5-Ingredient Chicken Recipes

Simplify dinnertime as well as grocery shopping with chicken entrees that feature five ingredients or less, not including salt, pepper, cooking spray, and water.

Chicken and Dumplings

Use convenience products like canned soup, canned biscuits, frozen veggies and rotisserie chicken to get this home-style dinner on the table in no time.

Recipe: Chicken and Dumplings

Grilled Chicken Quesadillas

Pickled jalapeños kick the flavor up a notch in these easy chicken and cheese quesadillas, but if you don't care for the heat, just leave them out. Serve with jarred salsa, refrigerated guacamole, and sour cream, and you've got dinner.

Recipe: Grilled Chicken Quesadillas

Chinese-Style Glazed Chicken Breasts

Make a super-quick glaze for chicken breasts using on-hand pantry items: hoisin sauce, fruit spread and chicken broth. Steam quick-cooking rice and a green veggie in the microwave to round out the meal.

Recipe: Chinese-Style Glazed Chicken Breasts

Skillet-Roasted Chicken

Browning the chicken in a skillet before putting it in the oven will decrease the roasting time from about an hour to only 25 minutes. And you can add succulent flavor by stuffing garlic and parsley under the skin of the chicken before you roast.

Recipe: Skillet-Roasted Chicken

Lemon-Rosemary Chicken Thighs

At $0.73 a serving, you'll stay within your grocery budget for sure with these citrusy herbed chicken thighs. Rice and steamed fresh broccoli are equally economical sides that are great with the tender dark meat chicken.

Recipe: Lemon-Rosemary Chicken Thighs

Chicken with Cider and Bacon Sauce

Apple cider and bacon give this easy sauce a salty, tangy-sweet flavor that's hard to resist. In fact, you might want to double the amount of sauce so you'll have a little extra to spoon over rice. Pounding the chicken into thinner pieces helps decrease the cooking time.

Recipe: Chicken with Cider and Bacon Sauce

Sun-dried Tomato Chicken

Bottled sun-dried tomato vinaigrette along adds such great flavor to the chicken that all you need to add is a sprinkle of coarse-ground black pepper. Serve with garlic mashed potatoes for an easy dinner.

Recipe: Sun-dried Tomato Chicken

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