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One pan roast chicken with sausages and new potatoes. An easy fuss free roast chicken dinner to enjoy with your family, without all of the hassle of cooking a full roast.

An easy chicken noodle stir fry recipe with lots of fresh veggies in a soy honey sauce. The whole family will love it, even fussy eaters.

An easy slow cooker (crock-pot) chicken korma. Mild enough for the whole family to enjoy. This yummy and super easy Slow Cooker Chicken Korma with sweet potato, is perfect for fussy eaters!

Did you know Chinese New Year - the year of the Rooster-  begins on Saturday? Each Chinese New Year is characterised by one of 12 animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac (I was born in the year of the pig apparently!)..and this year it's the Roosters turn, the 10th animal in the cycle. If you're celebrating with friends and family this weekend make sure you try this super easy  Chinese style Chicken and Cashew Nut dish. Serve with a big bowl of egg fried rice...and don't forget the prawn crackers! It tastes just like my favourite dish from the local Chinese takeaway. TOP TIPS FOR MAKING CHINESE CHICKEN AND CASHEW NUTS Make sure your frying pan is really hot before frying the chicken. Add more veggies like baby corn, mushrooms or mangetout. Serve the chicken and cashew nuts over some egg fried rice or soft noodles. Make it spicy by adding 1 chopped red chilli at the same time as the onion. Make is vegetarian by replacing the chicken with quorn pieces...

A gorgeous peanut butter chicken curry made with a secret store cupboard ingredient peanut butter Long lists of ingredients often put me off making a curry, especially on busy weeknights when time is precious. However, this Peanutty Chicken Curry  is different! The ingredients list is small and most of the items you will already have in your store cupboard (peanut butter being one of them) or fridge. It's a fairly speedy recipe too and you can have it on the table in under 40 minutes (even with three children distracting you), which is always a bonus when you have hungry mouths to feed. I was sceptical whether peanut butter would work in a curry but it really does and gives the sauce a lovely smooth silky texture, as well as acting as a sauce thickener. This easy curry is now a staple in our house and features on our weekly meal plans regularly. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. TOP TIPS FOR MAKING PEANUTTY CHICKEN CURRY If you don't like your curry...

A Slow Cooker BBQ Pulled Chicken recipe. The pulled chicken is best served in rolls, with coleslaw and rocket, or with jacket potatoes, for a tasty meal.

A creamy cider chicken dish made with diced chicken breasts and smoked bacon, in a creamy mustard and cider sauce. What a revelation this simple dinner was! For such an easy meal, it packs a punch in flavour, largely down to the cider sauce. I find using cider in savoury dishes a bit like using wine, some vinegar and a pinch of sugar all at the same time!

A creamy pasta dish using leftover roast chicken, bacon and tarragon.

A quick and easy Sticky Marmalade Chicken recipe, great with rice and fresh steamed vegetables.

It's a bit on the chilly side isn't it? I know Cornwall usually gets away with the worse of the cold weather but it's pretty darn freezing here at the moment. Hubby and I are playing the thermostat game on a fairly regular basis. I turn them up, hubby turns them down, I turn them up again....and so it goes on. It's not just us is it? Anyway, this cold weather definitely calls for hot and spicy food to warm you up and my spicy chicken curry is just about perfect. It's a bit on the hot side for small kids though so this one's probably best reserved for the adults. For this recipe you need to make the curry sauce the night before so the flavours have 24 hours to develop - it really does make a difference to the finished dish. You can also make the curry sauce and freeze it until needed. Feel free to try different meats too, leftover roast beef would work well I think. SPICY CHICKEN CURRY Spicy Chicken Curry Curry Yield: 4 Author: Beth Sach...

I love my slow cooker (REALLY love) so I met the Tefal Cook4Me with rather a lot of scepticism. It claimed to make delicious curries, chilli's and casseroles in 10 minutes and steam vegetables to perfection in ultra quick time. I honestly thought I'd be disappointed with the results - just another gadget to be consigned to the back of the cupboard. How wrong was I! The Tefal Cook4Me comes with 50 pre programmed recipes all ready in less than 15 minutes and guides you step by step to cook meals for up to 6 people (you have the option of 3 portion sizes). It has 5 cook settings - pressure cook (I've always been scared of pressure cookers and I still have the one my late grandmother bought me in its packaging), steam, brown, simmer and reheat. I thought I'd start with something pretty easy - a Chicken Tikka Masala. The recipe book that accompanies the Cook4Me lists the ingredients needed (or you can just refer to the digital screen), with amounts dependant...

I've got another super easy chicken recipe to share with you today. Utilising the trusty Sunday leftovers, this creamy risotto is one of my 'bung it in the oven' varieties. No stirring means you have time to get on with other things - at the moment this means mopping my muddy floors! I'm sure the weather will get better once the kids go back to School. The kids aren't that keen on spinach so I only added a small handful - it would quite happily take a lot more. I also added a couple of bacon rashers too as I had them in the fridge, but it would be fine without. OVEN BAKED CHICKEN, PEA AND SPINACH RISOTTO Oven Baked Chicken, Pea and Spinach Risotto Risotto Yield: 4 Author: Beth Sachs Print Recipe Pin it With Image Without Image Oven Baked Chicken, Pea and Spinach Risotto A great time saving oven baked chicken risotto recipe that requires no stirring. prep time: 10 mins cook time: 25 mins total time: 35 mins ingredients:  25g Butter ...

My kids favourite meal from the Chinese takeaway is in their own words 'Chicken Balls and Sauce' aka Sweet and Sour Chicken. So, I thought I'd try and recreate a version at home, without all the additives, preservatives, excess salt and MSG that you find in proper takeaway versions. Despite my house smelling a bit 'deep fried' for a few hours it was most definitely worth it. The chicken turned out crispy and crunchy and the sauce was as good as any from a takeaway. print recipe Sweet and Sour Chicken by Beth Sachs February-10-2012 Better than any takeaway Ingredients 100ml Soda Water, chilled 100ml Cold Water 140g Self Raising Flour 1 TSP Salt 25g Cornflour, to coat chicken 4 Skinless Chicken breasts, cut into large pieces 2 Spring Onions, to serve For the sauce 1 Red Pepper, chopped 1 Red Chilli, chopped 400g Tin Pineapple Chunks, including juice 50g Tamarind paste 100g Caster Sugar 100ml Rice Win...

An easy Chicken, Ham and Leek Pie recipe. Perfect served with mashed potato and peas.

A nutty chicken curry made with peanut butter.

This cider chicken in a creamy sauce was totally scrummy. I was a little sceptical about adding the anchovies as hubby doesn't like them - but he didn't even know they were in there! This is going on the make again pile. CIDER CHICKEN IN A CREAMY MUSHROOM SAUCE Yield: 4 Author: Beth Sachs Print Recipe With Image Without Image Cider Chicken Cider Chicken in a Creamy Sauce prep time: 10 mins cook time: 20 mins total time: 30 mins ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil 2 shallots 3 chicken breasts 2 anchovy fillets 200ml cider 150g button mushrooms 4 tbsp double cream 2 tbsp flatleaf parsley instructions Step 1: Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a pan and gently fry 2 shallots, sliced, for 5 minutes or until soft. Add 3 chicken breasts, sliced, and brown all over. Step 2: Add 2 anchovy fillets and fry for a few minutes. Pour in 200ml cider and cook for 10 minutes, until reduced. Step 3: Meanwhile, melt a knob of butter in a pan and gently fry...