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Chicken breast Recipes

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Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry with chicken breast, broccoli and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry

Thin strips of chicken and broccoli florets cooked fast in a hot pan, then coated in a glossy brown sauce built on soy, oyster sauce, ginger, and garlic. Ready in 25 minutes, high in protein.

25 min320 kcal4 serves

💪High protein⚡Quick

Chicken and Mushroom in Creamy Sauce with chicken breasts, mushrooms and heavy cream — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Chicken and Mushroom in Creamy Sauce

Chicken cutlets seared until golden, then a pan sauce built in the same skillet — mushrooms, garlic, a splash of white wine, chicken broth, heavy cream, parmesan. The sauce is what this is really about. Chicken breast is lean and mild on its own; the sauce is where all the flavor lives. Thirty-five minutes, one pan.

35 min450 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Homemade Strasbourg-style Pâté en Croûte with chicken livers, chicken breast and pork neck or fatty shoulder — France recipe

🇫🇷FranceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Homemade Strasbourg-style Pâté en Croûte

A home kitchen adaptation of the classic Strasbourg pâté — no foie gras, but the same principle: spiced, cognac-scented forcemeat baked inside a golden pastry crust and sliced cold.

120 min365 kcal8 serves

💪High protein

Pad Thai with rice noodles, eggs and bean sprouts — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Pad Thai

Stir-fried rice noodles with egg, bean sprouts, peanuts, and your choice of protein — shrimp, chicken, or tofu — in a sauce built on tamarind, fish sauce, and palm sugar. The three-part balance of sour, salty, and sweet is what makes Pad Thai distinct from any other noodle dish in the world. It is one of Thailand's most iconic street foods, eaten at vendors across Bangkok and virtually every Thai restaurant globally. The sauce is the whole recipe — get the sauce right and the rest is quick. Two rules matter most: cook in small batches so the wok stays hot enough to caramelize the sauce, and never overcook the noodles.

25 min580 kcal2 serves

🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Lo Mein with noodles, oyster sauce and soy sauce — China recipe

🇨🇳ChinaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Lo Mein

Lo mein is a Chinese dish of soft egg noodles stir-fried with vegetables and protein in a glossy, savory sauce built on oyster sauce, light and dark soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and sesame oil. Lo mein (捞面) translates from Cantonese as 'stirred noodles' — the name describes the cooking method, a scooping, tossing motion that coats every strand. Unlike chow mein, where the noodles are fried until crispy, lo mein noodles stay soft and slippery, coated in a thick, glossy sauce. The dark soy sauce is the detail that gives the dish its characteristic deep mahogany color; without it the dish looks pale. The sauce is premixed before the wok goes on — lo mein moves fast.

25 min570 kcal2 serves

⚡Quick

Creamy Tuscan Chicken Pasta with chicken, penne and double cream — Italy recipe

🇮🇹ItalyMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Creamy Tuscan Chicken Pasta

Pan-seared chicken in a rich garlic cream sauce with sun-dried tomatoes, baby spinach, and Parmesan — all done in one skillet in 30 minutes. This dish is inspired by the flavors of Tuscany and loosely connected to Florentine sauce (cream, white wine, spinach), with sun-dried tomatoes added for the characteristic sweet-concentrated punch. It is not a traditional Italian dish but an Italian-American one — popularised in American restaurants and home kitchens. What makes it work is the layering: the chicken fond in the pan, the oil from the sun-dried tomatoes for the sauce base, the pasta water to bind everything. Done right, it is genuinely restaurant-quality.

30 min650 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌶️Spicy

Ají de Gallina (Peruvian Creamy Chicken) with chicken breast, aji amarillo paste and walnuts — Peru recipe

🇵🇪PeruMedium

Meat Dishes

Ají de Gallina (Peruvian Creamy Chicken)

Ají de gallina is one of Peru's most cherished comfort dishes — shredded poached chicken folded into a velvety golden sauce built on ají amarillo, the fruity yellow chili at the heart of Peruvian cooking. Milk-soaked bread and ground walnuts thicken it, while parmesan adds a salty, umami edge. Mildly spicy and rich, it's spooned over rice with boiled yellow potatoes, olives, and hard-boiled egg — a fusion of Spanish and Andean roots.

60 min480 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌶️Spicy

White Chicken Chili with chicken breast, great northern beans and green chiles — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAAdvanced

Soups

White Chicken Chili

White chicken chili is the pale, creamy answer to the red beef kind — shredded chicken and white beans in a broth built on green chiles, cumin, and oregano, thickened by pureeing part of the beans rather than by flour. Cream cheese stirred in at the end makes it velvety without turning it into soup-with-cream. It's mild enough for a weeknight, and the bowl gets finished at the table with lime, coriander, and a handful of grated cheese.

55 min480 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Causa Limeña with yellow potatoes, ají amarillo paste and lime juice — Peru recipe

🇵🇪PeruMedium

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Causa Limeña

Causa limeña is a cold Peruvian starter of layered mashed yellow potato seasoned with ají amarillo and lime, filled with chicken or tuna in mayonnaise and slices of avocado. The potato is worked with oil into a pliable, saffron-coloured dough, and because the dish is assembled in a mould and cut, it holds its shape on the plate; crab or prawn also work as the filling. By one account the name comes from the Quechua word kawsay, meaning sustenance, though a legend tying it to the War of the Pacific is told as well. Chilling (at least 2 hours) comes on top of the stated time.

60 min440 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

Chicken Parmesan with chicken breasts, crushed tomatoes and panko breadcrumbs — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken Parmesan

Chicken Parmesan is an Italian-American plate of crisp chicken cutlets, bright tomato sauce, mozzarella, and Parmesan. The best version keeps the crumb audible under the cheese instead of burying it in sauce. Serve it with spaghetti for a full restaurant-style dinner, or with a sharp green salad when you want the cutlet to stay the main event.

60 min685 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Chicken Katsu with chicken breasts, panko breadcrumbs and tonkatsu sauce — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken Katsu

Chicken katsu is a Japanese fried cutlet: chicken breast pounded thin, coated in flour, egg and panko, and fried until the crust crackles while the meat stays juicy. Two large breasts, about 300 g each, are cut in half to make four cutlets. Serve it as a set meal with finely shredded cabbage, rice, lemon, and fruity tonkatsu sauce.

50 min610 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Chicken and Lotus Root Patties (Renkon Tsukune) with chicken breast, lotus root and potato starch — Japan recipe

🇯🇵JapanMedium

Meat Dishes

Chicken and Lotus Root Patties (Renkon Tsukune)

Chicken and lotus root patties, renkon tsukune (れんこんつくね) in Japanese, are small pan-fried patties from Japanese home cooking, made of ground or chopped chicken and lotus root held together with potato starch. They are one kind of tsukune, Japanese chicken patties. This version is 鶏むね肉とれんこんのつくね (torimune-niku to renkon no tsukune): the chicken is breast chopped with a knife, not bought ground chicken, and half of the lotus root goes in as 5 to 7 mm dice so it stays crunchy. Most Japanese recipes for renkon tsukune use ground chicken and finish the patties in a sweet soy glaze. These are fried plain until golden and served with a small dish of soy sauce and rice vinegar. The mixture is too loose to shape by hand, so it is spooned into the pan and pressed flat there, which is what the two Japanese chicken breast recipes we worked from do. Two things differ from the Japanese recipes we read. The other half of the lotus root is chopped fine where several of them grate it, and the patties get a last minute in the pan without the lid so the surface dries. The recipe makes 12 patties for 2 people and takes about 45 minutes.

45 min390 kcal2 serves

💪High protein

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