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Monday, November 8, 2010

Combining Fruit With Chicken For Winning Recipes

Oven roasted chicken with potatoes.Image via Wikipedia
By Christine Szalay-Kudra

There are lots of ingredients you can add to chicken dishes to make them more interesting. Common ones include onions, garlic, cilantro, parsley, tomatoes, broccoli and more. Nevertheless, what about fruit? Fruit is not just for desserts.



Adding fruit to your favorite recipe is more than adding a sweetness to a savory dish. This meat is versatile because of its mild flavor and it is just as nice with a simple, fragrant sauce as with a rich, bold one. Fruit is wonderful with chicken and you will love how they go together.

Fruit and meat dishes are also very popular. Duck a l'orange, pork chops with apple sauce and Chinese lemon chicken are all famous recipes. Maybe you have tried steak with a plum sauce or grilled fish with grilled plantain or banana on the side. Fruit can definitely enhance savory recipes but you need to be careful how much fruit you add, so as not to make the meal too sweet. It is best to follow a good chicken recipe if you want to use fruit with the dish so you get the quantities right.

Helpful Tips for Chicken and Fruit

It is not always necessary to cook the fruit with the meat. Perhaps you would prefer to make a curried fruit and vegetable side dish to serve with the meat or make a nutty fruit salad. This is a nice way to get used to eating fruit with it because you can choose how much fruit and how much meat you want in every mouthful. The fruit in a chicken recipe does not have to be hot or even cooked. It does not have to be part of the sauce either.

Try making a chicken salad with feta cheese, walnuts and melon or a fruit salsa to serve with your baked or grilled boneless chicken. After trying one of these delectable dishes, you will know for sure that fruit goes beautifully with the flavor of meat.

Chicken and fruit can be an impressive dish but these recipes are often really easy to make as well. Whether you fancy cranberry chicken, lemon chicken or another kind of fruity dish, these meals always go down well.

You might want to use the fruit to make a marinade for the chicken. Fruits like kiwi, fig, papaya, and pineapple work as tenderizers and break down the tough parts of the bird, as well as adding flavor to the flesh.

Be careful not to cook fresh pineapple with meat or chicken, though, because the tenderizing enzymes work like crazy when they are heated and will turn your meat to mush as it cooks.

Many fruity recipes call for a bitter or sour ingredient like vinegar, an acidic fruit, or ginger. This is to stop the finished dish from turning out too sweet. The bitter flavor unites the sweetness and the savory element and provides the perfect balance.

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