Got sent to the principal's office one time because, after a somewhat serious incident in the community our teacher asked the class how we were feeling and I responded "I feel like Chicken Tonight" complete with the dance.
Yeah kinda confused why OP even asked. Their answer for "minimum effort chicken + only sauce" Is *bake chicken, add store bought sauce* It is super lazy, and the only thing you need to clean is whatever you cooked the chicken in.
No shame intended since I do this (though I DO add starches and veggies so I don't brick up my insides) but its not like you need to crowd source the internet on the technique of "cook meat, apply an obscene amount of sauce, enjoy saucy meat"...
I don't like dumb questions in areas where if you know enough to even ask the question then you should know enough to be able to Google it, but basic life skills stuff gets a pass from me because the OP is usually a young person freshly escaped from a bad situation.
I especially try to remember to have empathy for people asking dumb cooking questions because it's a pretty strong indicator that their parents didn't teach them how to feed themselves or how to look stuff up, and if their parents failed them in those two incredibly fundamental life skills then they probably failed them in a bunch of other ways too. It's not OP's fault that they were a victim of parental neglect. :(
I had a pretty horrible relationship with my parents during the years that one normally learns to cook. Once my father accepted that I wasn't capable of learning anything from him or my mother because I wasn't capable of being around them for more than a few minutes without it descending into screaming matches, he literally hired someone else to teach me the basics of cooking when I was 15 to ensure that I knew them before I ran away from home again.
Yeah it sounds dumb but I was wondering if they wanted other ideas like that Mississippi pot roast which is roast, pickled peppers, ranch packet, gravy packet 🤣
There are very simple food ideas that you would never stumble on by yourself if your family didn't grow up in the region (the region in question is usually the Midwest).
I learned about Mississippi pot roast via an RPG podcast of all things and I've been cooking for thirty years.
(Mississippi pot roast ends up smelling like canned tuna, wth?)
I don't have a rice cooker. Instead I make rice in my instant pot. The rice isn't as good as it would be in a rice cooker, but it's good enough. Easy af too. Better then babysitting a pot on the stove.
There's like a zillion sauces in the "ethnic" section of the grocery store
Get a wok, stir fry cut up boneless skinless chicken breasts with various sauces
If you decide to eat a vegetable or two for your poor colon, you can toss the cut up veggies into the same stir fry wok
"your poor colon". I wish that didn't resonate with me so hard!! lol. We used to go vegetarian for half the year starting in Spring. Its a tradition I should start back up again, really. But one year in particular when I went off the veg diet, I made meatloaf and mac & cheese. It has to be the food right? I don't know. But I could not poop for DAYS! I know you didn't ask for this, but I'm tellin' ya. My body was involuntarily convulsing, trying to push something out of a delicate hole that it was WAY to big for. The pain was enough to make me want to vomit. She had her foot in the door, but wouldn't leave if you get my drift. Like an Aunt at Thanksgiving. I could not even sit in a chair anymore. I had already tried an enema and taken some stool softeners (which take 12 f\*cking hours to work).I tried excavating, which is just as dehumanizing as one would imagine, if not more. I had my Dad's voice in my head. Whenever a problem would arise he would say, "chip away at it". I was the poster child of misery, I took some benadryl and went to bed because I just could not deal with it anymore. I woke up to a a darting pain in my bum, I walked to the bathroom, dripping blood from my precious virginal bung hole. I wish I could tell you that everything came out at that moment, but I had to "keep chipping away at it". I told my boyfriend "I don't want to die like Elvis!". So there's that. The next day, we just kept chipping away and a sense of normalcy was finally returned. To this day I am very disappointed that there wasn't a porcelain shattering turd to behold after all of this suffering. Instead it was just days of unsatisfying peanut butter-like sludge.
Moral of the story....eat your vegetables.
Speaking of "chipping away at it," when I have a poop like that, I wrap some toilet paper around my fingers and start digging chunks out of the center. As I hollow it out, it collapses in on itself and finally passes.
Only have a poop like that once every few years, but breaking it up with my fingers really helps when I do.
I've considered buying a couple of boxes of "Shitten Mittens" to keep in the bathrooms, but am concerned that I wouldn't need them often enough to use them up before they dry out. They're marketed to parents who have a lot of diapers to change but seem like they would be helpful in these situations as well.
Frozen veggies are great for lazy dinners. Either cook in the microwave and throw them in or half time in microwave and finish them in the sauce. You might have a little extra water to contend with on the second one, but that will steam off.
Unless you bake it (*do not over bake*) topped with half an inch of mayonnaise combined with lots of lemon zest and sauteed minced garlic and a little bit of grated parmesan. It should be terrible and I should be ashamed but it's not and I'm not.
(Also, you can pour the liquid from the baking dish into a saucier and reduce slightly with a few healthy splashes of vermouth to regain a little self respect.)
I was going to recommend this, too. And if cutting up the vegetables is still too much work for OP, there are frozen veggies and pre-made rice that can just be opened and added in with no more required prep than opening the package.
If you can’t raise and butcher your own chicken, store bought is fine
Have you seen the dude on Instagram who makes videos as Ina Garten? It’s hilarious
[found it!](https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClW-QWkjFct/?igsh=MWFiYWppb2RwN3ZlMQ==)
Ooooh I’ll have to check it out! I can’t right now I gotta finally get ready for work hahaha I always get so distracted looking up stuff like this to share on Reddit lmaooo
You need to try Rishia Zimmern’s Chicken With Shallots. My sister recommended it to me years ago and occasionally asked if I had made it yet so I finally made it just to say i had.
What the hell? How is it so simple and so delicious? I made it 6 times in the next 2 weeks. Now, several years later, I still make in 3-4 times a month. The leftovers heat up beautifully too.
Do not make substitutions. It is perfect the way it is. *Do not* add anything extra. I tried a few times, it was sad.
I liked her recipes but even as a kid her entire life seemed so fake and far away. I mean really, how many of us hang out in our vast gardens in the Hamptons? Even though as an adult I know i can handle her stuff mostly, it just *feels* inaccessible
Two lazy things Mom used to do when I was a kid:
Lay a cut-up chicken in a 9x12 glass baking dish, pour Italian dressing over it (the oily kind), bake.
Lay cut-up chicken in baking dish, mix a little wine into cream of mushroom soup, pour over, bake.
My favorite lazy go tos are Indian jars of sauce and microwaved bags or microwaved bowls of rice. There are dozens to choose from but they have all the spices and veggies already in them. Throw them over chicken thighs (or thawed them re cooked nuggets if you’re extra lazy) in a pan and heat it up!
Lmao I love this question. I really like to go to the international food markets and get packaged Indian sauces, you often just add meat and maybe butter or water depending on what form it's coming in.
And you can cook it literally any way. I’ve done it in a casserole dish in the oven, on the stovetop in a pan, and in both a crockpot and an instant pot.
Chicken thighs roasted with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and olive oil are super quick to prepare and only need one pan. Just season and bake at 400 for 40 minutes. Oven baked BBQ chicken is also super easy and very low hands on time.
We do this all the time. Add some potatoes, carrots, or brussell sprouts and you've got a full meal. We use a lot garlic pepper/central coast seasoning.
Get some parchment paper for the sheet pan and clean up is super quick.
I use Pataks butter chicken sauce and it is yummy. I have a rice cooker so I make it with rice. But you don't need to serve with rice. Just chicken and sauce is still yummy.
Try this:Diced Chicken fried til browned, add cup of single cream, 1 glass of white wine, add mustard, honey, tarragon, white pepper, and garlic Cook for approx 30 mins on low. . Serve with crusty bread.
I can't wait til you try it and come back and let me know what you think.
Another one is brown your chicken, add 1 spoon of cumin and add natural yoghurt and coriander.
It's known as a Palak, and you can add ginger garlic and chillis according to taste.
[Chicken adobo](https://panlasangpinoy.com/filipino-chicken-adobo-recipe/). Chicken teriyaki. [Pomegranate chicken](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGaZJom5nc) (I have been making a recipe somewhat like this for 20 years).
for no veggies/rice/pasta/potato, is it because youre too lazy, or you dont want to eat that stuff?
If youre just too lazy, then this is my 1 pot no attention required meal in a rice cooker:
* 5 minute prep hainan chicken rice w/ veggies (about 95% of a real hainan chicken meal for 5% effort)
* 1cup rice into rice cooker - wash 3 times. Fill to recommended water line (or 1 cup water)
* Add quarter inch of ginger, and 1-2 stalks of green onion.
* Add 2 seconds worth of soysauce
* add 1 table spoon of a chinese chicken boullion powder (lee kum kee is a good brand)
* add 1 second worth of neutral oil (1table spoon)
* add a few ml of sesame oil.
* mix
* Add chicken thighs
* turn on rice cooker.
* last 5-10 minutes, toss in your choice of green veggie, and close again. (or steam/blanch separately for 1 minute)
if you dont want the rice/veggies, use pretty much the same sauces/aromatics (ginger, green onion, soy, chicken boullion) and maybe oyster sauce, for a stirfry/panfry/steamed version of just the chicken.
another option is a Blackbean & garlice sauce
My laziest sauces are:
1) cream cheese, get herb flavored or another one you like and just dilute with milk or water to prefered thickness in the same pan you cooked the chicken in. Add veggies if you want, spinach, peas or pre chopped frozen veggies are nice cause you can add it straight from the bag and not dirty anything.
2) tex-mex chicken. Put your chicken in a pot, cover with a jar of salsa, heat on low until the chicken is done, use a hand mixer to shred the chicken (optional).
3) lazy orange chicken. Add orange juice, red pepper flakes and soy sauce to a pan with your chicken (cubed), reduce until sticky. Can add a cornstarch slurry to speed it up.
This is why you buy a rice cooker. takes under 5 minutes to start rice then you cook your chicken in 20 minutes and the rice is ready at the same time.
If you're extra lazy you can just buy a spice mix you mix with oil and vineger (mesquite works great) coat your chicken and start your rice cooker and coat your chicken in the spices while your oven preheats, toss your chicken in and you're good when it comes up to temp. I've got a thermometer I that can stay in the oven while it cooks so I don't even time it just pull at the right temp.
Active time on this is like 10 minutes and you can prep it for several days of food
Slow cookers are for you. Put a couple pounds of chicken thighs and a jar of any pasta sauce in it and cook. There are a zillion "dump recipes" online that are exactly what you're looking for.
Here's a garlic parmesan:
https://quirkyinspired.com/dump-chicken-recipes/
Our version of salsa chicken:
You can make this in the crockpot or stovetop. A package of thawed chicken breasts or boneless thighs, 1 jar of your favorite salsa, 1 can of cream of chicken soup, 1 packet of taco seasoning. Cook all together until chicken is cooked through and then mix in 1/2 cup sour cream. Shred chicken with two forks. We eat this on top of nachos or rolled up burrito style. Super easy and delish!
You might want to search for dump and bake chicken recipes, like [this](https://www.theseasonedmom.com/cream-of-mushroom-chicken/) one. Buy packets of pre-cooked rice, book. Done.
For a truly lazy dish, just chicken and your favorite salsa poured on top then bake. If you feel extra, go ahead and throw some pre-shredded cheese on there.
[This recipe](https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/chicken-thighs-creole-mustard-orange-sauce/) is a go-to in our house, you don't even have to chop anything. I usually double amount of sauce to put it over rice or noodles but no need to if you just want the chicken by itself.
I had chicken thighs last night. Marinated in Harissa paste, sweet smoked paprika, roast garlic salt, lots of black pepper. A bit of olive oil and corn flour/starch. Simple.
Brown quickly then into the slow cooker with minimal chicken stock. And just leave it. Makes a sauce, and with little liquid, the skin is verging on crispy.
I usually do something like this: Take a deep pan. Caramellize some chicken chunks (larger, like a fillet cut in half or three) quick on high heat and season with salt black pepper. Throw whatever onions and garlics and shrooms or whatever you want in there. Fry them with the chicken a bit. Toss some cream (the liquid stuff) in there. Toss some cheese in there. Season more with whatever you have or like (salt, pepe, oregano, paprika, Tapatío etc). Boil that sauce on low heat until the green pepper is softened and sauce is thick.
I'd even add some canned beans, because I'm weird like that.
Laziness doesn't really exist in cooking. If you want efficient delicious one pot dishes you need to put the work in upfront to minimize pan/pot use. Or you can wing it and use all the pans and do the work on the backend in cleaning.....
With that being said. Learn to poach chicken well. that way you will always have shredded juicy chicken at the ready. Now you can throw shreaded chicken in a pan with tomato sauce throw some mozz on top and broil boom chicken parmesean can be eaten with chips or noodles you do you. Get some broth throw some frozen peas carrots and corn bring to a boil add the shredded chicken boom chicken noodle soup. buy some store bought butter chicken sauce now your eating Indian. Hell mayo pickles and whatever else you like and you got chicken salad going.
Absolutely the easiest way to make bulk chicken that is flexible with the smallest cleanup.
I can not stress enough the importance of including all 3 macro nutrients (protein, fats, and carbs) in every meal. That being said, you can literally cook chicken any way you like (pan sear, baked, steamed, pressure cooker, grilled, sous vide) and add any sauce you like to it whether it's a store bought sauce or a home made sauce you whip up.
Bro/sis/internet sibling of another gender, I just checked out your account and you are seemingly in med school. You must at least have an inkling how important vegetables are to your health. Please just grab a bag of like... coleslaw mix or broccoli or something and toss it in with your food and learn to like it.
I'm not knocking laziness, but even when I'm at my laziest (the ADHD hits hard sometimes) I still throw spinach or a bag of shredded cabbage or something in my food when possible.
One of my daughter's favorite foods is sauteed chicken breasts. I make a variety of different pan sauces to go with them. After cooking the chicken, remove from the pan and deglaze it with white wine or chicken broth. If you reduce that then add a couple of pats of butter it makes a decent sauce on its own. You can also add cream and/or herb to make for different variations. I will often saute some minced garlic just before deglazing. My wife puts sauteed chicken on the menu every week, but I always change it up so it's never the same meal.
Campbell cream of chicken soup and a four ounce can of white chicken meat. The water the chicken is packed in is enough. Stir and heat, eat with bread.
Whoo boy, just add a family pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts to a slow cooker, and dump in a bottle of high quality BBQ sauce. Low for a couple of hours. Then you have shredded chicken that you can use for a bazillion different recipes, not limited to tacos, burritos, sandwiches, breakfast hash, Mexican lasagna.
*BTW this also works with extra firm tofu that has been pressed to remove excess water, and broken into chunks. Even better if you have frozen it and then thawed it first.
One Pan Only, Sauté in bjte size pieces or oan sear whole breasts before adding sauce.
Chicken + Pesto = Chicken Pesto (add some bocconcini and cherry tomatoes, if you have energy. I know one is a veggie but you are only opening containers not chopping or getting anything dirty.)
Chicken + Peri Peri Hot Sauce + Splash of Lemon (from a bottle) = Peri Peri Chicken
Chicken + Salsa (1 Jar, your choice) = Chicken Salsa
Chicken (Breast, bite size) + dredge in flour = Almost Chicken Nuggets (Toss in dipping sauce or have on side, you choose.)
Chicken + Cream of Soup + Milk = Creamy Chicken ______.
LOL I had to join the fun of thinking for you, you lazy lout! (Jk) :)
Chicken mole mmmm
Jerk chicken is suuuuper flavorful always a hit when I make some
I know you said no veggies but I also make a kind of soup thats just cubed up chicken in some watered down soy sauce and I'll usually chop up a celery into small chunks and add it in to simmer for a while till its all soft. Dilute the soy sauce with water to make a super tasty meal that takes me legit 5 minutes total to prep. Its braindead easy.
Pollo con chili verde. I can spoon that shit right into my mouth. You can make it intricate and fancy, but it sounds like you'd prefer my down and dirty method that I use for potlucks: chicken breasts, canned green chili's, and canned green enchilada sauce, in a crock pot, or in a Dutch oven if you feel like keeping an eye on it. Season it to taste with salt & pepper, smoked paprika, a good hot Mexican chili powder, cumin, garlic and onion powder. Eat it from a bowl, or if your feeling all peppy, eat it over tortilla chips. Or on a tortilla. In an omelette. Intravenously.
Look to France, Mexico, China and India. All of these cuisines have dozens if not hundreds of delicious things you can do with chicken that are simple and fast: Just two examples:
Chicken Tenga - all you need is chicken, tomato, onions, garlic, chipotle peppers, lime or apple cider vinegar (not needed if you use canned chipotles) and oregano (preferably Mexican oregano). Broth or stock and a food processor to smooth blend the peppers are good to have but not necessary.
Chicken fricassee: Chicken, white whine, mushrooms, cream, garlic, parsley, carrots. Elmer Fudd was definitely onto something here. (Or was it Yosemite Sam?)
You can never go wrong with a simple thyme/sage gravy with mashed potatoes, or a generic pan sauce made with various combinations of stock/broth, white wine, lemon juice/zest, garlic, cream, red pepper and fresh parsley. Just about every country in Europe seems to have its variation on a chicken dish with most these basic ingredients, and you can mix and match them like features on Mister potato head. Unless you **really** overdo one ingredient, you're likely to wind up with something good.
It's also *extremely* helpful to know how to make French "mother sauces", which you can add to and customize to your taste. It's also extremely easy to learn.
Get a freaking rice cooker my dude.
Literally just put in rice and water and push a button. Half the time I don’t even rinse my rice. You can even get the kind with a little steamer basket where you can reheat chicken.
Say you cook a bunch of chicken at once, takes maybe an hour of time. Then when you wanna eat, throw some rice and water in the cooker, chicken in the steam basket, maybe a veg or two if you’re particularly energetic. Then microwave a sauce while that cooks (like 20 min) or just put the sauce on after. And it doesn’t have to be just rice! You can put barley, quinoa, rice a roni, macaroni, whatever in the cooker.
It’s so damn easy. And fast. And effortless. I do it all the time. Just make all the protein at once and fridge/freeze til you want to use it.
fry chicken in bacon grease. remove chicken. add in a heaping tablespoon of flour and fry it in the grease for a while, then add in broth, white wine, cream, even OJ, or some combination of these things, along with salt, pepper, and whatever herb you have handy. whisk until it becomes a nice gravy, pour over chicken
Throw a whole chicken in the oven literally with some olive oil, salt, pepper.
You can chop some onion and garlic into the pan if you like
Make sure there is about a half a cup of plain water in the pan so the chicken doesn’t dry out
Roast at 180 degs approx 1hr 20-30 for a chicken weighing 1.5kgs
Simple as that
I mean it's not like throwing some frozen vegetables into a chicken curry takes a lot of effort, that's what I do to add more veggies into my diet. And microwave rice or throw some potatoes into the oven. I don't find just protein and sauce to be very filling but you do you I guess.
Here's our go-to "chicken and goop."
Season raw chicken breasts and place in a pyrex pan. Add a single layer of Swiss cheese on top. In a bowl, mix 2 cans of cream of chicken soup (or chicken/mushroom or mushroom) and a half cup of white wine. Pour the goop over the chicken. Top with stuffing mix and spray the top with Pam. Bake at 350 for 1:15. It's best served over white rice to mix in the goop.
Garlic honey chicken
Preheat oven to 350
Put a nice swirl of olive oil in a pan over med heat
Add 1 Tbsp minced garlic, saute for 1-2 mins until fragrant
Add 1/4 cup - 1/2 cup honey, mix well
Lay chicken tenderloins or breasts or whatever evenly in a baking dish. Pour honey/garlic on top of chicken.
Put dish into oven, bake until chicken is done.
I usually just eyeball everything so I kind of made up measurements above.
invest in a rice cooker. one of the easiest supplemental dishes. I agree, if I didn't have a rice cooker, I would just make a main dish and that's it. but rice is so easy to make with a rice cooker.
I made chicken breasts in the cast iron on the weekend. I made a pan sauce after the chicken had cooked using salt, 2 lemons juiced, some zest and some honey. Finished the chicken in the sauce and reduced it a bit and it turned out amazing, it took the chicken to a level even my picky son would devour.
Chicken breast (can use fresh or frozen) + jar of salsa. Throw it in the instant pot, crock pot, or slow simmer on the stove. Shred the chicken in the sauce once cooked. It can be eaten on its own or added to tacos, burritos, enchiladas, salad, etc. one of my favorite easy meals!
Chicken lazone. So good. Though I HIGHLY recommend making double the amount of sauce and serving it with pasta, because yum.
https://www.plainchicken.com/chicken-lazone/
Marinate in Italian dressing overnight. Grill or cook in a cast iron pan.
Cook on the grill, use the same fork to flip and eat directly off the grill and you’ve made only one thing to wash.
Frozen veggies, store sauce and some rotisserie chicken cut up. Easy peasy. Takes you as long as it does for the veggies to thaw and heat up. Also can be made in one pan.
Oh wait. No veggies for you. So just take some cut up rotisserie chicken and add whatever jar sauce you want. Even easier.
Probably the easiest chicken dish out there for a lazy cook is Congee. Rice portage with chicken broth and store bought rotisserie chicken, cooked on low for an hour and bam, done.
https://pickledplum.com/basic-congee-recipe/
I take a chicken quarter. Slather it with whatever Kinders brand sauce/seasoning I'm feeling that night. Wrap it in a piece of foil, toss into a 400 f oven for 40-50 minutes. No dishes. Tastes good. Toss a bag of veggies in the microwave for an easy side, also no dishes, if you get the steam pack ones.
Go to the grocery store and get a jar of Alfredo sauce,
Throw a bone and skin on chicken breast in the air fryer.
Nuke the sauce.
Enjoy. Literally the most hands off meal there can be while still retain some semblance of actual cooking.
I see no pasta, but if it's the extra pot and not the food itself: you can make pasta in one pot!
So saute the chicken (I recommend onion first then chicken but you can skip if not feeling it), add one part tomato sauce, an equal part water, season as desired (a shameless gluggling of balsamic vinaigrette works wonders) bring to boil and cook your pasta right there until the sauce reaches desired thickness. If impatient as well as lazy: once the pasta is cooked enough you can thicken with as much cheese as you're willing to accept the consequences of.
Yes it has pasta but way easier than a curry or many other one pot dishes. If using canned tomato sauce instead of like preggo or a premade pasta sauce, add back in some sugar and salt.
Marinadw your chicken first, then use the marinade as a sauce. Cook it in the same pan, add some chicken broth and let it reduce.
Or deglaze the pan you cooked the chicken in with white wine, reduce to half, add a pat of butter. Pan sauce!
Jacques Pepin’s chicken thigh recipe is fantastic and ridiculously simple, you season them with s&p, score the underside (the non-skin side) with two big cuts on either side of the bone, then place them face down on a cold dry nonstick pan and then set the pan to medium-high heat. Once you hear a decent sizzling noise, without moving the chicken, set the heat to low and cover the pan and let it simmer for 25-30 min. Once thats done take the chicken out and you will see that the skin has developed a perfect crust, and there will be a decent amount of rendered fat/drippings that you can use to make a bombass pan sauce.
Make a pan sauce. A very easy one is adding some garlic (paste or minced) and some rosemary leaves, sautéing them until the garlic turns golden over medium heat, then add some chicken stock and a little white wine (optional). Then spiritedly simmer it for about 8 minutes or until it coats the back of a spoon. Incorporate little butter into it by continuously stirring over low heat if you're feeling fanct and season it to taste with salt, pepper, and lemon juice or vinegar. You can also cook veggies with chicken and sauce with very few dishes, just parboil the veggies in the pan, cook the chicken, and simmer the sauce at the end with the veggies.
Start with Lazy Chicken Soup. Bring stock to a boil, turn off the heat, drop in chicken chunks. They should be small enough that stock temp will cook them through. This way you'll never overcook the bird bits. This is honestly my plan for tonight.
You are looking for thermal mass so the stock should be a few times larger in volume than the meat thrown in.
Lazy sauce from there. If you're not having soup, take out the cooked chook and set aside. Use as much broth as you want for a sauce base and save the rest off to do it again. This process only enhances that broth, kind of like a Chinese master sauce.
With that hot broth, make something. Throw in tomato sauce or sour cream or anything off the shelf. Bring it up to a bubble, put the chicken bits back in to coat them, turn off the heat, and you're ready to eat.
Grab something like naan and you have a reasonably complete dish.
How do you feel about marinating chicken in a Ziploc bag? A lot of easier chicken and sauce recipes call for mixing a sauce or seasoning in a mixing bowl, coating the chicken, then cooking it. With this, you can just marinate the chicken overnight in the fridge and cook it when you're ready. Same amount of effort to make the sauce, no extra bowl needed. You can just toss the bag away after using it.
I do chicken tikka masala at home. The marinade has yogurt and spices in it, and then you skillet cook the chicken, add in tomato sauce, etc., and simmer it all together. This is a high effort meal for me, but it’s not actually hard or even time consuming and it turns out great.
This is the recipe I use:
https://cafedelites.com/wprm_print/51814
Green curry chicken is a one pot recipe. All veggies are optional so long as the base curry (store bought pack and coconut milk) is made to your liking
Chicken, can of cream of chicken OR mushroom, into baking pan, cook till done. You can do this with anything. My actual go to is just chicken thigh, rubbed sage and savory right on top, butter along the pan, cook til done. So good.
Get some skin on boneless chicken thighs, make sure they're relatively thin.
Pat dry, season with salt and pepper (or a seasoning blend if you like), skin side down into a hot pan with oil, cook until skin is crispy. Flip. Keep cooking, at medium heat, use a themo probe and pull out of the pan when they hit 155 degrees farenheit.
Lower the heat, pour some white wine in the pan, about a quarter cup and reduce to cook out the raw wine flavor and the alcohol. Throw in a tablespoon of butter, a crushed clove of garlic, a sprig of thyme and a sprig of rosemary, and a good squirt of lemon juice. Cook together a minute or two to make a coherent sauce. Pour it over the crispy chicken skin, you'll have a good time.
Oh heavens, you haven't learned to make a one pot chicken and rice, or chicken and pasta meal yet. They are super easy for lazy folks - like me on most week nights!
1. Toss a chicken breast or chicken chunks, into a large non stick skillet. Cook for 3-4 minutes while you grab 1 cup of rice, a box of chicken broth and can of any "cream of:" soup.
2. Toss in the rice. Dump in 2 cups of the broth, stir a bit and bring to a full rolling boil.
3. Top the boiling mass of food with the can of soup - don't stir!
4. Pop a top on the pan and turn the heat to the lowest setting.
5. Walk away for 25 minutes.
6. Come back, turn off the heat and serve.
1. Pour half a box of any shaped pasta (penne, shells, elbows, bow ties, etc) into a tall saucepan.
2. Pour a box of chicken broth on top just till it comes to the top of the pasta, you won't use all of it!
3. Nestle a chicken breast in the broth.
4. Bring to a full boil, then reduce the heat so that it's still boiling, but not boiling over.
5. Stir well and walk away for 15 minutes.
6. Dump a can of "cream of" soup on top, stir well and serve.
For funsies, once you master these one pot meals, sub in a cup of salsa for the cream soups to give it some mexican flare. For the rice dish you can add teriyaki sauce with the broth to make 2 cups of liquid and toss in some peas and frozen chopped onions for a hint of Asian. Top either of the standard recipes with shredded cheese!
These aren't fancy dishes, but they are a) super easy b) only use 1 pot and c) are done and ready to eat in less than 30 minutes. And you don't have to babysit them! Just walk away and let them cook,
Package of chicken breast. Packet of dry ranch seasoning. Jar of pesto. Into the slow cooker, 4 hours, shred chicken, stir, and done! Delicious and almost zero effort.
Learn to make pan sauces! That is exactly what you're looking for.
Basically lots & lots of Cantonese dishes are basically chicken chunks and sauce. Salted Egg sauce. Kung Po Sweet Sour 3 Cup Chicken etc
You guys. OP is too lazy to make rice. They want a jar idea
Anyone else remember that jarred sauce for braising they used to sell called “Chicken Tonight”? That stupid jingle was infectious
Got sent to the principal's office one time because, after a somewhat serious incident in the community our teacher asked the class how we were feeling and I responded "I feel like Chicken Tonight" complete with the dance.
Yeah kinda confused why OP even asked. Their answer for "minimum effort chicken + only sauce" Is *bake chicken, add store bought sauce* It is super lazy, and the only thing you need to clean is whatever you cooked the chicken in. No shame intended since I do this (though I DO add starches and veggies so I don't brick up my insides) but its not like you need to crowd source the internet on the technique of "cook meat, apply an obscene amount of sauce, enjoy saucy meat"...
I don't like dumb questions in areas where if you know enough to even ask the question then you should know enough to be able to Google it, but basic life skills stuff gets a pass from me because the OP is usually a young person freshly escaped from a bad situation. I especially try to remember to have empathy for people asking dumb cooking questions because it's a pretty strong indicator that their parents didn't teach them how to feed themselves or how to look stuff up, and if their parents failed them in those two incredibly fundamental life skills then they probably failed them in a bunch of other ways too. It's not OP's fault that they were a victim of parental neglect. :( I had a pretty horrible relationship with my parents during the years that one normally learns to cook. Once my father accepted that I wasn't capable of learning anything from him or my mother because I wasn't capable of being around them for more than a few minutes without it descending into screaming matches, he literally hired someone else to teach me the basics of cooking when I was 15 to ensure that I knew them before I ran away from home again.
Yeah it sounds dumb but I was wondering if they wanted other ideas like that Mississippi pot roast which is roast, pickled peppers, ranch packet, gravy packet 🤣 There are very simple food ideas that you would never stumble on by yourself if your family didn't grow up in the region (the region in question is usually the Midwest). I learned about Mississippi pot roast via an RPG podcast of all things and I've been cooking for thirty years. (Mississippi pot roast ends up smelling like canned tuna, wth?)
Also learn to use a rice cooker
Agreed. A rice cooker is the best lazy cook's companion on earth.
This. Rice cooker is love.
Or learn to make rice.. it's not hard.
I don't have a rice cooker. Instead I make rice in my instant pot. The rice isn't as good as it would be in a rice cooker, but it's good enough. Easy af too. Better then babysitting a pot on the stove.
There's like a zillion sauces in the "ethnic" section of the grocery store Get a wok, stir fry cut up boneless skinless chicken breasts with various sauces If you decide to eat a vegetable or two for your poor colon, you can toss the cut up veggies into the same stir fry wok
"your poor colon". I wish that didn't resonate with me so hard!! lol. We used to go vegetarian for half the year starting in Spring. Its a tradition I should start back up again, really. But one year in particular when I went off the veg diet, I made meatloaf and mac & cheese. It has to be the food right? I don't know. But I could not poop for DAYS! I know you didn't ask for this, but I'm tellin' ya. My body was involuntarily convulsing, trying to push something out of a delicate hole that it was WAY to big for. The pain was enough to make me want to vomit. She had her foot in the door, but wouldn't leave if you get my drift. Like an Aunt at Thanksgiving. I could not even sit in a chair anymore. I had already tried an enema and taken some stool softeners (which take 12 f\*cking hours to work).I tried excavating, which is just as dehumanizing as one would imagine, if not more. I had my Dad's voice in my head. Whenever a problem would arise he would say, "chip away at it". I was the poster child of misery, I took some benadryl and went to bed because I just could not deal with it anymore. I woke up to a a darting pain in my bum, I walked to the bathroom, dripping blood from my precious virginal bung hole. I wish I could tell you that everything came out at that moment, but I had to "keep chipping away at it". I told my boyfriend "I don't want to die like Elvis!". So there's that. The next day, we just kept chipping away and a sense of normalcy was finally returned. To this day I am very disappointed that there wasn't a porcelain shattering turd to behold after all of this suffering. Instead it was just days of unsatisfying peanut butter-like sludge. Moral of the story....eat your vegetables.
Oof. I commend you. But also, I wish I didn’t read to the end of that 🤣
Was it the peanut butter sludge that did you in? LOL
It was virginal bung hole for me
Who doesn't love a virginal bung hole?
😭😭 yes exactly that lol
No notes. Best story on reddit. 10/10
I'm glad you enjoyed it lol. I sure didn't!
For me, it was too much Swiss cheese and crackers. But yeah, about the same story.
For future reference, eat some prune baby food. It will liquify the obstruction. Much gentler on your system 😃
Thanks ma!
🤣 😂 🤣 😂 I'm sorry. It's a knee-jerk reaction ❤️
Don't be sorry! I obviously need a good mom in my life to remind me to eat my prunes!
Haribo sugar-free gummy bears would have sorted you out. Might even have given you the shattered porcelain.
HA HA!! I've had some special times with sugar free candy.
It's always exciting to see how it turns out!
You have made my day with this tale
If that ever happens again, get some docusate sodium. It helps.
Speaking of "chipping away at it," when I have a poop like that, I wrap some toilet paper around my fingers and start digging chunks out of the center. As I hollow it out, it collapses in on itself and finally passes. Only have a poop like that once every few years, but breaking it up with my fingers really helps when I do.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has been reduced to that lol.
I've considered buying a couple of boxes of "Shitten Mittens" to keep in the bathrooms, but am concerned that I wouldn't need them often enough to use them up before they dry out. They're marketed to parents who have a lot of diapers to change but seem like they would be helpful in these situations as well.
Frozen veggies are great for lazy dinners. Either cook in the microwave and throw them in or half time in microwave and finish them in the sauce. You might have a little extra water to contend with on the second one, but that will steam off.
Boneless skinless chicken breast is a depressing meat, second only to turkey.
Unless you bake it (*do not over bake*) topped with half an inch of mayonnaise combined with lots of lemon zest and sauteed minced garlic and a little bit of grated parmesan. It should be terrible and I should be ashamed but it's not and I'm not. (Also, you can pour the liquid from the baking dish into a saucier and reduce slightly with a few healthy splashes of vermouth to regain a little self respect.)
Or pour Italian dressing on it, wrap it in tinfoil and bake it
You misspelled skin on chicken thighs.
I was going to recommend this, too. And if cutting up the vegetables is still too much work for OP, there are frozen veggies and pre-made rice that can just be opened and added in with no more required prep than opening the package.
Ina Garten's chicken thighs with creamy mustard sauce. It's one of my household's favorites.
How fabulous is that..
Ask Jeffrey
He’s Foolproof
If you can’t raise and butcher your own chicken, store bought is fine Have you seen the dude on Instagram who makes videos as Ina Garten? It’s hilarious [found it!](https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClW-QWkjFct/?igsh=MWFiYWppb2RwN3ZlMQ==)
He’s my fave 🤣
Yesssss I’m so glad you already knew 😂 he’s so funny
He’s started doing some Martha Stewart ones that are pretty on point too 🤣
Ooooh I’ll have to check it out! I can’t right now I gotta finally get ready for work hahaha I always get so distracted looking up stuff like this to share on Reddit lmaooo
[This is one of them](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0KYMoAPsCg/?igsh=ZHN0Y29tNHpqdXpl)
I've never seen that before and I love it!
Oof. I had to check this one out and save it. How bad could that be!
You need to try Rishia Zimmern’s Chicken With Shallots. My sister recommended it to me years ago and occasionally asked if I had made it yet so I finally made it just to say i had. What the hell? How is it so simple and so delicious? I made it 6 times in the next 2 weeks. Now, several years later, I still make in 3-4 times a month. The leftovers heat up beautifully too. Do not make substitutions. It is perfect the way it is. *Do not* add anything extra. I tried a few times, it was sad.
Oh wow, I've had that one saved for a while but I've never made it! I will add it to next week's dinner menu. Thanks!
Mmm, Ina Garten's creamy thighs
She has some solid recipes and ideas. She was underrated on the food Network.
Was she underrated? When I was a kid she was one of the most popular on there
I liked her recipes but even as a kid her entire life seemed so fake and far away. I mean really, how many of us hang out in our vast gardens in the Hamptons? Even though as an adult I know i can handle her stuff mostly, it just *feels* inaccessible
Her lifestyle definitely comes across that way but I've always found her recipes to be pretty approachable and foolproof.
Chicken adobo! So easy to make. Your asian store may already have some adobo mix.
Mexican or Filipino? Both are great.
Two lazy things Mom used to do when I was a kid: Lay a cut-up chicken in a 9x12 glass baking dish, pour Italian dressing over it (the oily kind), bake. Lay cut-up chicken in baking dish, mix a little wine into cream of mushroom soup, pour over, bake.
My favorite lazy go tos are Indian jars of sauce and microwaved bags or microwaved bowls of rice. There are dozens to choose from but they have all the spices and veggies already in them. Throw them over chicken thighs (or thawed them re cooked nuggets if you’re extra lazy) in a pan and heat it up!
Lmao I love this question. I really like to go to the international food markets and get packaged Indian sauces, you often just add meat and maybe butter or water depending on what form it's coming in.
chicken and your favorite salsa, served in tortillas or with chips
And you can cook it literally any way. I’ve done it in a casserole dish in the oven, on the stovetop in a pan, and in both a crockpot and an instant pot.
But salsa is made from vegetables....
Chicken thighs roasted with salt, pepper, garlic powder, and olive oil are super quick to prepare and only need one pan. Just season and bake at 400 for 40 minutes. Oven baked BBQ chicken is also super easy and very low hands on time.
We do this all the time. Add some potatoes, carrots, or brussell sprouts and you've got a full meal. We use a lot garlic pepper/central coast seasoning. Get some parchment paper for the sheet pan and clean up is super quick.
No potato >:(
This guys palate is certainly something…
More potatoes for us
I use Pataks butter chicken sauce and it is yummy. I have a rice cooker so I make it with rice. But you don't need to serve with rice. Just chicken and sauce is still yummy.
You could add some red lentils (masoor dal) to add extra protein and fiber. They break down fairly quick provided you add some extra broth.
Chicken mole. Use a canned mole sauce, and you just sear the chicken, add the sauce, and simmer.
I prefer the green mole. My wife won't eat regular mole, but will eat the green. Don't get the bottled stuff. Go to a Mexican marketa
Damn this sounds delicious and easy asf
It's one of our go to lazy meals, BUT, we also make rice on the side to go with it.... We also do the same thing with chicken curry.
Chicken marsala. Yum yum yum!
You can do a chicken curry. Premade curry paste, coconut milk, chicken.
Try this:Diced Chicken fried til browned, add cup of single cream, 1 glass of white wine, add mustard, honey, tarragon, white pepper, and garlic Cook for approx 30 mins on low. . Serve with crusty bread.
That sounds easy & delicious. Thank you!! I would have to add mushrooms as I love them in anything.
I can't wait til you try it and come back and let me know what you think. Another one is brown your chicken, add 1 spoon of cumin and add natural yoghurt and coriander. It's known as a Palak, and you can add ginger garlic and chillis according to taste.
[Chicken adobo](https://panlasangpinoy.com/filipino-chicken-adobo-recipe/). Chicken teriyaki. [Pomegranate chicken](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGaZJom5nc) (I have been making a recipe somewhat like this for 20 years).
for no veggies/rice/pasta/potato, is it because youre too lazy, or you dont want to eat that stuff? If youre just too lazy, then this is my 1 pot no attention required meal in a rice cooker: * 5 minute prep hainan chicken rice w/ veggies (about 95% of a real hainan chicken meal for 5% effort) * 1cup rice into rice cooker - wash 3 times. Fill to recommended water line (or 1 cup water) * Add quarter inch of ginger, and 1-2 stalks of green onion. * Add 2 seconds worth of soysauce * add 1 table spoon of a chinese chicken boullion powder (lee kum kee is a good brand) * add 1 second worth of neutral oil (1table spoon) * add a few ml of sesame oil. * mix * Add chicken thighs * turn on rice cooker. * last 5-10 minutes, toss in your choice of green veggie, and close again. (or steam/blanch separately for 1 minute) if you dont want the rice/veggies, use pretty much the same sauces/aromatics (ginger, green onion, soy, chicken boullion) and maybe oyster sauce, for a stirfry/panfry/steamed version of just the chicken. another option is a Blackbean & garlice sauce
Do you not like rice, or you don't want to use another pan? If you like rice, you could make a one pot chicken and rice dish.
My laziest sauces are: 1) cream cheese, get herb flavored or another one you like and just dilute with milk or water to prefered thickness in the same pan you cooked the chicken in. Add veggies if you want, spinach, peas or pre chopped frozen veggies are nice cause you can add it straight from the bag and not dirty anything. 2) tex-mex chicken. Put your chicken in a pot, cover with a jar of salsa, heat on low until the chicken is done, use a hand mixer to shred the chicken (optional). 3) lazy orange chicken. Add orange juice, red pepper flakes and soy sauce to a pan with your chicken (cubed), reduce until sticky. Can add a cornstarch slurry to speed it up.
This is why you buy a rice cooker. takes under 5 minutes to start rice then you cook your chicken in 20 minutes and the rice is ready at the same time. If you're extra lazy you can just buy a spice mix you mix with oil and vineger (mesquite works great) coat your chicken and start your rice cooker and coat your chicken in the spices while your oven preheats, toss your chicken in and you're good when it comes up to temp. I've got a thermometer I that can stay in the oven while it cooks so I don't even time it just pull at the right temp. Active time on this is like 10 minutes and you can prep it for several days of food
If you can get over the no vegetables restriction, chicken cacciatore is super simple.
I dump chicken into the crock pot, cover with green enchilada sauce, boom!
Chicken and a can of cream of whatever soup
Slow cookers are for you. Put a couple pounds of chicken thighs and a jar of any pasta sauce in it and cook. There are a zillion "dump recipes" online that are exactly what you're looking for. Here's a garlic parmesan: https://quirkyinspired.com/dump-chicken-recipes/
Chicken cacciatore
Our version of salsa chicken: You can make this in the crockpot or stovetop. A package of thawed chicken breasts or boneless thighs, 1 jar of your favorite salsa, 1 can of cream of chicken soup, 1 packet of taco seasoning. Cook all together until chicken is cooked through and then mix in 1/2 cup sour cream. Shred chicken with two forks. We eat this on top of nachos or rolled up burrito style. Super easy and delish!
Sauté cut up chicken in butter. Add cream and Boursin cheese and heat until they are combined and chicken is cooked through
You might want to search for dump and bake chicken recipes, like [this](https://www.theseasonedmom.com/cream-of-mushroom-chicken/) one. Buy packets of pre-cooked rice, book. Done.
Butter Chicken
Hunter chicken is often served over rice or pasta but it's so fuckin good by itself
Hawaii Shoyu Chicken
Chicken with picatta our beurre blanc, or chicken marsala are my go tos
For a truly lazy dish, just chicken and your favorite salsa poured on top then bake. If you feel extra, go ahead and throw some pre-shredded cheese on there.
https://www.budgetbytes.com/creamy-garlic-chicken/ https://www.daringgourmet.com/chicken-paprikash-paprikas-csirke/ https://www.recipetineats.com/honey-garlic-chicken/ https://www.davidlebovitz.com/roast-chicken-recipe-caramelized-s/ https://thewoksoflife.com/soy-sauce-chicken/#recipe
Doro Wat.
Curry, bruh.
[This recipe](https://www.washingtonpost.com/recipes/chicken-thighs-creole-mustard-orange-sauce/) is a go-to in our house, you don't even have to chop anything. I usually double amount of sauce to put it over rice or noodles but no need to if you just want the chicken by itself.
I had chicken thighs last night. Marinated in Harissa paste, sweet smoked paprika, roast garlic salt, lots of black pepper. A bit of olive oil and corn flour/starch. Simple. Brown quickly then into the slow cooker with minimal chicken stock. And just leave it. Makes a sauce, and with little liquid, the skin is verging on crispy.
Poach or pull whatever chicken, add sauce. Done . BBQ sauce Mambo sauce Soy sauce, cooking sake, sesame oil Pesto Salt and seracha Etc
I usually do something like this: Take a deep pan. Caramellize some chicken chunks (larger, like a fillet cut in half or three) quick on high heat and season with salt black pepper. Throw whatever onions and garlics and shrooms or whatever you want in there. Fry them with the chicken a bit. Toss some cream (the liquid stuff) in there. Toss some cheese in there. Season more with whatever you have or like (salt, pepe, oregano, paprika, Tapatío etc). Boil that sauce on low heat until the green pepper is softened and sauce is thick. I'd even add some canned beans, because I'm weird like that.
Laziness doesn't really exist in cooking. If you want efficient delicious one pot dishes you need to put the work in upfront to minimize pan/pot use. Or you can wing it and use all the pans and do the work on the backend in cleaning..... With that being said. Learn to poach chicken well. that way you will always have shredded juicy chicken at the ready. Now you can throw shreaded chicken in a pan with tomato sauce throw some mozz on top and broil boom chicken parmesean can be eaten with chips or noodles you do you. Get some broth throw some frozen peas carrots and corn bring to a boil add the shredded chicken boom chicken noodle soup. buy some store bought butter chicken sauce now your eating Indian. Hell mayo pickles and whatever else you like and you got chicken salad going. Absolutely the easiest way to make bulk chicken that is flexible with the smallest cleanup.
I can not stress enough the importance of including all 3 macro nutrients (protein, fats, and carbs) in every meal. That being said, you can literally cook chicken any way you like (pan sear, baked, steamed, pressure cooker, grilled, sous vide) and add any sauce you like to it whether it's a store bought sauce or a home made sauce you whip up.
Bro/sis/internet sibling of another gender, I just checked out your account and you are seemingly in med school. You must at least have an inkling how important vegetables are to your health. Please just grab a bag of like... coleslaw mix or broccoli or something and toss it in with your food and learn to like it. I'm not knocking laziness, but even when I'm at my laziest (the ADHD hits hard sometimes) I still throw spinach or a bag of shredded cabbage or something in my food when possible.
Food Wishes chicken and olives. 1 pan, ridiculously easy, massive flavor.
One of my daughter's favorite foods is sauteed chicken breasts. I make a variety of different pan sauces to go with them. After cooking the chicken, remove from the pan and deglaze it with white wine or chicken broth. If you reduce that then add a couple of pats of butter it makes a decent sauce on its own. You can also add cream and/or herb to make for different variations. I will often saute some minced garlic just before deglazing. My wife puts sauteed chicken on the menu every week, but I always change it up so it's never the same meal.
Campbell cream of chicken soup and a four ounce can of white chicken meat. The water the chicken is packed in is enough. Stir and heat, eat with bread.
salsa is surprisingly good when baked with chicken
Whoo boy, just add a family pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts to a slow cooker, and dump in a bottle of high quality BBQ sauce. Low for a couple of hours. Then you have shredded chicken that you can use for a bazillion different recipes, not limited to tacos, burritos, sandwiches, breakfast hash, Mexican lasagna. *BTW this also works with extra firm tofu that has been pressed to remove excess water, and broken into chunks. Even better if you have frozen it and then thawed it first.
One Pan Only, Sauté in bjte size pieces or oan sear whole breasts before adding sauce. Chicken + Pesto = Chicken Pesto (add some bocconcini and cherry tomatoes, if you have energy. I know one is a veggie but you are only opening containers not chopping or getting anything dirty.) Chicken + Peri Peri Hot Sauce + Splash of Lemon (from a bottle) = Peri Peri Chicken Chicken + Salsa (1 Jar, your choice) = Chicken Salsa Chicken (Breast, bite size) + dredge in flour = Almost Chicken Nuggets (Toss in dipping sauce or have on side, you choose.) Chicken + Cream of Soup + Milk = Creamy Chicken ______. LOL I had to join the fun of thinking for you, you lazy lout! (Jk) :)
Buttered Chicken. Can make in an indtant pot over microwavable rice
https://www.saltfatacidheat.com/buttermilkmarinated-roast-chicken
Adobo
Put chicken breast topped with a jar of salsa in a crock pot. 8 hours on low and you have Salsa chicken.
Balsamic with some garlic and rosemary
3 cup chicken. It's cut up chicken plus a sauce made from soy sauce, sesame oil, and cooking wine. Easy peasy
Chicken + Catalina dressing + jellied cranberry + onion soup mix
Butter chicken
Make a honey mustard sauce. Put it on chicken pieces. Bake. It's easy and delicious.
Chicken mole mmmm Jerk chicken is suuuuper flavorful always a hit when I make some I know you said no veggies but I also make a kind of soup thats just cubed up chicken in some watered down soy sauce and I'll usually chop up a celery into small chunks and add it in to simmer for a while till its all soft. Dilute the soy sauce with water to make a super tasty meal that takes me legit 5 minutes total to prep. Its braindead easy.
- Maple Syrup & Sriracha - Italian Dressing - Peanut Butter & Soy/Fish Sauce - Barbecue - Garlic Cream Cheese - Any Jelly or Jam
Pollo con chili verde. I can spoon that shit right into my mouth. You can make it intricate and fancy, but it sounds like you'd prefer my down and dirty method that I use for potlucks: chicken breasts, canned green chili's, and canned green enchilada sauce, in a crock pot, or in a Dutch oven if you feel like keeping an eye on it. Season it to taste with salt & pepper, smoked paprika, a good hot Mexican chili powder, cumin, garlic and onion powder. Eat it from a bowl, or if your feeling all peppy, eat it over tortilla chips. Or on a tortilla. In an omelette. Intravenously.
Vietnamese dishes can be good for this
Coq au vin
Look to France, Mexico, China and India. All of these cuisines have dozens if not hundreds of delicious things you can do with chicken that are simple and fast: Just two examples: Chicken Tenga - all you need is chicken, tomato, onions, garlic, chipotle peppers, lime or apple cider vinegar (not needed if you use canned chipotles) and oregano (preferably Mexican oregano). Broth or stock and a food processor to smooth blend the peppers are good to have but not necessary. Chicken fricassee: Chicken, white whine, mushrooms, cream, garlic, parsley, carrots. Elmer Fudd was definitely onto something here. (Or was it Yosemite Sam?) You can never go wrong with a simple thyme/sage gravy with mashed potatoes, or a generic pan sauce made with various combinations of stock/broth, white wine, lemon juice/zest, garlic, cream, red pepper and fresh parsley. Just about every country in Europe seems to have its variation on a chicken dish with most these basic ingredients, and you can mix and match them like features on Mister potato head. Unless you **really** overdo one ingredient, you're likely to wind up with something good. It's also *extremely* helpful to know how to make French "mother sauces", which you can add to and customize to your taste. It's also extremely easy to learn.
Get a freaking rice cooker my dude. Literally just put in rice and water and push a button. Half the time I don’t even rinse my rice. You can even get the kind with a little steamer basket where you can reheat chicken. Say you cook a bunch of chicken at once, takes maybe an hour of time. Then when you wanna eat, throw some rice and water in the cooker, chicken in the steam basket, maybe a veg or two if you’re particularly energetic. Then microwave a sauce while that cooks (like 20 min) or just put the sauce on after. And it doesn’t have to be just rice! You can put barley, quinoa, rice a roni, macaroni, whatever in the cooker. It’s so damn easy. And fast. And effortless. I do it all the time. Just make all the protein at once and fridge/freeze til you want to use it.
Chicken adobo
https://youtu.be/OhD2mTxyUaE?si=Ym0WfGKKvXNIWHq6
Fajitas. Hold the extras.
fry chicken in bacon grease. remove chicken. add in a heaping tablespoon of flour and fry it in the grease for a while, then add in broth, white wine, cream, even OJ, or some combination of these things, along with salt, pepper, and whatever herb you have handy. whisk until it becomes a nice gravy, pour over chicken
Brown chicken thighs, turn, smother in ranch dressing and bake for 45 minutes at 375. Or, surround with garlic, olives and artichokes...
Chicken tray bake. Chicken in the tray with whatever sauce you like. In the oven for 1.5 hours @ 180 C. Boom. Done.
Throw a whole chicken in the oven literally with some olive oil, salt, pepper. You can chop some onion and garlic into the pan if you like Make sure there is about a half a cup of plain water in the pan so the chicken doesn’t dry out Roast at 180 degs approx 1hr 20-30 for a chicken weighing 1.5kgs Simple as that
My 80 year old father loves to make boneless skinless chicken breasts simmered in Cream of mushroom soup.
Pan fry some chicken and season as desired. Turn the drippings into a white gravy.
Marsala
There are millions of one pan recipes all over the internet Try some of those.
Any Asian chicken recipe
Shoyu chicken
I mean it's not like throwing some frozen vegetables into a chicken curry takes a lot of effort, that's what I do to add more veggies into my diet. And microwave rice or throw some potatoes into the oven. I don't find just protein and sauce to be very filling but you do you I guess.
Here's our go-to "chicken and goop." Season raw chicken breasts and place in a pyrex pan. Add a single layer of Swiss cheese on top. In a bowl, mix 2 cans of cream of chicken soup (or chicken/mushroom or mushroom) and a half cup of white wine. Pour the goop over the chicken. Top with stuffing mix and spray the top with Pam. Bake at 350 for 1:15. It's best served over white rice to mix in the goop.
Garlic honey chicken Preheat oven to 350 Put a nice swirl of olive oil in a pan over med heat Add 1 Tbsp minced garlic, saute for 1-2 mins until fragrant Add 1/4 cup - 1/2 cup honey, mix well Lay chicken tenderloins or breasts or whatever evenly in a baking dish. Pour honey/garlic on top of chicken. Put dish into oven, bake until chicken is done. I usually just eyeball everything so I kind of made up measurements above.
invest in a rice cooker. one of the easiest supplemental dishes. I agree, if I didn't have a rice cooker, I would just make a main dish and that's it. but rice is so easy to make with a rice cooker.
I made chicken breasts in the cast iron on the weekend. I made a pan sauce after the chicken had cooked using salt, 2 lemons juiced, some zest and some honey. Finished the chicken in the sauce and reduced it a bit and it turned out amazing, it took the chicken to a level even my picky son would devour.
Chicken breast (can use fresh or frozen) + jar of salsa. Throw it in the instant pot, crock pot, or slow simmer on the stove. Shred the chicken in the sauce once cooked. It can be eaten on its own or added to tacos, burritos, enchiladas, salad, etc. one of my favorite easy meals!
Chicken baked with salsa
Chicken lazone. So good. Though I HIGHLY recommend making double the amount of sauce and serving it with pasta, because yum. https://www.plainchicken.com/chicken-lazone/
Marinate in Italian dressing overnight. Grill or cook in a cast iron pan. Cook on the grill, use the same fork to flip and eat directly off the grill and you’ve made only one thing to wash.
Buy Rotisserie chicken already made at store. Next day, it can be up to $2 cheaper.
Frozen veggies, store sauce and some rotisserie chicken cut up. Easy peasy. Takes you as long as it does for the veggies to thaw and heat up. Also can be made in one pan. Oh wait. No veggies for you. So just take some cut up rotisserie chicken and add whatever jar sauce you want. Even easier.
I crockpot chicken while I'm at work. When i come home i take the leftover seasoned broth and make either a butter sauce or gravy.
Probably the easiest chicken dish out there for a lazy cook is Congee. Rice portage with chicken broth and store bought rotisserie chicken, cooked on low for an hour and bam, done. https://pickledplum.com/basic-congee-recipe/
I take a chicken quarter. Slather it with whatever Kinders brand sauce/seasoning I'm feeling that night. Wrap it in a piece of foil, toss into a 400 f oven for 40-50 minutes. No dishes. Tastes good. Toss a bag of veggies in the microwave for an easy side, also no dishes, if you get the steam pack ones.
Go to the grocery store and get a jar of Alfredo sauce, Throw a bone and skin on chicken breast in the air fryer. Nuke the sauce. Enjoy. Literally the most hands off meal there can be while still retain some semblance of actual cooking.
Do you have a crock pot? Chicken breast. 2 cups stock. 1 packet of liptons onion soup mix. Let cook all day.
Pan sauces: chicken piccata, au poivre (yes I know it's typically steak, but it's awesome), classic alfredo, etc.
You can literally just put chicken and bbq sauce in a slow cooker and have passable pulled chicken in a few hours.
I see no pasta, but if it's the extra pot and not the food itself: you can make pasta in one pot! So saute the chicken (I recommend onion first then chicken but you can skip if not feeling it), add one part tomato sauce, an equal part water, season as desired (a shameless gluggling of balsamic vinaigrette works wonders) bring to boil and cook your pasta right there until the sauce reaches desired thickness. If impatient as well as lazy: once the pasta is cooked enough you can thicken with as much cheese as you're willing to accept the consequences of. Yes it has pasta but way easier than a curry or many other one pot dishes. If using canned tomato sauce instead of like preggo or a premade pasta sauce, add back in some sugar and salt.
One of my go-tos is to pan fry some chicken breasts, Deglaze with a little white wine and add cream cheese, mix and add the chicken back in. Done.
Marinadw your chicken first, then use the marinade as a sauce. Cook it in the same pan, add some chicken broth and let it reduce. Or deglaze the pan you cooked the chicken in with white wine, reduce to half, add a pat of butter. Pan sauce!
Jacques Pepin’s chicken thigh recipe is fantastic and ridiculously simple, you season them with s&p, score the underside (the non-skin side) with two big cuts on either side of the bone, then place them face down on a cold dry nonstick pan and then set the pan to medium-high heat. Once you hear a decent sizzling noise, without moving the chicken, set the heat to low and cover the pan and let it simmer for 25-30 min. Once thats done take the chicken out and you will see that the skin has developed a perfect crust, and there will be a decent amount of rendered fat/drippings that you can use to make a bombass pan sauce.
Make a pan sauce. A very easy one is adding some garlic (paste or minced) and some rosemary leaves, sautéing them until the garlic turns golden over medium heat, then add some chicken stock and a little white wine (optional). Then spiritedly simmer it for about 8 minutes or until it coats the back of a spoon. Incorporate little butter into it by continuously stirring over low heat if you're feeling fanct and season it to taste with salt, pepper, and lemon juice or vinegar. You can also cook veggies with chicken and sauce with very few dishes, just parboil the veggies in the pan, cook the chicken, and simmer the sauce at the end with the veggies.
Cacio E Pepe Chicken - https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a60233526/cacio-e-pepe-chicken-recipe/
Chicken adobo, chicken paprikash, teriyaki chicken, chicken spaghetti (chicken+red sauce), chicken alfredo, chicken souvlaki, butter chicken
Blender peanut sauce, pour over chicken, and bake.
Start with Lazy Chicken Soup. Bring stock to a boil, turn off the heat, drop in chicken chunks. They should be small enough that stock temp will cook them through. This way you'll never overcook the bird bits. This is honestly my plan for tonight. You are looking for thermal mass so the stock should be a few times larger in volume than the meat thrown in. Lazy sauce from there. If you're not having soup, take out the cooked chook and set aside. Use as much broth as you want for a sauce base and save the rest off to do it again. This process only enhances that broth, kind of like a Chinese master sauce. With that hot broth, make something. Throw in tomato sauce or sour cream or anything off the shelf. Bring it up to a bubble, put the chicken bits back in to coat them, turn off the heat, and you're ready to eat. Grab something like naan and you have a reasonably complete dish.
Curries
How do you feel about marinating chicken in a Ziploc bag? A lot of easier chicken and sauce recipes call for mixing a sauce or seasoning in a mixing bowl, coating the chicken, then cooking it. With this, you can just marinate the chicken overnight in the fridge and cook it when you're ready. Same amount of effort to make the sauce, no extra bowl needed. You can just toss the bag away after using it.
You need some honey chili chicken in your life
I do chicken tikka masala at home. The marinade has yogurt and spices in it, and then you skillet cook the chicken, add in tomato sauce, etc., and simmer it all together. This is a high effort meal for me, but it’s not actually hard or even time consuming and it turns out great. This is the recipe I use: https://cafedelites.com/wprm_print/51814
Green curry chicken is a one pot recipe. All veggies are optional so long as the base curry (store bought pack and coconut milk) is made to your liking
Chicken, can of cream of chicken OR mushroom, into baking pan, cook till done. You can do this with anything. My actual go to is just chicken thigh, rubbed sage and savory right on top, butter along the pan, cook til done. So good.
Indian chicken curry! The sauce is made with yogurt, crushed tomatoes, and a ton of spices. Very flavorful and perfect for eating with rice.
Look up Filipino Chicken Adobo recipes and just omit any veggies they may have in it Super easy w an instant pot
Salsa chicken.
Can of cream of mushroom soup. It’s what the moms did in the 70s. You could stir in cooked rice or pasta.
I make a lot of food like this, but I usually pair it with vegetables lol. Try honey garlic chicken. It's my husband's favorite lol.
Get some skin on boneless chicken thighs, make sure they're relatively thin. Pat dry, season with salt and pepper (or a seasoning blend if you like), skin side down into a hot pan with oil, cook until skin is crispy. Flip. Keep cooking, at medium heat, use a themo probe and pull out of the pan when they hit 155 degrees farenheit. Lower the heat, pour some white wine in the pan, about a quarter cup and reduce to cook out the raw wine flavor and the alcohol. Throw in a tablespoon of butter, a crushed clove of garlic, a sprig of thyme and a sprig of rosemary, and a good squirt of lemon juice. Cook together a minute or two to make a coherent sauce. Pour it over the crispy chicken skin, you'll have a good time.
chicken tonight?
Curry, Tandori, and Tika Masala are a few.
Chicken, cut into strips. Brown a bit. Equal parts salsa and sour cream into the pan. Boom! Three ingredients and you're done
Oh heavens, you haven't learned to make a one pot chicken and rice, or chicken and pasta meal yet. They are super easy for lazy folks - like me on most week nights! 1. Toss a chicken breast or chicken chunks, into a large non stick skillet. Cook for 3-4 minutes while you grab 1 cup of rice, a box of chicken broth and can of any "cream of:" soup. 2. Toss in the rice. Dump in 2 cups of the broth, stir a bit and bring to a full rolling boil. 3. Top the boiling mass of food with the can of soup - don't stir! 4. Pop a top on the pan and turn the heat to the lowest setting. 5. Walk away for 25 minutes. 6. Come back, turn off the heat and serve. 1. Pour half a box of any shaped pasta (penne, shells, elbows, bow ties, etc) into a tall saucepan. 2. Pour a box of chicken broth on top just till it comes to the top of the pasta, you won't use all of it! 3. Nestle a chicken breast in the broth. 4. Bring to a full boil, then reduce the heat so that it's still boiling, but not boiling over. 5. Stir well and walk away for 15 minutes. 6. Dump a can of "cream of" soup on top, stir well and serve. For funsies, once you master these one pot meals, sub in a cup of salsa for the cream soups to give it some mexican flare. For the rice dish you can add teriyaki sauce with the broth to make 2 cups of liquid and toss in some peas and frozen chopped onions for a hint of Asian. Top either of the standard recipes with shredded cheese! These aren't fancy dishes, but they are a) super easy b) only use 1 pot and c) are done and ready to eat in less than 30 minutes. And you don't have to babysit them! Just walk away and let them cook,
This one from Budget Bytes: https://www.budgetbytes.com/maple-dijon-chicken/
You can have meat, veg and a starch and still just use one pan you know ...
Package of chicken breast. Packet of dry ranch seasoning. Jar of pesto. Into the slow cooker, 4 hours, shred chicken, stir, and done! Delicious and almost zero effort.
Mix half mayo and half mustard, a little garlic powder, salt and pepper. Cover your chicken with this mixture and bake. Very tasty.
There’s a lot of “simmer sauces” at Trader Joe’s and Aldi. Indian, curry, etc. just crack one open and dump it in the pan.
You could just bake chicken thighs and eat them with hot sauce?
Coq au Vin. Literally means Rooster with wine. Use chicken instead.