Tried & True: 10 Classic Chicken Recipes

There are some recipes that when mentioned call to mind the image of a trained chef, calmly combining ingredients with precision to create a dish that simultaneously soothes and excites the taste buds. These recipes come from a long history of development, and have become household names and standards of excellence. 

But what turns a recipe into a true classic? What is it these recipes share in common that has us coming back to them time and time again?

One of the reasons these recipes have become household favourites is because they are accessible to the average cook. You don’t need to be a trained chef in a professional kitchen to whip up a perfect pot pie or savoury soup.These recipesare not set in stone, and use ingredients that can easily be substituted for others that you have on hand. This adds to their accessibility. You can still prepare these dishes even if you don’t have access to a high-variety grocery store.

But the ease with which these recipes can be mastered is not enough to get you hooked. What really has us coming back for more are the complex flavours these recipes create through flavour layering. Flavour layering is the process of combining ingredients to enhance and deepen the flavour of a dish. This can be done in many ways, including adding spices or herbs, cooking with broth, searing meat, or deglazing your cooking pan, just to name a few. True classic recipes feature a combination of different types of flavours. One-dimensional dishes tend to fall flat – after just a few bites you feel like you’ve experienced everything the dish has to offer. Dishes with multi-dimensional flavour keep on giving, bite after bite. There’s always something new to taste. 

Here are some of our favourite tried & true classic chicken recipes, from our table to yours.