For a family-friendly dish that’s comforting and hearty, chicken is your best bet! Check out the best chicken recipes that our readers couldn’t stop making this past year. Dumplings Homemade chicken and dumplings from scratch harken back to my childhood and chilly days chicken fajita we devoured those cute little balls of dough swimming in hot, rich broth. And you’ll love how quick and easy it is for a weeknight dinner!

Chicken Casserole with CrackersI never bring home leftovers whenever I take this creamy chicken casserole with Ritz crackers to a potluck. Its mild flavor has broad appeal. It’s so filling that I serve it as a hearty main dish, and I have given the recipe to many of our friends and relatives. It simply tastes too good to keep to yourself! No one ever guesses it’s so quick and easy! Firefighter’s Chicken SpaghettiI’m always in the kitchen making dishes for my family, neighbors or the local fire department to try.

Make your own seasoned with herbs. Use it in soups, stews and other comfort food recipes. Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults. Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world. Chicken can be prepared in a vast range of ways, including baking, grilling, barbecuing, frying, and boiling.

Since the latter half of the 20th century, prepared chicken has become a staple of fast food. The poultry farming industry that accounts for chicken production takes on a range of forms across different parts of the world. In developed countries, chickens are typically subject to intensive farming methods while less-developed areas raise chickens using more traditional farming techniques. The modern chicken is a descendant of red junglefowl hybrids along with the grey junglefowl first raised thousands of years ago in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent.

Chicken as a meat has been depicted in Babylonian carvings from around 600 BC. Chicken was one of the most common meats available in the Middle Ages. In the United States in the 1800s, chicken was more expensive than other meats and it was “sought by the rich because so costly as to be an uncommon dish. World War II due to a shortage of beef and pork. The United States Department of Agriculture classifies cuts of poultry in a manner similar to beef. Modern varieties of chicken such as the Cornish Cross, are bred specifically for meat production, with an emphasis placed on the ratio of feed to meat produced by the animal.