Now, enough raving about the chicken and let’s get on to the three-step, stir fried chicken breast meat with Thai basil. Why three step? Well, because it isn’t four steps or one step or any other step. Just three easy steps. You slice the chicken, marinade the chicken and stir fried the chicken. Oh, yeah. There is a fourth step. You EAT the chicken.

Okay, okay, enough rambling on and on. I know you are here only for the chicken. Err…chicken recipes, I mean.

Chicken breast recipes: Stir fried chicken with basil

Ingredients

1 piece chicken breast meat (about 200g, I think), sliced thinly

2 tbsp dark soy sauce

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp light soy sauce

(and if you are concerned over the almost excessive use of sauces, just use those no-MSG, low sodium, organic, healthy, lowwhatever kinds. But please, don’t skimp on the sauces, it is what made the whole dish flavorful.)

A handful of Thai basil leaves (in case you are wondering, here’s what it looks like below:)

2 tbsp diced garlic

2 tbsp cooking oil (go ahead, use olive oil if you want, that’s what I use all the time)

The Three-step Stir Fried Chicken with Basil

1. Marinade the chicken with the sauces and add the leaves too (rub the leaves in to release its beautiful scent) for about an hour or so or less, however long you want.As long as you marinade it, it is good enough.

2. Heat up oil in wok, sautée the garlic till fragrant and then dump in the chicken together with the basil leaves.

3. Final, crucial step: Stir fry the chicken till it is cooked through. That will be between 5 minutes to 10 minutes depending on your heat but please don’t cook it over high heat or else you may risk burning it.

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot the fourth even MORE IMPORTANT step…

Serve it up hot and eat it!

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I highly recommend these sauces to use with this recipe:

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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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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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As most of you would know by now, we are Japanese food junkies and The Food Critic especially LOVE the Japanese Sukiyaki soup SO we started cooking our own Sukiyaki soup using chicken breast meat at home instead of spending more $$ on Japanese restaurants.

It is pretty simple to make sukiyaki, actually so, here it is:

Japanese Sukiyaki Soup Recipe

Ingredients

2 large carrots, cut into chunks

3 medium sized tomatoes, quartered

300g chicken breast meat, sliced thinly (and about 1/4 of chicken carcass), all seasoned with salt

10 fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced thinly

1 stalk of medium sized Chinese white cabbage

I think this is called Chinese white cabbage

Cut it this way

Half clove of garlic, peeled and crushed

2 Japanese tofu, sliced

An assortment of fish balls (the quantity depends on how much you want to eat)

8 tbsp sukiyaki sauce (you could always get the Kikkoman Sukiyaki Sauce or if you are in Penang, I’d recommend you go to this shop and they’d recommend you some really great sukiyaki sauce)

Instructions

1. Boil a big pot of water.

2. Dump in the chicken carcass

3. Then in goes the carrots and tomatoes

4. Let it simmer for a while before adding the cabbage

5. Time to pour in the sauce

6. Then add in the mushrooms

7. Finally, add in the tofu and fish balls

8. Let the soup come to a boil and taste to see if there’s enough flavour to it. If not, add more sauce.

It is ready to be served hot with rice or it can be eaten as it is.

The original recipe also calls for bamboo shoots but we don’t like bamboo shoots so we gave it a miss. Still the soup was out-of-this-world!

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I cook on most weekends and sometimes I’d be too busy to prepare complicated dishes so I’d usually cook something simple, easy and healthy too. So, I tried out some of my chicken breast recipes.

Simple stir-fried chicken

It is a very simple and easy recipe. Most important of all, it is healthy and tasty too. Here’s the recipe:

Chicken breast recipes: Simple Stir-fried Chicken

Ingredients

1 pc deboned chicken breast meat, sliced thinly into strips

1 stalk spring onion, roughly chopped

Half clove garlic, diced

2- 4 red chillies, cut and seeded (if you don’t want it to be too spicy)

1 small onion, peeled and chopped

Instructions

1. Season the chicken strips with some soya sauce and oyster sauce.

2. Heat up some cooking oil in a wok

3. Sautee the garlic and onion for a few minutes or till brown

4. Add the onions and chillies and sautee for a while.

5. Add the chicken.

6. Sautee until fragrant. Remove from heat and serve with rice.

Simple stir-fried chicken

Make sure you do not overcook or else the chicken will tend to be stringy and dry. Also, to soften the meat, use a meat tenderizer (the utensil, not the seasoning).

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