Tender, juicy, flavorful, crispy caramelized chicken carnitas of your dreams! This is an award-winning chicken carnitas recipe that your taste buds will fall in love it. Oven, stove top and slow cooker methods included! Okay, so the award was given by my Salvadorian better half, which really should count for something, right…? But If there was a carnitas award out there, this recipe would take it home. It is that legit! So today we are going to learn how to make chicken carnitas! The man ...
Simple Chicken Recipes
Italian Chicken Cacciatore Recipe
Easy Italian Chicken Cacciatore recipe, an authentic Hunter Style Chicken Stew in Red Wine Sauce with Italian San Marzano Tomatoes and Wild Mushrooms! You can finish it on the stove top, bake it in the oven or the slow cooker. You knew I was gonna bring an authentic, easy Italian Chicken Cacciatore recipe from Italy for you. How could I not, right ?! Especially because this is a regular at the shack, healthy, light, gluten free and so easy to make. Not to mention perfect for a crowd! There ...
Braised Chicken Legs in Roasted Pepper Sauce over Polenta
Braised chicken legs is what my mom cooked for the Batman and I last week. It is tomato and pepper harvest over there, so these babies took a nice simmering bath in a roasted pepper sauce from the garden. I knew I had to come home and make it myself over a bowl of yellow polenta. Because really, at the shack we put everything over some creamy polenta if we can. I got so overwhelmed by all the recipe ideas flying around in my brain from our Sicily Travel trip, that I literally did not know what ...
Spicy Grilled Chicken Thighs Recipe
Quick and easy grilled chicken thighs, perfect served on a bed of rice with vegetables and fresh fruit like peaches, mango and pineapple. Or throw them in some cute street tacos, fajita bowls or lettuce wraps with your favorite salsa. Marinated in a flavorful, gluten free honey lime, garlic, ginger and soy sauce marinade and loaded with as many red chili flakes as you can handle of course ;) The recipe calls for 2 pounds of chicken but I know you’d regret not doubling it once you taste ...
Chicken Calzone Recipe
Homemade Chicken Calzone Recipe, rustic pizza dough stuffed with chicken parmigiana, fresh mozzarella, thick arrabiata sauce and fresh basil! Who is in the mood to try my chicken calzone recipe today?! With a cool front in California, it was the perfect occasion to crank up the oven as high as it would go. Not to mention how therapeutic it is to actually make your own pizza dough. Yes of course you can order a great pizza many places nowadays, but it still won’t come close to the one your ...
Sauteed Chicken Livers in White Wine
Nutrition packed sauteed chicken livers in a leek white wine sauce, the absolute best chicken livers recipe! Sauteed chicken livers it’s what’s for dinner kids! Absolutely channeling grandpa today, because the day we had sauteed chicken livers was a really special day. It was a true delicacy back in the day, and in the peasant's life this was the equal of your finest grass-fed fillet mignon today. Not even kidding about that, sauteed chicken livers in white wine leaves a gravy behind you'll ...
How to Make Crispy Baked Chicken Wings
An easy step by step guide on how to make crispy chicken wings at home, without frying them! Simply oven baked, without any flour, batter or yuckies! You want to make crispy wings that are healthy, moist on the inside but with extra crispy skin, and without deep-frying them ? The secret to crispy wings is getting rid of the moisture! Then simply bake them at high temperature on an oven safe Cooling Rack! (<-amazon) By roasting the wings on a cooling rack they will get even crisper, ...
Best Grilled Chicken Recipe
The best ever grilled chicken recipe, quick and easy made with tenderloin, perfect to throw in a salad, tacos or make a tomato sandwich. Made without any marinade and ready in minutes in your cast iron grill pan or outdoor grill. What make this the best grilled chicken recipe ever: Organic free range chicken tenders are a wonderful source of protein, potassium and the cancer fighting mineral selenium, so it gets an A+ on my healthy protein scale. Once you spice this chicken up with ...
Wings In Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce
Extra crispy wings in a lemon garlic butter sauce made with clarified butter ghee. Chicken wings are still the rage as appetizers for any party, and with the NFL season here, I came up with a sauce to dunk them in that will make you lick your plates and fingers clean. Easy, tasty and healthy, this sauce is guaranteed to make a fan out of everyone at the game. Also great with pasta, scallops, lobster, shrimps, chicken, salmon and even steak. This is what you'll need: Fresh juicy ...
Easy Chicken Rice Pilaf Recipe
Chicken Rice Pilaf is a dish made all over the world, in which rice is toasted or browned in oil or butter and cooked in stock together with the chicken. My mom made a variation of this recipe at least once a week. I make my own version using boneless skinless chicken tights, start it on the stove and finish it up in the oven in my large cast iron pot. However you can do it all on the stove top if you prefer, or if it is just too hot to heat up the oven. It is my go to recipe during a ...