Healthy Chicken Recipes

Healthy Chicken Recipes: Cook delicious and healthy chicken meals prepared with heritage chickens, plus find ways to preserve chicken, eggs, bone broth. Heritage chickens never tasted so delicious!

How to Cook Bresse Chicken

Just a heads up - in today's society, the Cornish Cross chicken is everywhere, from the grocery store to 99% of all restaurants. Our dear readers can find a plethora of recipes elsewhere for cooking store-bought chickens.

Because the Cornish Cross is so ubiquitous, the world has largely forgotten how to cook actual heritage chickens!

Here at the Ambresse website, we at least knew that American Bresse and other heritage breeds of meat chickens cannot be cooked like a "regular" chicken. Perhaps you're discovering this as well.

It took us months of research, trial and error, to learn how best to cook our home-grown heritage meat chickens. The methods we learned are here: How to Cook Bresse Chicken.

This Healthy Chicken Recipes page will link you to recipes that work for heritage birds including the American Bresse chicken.

Along with the recipes themselves, we will link to nearly everything to do with using American Bresse meat or eggs, from preserving chickens and eggs, to cooking and enjoying. If explanations are needed, we will try to provide that as well.

Are you a homesteader raising some other breed of chicken, such as Rhode Island Red, or Bielefelder, for example? We think the tips and links on this page will be useful for you as well.

Click the links below to go to the section of your choice on this page, or simply keep reading!

• Chicken Recipes - Main Dishes
• Chicken Bone Broth
• Chicken Soup
• Rendered Chicken Fat
• Canning Chicken Meat
• Preserving Eggs

(FYI: Page is in progress - please check back soon!

Healthy Chicken Recipes

Main Meals

Recipe: Slow Roasted Bresse Chicken in White Wine Mushroom Cream Sauce. 
Pictured here - so delicious!
Recipe is by Holistic Chef Tammy Broadway.
Wonderful main dish which is typically French, featuring mushrooms in a creamy white wine sauce -- You'd be happy to pay the big bucks for this meal in any Michelin 3-Star Restaurant in France.

• Recipe: Slow Roasted Chicken (link coming soon)
• Recipe: Coq au Vin (link coming soon)
• Recipe: Chicken Liver and Onions (link coming soon)

Recipes with Cooked Chicken Meat

• Rescue-recipes for "Disappointing Chicken" and variations on chopped chicken recipes (link coming soon)
  
  

Chicken Bone Broth

Chicken Bone Broth Recipe. Four ways to create chicken bone broth, try them all out!

1. Collect and simmer the leftovers from your chicken dinner.
2. After processing a few chickens, the chicken tender will have raw chicken pieces that don't typically make it to the kitchen table, but they'll make great chicken bone broth.
3. Same with the chicken feet. We often collect the feet in the freezer, and then make chicken bone broth with them when the opportunity is right.
4. Make chicken bone broth from whole chickens - especially when the chickens are old and "athletic."

Chicken Bone Broth Benefits. It's quite amazing how MANY ways chicken bone broth benefits the human body! This page explains the six main benefits, and demonstrates WHY chicken bone broth is so incredibly healthy.

Chicken Soup

Chicken Soup Recipes. Our chicken soup recipes use chicken bone broth as the base, making them incredibly flavorful. You'll find several variations on chicken soups here.

Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe. Chicken noodle soup seems to be a worldwide favorite, and soon your own chicken noodle soup will become your own family's fave. It's simple, yet bursting with flavor, a comfort food par excellence, especially when one is under the weather.

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Rendered Chicken Fat

Rendered chicken fat is known as Schmaltz. 

Schmaltz renders into a soft yet solid yellow fat that curiously remains a bit soft even in the refrigerator. You can pull out the jar and easily scoop out the amount of schmaltz you need. 

With the drawbacks of seed oils coming into focus, animal fats are now being recognized as healthy, with their high smoke point, and no trans-fats. American Bresse chicken keepers that finish their meat birds will likely find plenty of chicken fat that can be rendered into schmaltz. 

And in fact, any older chickens of any heritage breed, especially hens, will likely present you with a good amount  of fat.

Schmaltz is healthy. Use it in place of fats in recipes. Use it to grease pans or cooking sheets. The only flavor it cannot replace is butter, though it does come much closer to a buttery flavor than any other fat (other than butter, of course).

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More Healthy Chicken Recipes Coming Soon...

Canning Chicken Meat

Canning chicken: Canning chicken stock (broth), canning raw chicken. Pressure-canning cooked chicken. 

Canning Soup: Home-canning chicken soup

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Eggs and Egg Recipes

Coming soon: The answers to your questions about eggs and nutrition.

Preserving Eggs

Water glassing Eggs.

Dehydrating Eggs.

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