Chicken Recipes: Chicken Soup and Chicken Salad

Homemade chicken recipes are easy, delicious and healthy. Chicken is one of the all-time favorite of all (Vegetarians, excuse me please !).

A number of chicken recipes are there suck as - chicken tamales recipe, chicken casserole recipe, fried chicken recipe, baked chicken recipe, chicken chili, Chicken breast recipes, crockpot chicken recipes, chicken recipes for meal and dinner and many more.

Whenever I used to be alone at home working on my laptop, I just used to wonder what to cook and used to go through all kinds of cookbooks and looking for recipes on the internet. I wanted some recipe that was easy to cook and delicious and healthy to eat (what else can a bachelor think of?).

Here I mention about two of my all time favorite chicken recipes that are extremely easy to cook, take less time and are healthy too.

Homemade Chicken Soup Recipe is great especially on a cold day. I found this a chicken soup recipe in a cookbook and after some experimenting came up with my own chicken soup recipe. It is extremely easy to cook and delicious and healthy. Just imagine, on a cold day, a bowl of hot chicken soup in your hand and you are watching your favorite program on the TV (or maybe the all-time favorite Fashion TV with all your favorite models out there). Isn't that YUMMY!

OK, let us now learn how to cook this chicken soup recipe:

INGREDIENTS

• 1 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 whole chicken with breasts removed and reserved
• 2 onions
• 2 quarts boiling water
• Salt to taste
• 1 celery stalk
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 large carrot
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• Ground pepper

How to cook

1. Dice the onion and peel and cut the carrots. Also cut the celery stalk into half-inch pieces.

2. Mince the fresh parsley leaves.

3. Heat olive oil in a soup pot and sauté the breasts until they are light brown.

4. Add half of the onions and sauté until translucent. Remove and set aside.

5. Cut up the chicken (not the breasts) into small pieces with a chef's knife.

6. Add the pieces of chicken to the pot, and cook for about 8 to 10 minutes.

7. Return the onion to the pot, reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for about 20 minutes until the chicken releases its juices.

8. Add boiling water, pieces of reserved chicken breasts, 2 teaspoons of salt, and bay leaves. Cover and simmer until chicken breasts are cooked.

9. Remove chicken breasts and set aside. Strain and reserve broth. Skim fat from the broth, reserving 2 tablespoons to be used to cook the vegetables. Add the reserved fat to the soup pot and sauté the remaining onions along with the carrot and celery for about 5 minutes or so.

10. When the chicken breasts are cool enough to handle, remove and discard the skin and bones. Shred the breast meat into bite sized pieces and add to the pot. Add thyme and reserved broth; simmer until the vegetables are tender. 11. Season with salt and pepper, add parsley and serve.

Now go and prepare this HOT Chicken Soup and enjoy it watching your favorite HOT program on the TV.

My elder sister used to make the best chicken salad. Those chicken salads were yummy and delicious. I learn few of the recipes from her. Here I mention about one of the chicken salad recipe that I actually learnt from my sister.

Ingredients

• 3/4 lb (2-3 cups) of cooked chicken meat, skin on, coarsely chopped
• 2 stalks celery, chopped
• 1/2 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
• 4-6 green olives, pitted and minced
• 1/3 head of iceberg head lettuce, sliced and chopped
• 5 Tbsp mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup of chopped red onion
• 1/2 to a whole apple, cored and chopped
• 1 Tbsp plum preserves, or any sweet berry preserve (or a lesser amount of honey)
• 2 teaspoons fresh squeezed lemon juice
• Salt and pepper to taste

How to make chicken salad

1. Prepare all of the salad ingredients and mix them in a large salad bowl.

2. Prepare the dressing separately. Combine the mayonnaise, preserves, and lemon juice. Taste before you serve. Make sure the dressing is not too sweet or too sour. Adjust the ingredients until you have achieved the right mixture and balance you want. Add salt and pepper to taste.

3. Mix the dressing in with the salad ingredients. Add Salt and pepper to taste.

Your yummy delicious chicken salad is ready.

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