Recipes with chicken breast without complications and very tasty

Breaded chicken breast with salad

One of the stars of chicken breast recipes is breaded or battered chicken, and if you add a light side to it, like this salad, you can indulge in it from time to time even when you want to lose weight. To make it, clean and season the breast. Pass it through beaten egg first and spiced breadcrumbs later. Fry it in plenty of hot oil until golden brown. Remove it with a slotted spoon and let it drain on absorbent paper to remove excess fat.

Serve it sliced alongside a salad like this, which features lettuce, apple strips, carrots, beets, and red cabbage. Garnish with walnuts and pomegranate. And dress with one of our easy and tasty salad dressing sauces and vinaigrettes.

Chinese noodles with chicken breast and vegetables

Here's another super easy chicken breast recipe: Chinese noodles with chicken and vegetables. On the one hand, clean and dry the breast, chop it, salt and pepper it and sauté it. On the other hand, cut chives, peppers, zucchini and carrots in julienne strips and fry them all a little. Cook some Chinese noodles for the time specified by the manufacturer and drain them. Mix it all together with some ground ginger, peanuts and soy sauce, and sauté for a few minutes.

You can also make it with normal spaghetti, seasonal vegetables and other nuts.

Chicken breast skewers with avocado and tomatoes

If you are looking for a really easy recipe with chicken breast, take note. You just have to alternate fillets or strips of folded chicken breast with pieces of avocado and tomatoes (or other vegetables that you have on hand). Insert the ingredients onto skewer sticks and grill or grill.

Cook the chicken breast skewers over medium heat so that it is well done on the inside. If you put the fire very strong, it will burn on the outside and it will be raw on the inside.

Fajitas with chicken breast and guacamole

Chicken breast is also ideal for making fajitas, one of the quick and easy recipes for when you don't want to complicate your life. On the one hand, sauté strips of three-colored pepper and red onion, and reserve. On the other hand, make a grilled breast and cut it into strips. Heat the tortillas in a nonstick skillet, without adding fat, for 1 minute on each side. Spread them with guacamole and add the chicken, vegetables and some washed coriander leaves. And ready.

If you want to avoid ultra-processed foods, go ahead and prepare your own homemade guacamole.

Sauteed chicken breast and peppers

Heat a little olive oil in a frying pan and brown chicken breast strips. Add onion strips, red, yellow and green peppers and sauté for a minute, until the chicken is no longer raw. Stir in garlic and minced ginger, season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, sauté a little more, and serve.

To decorate, you can add chopped chives and a seed mixture to the end.

Lentil salad with chicken breast

This chicken breast recipe is not only super easy, but also very filling. You just have to take a handful of drained pot lentils and mix them with sliced tomato, a few slices of apple, fresh cheese cubes, grilled chicken breast strips and chopped chives. In addition, as it combines the proteins of chicken, lentils and cheese, it is one of the recipes with which you will not leave hungry.

You can also make it with chickpeas instead of lentils.

Discover more good ideas to eat more legumes or easy dishes that you can make with what you have in the fridge and you don't know what to eat today.

Spinach stuffed chicken breast

Wash and dry the breast, and open it in the shape of a book. Fill it with some stewed spinach and close it with a toothpick. Salt and pepper them, sprinkle them with washed and chopped rosemary, grill them on a griddle greased with oil until they are well browned on the outside and done on the inside, and serve them with rice (or quinoa, couscous, pasta …).

To cook the spinach, you can boil it and drain it well, and then sauté it with a sauce of onion, raisins and pine nuts until they lose excess moisture. More recipes with spinach here.

Chicken breast salad with raisins and pine nuts

It is one of the recipes with chicken (for when you have tired of eating chicken). Board outbreaks of mixed lettuce with strips of grilled chicken breast or grilled, cheese, and raisins and pine nuts (one of the good ideas to incorporate the fruits beneficial to dry the dishes).

If you want, to give it a tastier touch, you can complete it with a sauce based on vinegar, oil and a pinch of mustard.

Macaroni with chicken breast and spinach

Another easy and delicious possibility is to cook the chicken breast cut into small cubes and use them as a piece of a pasta dish like this: some macaroni and spinach. To make them, sauté some chicken cubes, add crushed or diced tomato and fry it together until all the water they release evaporates. Add washed and drained fresh spinach leaves, and cook until they lose their water as well. Finally, cook the macaroni following the manufacturer's instructions so that it is al dente. Drain well and mix with the prepared sauce.

To complete it, you can sprinkle grated Parmesan on top, or dress it with a string of olive oil and aromatic herbs.

More irresistible and easy-to-make recipes with spinach, here.

Lemon chicken breast

Clean the chicken breast and cut it into regular cubes. Salt and pepper them and lightly flour them. Brown them evenly, over high heat, in a frying pan with oil. Add chopped onion and garlic and cook for a few minutes. Add lemon juice, let it reduce, add chicken broth without completely covering it. Stew it for 10 minutes over medium heat, season to taste and sprinkle with a little oregano. You can accompany it with salad, rice, pasta …

If you want it to still have more citrus flavor, add lemon zest to the stew along with the juice, but avoiding the white part that separates the rind from the pulp because it is bitter.

Chicken rolls with vegetables

Cook asparagus tips and carrot sticks for about 15 minutes and drain well. Wrap the breasts in cling film and flatten them using a pestle or by pounding them with the flat blade of a wide knife. Remove the film and salt and pepper them. Distribute the asparagus and carrot sticks on top, roll them up and tie them with kitchen string. Brown the rolls on both sides in a frying pan with a bottom of oil. Lower the heat and let them cook little by little, turning them from time to time.

As a garnish, you can put sautéed cherry onions or another accompaniment: rice, quinoa, pasta …

Chicken books with ham and cheese

You can also make some delicious little books. Wash the chicken breasts, pat dry, and cut them in half. Top with slices of cooked ham and cheese. Close the breasts again, forming the booklets. Pass them through flour, beaten egg with a little thyme and breadcrumbs. Fry them in plenty of hot oil until golden brown on all sides. Remove them with a slotted spoon and accompany them with salad.

Drain the booklets on kitchen paper and, when it is already wet with oil, remove it so that the rebound effect does not occur.

Chicken breast with teriyaki sauce

To make the teriyaki sauce, place 4 peeled garlic cloves in the blender glass. Add 150 ml soybeans, 60 ml rice vinegar, 4 tablespoons of brown sugar, 4 teaspoons of ground ginger, 2 tablespoons of cornstarch and 60 ml of water, and blend for a few minutes until you get a fine and homogeneous sauce. Then, in a hot skillet with oil, brown the chicken breasts for 4 to 5 minutes on each side, over high heat. Add the sauce and continue cooking 5 minutes, over medium heat; turning the meat from time to time.

To make it more complete, you can serve it on a bed of white rice and as a garnish some broccoli trees. Here are recipes with broccoli for the (NOT) fans of vegetables.

Marinated chicken with Brussels sprouts

Heat ½ glass of soy sauce and 3 tablespoons of sugar in a saucepan until it dissolves. Remove, let it warm and add ½ glass of fresh orange juice. Cut the chicken breasts into tacos. Put them in a bowl and pour in the marinade. Cover with plastic wrap and marinate for a couple of hours in the fridge. Then drain it, season it lightly and grill it on a griddle or grill. Toss it with a sautéed onion and cooked or canned Brussels sprouts. And sprinkle some sesame seeds on top.

To make it lighter, reduce the sugar in the teriyaki sauce to a minimum.

Chicken burgers with mushrooms

In a mincer, grind the chicken breast (but do not overdo it so that it maintains some body) and then mix it in a bowl with a little minced garlic, hot paprika and a pinch of salt. Shape the burgers. Roast them in batches for 4 minutes on each side on a griddle with a few drops of oil. And accompany them with some mushrooms sautéed with garlic, parsley and onion.

You can make the hamburger mixture with the aromatic herbs and the ingredients that you like the most. They are also very tasty, for example, with garlic and parsley, a little breadcrumbs, a splash of milk and an egg.

Find out here if you can have hamburgers on a diet.