This collection of Sunday dinner chicken recipes is for those of you for whom Sunday dinner means a chicken dinner even if it’s not a traditional roast chicken. We have loads of delicious chicken recipes for everything from chicken Schnitzel to chicken Stroganoff to recipes for chicken soups, chicken curries and more, along with our best chicken breast recipes, chicken thigh recipes and ground chicken recipes. Enjoy!
This week I’ve compiled a collection of Sunday dinner chicken recipes if Sunday dinner means chicken dinner for you. At the top of my list of Sunday dinner chicken recipes I’ve got a few of your all-time favourite chicken recipes on Grantourismo, including chicken schnitzel, chicken Stroganoff and chicken Kiev. I know I’ve shared these before, but they are just so good, so please forgive the repetition.
I’ve also added links for your convenience to some of our most popular collections of chicken recipes, namely our chicken breast recipes, chicken thigh recipes and ground chicken recipes, as well as a compilation of our best chicken recipes, which includes recipes for fried chicken, chicken curries, chicken soups and stews, chicken noodle soups, chicken pies, and chicken fried rice, such as recipes for our Cambodian chicken congee and an aromatic roast chicken fragrant with Southeast Asian spices.
If you’re not inspired by these compilations of chicken recipes, please do browse our other round-ups of Sunday dinner ideas: Sunday night dinner ideas for comfort food dishes, Sunday dinner ideas starting with soup, bread and wine food for the soul for challenging times, Sunday dinner ideas that are alternatives to roasts, and easy Sunday dinner ideas if the state of the world has zapped your energy and enthusiasm, even for cooking. That last one was published during an especially tough week!
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Now let me tell you all about my Sunday dinner chicken recipes for those of you for whom Sunday dinner means a chicken dinner.
Sunday Dinner Chicken Recipes If Sunday Dinner Means Chicken Dinner For You
These are our favourite Sunday dinner chicken recipes if Sunday dinner means chicken dinner for you.
Chicken Schnitzel Recipe
Chicken schnitzel is one of my favourite Sunday dinner chicken recipes and my top pick for those of you for whom Sunday dinner means a chicken dinner. It’s a quick and easy dish to prepare and makes moist, tender chicken fillets with a super crunchy panko breadcrumb coating elevated with lemon zest and parmesan.
These old-fashioned Australian style chicken schnitties will take you right back to the 1970s. For a complete nostalgia trip, squeeze some lemon wedges over the schnitzels and serve them with potato salad.
Try my Mediterranean-style warm potato salad recipe with capers, anchovies, chives, and celery leaves (it’s also delicious cold) or browse this collection of potato salad recipes. I adore this Japanese potato salad.
You could make extra chicken schnitzel fillets and make Terence’s chicken schnitzel burger the next day. That recipe will make you our crunchy chicken schnitzel spread with a creamy pickle mayo (made with our homemade dill pickles) and topped with bacon, cabbage and tomato between soft burger buns. Serve the burger with our spicy potato wedges.
Chicken Schnitzel Recipe with Crunchy Panko Breadcrumb Coating with Parmesan and Lemon Zest
Chicken Stroganoff Recipe
This chicken Stroganoff recipe is another one of my favourite Sunday dinner chicken recipes which I think you’ll love if Sunday dinner means chicken dinner for you. Like my beef Stroganoff recipe and mushroom Stroganoff recipe, it makes a dish that looks and tastes like a rich slow-cooked stew, but it actually doesn’t long to cook at all.
My chicken Stroganoff recipe also happens to make one of the best chicken Stroganoff recipes you’ll taste. Inspired by the old Shanghai-style of Stroganoff, it’s incredibly rich, and redolent of spices.
It’s also slightly delightfully tangy due to the addition of Worcestershire sauce, which was added to beef Stroganoff in the Russian restaurants in Shanghai and Harbin in China in the early 20th century.
I know this is a compilation of our best chicken breast recipes, but if you’re a Stroganoff lover, I also recommend bookmarking my authentic beef Stroganoff recipe and my creamy mushroom Stroganoff for vegetarians.
I also have more family recipes here, which would work well with the chicken Strog if you’re feeding a family, such as this classic garden salad, my grandma’s borscht and traditional cabbage rolls, and for dessert, we have pancake recipes.
Chicken Stroganoff Recipe for a Rich, Spicy, Tangy Old Shanghai Style Stroganoff
Chicken Kiev Recipe
An iconic dish of chicken breasts stuffed with parsley butter, coated in egg and bread crumbs and fried, chicken Kiev was always on my grandparents’ dining table for Sunday dinners and is another one of my top suggestions if Sunday dinner means chicken dinner for you.
My chicken Kiev recipe makes an incredibly succulent and extra crunchy version of the crumbed chicken breast fillets stuffed with parsley butter because we brine the chicken before cooking. Choose chicken breasts that are as thick as possible so you can create a good sized ‘pocket’ in the breast and cut the thicker side to get a better ‘seal’ with your toothpicks.
While most recipes just say to use ‘dry breadcrumbs’, we use Japanese panko breadcrumbs because they are super dry and have shapes that give you a lovely textured surface to the cooked chicken breasts, as well as adding extra crunch. Just don’t tell your baboushka!
Depending on the thickness of the chicken breasts and your cooking temperature, you might be able to cook the breasts all the way through in the pan. We like to use a large flat-bottom cooking pan. Make sure to use a meat thermometer to check that the chicken breasts have cooked through. You want it to read at 74˚C.
We serve our chicken Kiev with creamy mashed potato and vegetables such as baby carrots and Brussels sprouts sautéed in crispy bacon.
Chicken Kiev Recipe for a Retro Russian Classic Cooked For Russia’s Tsars
Roast Chicken Recipe with Aromatic Cambodian Herb Butter and Stuffing
And if you can’t not cook a roast chicken on Sunday, then try my roast chicken recipe will make you a moist, aromatic roast chicken thanks to a Cambodian herb butter and a chicken stuffing I make with a Khmer yellow kroeung, a perfumed herb and spice paste pounded from fresh lemongrass, kaffir lime zest, galangal, turmeric, garlic, and shallots.
I use the yellow kroeung two ways. I use it in a traditional chicken stuffing of the kind my Australian grandmother used to make, only I replace the European herbs she’d use with kroeung paste.
Nanna’s roast chicken stuffing was made with stale bread, creamy salted butter (never margarine; my grandparents were dairy farmers), finely chopped onion fried until translucent, salt, pepper, and herbs, such as parsley, thyme, sage, and rosemary. I also make a kroeung butter, which is a cinch.
My only tip is to take care when separating the chicken skin from the breast so that it doesn’t rip, and very gently feel your way beneath the skin, right across the chicken’s body, spreading the kroeung butter over as much of the surface as you can.
I cook the chicken with baby corn, carrots, potatoes, and purple shallots for a Cambodian-inspired feast. This is one of my favourite roast chicken recipes.
Best Roast Chicken Recipe with Aromatic Cambodian Herb Butter and Stuffing
More Sunday Dinner Chicken Recipes If Sunday Dinner Means Chicken Dinner For You
And if you’re not into the idea of chicken schnitzel, chicken Stroganoff or Chicken Kiev tonight, then browse our collections of chicken recipes below.
Best Chicken Thigh Recipes
Our best chicken thigh recipes are some of our best chicken recipes and include everything from braised chicken and chicken curry to chicken soups and stews. We have recipes for a Southern Thai chicken biryani and a Cape Malay chicken curry from South Africa to a Cambodian chicken curry and a Burmese Indian style chicken curry.
Some of our best recipes with chicken thighs comprise some of our best chicken recipes. They include everything from chicken soups and stews to chicken curries and chicken stir-fries and braised chicken dishes, such as the cashew chicken above.
Best Chicken Thigh Recipes – Chicken Soups, Chicken Curries, Chicken Stir-Fries, Stews and More
Best Chicken Breast Recipes
Our best chicken breast recipes are some of our best chicken recipes and include a couple of the classic comfort food dishes I’ve shared before in our Sunday dinner ideas compilations, such as our chicken Stroganoff recipe, chicken Schnitzel recipe and chicken Kiev recipe above, as well as a handful of shredded chicken breast recipes for everything from chilaquiles and tacos to congees and noodle soups.
While I have to confess that I do prefer the taste of chicken thighs, which are fantastic in chicken curries, chicken soups, chicken stir-fries, and there are few things I enjoy more than munching on fried chicken drumsticks, it’s hard to beat juicy poached chicken breasts when they’re perfectly cooked or soft shredded chicken breast in a congee, soup or taco.
Best Chicken Breast Recipes – Chicken Schnitzel, Chicken Stroganoff, Chicken Kiev and More
Best Ground Chicken Recipes
Our best ground chicken recipes include some of our favourite minced chicken recipes that make Asian dishes such as the Thai ground chicken salad, larb gai, and the Chinese-Australian chicken lettuce wraps to my family recipes for juicy Russian kotleti and a comforting chicken meatball soup. Perfect if you’re staying at home and have chicken mince in the freezer.
You all seemed to love our best ground pork recipes and ground beef recipes, which covered everything from Asian dishes such as a Thai stuffed omelette and rice porridge with pork meatballs to ragu alla Bolognese and lasagne from Northern Italy and Tex-Mex chilli con carne and nachos, so we decided to share our best minced chicken recipes. We reckon they’re some of our best Sunday dinner chicken recipes.
Best Ground Chicken Recipes from Chicken Meatball Soup to Spicy Minced Chicken Salad
Please do let us know if you make any of our recipes for Sunday dinner chicken recipes if Sunday dinner means chicken dinner for you, in the comments below as we’d love to get your feedback and hear how our recipes turned out for you.
