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Recipes using chicken and turkey as the main ingredient

Roasted Whole Chicken Recipe in dark deep Roasting Pan

Tastes like chicken.  Chicken is an incredibly versatile ingredient in all recipes.

Chicken thighs (dark meat chicken recipes) in particular, are often overlooked but are so moist and also hard to mess up.

Chicken breast recipes (light meat chicken recipes) cook fast because of the lean meat with little to no fat.

Most chicken recipes can be used interchangeably.

Chicken breast cooks faster so is better seared and added to the sauce in the last couple minutes of cooking.  On the flip side, chicken thighs will need to cook longer in sauce.

There are not a lot of turkey recipes in my repertoire just yet.  But one turkey recipe that I love is this easy turkey breast recipe for a small Thanksgiving dinner.

Recipes with turkey kielbasa are a favorite of mine because turkey kielbasa is easy and versatile to use.  Check out Turkey Kielbasa and Bean Soup or Turkey Kielbasa with Zucchini.

Favorite dark meat chicken recipes include easy pan fried chicken thighs, Spanish Chicken and Rice, Dijon Cream Chicken, easy roast chicken thighs, and Cracklings or Roasted Chicken Skin.

Favorite light meat chicken recipes include easy Chicken Breast with Cherry Tomatoes, Chicken Paillard, Chicken Tenders with Lemon Butter, and Feta and Spinach stuffed Chicken.

Cooked Chicken Thigh and Leg with A Brown Dry Rub On A white plate with a green salad and red tomato salad.

Dry Rubbed Oven Baked Chicken Leg Quarters (Drumsticks and Thighs)

Brown Roasted Chicken legs in a cilantro sauce in a blue baking dish. Close up. Side view.

Baked Thai Chicken Drumsticks

Top view of crispy browned bone in, skin on chicken thighs on a white plate on a white table.

Bone In Skin On Oven Roasted Chicken Thighs

2 plates of browned chicken with brown sauce, chunked red peppers, whole green and black olives and a mixed green and purple salad with whole cherry tomatoes.

Moroccan Chicken Thighs with Preserved Lemon

Pan Fried Chicken Thigh with a blue bowl of Grape sauce on a Wood Serving Plate with a sprig of rosemary

Pan Seared Chicken with Grape Sauce

Close up of 6 browned chicken cutlets over a fresh cherry tomato sauce in a skillet. Top view.

Easy Chicken Breast with Cherry Tomatoes

Top view. Chunks of shredded chicken, with whole cashews, raisins, and celery in a yellow curry mayonnaise dressing. White bowl.

Cashew Curry Chicken Salad

Grilled Chicken Thighs with a red brown dry rub on a white plate.

Easy Grilled Boneless Chicken Thighs

Top view of dark golden brown whole roasted turkey in a black roasting pan.

Roast Turkey In Cheesecloth

Chicken, Oranges, and Toasted Almonds with Brown sauce over a bed of couscous on a white shallow bowl. Garnished with chopped cilantro.

Slow Cooked Citrus Chicken

Roasted Whole Chicken Recipe in dark deep Roasting Pan

Easy Perfect Roasted Whole Chicken

Small Whole Roasted Pheasant and pheasant breast on white plate to top of roasted onions and carrots.

Easy Whole Roast Pheasant

Wood oval plate with crispy romaine lettuce with cooked chicken, sliced almonds, diced carrots, celery, onions, garlic, and ginger.

Chinese Chopped Chicken Salad

A cooked chicken Breast coated in browned processed pecans. Garnished with parsley and on a bed of orzo with herbs on a white plate.

Oven Baked Pecan Crusted Chicken

2 grilled chicken thighs over a bed of arugula salad w/ halved cherry tomatoes and diced avocado. On a white plate.

Grilled Chicken and Basil Vinaigrette

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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