02In the kitchen, the chicken is among the most appreciated meats for its tender meat, for its versatility and for its nutritional properties that make it a really important food. Steamed or grilled, grilled or fried, fried or baked, the ways in which you can cook a good meal second based on chicken, keeping its most important nutritional values ​​unchanged, they really are so many.

Choose the right chicken

Chicken is undoubtedly one of the most consumed meats by Italians, but do we know how to choose quality meat from the supermarket?
First of all it is essential to check that the skin does not appear too dry or thickened, while the color on is so important because may vary depending on the breed and the chicken's diet. Chicken meat it must be soft, rosy, shiny and moist. If you don't buy it at the butcher's counter, but choose it already packaged, pay special attention to the packs: if it is frozen products discarded those covered by frost while in the case of fresh products avoid swollen packaging.

Not the usual chicken breast!

We have selected 10 original ideas for bringing a second chicken dish to the table. You can choose between one Swiss chicken and spinach, one chicken tajine with olives, a very soft milk chicken and curry, marinated chicken skewers or alternatively try your hand at preparing strips of chicken with cardamom and leeks with Marsala, prepare an original dish like the chicken in tagliolini pasta, one chicken leg stuffed with asparagus, i roasted chicken with corn or the Pistachio-style chicken meatballs with fried aubergines. And for those who want to delight themselves with a recipe worthy of modernity street food, here is the fried chicken and popcorn.

Chicken at the table: 10 tasty ideas to cook it