40+ brilliant chicken breast recipes for every occasion

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Recipe: Chicken Caesar tacos

This creamy dish is comfort food at its best and combines tender chicken breast pieces with savoury squash, baked with a creamy sauce.

Recipe: Chicken and Squash Gratin

Our Hunter's chicken recipe is irresistible. If you've never tried it before it is a cheesy-stuffed chicken breast, topped with bacon and BBQ sauce. Delicious!

Recipe: Hunter's Chicken

Midweek fakeaway

Recipe: Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice Traybake

Vary this salad seasonally by adding your favourite raw vegetables or seeds.

Recipe: Harissa chicken and couscous salad

Chorizo, peppers and sherry bring a Spanish flair to a classic chicken pie recipe

Recipe: Chicken and chorizo pie

This would work with a pork fillet or turkey escalope. Instead of breadcrumbs, we’ve dusted our schnitzel in polenta, which is a wholegrain.

Recipe: Chicken schnitzel

Using mayonnaise to stick the breadcrumbs to the chicken saves egg wastage, and imparts seasoning as well. Different brands of noodles absorb liquid differently, so you might need a touch more stock to make it soupy.

Recipe: Chicken Katsu Noodle Soup

Chicken soup is food for the soul, and with added Thai flavours, this version makes an ideal pick-me-up.

Recipe: Thai green chicken soup

This dish is even better made a day ahead. To make it more filling, serve with crusty bread

Recipe: Chicken and Leek stew

This slow-cooker chicken curry is so easy to prepare and seriously comforting to eat.

Recipe: Slow Cooker Thai Red Curry

If you prefer, use chicken thigh fillets instead of chicken breast

Recipe: Rosti-topped chicken

The overnight pressing helps make this zesty terrine sliceable. We stamped out festive shapes from our toasts to add a fun factor

Recipe: Layered chicken and pork terrine

This is delicious penne pasta is also low in fat.

Recipe: Penne with Chicken, Sultanas and Pinenuts

This simple chicken kiev recipe cuts out any fiddly crusting, chilling and deep-frying, but retains all the flavour.

Recipe: Cheat’s Oven Kievs

Mashed tinned pulses make an easy and nutritious accompaniment to all sorts of dishes. Here we've served it with delicious pesto chicken.

Recipe: Cashew-pesto chicken with cannellini mash

These chicken kievs are oven baked, making them the perfect midweek meal.

Recipe: Chicken kiev

Risotto needn't be tricky, this chicken version cooks in the oven

Recipe: Baked chicken and butternut risotto

This one pot chicken bake is great for a midweek meal

Recipe: Butternut boulangère baked chicken

Crispy chicken served with a refreshing, crunchy salad.

Recipe: Chicken Piccata Escalope with Fennel and Pea Salad