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60+ healthy chicken recipes

Packed with protein, economical and a guaranteed crowd pleaser, it's little wonder chicken always wins the ingredient popularity contest. Here are 60 healthy recipes we're sure you'll have on high rotation.

63 recipes
Poached chicken, cucumber and silken tofu salad.

Neil Perry's chicken and silken tofu salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Spice roasted chicken and chimichurri.

Katrina Meynink's spice roasted chicken and chimichurri

  • Katrina Meynink
Salt-crust chicken with salmoriglio.

Neil Perry's salt-crust chicken with salmoriglio

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Chargrilled chicken with grilled lettuce hearts, lemon and chipotle mayo.

Karen Martini's chargrilled chicken with fennel, lettuce and chipotle mayo

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Grilled chicken with buckwheat tabbouleh.

Grilled chicken with spring green tabbouleh and tarragon dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Thai oyster sauce chicken and rice.
EASY

Thai oyster sauce chicken and rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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Neil Perry serves this Korean-style braise with short-grain sushi rice.
EASY

Neil Perry's Korean-style braised chicken with tofu

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Pick up a supermarket roast chicken for this comforting congee.
EASY

Roast chicken brown rice congee

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
The warm honey and feta dressing makes this spring-summer salad sing.

Poached chicken, broad bean and zucchini flower salad with honey-feta dressing and all the herbs

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Everything you love about Vietnamese spring rolls in one bowl.

Charred lemongrass chicken spring roll bowls with chunky peanut hoisin dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
This chicken noodle salad is a riot of colour and flavour.

Thai coriander chicken noodle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Italy with a detour to Spain: Chicken amatriciana one-tray wonder with chorizo and potatoes.
EASY

Chicken amatriciana traybake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Miso grilled chicken rice bowl.
EASY

Donna Hay's miso grilled chicken rice bowl

  • < 30 mins
  • Donna Hay
Arabella Forge's cold-busting chicken soup.

Cold-busting chicken soup

  • 2 hrs +
  • Arabella Forge
Enjoy this light and healthy steamed chicken with a snappy spring onion sauce.
EASY

Steamed chicken with asparagus and fennel

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
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Coconut chicken salad.

Coconut chicken salad with mint and lime

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
This marinade works with any meat (especially chicken, pictured).
EASY

Neil Perry's barbecued chicken with cumin, coriander, lemongrass and ginger

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Grilled chicken with salt, pepper and lime dipping sauce.
EASY

Chicken with salt, pepper, lime and bird's eye chilli recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
One-pot chicken, spinach and orzo stew.

Danielle Alvarez's lemony chicken and orzo stew

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Vietnamese chicken coleslaw.
EASY

Vietnamese chicken coleslaw

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Caroline Velik
Grilled chicken breast with cucumber and yoghurt relish.

Grilled chicken breast with cucumber-yoghurt relish

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Neil Perry
Jill Dupleix's chicken kofte skewers with with turmeric tahini.
EASY

Chicken kofta skewers with turmeric tahini

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Chicken san choi bau
EASY

Jill Dupleix's chicken sang choy bao

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Chicken noodle salad.
EASY

Chicken noodle salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Serve this curry with naan and rice.

Adam Liaw's chicken in spinach and green pea curry

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Steamed chicken with green spring onion oil.
EASY

Steamed chicken with green spring onion oil

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Soy-poached chicken.

Adam Liaw's soy-poached chicken

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Serve this noodle dish on a platter for everyone to help themselves (or in individual bowls).

Lemongrass, ginger and makrut lime poached chicken with rice noodles

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's roast chicken and vegetable salad.
EASY

Roast chicken and vegetable salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Poached chicken

Kylie Kwong's master stock poached chicken

  • 2 hrs +
  • Kylie Kwong
Poached chicken with sauce gribiche.

Poached chicken with sauce gribiche

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Chicken and capsicum traybake.

Chicken and peppers

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Roast chicken for summer.

Roast chicken with summer vegetables

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Rachel Khoo
Chicken and corn soup.
EASY

Chicken, corn and soba noodle soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Rachel Khoo
Spiced chicken and lentil salad.
EASY

Spiced chicken and lentil salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Chicken and ratatouille.
EASY

Chicken and ratatouille

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw

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