What are your favourite, quick and easy chicken recipes please?

[Millie1]

I'm running out of inspiration for chicken fillets. Have 2 very fussy eaters and two who 19 mth olds who would just about eat anything. Need to incorporate carbs into meal as I have one with diabetes. All suggestions more than welcome (by me anyway !!

My mom used to make a number of chicken recipes, here are the two favorites:

1. Chicken flat things (aka oven fried chicken)
   Taken some crackers (cream crackers or the like lightly salted ones mean no need for more salt later) and crush. (Get the kids to help it's great fun.) Mix in a little powered garlic or powered onion and pepper to taste. Take the fillets and press into the cracker/spice mix. Put on baking tray and drizzle with oil. Bake at 180 until baked through. (abt 20 or 30 min depending on oven and how thick the chicken is)

2. Chicken rolled up things (aka poorman's cordon bleu) Once again crush some crackers and add a little salt and pepper to the mix. Thinly slice cheddar cheese (or shredded cheese works too). Have as many slices of deli cut ham as you have fillets to make. Lay the fillet in the crumbs then layer the ham, and cheese and a sprinkling of cracker crumbs on the fillet then roll the fillet 'pinning' close with a cocktail stick. Put on a baking tray and drizzle a little oil over each rolled chicken. Bake at 180 until chicken cooked through (again abt 30 min or so depending on the oven -cutting one in half is the easiest way to verify)

If you have left over cooked chicken - fry an onion add chicken and a tin of sweetcorn with some mild korma spices and about 3/4 pint stock. Let it simmer until the stock reduces then throw it in dish with mashed potato on top.

A firm favourite with dd's aged 3 and 2.

Thank you ... I like the sound of Bebe's 'chicken flat things' and Lambanana's pie ... mmmm.

Put in an oven-proof dish

Mix some mayo, mango chutney and Worcester sauce together with a heart squeeze of lemon juice. Cover the chicken

Cover with foil and bake for 30 mins or so. Then remove foil and bake for a further 10 or until thouroughly cooked

Serve with either rice or mash

I defy a DC to dislike it, it's v sweet but suprisingly yummy

Chicken nuggets

Chop up chicken into bite size pieces, mix in mayo to coat, roll in Smash (yes, really). Bake until done, about 20 mins, ISTR, but not sure.

Bacon Mustard Chicken

One chicken breast, one heaped teaspoon wholegrain mustard and 3-4 bacon rashers per person. Smear mustard on chicken breast, wrap in bacon, cook in hot oven for about 25 minutes.

As you aren't doing anything fancy the quality of the ingredients really shows through. Don't do this with cheap supermarket chicken. I recommend good chicken from a butcher, Moutarde de Meaux and dry cured bacon.

Oh heavens, I'm getting hungry now! Smash for nuggets ... will make a good change from crushed cornflakes - thanks! Loove the sound of Notnowbernard's recipe ... what ratio of mayo, mango and sauce please?

My actual favourites are a bit crap - either sprinkle liberally with a chicken seasoning grinder I have (not sure what's in it, but goodness it's delicious!) and pan-fry or marinade in teriyaki marinade for a few hours and stir-fry.

My meal-to-impress when I was about 22 was chicken fillets sliced down one side and opened up like a book, filled with mozzarella or Philly, then closed back up, wrapped in Parma ham and fried. Haven't made it in years though!