Healthiest Baked Chicken Recipes?!

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

I totally just gave this as an answer to another person's question, but i think it is totally healthy and delicious! Its baked chicken breasts topped with a mix of red bell peppers, parsley, and garlic. its really light and amazing! anyway, enjoy :)

INGREDIENTS
- chicken breasts, 1 per person
- 3 red bell pepper
- 2 healthy handfuls of parsley
- 2 lemons
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 2-3 cups of chicken stock, or water
- olive oil
- salt & pepper
- something to roast it in

INSTRUCTIONS
Dice up the red pepper and chop up the parsley. Put them into a smallish bowl. Juice the lemon into the bowl (dont worry about seeds). Finely chop the garlic, pull it if you want, and add that to the bowl. Add some Olive oil, 1-2 tbsp. Mix this all together. You should have a good aroma going. Season with salt and pepper.

Make sure to keep the lemon halves. Chop them into 1/8 pieces and leave to side. Get your dish ready and toss the chicken breasts in them. Space them out enough so that they don't touch. Pour in the chicken stock so it fills the dish a centimeter or whatever. Add / substitute water if you want.

Score the chicken breasts with a sharp knife. Now take your red pepper mixture and spoon it on top of the chicken breasts. Be as generous as you possibly can. Toss the lemon wedges around the pan and top with some Olive Oil, Salt, and Pepper. It should be really colorful at this point. Throw it in a hot oven (at like 350ish) until it's done. I don't really know how long it takes so i usually just feel it out or sometimes cut a piece in half to check. When your done, serve it and try to keep as much of the red pepper stuff on top as possible.

http://www.freechickenrecipe.com

Ham-&-Cheese-Stuffed Chicken Breasts

INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup grated Swiss, Monterey Jack or part-skim mozzarella cheese
2 tablespoons chopped ham
2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
Freshly ground pepper, to taste
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves, (1-1 1/4 pounds total)
1 egg white
1/2 cup plain dry breadcrumbs
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil

PREPARATION
Preheat oven to 400°F. Use a baking sheet with sides and lightly coat it with cooking spray.
Mix cheese, ham, mustard and pepper in a small bowl.
Cut a horizontal slit along the thin, long edge of a chicken breast half, nearly through to the opposite side. Open up the breast and place one-fourth of the filling in the center. Close the breast over the filling, pressing the edges firmly together to seal. Repeat with the remaining chicken breasts and filling.
Lightly beat egg white with a fork in a medium bowl. Place breadcrumbs in a shallow glass dish. Hold each chicken breast half together and dip in egg white, then dredge in breadcrumbs. (Discard leftovers.)
Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken breasts; cook until browned on one side, about 2 minutes. Place the chicken, browned-side up, on the prepared baking sheet. Bake until the chicken is no longer pink in the center or until an instant-read thermometer registers 170°F, about 20 minutes.

NUTRITION
Per serving: 236 calories; 7 g fat (2 g sat, 3 g mono); 74 mg cholesterol; 10 g carbohydrates; 31 g protein; 1 g fiber; 287 mg sodium; 347 mg potassium.


and its YUMMY!

You can pretty much do anything with baked chicken. (most recipies take 15-45 minutes depending on the variables in an oven and in altitude) All these call for raw, non-frozen. So be sure to thaw first! = )

Cordon Blue made Easy

Slice brest in half length ways stuff with sliced ham (lunch meat works fine) and cheese ( you can use cheddar or for traditional use mozzerella) roll in breadcrumbs or non-salted saltines finely crushed. keep closed with a tooth pick, bake at 350 until chicken is done. ( i serve it with steamed broccoli)

Lemon chicken
Juicy- flatten meat in pan apply lemon pepper directly to meat, pour in (about a cup and a half for 2 breast) chicken broth. Bake at 400 till chicken is thouroughly cooked.

InA Hurry- place chicken on pan, light coat of lemon juice and lemon pepper bake at 400 till done.
( i serve with angel hair noodles and a spinach salad)

Ginger Spicey
using ginger powder and roasted red pepper (like what you get for putting on pizza) rub into the chicken then coat with a thin layer of olive oil. about a tsp of ginger and 2 tsp of pepper to a tablespoon of oil. Bake 350.
(sauce- a little italian dressing with garlic and ginger. About a cup of dressing, diced garlic about a half tbl spoon, and 1 tsp ginger-ground. Shake well, use VERY lightly)

Oven Stew
1 can of stewed tomatoes (or rotel, no matter what you use keep the juices), 2 cups of chicken broth, 1 diced breast, 1/2 small onion and spices to taste ( i use a dash of garlic-diced, and salt and pepper) You can also add some large chopped bell peppers for color and a spin on the taste.
cook at 400 for about 3-4 hours or on 350 for 6-8 for extra tender stew. serve with crackers

Chicken Pita
make some coleslaw, add COLD already cooked chicken, stuff into a pita bread. Makes great lunches.

Chicken salad
depending on how you like it depends on how much you add
Cold pre-cooked chicken, hard-boiled eggs, dill pickle relish-for sour or sweet relish for a softer taste, chopped onion. squirt of mustard big spoon of miricale whip or mayo, dash each of garlic powder salt peper onion powder. I like to add fresh diced tomatoes to mine. Stir together and eat on crackers, pita, tortilla or in a sandwich. If you add the tomatoes its good on a spoon... lol

Faux Grilled Chicken
bake chicken but in lines put just a little liquid smoke and blackining seasoning. just mix the two together in a lil dish, put on your finger and rub onto chicken like grill lines on both sides. (pre marinate it raw overnight if you want the chicken to have a lil different flavor underneath the grill taste)

Juicy-Plain
Put raw chicken in a zip lock baggie with honey and milk. ( puncture the chicken multiple times with a fork) Let sit in the top shelf of fridge for atleast 8 hours. when ready to cook, just drain off the honey and milk and cook. ( you can also add 1tbsp lemon juice per cup of milk used to make a creamier taste.... or sub the milk/lemon mix for buttermilk)

Enchiladas
Pre-cooked chicken, rolled into tortillias with canned chopped chilies and chopped tomatoes and shredded cheese, topped with rotel or pace(blended into a sauce like consistency). Bake till HOT, top with more shredded cheese (bake till melted) and if you like, throw some slivered onion on it and broil OR toss on some fried onions, broil till crispy.

5 years of cooking for the picky eater.

There are loads of them:
http://www.google.com/images?q=healthy+r…
http://www.google.com/search?sq=healthy+…

You can also cook them healthily in the oven "en papillote" (in a pouch) either wrapped in foil, or parchment paper, or just in a small covered container:
http://www.google.com/images?q=recipes+c…

P.S. You should probably refer to what you want as recipes for chicken "breasts cooked in the oven" rather than "baked chicken" recipes, since *baked chicken* usually refers to a whole chicken that's being dry baked, skin-on, without sauces, uncovered, etc, and there are many more ways to cook breasts in the oven than that!

While looking for cookbooks online I found a book that has hundreds of recipes from a lot of the famous restaurants including Red Lobster, Applebee's, Olive Garden and The CheeseCake Factory just to name a few. It is loaded with great recipes that I love. Save Money - Just imagine the sheer amount of cash you will be able to save just by cooking these dishes yourself at home! Check it out if you want to; http://bit.ly/ePoirn

http://bit.ly/ePoirn