The Only 3 Chicken Breast Recipes You’ll Ever Need

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Avocado oil has a higher smoke point and is healthier.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier and can replace butter in cooking.

soy sauce

🥗Healthier: coconut aminos

💰Cheaper: Worcestershire sauce

Coconut aminos are lower in sodium.

cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: cream cheese

Nutritional yeast adds flavor without dairy.

Start with plain yogurt and add Kashmiri chili powder, turmeric, garam masala, cumin, coriander, and fenugreek.

Blend the marinade for tandoori chicken for about a minute.

For chili basil garlic chicken, use a mortar and pestle to smash chopped garlic and Fresno chilies with coarse salt.

Add stripped thyme leaves and continue smashing.

Add half of the basil and smash it in, then add the rest and repeat the process.

Finish the chili basil marinade by adding a healthy amount of olive oil and mix it in.

For the Thai chicken marinade, blend fresh garlic, fish sauce, lemongrass, Thai curry paste, Fresno chili, sugar, lime juice, curry powder, and neutral oil for 1 minute.

Pound out the thick end of the chicken breast between two sheets of parchment paper until even.

Marinate the chicken with the prepared marinades for 2 to 4 hours, or overnight if possible.

Heat a grill pan over high heat for 4-5 minutes, adding a tiny bit of neutral oil.

Lay the chicken into the grill pan and cook for 90 seconds before doing a quarter turn and cooking for another 90 seconds.

Flip the chicken and repeat the same process for the other side for a total of 6 minutes per breast.

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