How to Prepare the Best Chicken Recipes

Chicken recipes have become part of every family occasion and most of these recipes were passed from one generation to the next generation. Grandparents usually pass on their special chicken dishes to their children and grandchildren and needless to there are many chicken recipes that you can learn how to cook and even altering a bit to make it yummier.

Now the question is, how can you cook the perfect chicken dish that your family will love and that you can even teach to your children?

Well, the real secret to a mouth-watering chicken is the proper handling and preparation. Unlike pork and beef, chicken meat is more sensitive when it comes to preparation and cooking. Chicken should be immediately kept inside the refrigerator to maintain its freshness and to avoid cross-contamination that can be harmful to us. It is best that we know how to handle and prepare the poultry before cooking it because preparation alone can make the chicken taste either yummy or yucky.

If you are planning to host a party or event, for sure you want to prepare some chicken recipes for your guests. In preparing alone, you have to make sure you buy fresh chicken from the market. If possible, avoid frozen chicken and instead choose fresh poultry. Young and fresh chicken meat can make yoru recipe tastier and juicier. The freshness and juiciness of chicken lessens once you freeze them so they are less tasty. Now if you only have a frozen chicken available, it would be best to keep it dry and wrapped it tightly to keep it fresh.

Now, when you are going to cook your chicken, you should consider cooking with the right temperature and this will depend on what recipe you want to cook. Make sure not to overcook your chicken so it won’t get too dry. But then, you should also not undercook the chicken because this can cause food poisoning. The heat won’t be enough to kill the contaminants attached to the poultry before you cooked them so you have to know the right temperature that you should apply.

To make your chicken stay juicy while cooking, there are many ways to do it.
- If you are trying to roast a whole chicken, it would be much better to cook it first for 15 to 20 minutes before carving it, allowing its juices to flow to the whole body of the chicken.
- It would also be best to leave behind the chicken skin in roasting a whole chicken because its skin usually catches the juices of the chicken instead of being thrown out.
- Opening a beer or can and letting it moisturize the roasted chicken may add some distinct flavor in the chicken. All you have to do is look for the hottest portion of the grill and put out some open beer near it and just wait for it to moist, slowly transferring its taste to the chicken.

Lastly, always remember that it is much easier and safer to grill or cook covered chicken than the uncovered one because when you retain the moist inside it can help the chicken get cooked faster. Also, if you are planning to make a chicken dish with lots of ingredients, it is advisable not to overcrowd it so everything could be cook evenly.