, over wrap the porous store plastic packages with airtight heavy-duty foil, plastic wrap or freezer paper, or place the package inside a freezer bag. Use these materials or airtight freezer containers to repackage family packs into smaller amounts or freeze the chicken from opened packages.

Proper wrapping prevents "freezer burn," which appears as grayish-brown leathery spots and is caused by air reaching the surface of food. Cut freezer-burned portions away either before or after cooking the chicken. Heavily freezer-burned products may have to be discarded because they might be too dry or tasteless.

* Ready-Prepared Chicken: When purchasing fully cooked rotisserie or fast food chicken, be sure it is hot at time of purchase. Use it within two hours or cut it into several pieces and refrigerate in shallow, covered containers. Eat within 3 to 4 days, either cold or reheated to 165 °F (hot and steaming). It is safe to freeze ready-prepared chicken. For best quality, flavor and texture, use within 4 months.