When you're short of time - and often ingredients - supper can become yet another stressful event in an already busy day. Here are our favourite chicken recipes that are perfect for busy evenings.
Chicken and tomato pasta
A nice quick and yummy pasta I like to whip together is a chicken and Rosa tomatoes in créme fraiche with fresh basil. Take skinless, deboned chicken breasts and cut into chunks, stir fry in a little olive oil with some salt and pepper until just cooked through. Cut the Rosa tomatoes in half and add to the pan and stir, pour in a full tub of craime fraiche, stir through until warm, add the penne pasta and fresh shredded basil and ENJOY!!!
By: Tracey Joseph from Cape Town
Fried Chicken breasts wrapped in streaky bacon.
I love the taste of bacon with chicken. Wrap each breast in a rasher of bacon, fry in olive oil till brown on all sides and place in a warm oven while you prepare the mashed potatoes. While the potatoes are boiling, saute chopped leeks in a bit of olive oil and butter (half oil half butter). Once cooked, stir the leeks with the oil/butter into prepared mashed potatoes, remove the chicken breasts from the oven and serve with the mash & baby peas.
By: Denny from Paarl
Mini chicken fillets and paprika wedges
Tonight we had a delicious and really quick supper: quickly cook/brown mini chicken breast fillets in a small amount of olive oil. When cooked throw over a little pot of basil pesto and mix together. Crumble over some feta and let that melt in. In the meantime roast the new paprika potato wedges from Woolies. Serve the chicken with the crispy wedges and a baby-leaf salad with avo and tomato.
By: Vonda from Cape Town
Savoury pancakes
If you do not have frozen pancakes buy them from Woolworths. Fill with spinach & feta (if you are in a hurry, also from Woolies) add some sauteed mushrooms to the mixture and spoon into pancakes, roll neatly and spread with cheese sauce, little extra cheese and brown in the oven at 180 ºC.
Another option: Bind leftover chicken, broccoli, mushrooms & bacon with a little white sauce before filling the pancakes and pour the rest over the pancakes before heating it through. Otherwise fill the pancakes with your favourite mince filling, cover with white sauce or your favourite Woolies sauce. The sauce can be replaced by grated cheese. Pancakes can be rolled or fold them into triangles. Serve pancakes with a green salad.
By: Anna from Durbanville
Fried chicken breast with bacon rashers and ripe avocado
Fry flattened chicken breast (spiced with Cajun Spices) in little butter & olive oil mix until just done. Fry bacon rashers and put them on top of fried chicken breasts. Mash ripe avo with a little mayo and salad dressing (like French or Italian) and spread over bacon. Sprinkle some grated mozzarella on top of the avo.
Pop under grill until cheese has melted. Serve with potato wedges or microwaved whole potato in skin (healthier choice) and a fresh mixed salad.
Mmmm - enjoy!
By: Marlet from Cape Town
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