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!

Quick appetizers are always a Godsend on busy days.  These two recipes are quick and easy and loved by children of all ages.  We’ve all heard of chicken fingers.  That’s probably one of the top choices of kids when they go out to eat with Mom and Dad.  Rachel Ray came up with another cute recipe for kids called “Chicken Toes“.  I’ll include both here so you can choose which you think your guests would like best.

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Do you like Reuben sandwiches?  I sure do, but when I first ran across Reuben Chicken in my boneless chicken recipes, I was a bit skeptical.  However, it is really, really good stuff … and it is really, really easy to make!

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When wanting to make a crock pot chicken recipe, I started to wonder if I could make Chicken Adobo in a slow cooker.  Chicken Adobo is the national dish of the Phillippines.  It made its way to the West many years ago and if you have not had it, you MUST try this.  It smells so wonderful while it is cooking.

This dish evolved over time in the Phillipines when people from for off lands came there to trade.  Way back before the traders came, Filipinos often cooked meat by immersing it in vinegar and salt and simmering.  This is the essence of what Adobo is.

Although I am making this as a chicken gourmet sandwich, the original recipe was, and usually still is, made with turkey slices.  This recipe was invented by a chef at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky about 80 years ago.  The Brown Hotel was a popular spot each evening for dinner and dancing.  The band would play on and on and over 1200 people would dance the night away.  Around midnight, the band would take a break and the patrons would be wanting something to snack on.  One evening, Chef Schmidt surprised everyone with his new invention – the Kentucky Hot Brown and it was an instant hit.

I thought I’d share one of my easy oven chicken recipes with you, along with a little bit about Bainbridge Island.  When my husband and I lived in the Pacific Northwest, it was always a treat to take the ferry over to Bainbridge Island just west of Seattle in the Central Puget Sound Basin.  Bainbridge is one of the larger islands in the Puget sound as it has a shoreline of over 53 miles.  The island was settled in 1854 after Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Indians relinquished any claim to the island to British Captain George Vancouver who had anchored there years earlier to repair his ships.

A while back I posted a recipe for Green Chile Enchiladas.  At that time I mentioned that perhaps my best chicken recipe is Enchiladas Suisas and that I would post that in the future.  Both recipes are delicious.  I posted the Green Chile Enchiladas first because it is an easier recipe and I wanted you to try it.

I consider it my best chicken recipe because I have people from all over call me or email me for the recipe.  We used to have a traditional New Year’s brunch at our neighbors house every year, and I had better be walking in with my Enchiladas Suisas or I would hear about it!

I love to watch Robert Irvine on his show “Dinner: Impossible“.  He always gets so frenetic and there is always a mishap or two along the way.  I think his Creole Baked Chicken  is quite a healthy chicken recipe.  It has lots of fresh vegetables and it doesn’t take long to prepare.

Take 8 chicken pieces of your choosing – bone in.  Squeeze the juice of a fresh lemon over all the pieces.  Mix together 2 tablespoons of onion powder, 2 teaspoons of dried thyme, 1 teaspoon of dried rosemary ground down, 1 teaspoon of salt and 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper.  Sprinkle this all over the chicken, cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for an hour.  Remove the foil for the last 15 minutes to brown the pieces.  Remove from the oven and let rest for ten minutes.

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Well here it is March already and Spring will be here before we know it!  Years ago I saw Ming Tsai make a really nice whole chicken recipe for Spring.  I have made some changes to it, but I don’t have kept the main trend of his recipe.  This makes for a real nice presentation, since you cook all of your vegetables and put them on a platter.  On top of that you put two golden brown chickens and serve the whole thing family style.