Chicken Tonight: November 2011

Combine chicken thighs, onion, butternut squash, potatoes, and a fresh orange in the slow cooker for a hearty one-dish meal.

Like an open-faced taco, tostadas are the ultimate in quick dinner dishes. Line up ingredients on the counter and let your kids pile their shells high with beans, chicken strips, lettuce, and a variety of toppings. In less than 15 minutes, you've got dinner for four.

In addition to chopped celery and toasted pecans, this salad also has sweetened dried cranberries sprinkled into the chicken mixture. The mayonnaise-and-honey dressing is reminiscent of poppy seed dressing.

Save time by warming flour tortillas in the microwave before filling them with the chicken mixture. Then when you put them in the casserole dish and top with sauce and cheese, you only have to broil for about 4 minutes.

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.

Soba noodles (Japanese buckwheat noodles), mushrooms, broccoli, and dark sesame oil give this stir-fry its dark color and deep, rich flavor.

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.

Sneak a few extra vitamins into your weeknight meals by serving tasty sweet potato fries with these oven-fried, bite-size chicken nuggets.

This earthy chicken stew features dried mushrooms, new potatoes, leeks, bacon and fresh herbs for a savory, satisfying one-dish meal.

Twenty minutes are all you need to transform a plain package of chicken thighs into a delicious Mediterranean-inspired one-dish dinner. Simmer thighs with dried rosemary, stewed tomatoes, and navy beans, then top with pitted olives.

Stir chopped cooked chicken, bell pepper and mushrooms into bow-tie pasta and top with Parmesan cheese for an easy weeknight supper.

This classic French dish is typically made with a whole chicken that's cut into quarters and simmered in a red wine-vegetable mixture for well over an hour. This one starts with chicken pieces that are already cut up, and it simmers for about 25 minutes.

Take a break from pizza with tomato sauce and top the pizza with a homemade white sauce, rotisserie chicken, herbs and Romano cheese.

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.

Use panko (Japanese breadcrumbs) to get an extra-crispy coating on your chicken. Because it's oven-fried, there's no need for oil, so one serving has only 3.7 grams of fat.

Add fall flavor to chicken cutlets with a maple vinaigrette and serve over a crisp slaw of Brussels sprouts and apples.

Several online reviewers said that this soup reminded them of the soup at their favorite Thai restaurant. If you like yours with a little more heat than what you get from the red curry paste, add some crushed red pepper or flakes of dried Thai chile pepper.

Use curry powder, coconut milk and lime juice to add exotic flavor to a simple chicken and pepper skillet dish.

Devil up your chicken with the addition of mustard and ground red pepper.

Online reviewers love this Italian-style classic for easy weeknight dinners. Serve over pasta and with a green salad, and you've got a family meal that's restaurant worthy. If you're not a fan of spicy tomato sauce, cut the amount of ground red pepper in half.

It isn't elegant, just simple and delicious. While its cold-fighting properties are in debate, chicken soup will certainly warm you to your toes. Try using this solid traditional recipe as a base, adding hot cooked rice or noodles to create heartier versions.

Plan a home-style dinner like grandma used to make with only 30 minutes of prep work for this chicken and dressing recipe.

Quality brown stock is the key to this great recipe. Brown stock differs from white stock in that the chicken and vegetables spend half the time caramelizing in the oven and the other half in the stockpot flavoring the liquid; white stock is made entirely on the stovetop. Once you have the stock, throwing together this soup is a snap.

Could anything be more comforting than tender chunks of vegetables encased in a rich pastry crust? We don't think so. Dig in.

Fire up the dinner table with a spicy chicken dish seasoned with allspice, cayenne pepper, and paprika. To increase the heat, rub the spice mixture over the chicken 8 hours before serving and store it in the fridge until ready to cook. Make this meal when your taste buds turn on their heat-seeking sensors–even the cornbread has peppers.

This simple, easy-to-prepare soup uses quick-cooking rice, canned chicken broth, and matchstick-cut carrots to speed preparation. You'll make a warm and comforting soup in half the time.

Get that warm and cozy feeling with an old-fashioned dish that's been updated to have less fat and fewer calories.

Top chicken cutlets with a light sauce of white wine, butter, parsley and capers and serve over cooked orzo for an easy dinner that's worthy of guests.

Briny olives, ancho chiles and orange zest add bright flavor to this hearty chicken and grain stew.

Expand your palate and introduce Berbere, an Ethiopian spice blend. Make yours at home by combining red pepper, black pepper, ginger, cinnamon, and cloves. You may never use pre-mixed seasonings again.