Our 23 quick and, quite frankly, rather-not-live-without chicken recipes. Because weeknights are already demanding enough.

Quick Chicken Chili
: Cooking Light 1/23 Exactly what you want—nay, need—when you're crave something that's satiating as heck but you need it to be quick as can be.
Recipe Pan Seared Chicken Breast
: Carl Tremblay 2/23 Shatteringly crisp skin. Tender meat. And a stovetop that isn't spattered with grease. This is gonna change your weeknight chicken game.
Recipe North African Chicken Soup
: Martin Poole 3/23 We wish we always had a stash of this chicken soup recipe in the fridge to turn to as a soothing respite in the middle of the work day.
Recipe Gung Bao Chicken
: William Lingwood 4/23 Er, what's the deal between Gung Bao and Kung Pao chicken? One is a centuries old tradition. The other is an Americanized riff. Guess which one this is.
Recipe Spiced Roast Chicken
: Todd Coleman 5/23 A weeknight godsend, these spice-rubbed, oven-blasted chicken parts do dinner on the double. Er, triple.
Recipe Thai-Inspired Chicken Salad With Peanut Dressing
: Allison Day 6/23 Tangy. Salty. Sweet. And satisfying as can be. Did we also mention healthy and on the table pronto?
Recipe Oven Roasted Chicken Thighs
: Carl Tremblay 7/23 "Simple." "Perfect." "The moistest chicken with the crispest skin we've ever had." That's what folks are saying about this crowd-pleasing, weeknight-friendly trick.
Recipe Tequila Lime Chicken Tacos
: Joshua Resnick 8/23 Chicken gets a little tipsy after being doused with tequila but is then given a cold shower in the form of a squeeze of lime and a cooling cilantro-chile mayo sauce.
Recipe Chinese-Chicken Lettuce Cups
: Nate and Mary Kate 9/23 You know how sometimes you try to recreate a restaurant classic at home and it doesn't work? This isn't one of those times.
Recipe Homemade Chicken Strips
: John Lee 10/23 "My new go-to chicken strips recipe, thanks to my kids' saying 'These are yummy!'" That's what we're hearing about this weeknight godsend.
Recipe Spicy Sriracha Chicken Wings
: Jennifer May 11/23 These Sriracha chicken wings are super enticing despite being super spicy—or is it precisely because they're super spicy?
Recipe Parmesan-Crusted Chicken
: Con Poulos 12/23 When it's half past when you'd wanted to eat and you're too exhausted to think, turn to this kid-friendly, adult-approved fix.
Recipe Breaded Oven Fried Chicken Thighs
: Bec Hudson 13/23 Sometimes less is more. Witness these crumb-coated thighs which come together with no fuss and are easily adaptable to whatever you have on hand.
Recipe Kung Pao Chicken With Peanuts
: somegirl 14/23 The origins of Kung Pao (aka Gong Bao) chicken are murky, but the raves we're hearing about this stir-fry of chicken, peanuts, and red chiles are resoundingly clear.
Recipe Chicken Yakitori with Honey Sauce
: Meikyou 15/23 Japanese grilling at its sweetest--and simplest, with just a quick turn over the coals and a happy little sauce of soy, sake, honey, and ginger for dipping and drizzling.
Recipe Cajun Fried Chicken
: Chris Granger 16/23 Bathed in buttermilk and spiced ever so slightly, this Cajun fried hen is memorably moist, superlatively crisp, and gosh darn perfect through and through.
Recipe Vietnamese Chicken Rice Soup
: Ken Goodman 17/23 Vietnamese chicken rice soup is a quick and easy version of congee, a sensationally soothing southeast Asian elixir of rice, chicken broth, and ginger.
Recipe Classic Chicken Piccata
: Stacey Tyzzer 18/23 Quick and easy enough for a weeknight. Elegant enough for weekend entertaining.
Recipe Crispy Fried Chicken
: Ditte Isager 19/23 This blissfully crunchy, irreverently easy, crazily unconventional coating is everything we never knew we wanted in fried chicken.
Recipe Grilled Chicken Skewers
: Weldon Owen 20/23 Magnificently easy to marinate. Quick to toss on the grill. And distinctly Thai thanks to the lilt of coconut milk, fish sauce, cilantro, and curry.
Recipe Port-Paprika Chicken Bites
: Alexandrea Grablewski 21/23 This tipsy tapa of Portuguese descent is intended as just a single bite, though we found it impossible to stop at just one.
Recipe Cashew Chicken
: Steven Mark Needham 22/23 One of the most beloved—and most commonly ordered—Chinese dishes in America, this quick stir-fry makes simple seem superlative.
Recipe Brown Butter Flattened Chicken
: Donal Skehan 23/23 Looks and tastes like a restaurant-quality meal that requires a staff of sous chefs and dish washers. Yet in reality it comes together in a single skillet in just 30 minutes.
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