Healthy chicken recipes
Rustle up a good-for-you dish that’s jam-packed full of flavour with one of our easy and healthy chicken recipes, including stir-fries, soups, noodle salads and juicy chicken skewers.
You can take a scroll through all our chicken recipes, too. Or take a look at our delicious chicken thigh recipes.
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Slow cook
Slow cooker chicken stew with walnuts and pomegranate
This aromatic chicken stew only needs 15 minutes prep before you pop it in the slow cooker. Garnish with pomegranate and parsley to serve.
Chicken soups
Slow cooker citrus chicken broth with tortillas and avocado
This zingy chicken broth is inspired by Mexico's sopa de lima. Let it simmer away in your slow cooker, then serve with tortillas and avocado.
Chicken thighs
Chicken with capers, lemon, chillies and thyme
Give chicken thighs and drumsticks an Italian spin with a citrussy caper, lemon, chilli and thyme marinade. An easy midweek chicken dinner.
Favourite chicken
Chicken with peas, tenderstem broccoli and peach dressing
This healthy chicken recipe is packed with fresh, summery ingredients like juicy peaches and crushed peas. It’s ideal for a weeknight dinner.
Chicken thighs
Olive-brined chicken with dried apricots and garlic
Olive-brined chicken is a minimal-effort dish but the marinating is key – give the chicken enough time to marinate for maximum flavour.
Healthy chicken
Green chicken and lentils
Whizzed up watercress, spinach and dill provide a verdant green sauce for crispy skin chicken thighs, nutty lentils and charred asparagus.
One-pot chicken
Braised chicken with kefir, orzo and dried limes
An easy chicken dinner with big flavour. Tender braised chicken and toothsome orzo mingle in a tangy kefir sauce in this elegant one-pot.
Chicken traybakes
Chimichurri chicken with roast squash
Chicken thighs and drumsticks get a flavour boost with Argentinian chimichurri sauce in this vibrant one-pan chicken traybake recipe.
Chicken traybakes
Chicken with peanuts, chilli and coconut
Claire Thomson's peanut chicken recipe takes the flavours of satay chicken and turns them into a zesty midweek chicken traybake.
30-minute meals
Crispy chicken salad with tenderstem and apricots
This quick chicken salad is inspired by the full-on flavours of a tagine. Serve crispy chicken with apricots, harissa and preserved lemon.
Healthy chicken
Apricot-glazed chicken with cauliflower cous cous
Baste chicken thighs with tangy apricot glaze. Sat on a big bed of whizzed and lightly cooked cauliflower, it’s a filling yet healthy dinner.
Healthy chicken
Chicken and prawn kofta
These juicy prawn and chicken kofta are easy to make, shape and grill. Delicious served in pitta or flatbreads with a spicy mango salad.
Favourite chicken
Homemade chicken stock
This base recipe for brown chicken stock is endlessly versatile. Freeze, or use immediately to add bags of flavour to sauces, stews and soup.
Chicken soups
Chicken, lemon and orzo soup
This six-ingredient chicken soup is inspired by avgolemono, a Greek dish that sees eggs and lemon juice whisked up to thicken chicken broth.
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