Ultimate Guide to Cooking Chicken

This is a superb collection of 200 step-by-step recipes, all shown in over 890 photographs. There are 200 tempting and tasty recipes, illustrated step-by-step to guarantee best results every time. Seven easy-to-use sections cover every occasion and part of the menu with simple starters and soups; hearty main courses; delicious one-pot dishes; tasty summer salads and barbecue specialities and lots of old-fashioned pies and tarts; along with some classic hot and spicy dishes. This title includes an informative introduction covering essential preparation and cooking techniques from jointing to stuffing and roasting. Each dish is beautifully pictured in its finished form, so that you can see what you are aiming to achieve, with over 890 images in total. There is an easy-to-follow recipe style, with useful cook's tips and hints throughout, and step-by-step photographs showing the key stages of every recipe. This is an essential sourcebook for cooks of any level of experience and expertise; sure to be a favourite in every kitchen library. Chicken is a perennial favourite and is an increasingly popular alternative to red meat. This comprehensive cookbook serves up this versatile ingredient in a whole host of irresistible ways. There are starters such as Chunky Chicken and Vegetable Soup; hearty main courses such as Chilli Chicken Couscous; delicious one-pot dishes such as Chicken with Herbs and Lentils; and tasty summer dishes such as Grilled Chicken Salad, and Caribbean Chicken Kebabs; and, spicy Tandoori Chicken and delicious Chicken Tikka. This is the essential guide to cooking with chicken - enticing to look at and extremely easy to use, it contains everything you need to know about chicken and presents a fabulous selection of recipes. This colourful compendium will inspire every time.

Editor Linda Fraser is a highly experienced author and editor. She was Cookery Editor on the successful BBC Good Food magazine and has since written and edited dozens of best-selling titles. Her many published works include Hot & Spicy Kitchen Handbook, Low Fat Baking and The Vegetarian Cookbook (all published by Southwater).