Chicken recipes for any occasion

Mediterranean chicken recipes are imaginative and healthy. Chicken recipes are so diverse that they fit all tastes. Chicken meat combines with myriad plant-foods, rice and pasta, and it is easy to digest.

A chicken recipe can be as simple or as sophisticated as you want it to be. You can prepare a quick healthy chicken recipe for a working day, or a more voluptuous chicken greased with lard, and stuffed with juicy prunes, aromatic Mediterranean pine nuts, and sunny raisins for Christmas.

Since domesticated chickens arrived in our world from the South of Asia, its healthy meat has nourished many of us very well. Mediterranean food cuisine has hundreds of chicken soup recipes, chicken broths, and dishes. In the Catalonia of the Middle Ages we even had a chicken broth said to bring the dead back to life.

All through my childhood some relatives of us who were farmers gave my family four free-range chickens every Christmas. Since then I have a lot of respect for these animals, and I do my best to buy free-range chickens that wander happily pecking corn grains. Even in the small town of Majorca where I now live I have free-range chickens and certified organic chickens available. They are a little more expensive, but you do with a smaller amount, and the chicken recipes cooked with this chicken meat are beyond compare.

When our parents were young, chicken was a rather expensive meat, and chicken recipes were kept for Sundays or special feasts. Now chicken dishes are inexpensive, and any home cook with some ability can create outstanding chicken recipes that will please old and young alike.

Selection of tasty chicken recipes