Two Quick and Easy Chicken Recipes

Cranberry Chicken

This recipe is stolen from my former roommate, Berina.

Ingredients:

- 1 can of cranberry sauce (I like the jellied kind, but you can use the whole cranberry kind if you prefer)

- 1/2 bottle of Catalina dressing

- 1 package of dry onion soup mix

- 4 or 5 boneless skinless chicken breasts

Directions:

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

- In a pan, brown chicken (I've included directions for this after both recipes)

- In a medium bowl, mix the cranberry sauce, Catalina dressing, and onion soup mix (it looks and smells funny, but don't worry; it will taste amazing later

- Cover the browned chicken with the sauce mix

- Cover the chicken with aluminium foil

- Bake for an hour

Tips: I like to serve this with brown rice, a green vegetable, and a glass of chilled white wine.

Mango Salsa Chicken

This is my best friend's favorite! And it's one of my mom's recipes.

Ingredients:

- 4 or 5 boneless skinless chicken breasts

- 2 cups (approximately) of mango-peach salsa from Costco

Directions:

- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

- In a pan, brown chicken on both sides

- Cover browned chicken with the salsa

- Cover and bake for an hour

Tips: I like to serve this with white rice and a side salad with vinaigrette.

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Directions for browning chicken

If you are new to cooking, you might not know what "browning" chicken is, so here are my directions:

- In a good-sized pan, heat about 1-2 tbsp of cooking oil over medium heat

- When the pan is hot, place thawed (not frozen) chicken in the pan (Be careful: the oil sometimes spits back at you)

- I like to have a small glass of water handy, and put about 2 tbsp in at a time. This keeps the chicken from burning on the bottom

- When one side of the chicken turns a whiteish-light brown, use utensils to flip it over and brown the other side

- The chicken doesn't have to be cooked all the way through; the oven will take care of that for you

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Hope you enjoy these two quick and easy chicken recipes! And stay tuned for new recipes to come!