Easy, Healthy Chicken Dinner Ideas

These recipes are light and nourishing and bring some weeknight dinner excitement to the table. Martha Rose Shulman’s lemon and garlic chicken with cherry tomatoes.Christopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Published April 28, 2025Updated April 28, 2025 It’s easy to hear the word “chicken” around dinnertime and feel immediately bored….

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The Best Chicken Teriyaki Recipe

Good morning. John T. Edge brought us this recipe for a Seattle-style chicken teriyaki, adapted from one by Sujan Shrestha, many years ago: salty-sweet and garlic-gingery, with a starch-thickened, glossy sauce that pairs beautifully with rice and broccoli. I make the dish with less sugar and more pineapple juice than John calls for and only…

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Chicken Breast Dinner Recipe With a Side of Salad

Wherever the cook extraordinaire Yewande Komolafe goes, I will absolutely follow — even if it’s to boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Normally I’d prefer literally any other part of the bird (thigh, drumstick, wing, neck, liver, giblets, tail or feet), but I know from experience that Yewande works magic with everything she touches. And that includes…

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Roasted Chicken Recipe for a Spring Sunday

Good morning. I took a walk through the flower district of Manhattan the other day, West 28th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The sidewalk was impossibly crowded with people and plants and cuttings. A seller picked up a pot of grass by its leaves and the pot dropped to the ground, revealing its roots….

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Chicken Cobbler Is an Easier Potpie

Good morning. On some weekend mornings this time of year, when the breeze is coming out of the west to knife through your topcoat, and even an unoccluded sun can’t promise warmth, I’ll use geography to my advantage and drive over the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to Staten Island, then arrange myself in the lee of the…

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How to Roast Chicken – NYT Cooking

Let Melissa Clark show how to make a stunning, burnished bird every single time. The brilliance of this recipe lies in the mingling of butter, caramelized chicken juices, licorice-y tarragon and a heady dash of Cognac.David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Published March 28, 2025Updated March 28, 2025 Few dishes…

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Miso-Butter Chicken Recipe With Grapefruit

It seems I’ve been neglecting grapefruits lately, what with all those eye-catching blood oranges, kumquats and bergamots hanging about. Then in walks Ali Slagle with her stunning new recipe for miso-butter chicken with grapefruit — a timely reminder to gather the last of the season’s roseate citrus fruit while ye may. Ali’s colorful dish is…

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