I’m just being my usual food-loving self. So, when I want pita bread, then it is what we have for dinner. Other than being healthy and wholesome and all, it is pretty easy to prepare with minimal cooking. Really, I’m not lying.

Okay, so I cheated by buying the pita bread but heck, it is readily available and the healthy, wholemeal, no-preservative types can also be bought so might as well buy them than spend goodness-knows-how-many-hours kneading and whatever making them, right? Right. I did say minimal cooking.

Now, let’s get on to the minimal cooking part…the meat fillings for the pita bread

Chicken breast recipes: Healthy baked chicken breast with mushrooms

Ingredients

For the baked chicken breast:

200g chicken breast meat strips

4 tbsp teriyaki sauce

1 tbsp fresh rosemary, chopped into tiny smithereens (or roughly chopped, whatever)

a dash of black pepper (or 1 tbsp if you really like black pepper)

olive oil (I use cold pressed, extra virgin olive oil for maximum health benefit but you can use any old un-virgin olive oil or any vegetable oil you like, for that matter.)

For the sauce:

4 medium-sized fresh shiitake mushrooms, cubed

4 button mushrooms, cubed

1/2 cup frozen mix vegetables, defrosted

3 tbsp oyster sauce

3 tbsp water

olive oil

For the fresh ingredients that don’t need to be cooked:

5 cherry tomatoes and some sliced tomatoes

1 cup cabbage, sliced thinly

Plenty of salad greens like baby butterhead

Oh, you can totally leave out the cabbage and replace it with thinly sliced carrots. I just happen to get a big huge head of cabbage so I had to use it. In fact, I came up with some other recipes because of the head of cabbage I needed to finish! But that’s some future posts, so let’s continue on with this one.

Here’s a pictorial idea of what you’ll need…

Don’t forget the most important ingredient…the pita bread!

Chicken recipes: Baked chicken breast recipe with mushrooms

Instructions

1. Season the chicken strips with the teriyaki sauce.

2. Add in the black pepper and herbs.

3. Use your fingers or spoon to mix it all around till it is all evenly covered in the sauce, pepper and rosemary (or whichever herb you took a fancy to, it doesn’t really matter).

4. Place the seasoned chicken breast meat on a tray covered with foil and then drizzle some of the thawed frozed vegetables and chopped mushrooms on top like so…

5. Don’t forget the extra virgin olive oil. Drizzle some on top of the chicken and then pop the tray into the oven and bake at 200C for 10 minutes. Then turn over and bake for another 10 minutes. Do check in between to make sure it is not being baked to a dried out old hump. These baking time are not as accurate due to different sized ovens, different wattages, different climate, different countries, different worlds, different chicken, I dunno. Just check the chicken.

Anyway, once done, they should look like this:

See? Juicy, succulent, cooked and NOT like dried out old hunks of stringy meat at all.

Now, on to the sauce for this beautiful, beautiful meat for the best, pita bread meal ever.

What sauce?

What do you mean what sauce? I don’t know about you but I don’t eat my pita bread with meat and veg without any sauce. That’s just too darn weird. And no, I don’t mean ketchup. Puh-lez!

Now, remember those chopped mushrooms and frozen vegetables?

6. Heat up some extra virgin olive oil in a wok or pan and then sautee the mushrooms and mixed vegetables like so:

7. Add in the water and the sauce and then stir-fry for a while till fragrant. Add a pinch of flour if you want a thicker sauce.

There you have it, simple and easy sauce to go with the chicken and pita bread and plenty of fresh vegs. YUM.The best part is that you can serve up the baked chicken breast covered in this sauce as a main dish itself, other than for use with pita. Look…

But me, I pour some sauce over the chicken and then the rest in a bowl and serve it all up like this:

Yep, everyone get to stuff their own pita with whatever is on the table and dribble as much sauce (or as little) as they want. Simple, easy and importantly HEALTHY!

Now, we’re talking. Whoever said healthy food is tasteless have not tried MY version of healthy food. Baked chicken breast, plenty of vegetables and wholemeal pita bread. What could be better eh?

Go on, try this out and if you don’t have any of the sauces or even pita bread or want to try out extra virgin olive oil, you can shop for them online here:

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To get the curried baked chicken breast, I rubbed some chili powder onto the chicken breast meat first before I add the curry paste. So, for sure, this dish is as hot and spicy as I wanted it to be! So, you see, baked chicken need not be bland or plain. It can be crunchy and now it can be spicy with curry flavours!

I am sure, by now, you must be wondering why I have so many baked chicken breast recipes in recent times. Well, lets just say I needed to revamp the way we eat and add in more healthy, wholesome and non-oily food. Baked chicken breast is probably one of the healthiest dishes I could think of as it has minimal oil and thus, less calories compared to frying. Also, it is easy to prepare. Just season, pop into the oven and it is ready to eat!

Now, lets get on with it….

Chicken recipes: Curried Baked Chicken Breast Recipe

Ingredients

150g chicken breast meat, cut into strips

2 tbsp chili powder

1 tbsp sea salt

4 tbsp curry paste

1 tbsp olive oil

Instructions

1. Clean the chicken, drain and pat dry. Cut into long, thin strips so that it cooks easily. Season the chicken with the salt and chili powder.

2. Rub the curry paste all over the chicken.

3. Place the chicken strips onto a tray covered by foil. Drizzle it with some olive oil and bake in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes. Then turn over and bake for another 10 minutes. It’s done when it looks like this:

To really test if it is done, just pick a larger piece and nudge the centre with a fork. If it is all white inside with clear juices, it is done. If there’s still a hint of pink, then pop it back into the oven and bake for a few more minutes. Just be careful you don’t over-cook it or else you’d get some really tough and hard chicken breast meat!

I’d say it goes great with some brown unpolished rice and green veg. However, how you like to eat it is entirely up to you as it can also be made into chicken salad or as a main dish with potatoes and salad as sides.

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I have this thing for baked chicken breast recipes, mainly because it is so easy to prepare and secondly because it is healthy, lean white meat cooked in an oil-free way. Now, baked chicken are usually soft and moist so what if I wanted something crunchy? I do love fried chicken but it is not all that healthy to be eating fried chicken all the time. Besides, deep frying stuff always left the kitchen oily and that means I have to do loads of clean-up. Uggghhh…the only thing I hate about cooking is the cleaning up. So, I usually like to experiment using the microwave oven. It is definitely easier to clean up the oven than the whole kitchen!

Anyway, it seems that I can still get to eat crunchy chicken even when I baked it!

Here is the recipe for:

Healthy Crunchy Baked Chicken Breast Recipe

Ingredients

150g chicken breast meat, cut into strips

1 tbsp garlic powder

1 tbsp chili powder

1 tbsp sea salt

7 tbsp instant oats

1 egg white

extra virgin olive oil, to drizzle

Instructions

1. Season the chicken strips with the garlic powder, chili powder and salt. Place the oats in a bowl and the egg white in another bowl (as below).

2. Dip the chicken pieces in the egg white.

3. Then, roll the chicken in the oats to completely cover it with oatmeal.

4. Place the oat-covered chicken pieces on a tray of foil.

5. Then, drizzle some olive oil over the chicken pieces (about 2 – 3 tbsp). Bake in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius for about 8 minutes. Then turn over and bake for another 8 minutes. The chicken is done when it turns golden and if you test it, the juices ran clear.

Healthy crunchy baked chicken breast meat

The good thing about this recipe is that the chicken meat remains tender and moist inside while the oatmeal outside is crunchy.

It is exactly like eating fried chicken without the oily residue! Also, it is pretty easy to make. Of course, you can add other types of seasoning such as dried herbs or black pepper. You can also leave out the chili powder if that’s not your thing. I added it because I like it to have some spicy taste to it.

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Putting apples and chicken may seem a tad weird but I have good reason to use apples. For one thing, apples are healthy and they are one of the fat burning foods you should have in your diet. For another thing, do you know that apples could act as a natural tenderizer for meat? It is true. Especially if you use green apples where the acid content is higher. Apple juice has been used to season meat overnight for really tender meat so I figured, using fresh apples to bake it with chicken should do the trick too.

Earlier, I’ve posted a recipe for some warming, comforting baked chicken breast recipes under this chicken recipes series, now, it is what I would call a refreshing baked chicken breast recipes with apples. So, in all manner of the ways, this recipe is as healthy as it can be!

The best part about this healthy baked chicken recipe is that it requires very minimal preparations. Meaning, you only need a few minutes to prepare it and then it is all up to the oven to do the rest of the work! You can count on Foong for simple and easy to prepare recipes since I am always short of time when it comes to cooking, especially on evenings after rushing back from work.

Here it is:

Baked Chicken Breast Recipes with Apples

Ingredients

250g chicken breast meat, cut into strips for easy cooking.

2 apples, peeled, cored and sliced

4 tbsp fresh mixed herbs, chopped finely

4 tbsp garlic powder

1 tsp sea salt

Instructions

1. Rub the chicken pieces with garlic powder and sea salt, then place it on a casserole dish.

2. Place the apples and mixed herbs on top of the chicken

3. Bake the whole dish in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius for about 15 minutes then turn over the pieces and bake for another 15 minutes. (the baking time really depends on your oven’s wattage so you will need to check on the chicken. It is cooked when it has turned white and the juice runs clear)

4. And you have your simple baked chicken breast with apples! No sweat.

And by the way, the gravy is also really good as it has the sweetish sourish tang of the apples mixed with the juices from the baked chicken. So, still think combining chicken and apples as weird? Try it and you won’t think its that weird after all.

I have other chicken recipes  and baked chicken recipes coming up soon.

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Sometimes, I’m too lazy to cook but I do not want to eat out so, I’d make my lazy baked chicken breast meal. I’d have to say it is probably one of my ‘dump everything into the dish and bake’ sort of meal. Simple. Easy. And you get a wholesome baked chicken breast meal within 30 minutes or so.

The best part about this chicken recipes is that it can also be the base for a chicken pie if you slap on a pre-made pastry dough on top and baked it together with the chicken. Since I’m in lazy mode and I don’t have packaged, ready made pastry dough with me, I didn’t bother. In the end, this dish is the ultimate in comfort food especially if it’s a cold rainy day (or a snowy day, whichever part of the world you are in). Heck, it could even be hot and humid, and this would also be a great meal!

Okay, I know I am building up all the hype but not showing anything for it…so, this is the end result:

Baked chicken breast

The chicken breast is succulent and juicy and pack full of flavours while the gravy is absolutely amazing! You can serve it as it is or as a side dish to rice or as the main dish with salad and potatoes. I just ate it as it is and it is SO good, we finished the whole casserole dish of baked chicken breast within a day!

Alright, let’s get to the making of this easy and yet delicious recipe:

Baked Chicken Breast Recipes

Ingredients

2 large pieces of chicken breast meat, cut into several thick pieces / quarter chicken chopped into small pieces

3 brown mushrooms, quartered

1 large carrot, cut into chunks

1 tbsp mixed beans, soaked

3 onions, peeled and quartered

5 cherry tomatoes (halved) / 1 large tomato, sliced thinly

2 hard boiled eggs, sliced thinly

2 large potatoes, sliced thinly (optional, I didn’t put in any as I don’t happen to have any potatoes on hand)

1 cup frozen peas, thawed

2 sausages, sliced

Seasoning

3 tbsp dark soy sauce

1 tbsp fish sauce (optional)

3 tbsp light soy sauce

2 tbsp garlic powder

1 tbsp black pepper

1/2 cup unsweetened soya milk

2 tbsp chicken stock powder / 1/2 cup chicken broth

Instructions

1. Season the chicken breast meat/ chicken pieces with the dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, fish sauce, garlic powder and black pepper.

2. Place the chicken into a casserole dish and arrange the rest of the ingredients on top of it. Like this:

3. In a bowl, dissolve the chicken stock powder (if using this instead of chicken broth) with some warm water. Then add the chicken stock and the soya milk to the dish.

This is what it will look like before you slid the dish into the oven to bake

4. Bake the dish, covered in foil, for about 30 minutes at 250C or until the chicken is cooked through.If you use chicken pieces, then it is best that you bake for 15 minutes, turn the chicken and then continue baking. It is easier if it is boneless chicken breast meat. I have a mixture of both so in between, I did take it out to turn the chicken before I continue baking it.

This is what the baked chicken breast looks like after it is cooked

The gravy is really good. The soya milk is actually a replacement for cream to give the gravy a richer texture. Since this dish is supposed to be healthy and wholesome, I used soya milk and it is just as good. If you like a thicker gravy, just add some cornstarch or flour to the sauces before baking.

Baked chicken breast

Do check back often for more chicken recipes, especially chicken breast recipes.

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