Baked Chicken Recipes

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Spicy Cherry Glazed Chicken is one of the best baked chicken recipes you will ever make and the kitchen smells phenomenal while it is baking.  It’s very easy, too, so I thought I would share this with you.  It was published in the newspaper, so I thought it was probably worth trying!  I’m always glad at the end of a hectic day to have an easy chicken recipe like this to pop into the oven!

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I made one of the baked chicken recipes that I have been meaning to try for a while and it was so outrageously delicious that I just had to share it with you.  I messed up when I bought my chicken because I inadvertently bought boneless chicken breasts when the recipe called for Bone-In chicken.  However, these breast halves were so HUGE that I followed the recipe as written, including baking time, and it turned out moist and zesty!

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I have a favorite easy chicken recipe that uses Hoisin sauce.  Have you ever tasted the wonderful Asian Hoisin sauce?  Well, if you have tasted Peking Duck or Mu Shu Pork or spring rolls, you have probably tasted hoisin sauce.  The word “Hoisin” is derived from the Chinese word for “seafood” – but it does not contain any seafood.  Used primarily in Cantonese cooking, this sauce is thick and sweet and a bit pungent.

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I like to use buttermilk in a lot of my baked chicken recipes.  It always surprises me when people comment that I’m brave to use buttermilk!  So many people have the notion that buttermilk is high in fat – but it is not!  Originally, buttermilk was called such because it was the liquid that was leftover after churning butter.  Today, buttermilk is made with 2% milk and a lactic acid bacteria is added.  Buttermilk today actually contains more calcium, protein and vitamins than it did way back when.

I just love Oriental honey chicken recipes.  Years ago when I lived in LA, I used to love to go to Chinatown.  I loved to see the Peking ducks hanging in the windows and smell all the wonderful smells.  My business partners and I would often go for Dim Sum at lunch time and what a treat that was.  Everything was one dollar!  They would bring around the carts and we would just point at what we wanted.  I’m always reminded of those happy times when I make this recipe.  The honey and soy give the chicken a glazed mahogany color reminiscent of many dishes in Chinatown.  Since the flavors are definitely Oriental, I like to make some sort of special rice with this.  I like to dress it up with some golden raisins, toasted almonds, green onions – whatever sounds good on that day.

There’s not much better comfort food than a whole chicken recipe - and this is one that is super easy and out of this world delicious!  The key to this – and all other whole chicken recipes, in my opinion – is the blast of high heat that the chicken gets when it goes in the oven.  This automatically starts crisping up the skin which in turn keeps all the juices inside the bird.

Feel free to make your own changes to this whole chicken recipe by using the spices and seasonings that you and your family like.  If you are not a lemon lover,  just skip that part.

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Don’t you just love oven chicken recipes?  Did you know that the chicken we use today descended from the Red Junglefowl?  That’s him in the picture.  The domesticated chickens were first raised somewhere in the northern parts of India.  In the United States, chicken consumption increased dramatically during the second world war because beef and pork were in short supply.

There must be a million oven chicken recipes, but for taste and simplicity, you just cannot beat this Pollo arrosto – Pan Roasted Chicken with Garlic, Rosemary and White Wine.  Don’t think because this is so simple and has such few ingredients that it won’t be an impressive dish.  It will delight your guests!

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If you are looking for a very easy chicken recipe, Oregano Greek Chicken will fill the bill!  Although many people consider oregano to be the “pizza spice“, it is widely used in many other dishes.  The Greeks were the first to use oregano and they believe it was invented by Aphrodite to bring the joy in their lives.  In fact, “joy of the mountains” is what oregano actually means.  The Greeks thought so highly of this spice, that they would place oregano wreaths on the heads of newlyweds to bring them lifelong happiness.  They would place oregano on the resting places of their departed loved ones so that they would have eternal peace.