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3 Ingredient Cranberry Chicken
March 8, 2025 Lee
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3 Ingredient Cranberry Chicken

Simple Dudes Simple Foods
This recipe comes from a YouTube video and it sounds really good, on my list to try.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • 1 Baking Pan (9x13 inch)
  • 1 Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 10 chicken thighs, skin on bone in, or legs, or both
  • 1 packet French onion soup mix
  • 8 ounces French dressing, (250 ml)
  • 1 can jellied cranberry sauce

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F).
  • Place the chicken skin side up in a single layer to cover the bottom of your 9x13 baking dish.
  • In a mixing bowl, add the soup mix, dressing, and cranberry sauce. Whisk together.
  • Pour mixture over the chicken.
  • Bake for 1 hour or until internal temp is 165° F.
  • Serve with sides of your choice, enjoy.

Notes

Fair cost per serving based on sourcing the soup mix, dressing, and cranberry sauce.
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3 Ingredient Apricot Chicken
March 7, 2025 Lee
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3 Ingredient Apricot Chicken

Simple Dudes Simple Foods
This recipe comes from a YouTube video and is 3 ingredients plus the chicken. I made this on 8 Mar 2025 and it turned out exceptionally good! Very easy to put together, excellent flavor, my family really enjoyed this.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • 1 Baking Pan (9x13 inch)
  • 1 Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 10 chicken thighs, skin on bone in, or legs, or both
  • 1 packet French onion soup mix
  • 8 ounces Russian dressing, or Thousand Island dressing, (250 ml)
  • 6 ounces apricot preserves/jam, (170 g)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F).
  • Place the chicken skin side up in a single layer to cover the bottom of your 9x13 baking dish. I used 5 thighs and 5 legs.
  • In a mixing bowl, add the soup mix, dressing, and preserves/jam. Stir together.
  • Pour mixture over the chicken.
  • Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until internal temp is 74° C (165° F).
  • Serve with sides of your choice, enjoy. Spoon the sauce over potatoes, pasta, or rice.

Notes

Fair cost per serving based on sourcing the soup mix, dressing, and jam.
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Poached Chicken
January 22, 2025 Lee
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Poached Chicken

The Cookie Rookie, Becky Hardin, United States.
This recipe comes from a social media friend and comes highly recommended. I look forward to making this as it sounds excellent.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Resting Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • Instant Read Thermometer

Ingredients
  

  • 2 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless, or bone in thighs
  • 1 cup Chardonnay
  • 4 cups chicken broth, or water

Recommended Aromatics #1

  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 teaspoon black peppercorns

Recommended Aromatics #2

  • 1 lemon, slicked thick
  • 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled, cut in half

Instructions
 

  • Place the chicken breasts in a medium size saucepan, add the wine.
  • Now add the broth, or water, to just cover the chicken by 1 inch.
  • Add just one of the Recommended Aromatics ingredients. If using water as part of the liquid, go ahead and add 1 teaspoon of salt as well.
  • Place the saucepan on medium low heat and bring to a boil. Once boiling, turn off the heat but leave saucepan on the same burner.
  • Turn the chicken over then cover the saucepan with a lid for 15 minutes, the chicken is still cooking.
  • Check the internal temp of the thickest part of a chicken breast, the chicken is done when it reads 74° C (165° F).
  • Remove the chicken to a cutting board and let it rest for 5 minutes. Slice.
  • Serve and enjoy. Topped with Mustard Cream Sauce is optional but worth it.

Notes

Fair cost per serving.
Mustard Cream Sauce.
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Chicken & Black Bean Casserole
March 12, 2024 Lee
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Chicken & Black Bean Casserole

Just a Pinch Recipe Club, Terri Opgenorth, United States.
This recipe comes from the Just a Pinch Recipe Club, common ingredients, easy to assemble, and delicious!
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Passive Time 2 hours
Total Time 3 hours 10 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • 1 Baking Pan (9x13 inch)

Ingredients
  

  • 750 grams chicken breast, boneless, skinless, (1½ lb)
  • ⅔ cup lime juice
  • ⅓ cup olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons salt, divided
  • 2 teaspoons garlic powder, divided
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper
  • 4 cups cooked rice
  • 2 cans black beans, undrained, (400 g / 14 oz each)
  • 1 can corn, drained, (425 g / 15 oz)
  • 1 can diced tomatoes, drained, (565 g / 20 oz)
  • 1 cup fresh cilantro leaves, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon onion powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder

Instructions
 

  • Cut the chicken breasts into bite size pieces and add to a mixing bowl.
  • To the chicken, add the lime juice, olive oil, black pepper, and 1 teaspoon of each, salt and garlic powder. Mix into the chicken. Cover and place in the fridge to marinate for at least 2 hours or even overnight.
  • After 2 hours, to another mixing bowl, add the rice, undrained beans, drained corn, drained diced tomatoes, cilantro, onion powder, chili powder, cumin, and the remaining 1 teaspoon of each, salt and garlic powder. Mix together. Photo taken right before I added the corn.
  • Take the chicken out from the fridge and remove the cover. Heat a large non stick pan on medium heat, and pour the chicken and marinade into the pan. Simmer until the chicken turns white, stirring often.
    Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F) and get out a 9x13 baking dish.
  • Now if you are like me and underestimate the size of a mixing bowl, go ahead and transfer the rice and beans mixture to a larger mixing bowl, or as I did, I used a large pot. Now pour the cooked chicken and the liquid, into the pot, mix together.
  • Carefully pour the mixture into the baking pan and spread out evenly. This is a quite wet mixture but will thicken as it bakes.
  • Bake for 40 minutes uncovered. Remove from the oven and let rest for 5 minutes.
  • Serve and enjoy.

Notes

Fair cost per serving based on the canned goods used.
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Rice A Roni Casserole
June 27, 2023 Lee
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Rice A Roni Casserole

Just a Pinch Recipe Club, Amy Herald, United States.
Use chicken or ham when preparing this. I made this on 26 Jun 2023, using chicken thighs and my family and visiting friends and family, all loved this dish! This is highly recommended. I made this again on 7 Jul 2023 using cubed ham, and family loved this as well! Link to the Shortcut is listed in the Notes section.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Passive Time 10 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • Baking Pan (9x13 inch)
  • Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 500 grams chicken thighs or breasts, boneless, skinless, chopped, or cubed ham, (1 lb)
  • 2 boxes Rice a Roni, chicken flavor, Shortcut
  • 1 head fresh broccoli, cut into bite size pieces, (frozen use 10 oz / 285 g)
  • 2 cans condensed creamy chicken mushroom soup, (10½ oz / 298 g each)
  • 250 grams Cheddar cheese, shredded, (8 oz)

Instructions
 

  • Cook the chicken your preferred way, such as boil, pressure cook, or bake, then chop the chicken, removing the bones, skin, gristle.
    If using ham, just cube that.
  • While the chicken is cooking prepare the Rice a Roni using the package instructions, or prepare 2 batches using the Shortcut, which is my preferred way.
  • While all that is cooking, steam or simmer the broccoli until it is tender crisp. Drain.
  • Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F), and get out a 9x13 baking dish and grease with butter or non stick spray.
  • To a large mixing bowl or large pot, add the chicken or ham, Rice a Roni, and drained broccoli, and mix together.
  • Add the soup and mix that in.
  • Spoon mixture into the prepared baking dish and spread out evenly. Sprinkle with the cheese.
  • Bake for 30 minutes or until the cheese is starting to brown on top. Remove from the oven and let rest for 10 minutes.
  • Serve and enjoy.

Notes

Fair cost per serving.
Shortcut: Rice a Roni (Rice Cooker).
Variants: 1. Use cubed ham, cooked and chopped chicken thighs or chicken breasts. 2. For the soup, use 1 can of condensed cream of mushroom soup and 1 can of cream of chicken soup in place of the 2 cans of condensed creamy chicken mushroom soup.
Updated on 7 July 2023.
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Two Step Chicken
June 3, 2023 Lee
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Two Step Chicken

Campbell's Website
Adapted from the Campbell's website, I look forward to testing this out. I need to test this out with thighs and legs as well. I made this on 2 Aug 2024 and used bone in skinless chicken thighs, family absolutely loved this dish!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • Baking Pan (7x11 inch)
  • Foil
  • Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 4 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless
  • salt and pepper, as desired
  • 1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup, (10½ oz / 298 g)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 190° C (375° F). Season chicken breasts with salt and pepper as desired, place in baking dish. I used bone in skinless chicken thighs so I used a 2 quart baking dish.
  • Spread the soup over the chicken. Cover with foil and bake 30 minutes or until internal temp is 74° C (165° F). For the bone in chicken thighs, I baked for 45 minutes, temp was perfect. I also used condensed creamy chicken mushroom soup.
  • Serve with sides of your choice, enjoy. Spoon the sauce over the chicken as well as rice or mashed potatoes.

Notes

Low cost per serving.
Variants: 1. In place of cream of mushroom soup, feel free to use cream of chicken or creamy chicken & mushroom soup. 2. In place of chicken breasts, use bone in skinless chicken thighs and use a 2 quart baking dish.
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Baked Chicken Quarters
June 3, 2023 Lee
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Baked Chicken Quarters

Adapted from an internet recipe.
This is an excellent way to prepare chicken quarters resulting in juicy and flavorful chicken.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • Baking Sheet
  • Foil
  • Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 4 chicken quarters, skin on, excess fat trimmed off
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper
  • ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
  • ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ¼ teaspoon onion powder
  • ¼ teaspoon ground sage

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 200 °C (400° F). Line a baking sheet with foil, with the edges turned up to make clean up easier.
  • Rinse and dry the quarters with paper towels.
  • Mix together the seasonings in a small bowl, sprinkle seasoning on all sides of the quarters, and place on the baking sheet.
  • Bake for 1 hour or until juices run clear. Or measure the internal temp with a instant read thermometer, measured at thickest part without touching bone is 74° C (165° F). Remove from oven and let chicken rest for 5 minutes.
  • Serve with sides of your choice and enjoy.

Notes

Low cost per serving.
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Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken
March 18, 2023 Lee
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Slow Cooker Honey Mustard Chicken

The Lazy Slow Cooker, Susan, United States.
This recipe is from a social media friend who specializes in slow cooker dishes. I made this on 19 Mar 2023, cooked 4 hours, internal temp was perfect, the meat was near fall off the bones and juicy. Excellent flavorful chicken, my wife took one bite and gave me two thumbs up.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 5 hours
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • Slow Cooker (6+ quart)

Ingredients
  

  • 4-5 chicken breasts, or 4-5 quarters, separated
  • ½ cup Dijon mustard
  • ½ cup honey
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon black pepper
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced

Instructions
 

  • To the slow cooker, add the mustard, honey, olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic. Stir together just enough to combine.
  • Add the chicken pieces and mix them around to coat them with sauce.
  • Cover and set to Low and cook for 4-6 hours. If using a meat thermometer to check internal temp, target temp is 79°C (165°F).
  • Serve with your choice of sides. The sauce would be excellent over pasta or mashed potatoes.

Notes

Low cost per serving.
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Lazy Sunday Chicken Casserole
October 28, 2022 Lee
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Lazy Sunday Chicken Casserole

Just a Pinch Recipe Club, Chef Andy Anderson, United States.
This recipe comes from a good friend, and Chef. I made this on 26 Oct 2022, and it is absolutely delicious! Easy to put together. Link to the Shortcut is listed in the Notes section.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • Baking Pan (7x11 inch)
  • Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 4 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless, cooked, shredded, (650 g / 1½ lb), Shortcut
  • 1½ cups cooked white rice
  • 5 slices bacon, diced
  • ½ medium onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups chicken broth, Shortcut
  • 1 can artichoke hearts, I use Fiamma brand, imported from Italy, (14 oz / 400 g)
  • ½ cup Cheddar cheese, shredded
  • salt and black pepper, as desired, to taste

For the Topping

  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • ¼ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
  • ½ cup panko breadcrumbs

Instructions
 

  • Cook the chicken your preferred way, boil, bake, or use leftover chicken if you have a lot. I prefer to use my pressure cooker and I can make broth at the same time. My preferred way to shred chick is to cut into large cubes the use my hands to pull the cubes apart, result is shredded chicken without the long pieces of chicken. Set the chicken aside.
  • Heat a large pan on medium to medium low heat, add the diced bacon and cook until crispy, stirring often. Remove the bacon with a slotted spoon to a plate lined with paper towels. My preferred pan is wok pan.
  • Drain from the pan all but 3 tablespoons of bacon fat, then add the onion. Sauté until softened and just starting to brown. Then add the garlic and sauté until frgrant.
  • Add the flour and stir for 2 minutes.
  • Add the broth and stir in. Now preheat your oven to 190° C (375° F) and get out a 7x11 inch backing dish.
  • Simmer for 6-8 minutes until mixture thickens and bubbles. Taste and season with salt and pepper as desired.
  • Now add the shredded chicken, drained bacon, artichokes, and rice.
  • Mix together and let simmer for a few minutes.
  • Pour mixture into the baking dish and spread out evenly.
  • Top with the Cheddar cheese.
  • In a small bowl, mix together the Topping ingredients, sprinkle on the top.
  • Bake for 35 minutes or until the top is golden brown and the casserole is bubbly.
  • Serve with your sides of choice, enjoy.

Notes

Fair cost per serving as the artichoke is imported.
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Chicken Nugget Casserole II
September 22, 2022 Lee
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Chicken Nugget Casserole II

Adapted from an internet recipe.
I made this on 28 Sep 2022, and it is incredibly good! Family absolutely loved this. Links to the Shortcuts are listed in the Notes section.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
Servings servings

Equipment

  • Baking Pan (9x13 inch)
  • Foil
  • Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kilo frozen chicken nuggets, you will not use them all, (2 lb)
  • ½ cup Parmesan cheese, grated
  • 4 cups spaghetti sauce, Shortcut
  • 2 cups Mozzarella cheese, shredded
  • Italian seasoning, as desired, Shortcut

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F), grease a 9x13 baking dish with butter or cooking spray.
  • Place frozen chicken nuggets in the prepared dish in a single layer.
  • Sprinkle with the Parmesan cheese.
  • Pour the spaghetti sauce over all the nuggets.
  • Sprinkle with Mozzarella cheese, then top that with Italian seasoning.
  • Cover with foil and bake for 30 minutes or until the nuggets are heated through and the cheese melted. Remove the foil and bake another 5-10 minutes to just lightly start to brown the cheese on top. Remove from oven and let rest for 5 minutes before serving.
  • Serve and enjoy with sides of your choice.
    Excellent side dish ideas are pasta (classic), mashed potatoes (another classic), fresh salad, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, or Saffron rice.

Notes

Fair cost per per serving based on the cheese used.
Shortcuts: Spaghetti/Pasta Sauce, Italian Seasoning.
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