EASY HEALTHY QUICK homemade chicken recipe

There are just too many additives in frozen foods, packaged in plastic and microwaved. I know people are pressured with work and school hours, but you can have a great "home cooked" meal with little effort. Here is one of my recipes.

First, save the fluid that any sort of your favorite vegetables are packed in, don't drain the water down the sink. Tonight I used the water that pre sliced and washed fresh carrots and celery had come in, bought at Walmart. After eating the celery and carrots during the week since Thanksgiving, I was left with a nice container of the most delicious water naturally flavored by the carrots and celery that was contained within. I saved it until I needed it.

So today I bought two skinned boned chicken breasts, They were large and great quality, each weighing just over a pound. I brought them home, washing them under the tap water before using. (Be sure to always be careful handling raw chicken. Wash the pieces before using. Make sure the fluids don't spatter and do not land on eating surfaces. Clean up with soap and water anyplace or any utensils that touch the raw chicken juice. Wash hands after handling raw chicken before performing the next activity).

I used my 9 inch square glass baking dish. I poured enough of the carrot and celery water into the dish to make about a third of an inch depth. I placed the chicken in the dish. Having preheated the oven at 375 I placed the chicken inside the oven and turned the oven temp down to about 325-350. You don't need to cover the chicken or do anything else. It's taken literally about 5 minutes to prepare this dish for baking!

Depending on the thickness of the chicken it takes anywhere from 60 minutes to 90 minutes to bake. Chicken is easy to bake even with this uncertainty because all you need to do is check it every 20 minutes with the fork and knife test. If you slice into the thickest part of the chicken there should be no red or pink, all white, and the juice that runs from it should be clear. For the pieces I used it took about 80 minutes since these were good thick pieces. Halfway through I turned them over so the top side was now in the pan juice.

To serve all I did was salt and slice with the chicken, carrot, celery water broth spooned over. It is moist and great without any fattening topping like barbecue sauce! But not a lot of people have a taste for plain chicken so obviously this chicken would be fine with some duck sauce or barbeque sauce on it when served. If you want to wean yourself and your family off of high calories and additives, though, this plain chicken with the flavored water spooned over it and salt is just wonderful tasting.

By having a flavored vegetable water saved from a previous meal in your fridge you can make a homemade healthy chicken in only 5 minutes of prep and about an hour of easy baking.

You can save water from cans of corn, peas, mushrooms... even one of my favorite treat vegetables palm hearts. How about the water that canned olives come in? All of them are great and you have instant flavoring, maintain the moisture of the chicken, have a clear chicken broth as a result AND have the benefit of a serving of water that is packed with vegetable and chicken nutrition. When storing the vegetable water in the fridge don't leave it in the can it came in, move it to a glass jar or plastic storage container.