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Danish Chicken and Asparagus Tartlets (Tarteletter)

Categories: All Recipes/ Chicken/ Dinner/ Side Dish/ Traditional Danish

Recipe for Homemade Danish Chicken and Asparagus Tartlets (Tarteletter)


Today, I would like to share another Danish recipe. In Denmark we refers to this recipe as 'Hens in Tartlets' or sometimes simply just 'tartlets'. Hens in tartlets is an old and very traditional Danish recipe. Even though, this is an old dish it is still very popular and is typically served at buffets at restaurants around in Denmark, at Christmas dinners or maybe just at home, a Saturday evening, when you are hungry for traditional Danish food. They are sometimes uses as a starter because of their relatively small size and 'lightness'. However, they are also sometimes served as the main course typically together with some other food. [Read more...]

Chiang Mai Curry Noodles (Kao Soi)

Categories: All Recipes/ Chicken/ Dinner/ Fast and Easy Food/ Healthy Food/ Soup

Recipe for Homemade Chiang Mai Curry Noodles

This recipe I am sharing here on this page is actually as far away from the traditional Nordic kitchen as it can possibly get. However, this recipe for a chicken red chili curry is just fantastic - the taste is very rich and it just has the right amount of spicy flavor from the red curry paste. This is overall a super delicious dish. Besides being very delicious, it is also very simple to make. I uses this recipe when I want to prepare some fast but also when I want a good looking and tasteful dish - perfect when you are having guests over for dinner. [Read more...]

Parsley Ham Chicken Pie

Categories: All Recipes/ Chicken/ Dinner/ Pie/ Pork

Recipe for Homemade Parsley Chicken Ham Pie

I love making pie and especially this pie I have listed in the recipe further down on this page. This cheese, ham and chicken pie is made from scratch and from a few and simple ingredients. Making the homemade pie is simple to make and it actually does not take that long. [Read more...]

Cream Cheese, Mushroom and Bacon Chicken

Categories: All Recipes/ Chicken/ Dinner/ Fast and Easy Food

Recipe for Homemade Cheese, Mushroom and Bacon Chicken

This recipe for cream cheese, mushroom and bacon chicken filet is one of my favorite everyday dishes. The fact that these stuffed chicken filets are super easy to make and that they have a great taste makes them very popular in my home. I have now made these chicken filets so many times that it is one of the fastest dinners I can make - from start to serving it takes about 25 minutes to prepare this dish. Of course, the first it might take you some extra time. [Read more...]

Parmesan Crusted Chicken

Categories: All Recipes/ Chicken/ Dinner/ Fast and Easy Food

Recipe for Parmesan Crusted Chicken

Today I sharing this delicious recipe for Parmesan crusted chicken. There are several things I like about this breaded chicken; the best is that the inside is nice and moist while the outside is golden and crisp. The time it takes to make them is really not that long, I normally estimate about 45 minutes from start until you have a batch of these homemade chicken strips. [Read more...]

Butter Chicken

Categories: All Recipes/ Chicken/ Dinner

Recipe for Homemade Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken or Murgh Makhani, as it is called some places, is an Indian dish which was invented at a restaurant in Daryaganj Delhi in India. Even though this dish has its roots on the other side of the planet, far away from the traditional Nordic kitchen, I am still sharing it here on my blog.

When I was younger, I was not that happy with foreign and spicy food but after I started to explore the different food the world has to offer, especially the Indian and Asian cuisine, I have learned how to make so many fantastic dishes. From time to time I stumble upon a new kind of food or dish, which I have never had or heard about before but now find very delicious. This Butter Chicken, which I am share the recipe for here in this blog post, is one of these wonderful dishes which I have discovered too late in my life. I know that this dish, for some people, is just a 'normal' and everyday dish but for me it is a great and new experience in the world of food. [Read more...]

Panini with Chicken, Pesto & Mozzarella

Categories: Chicken/ Fast and Easy Food/ Lunch/ Video recipe

Recipe for Panini with Chicken, Pesto and Mozzarella
Panini is the perfect grilled sandwich. This panini is with Chicken, Pesto & Mozzarella and it tastes amazing! The sandwich is perfectly toasted in the panini grill and the melted mozzarella in the middle off the sandwich just holds it all together. The pesto and the chicken flavor just compliments each other so good.

Panini can be varied in lots of ways. You can even make a delicious vegetarian version. Maybe one with avocado, mozzarella and tomato would be great too. [Read more...]

Chicken Lasagna with Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Béchamel Sauce

Categories: Chicken/ Dinner

Recipe for Chicken Lasagna with Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Bechamel Sauce

We love lasagna and we have it for dinner on a regular basis. For years we always had the regular lasagna with beef, which is very good, but at the long run we needed some change. This recipe for chicken lasagna with spinach, cottage cheese and béchamel sauce is now one of our favorite lasagna recipes. It is easy to make and has a super delicious taste.

We have served this lasagna for friends and family, each time with great success. We have also served it for kids who find it delicious even though it has spinach in it. We always make our lasagnas from the ground and we never use a lasagna powder mix where you only need to add water and meat. The time spent to make the lasagna is almost the same; however the one you make from fresh ingredients is just must better.

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Chicken Lasagna with Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Béchamel Sauce

Healthy recipe for chicken lasagne with spinach and cottage cheese all together with a creamy bechamel sauce. This lasagne is very delicious, healthy and packed with great taste.
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Danish
Servings: 4 people
Author: NordicFoodLiving.com

Ingredients

Chicken

  • 400 g ground chicken
  • 1 onion finely chopped
  • 450 g cottage cheese
  • 350 g frozen spinach (thawed)
  • 1 can tomato paste (140 g / 5 oz)
  • 1 can diced tomatoes
  • 150 g grated cheese
  • 1/2 tbsp thyme
  • 1/2 tbsp and basil
  • chicken stock powder
  • salt
  • pepper
  • lasagna sheets

Bechamel Sauce

  • 25 g butter
  • 4 tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 5 dl milk
  • salt
  • pepper
  • grated nutmeg
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

Spinach/cottage cheese mixture

  • Mix the thawed spinach with cottage cheese. Season with salt and pepper.

Meat sauce

  • Heat up some oil in a saucepan and fry the finely chopped onions and the chicken. Add the tomato paste, the diced tomatoes and some chicken stock powder. Let it simmer for about 15-30 minutes.

Béchamel sauce

  • Melt the butter in a saucepan.
  • Add the flour slowly while stirring and continue to stir for about 1 minute.
  • Add the milk in three steps and whisk well in between.
  • Let the sauce boil lightly for a couple of minutes and season with salt and pepper and some grated nutmeg, thyme and basil.

The lasagna

  • Assemble the lasagna, start with a layer of meat sauce, a layer of lasagna sheets, a layer of béchamel sauce and a layer of spinach/cottage cheese. Repeat this step and finish off with a layer of lasagna sheets and béchamel sauce.
  • Preheat the oven to 200 C (400F) and place the lasagna at the middle position and bake for about 15 minutes. Add a layer of grated cheese on top of the lasagna and bake for another 15 minutes.
  • Take the lasagna out of the oven. It is preferred that the lasagna rest for about 20 minutes. However it can be served directly from the oven.

Notes

Serve the lasagna with a nice salad and maybe some freshly baked bread.

Recipe for Chicken Lasagna with Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Bechamel Sauce

Recipe for Chicken Lasagna with Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Bechamel Sauce

Recipe for Chicken Lasagna with Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Bechamel Sauce

Recipe for Chicken Lasagna with Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Bechamel Sauce

Recipe for Chicken Lasagna with Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Bechamel Sauce

BBQ-Marinated Chicken Drumsticks

Categories: Chicken/ Dinner

Recipe for Barbeque Marinated Chicken Drumsticks

Sometimes the dinner just has to be easy and you don't want to spend the entire afternoon or evening preparing and cooking a dinner. In this case, this recipe for barbecue marinated chicken drumsticks is super easy to prepare and it's just perfect when you are looking for a very delicious dinner that doesn't take forever to make.

You simply just make a batch of homemade barbecue marinade and pour it into a plastic bag together with some chicken - then you let it marinate for some time and later grill it on your grill or in the oven.

If you do know that you are going to have a busy day, you can easily prepare the barbecue and chicken the day in advance and let it marinate in the plastic bag overnight - this way the chicken only gets more juicy and tasteful. While the chicken is on the grill you can prepare a nice salad and then you have a healthy and delicious dinner in about 20 minutes - so there's no excuse to go and pick up junk at your local fast-food chain.

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BBQ-Marinated Chicken Drumsticks

Very easy recipe for the most delicious chicken drumsticks which are made on a barbecue.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time2 hours 20 minutes
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Danish
Keyword: Barbecue recipe
Author: NordicFoodLiving.com

Ingredients

  • 1 kg chicken drumsticks
  • 1 portion BBQ marinade (Look up recipe at NordicFoodLiving.com)
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Clean them drumsticks. Sometimes they have small pieces of bones and fat which you need to remove.
  • Put all the drumsticks in a large plastic bag.
  • Make a batch of BBQ marinade. We have made a very easy recipe for BBQ marinade which only requires a few and simple ingredients. Find it on our blog.
  • Pour most of the barbecue marinade into the bag with the chicken. Save some of the marinade for later. Close the bag and shake it so that all the chicken is covered by marinade.
  • Put the bag, with the chicken, in the fridge and leave it for a couple of hours - we normally prepare the chicken the day in advance so that it marinate for about 24 hours. If you are busy you can skip this step.
  • Fire up the grill and grill the drumsticks for about 15-20 minutes. Pour the last of the barbecue marinade over the chicken. Alternatively, you can cook them in the oven at 200 C (400 F) for about 30 minutes.

Notes

Serve the grilled chicken together with a delicious salad and, if you have the time, some freshly baked bread.

Recipe for Barbeque Marinated Chicken Drumsticks

Recipe for Barbeque Marinated Chicken Drumsticks

Recipe for Barbeque Marinated Chicken Drumsticks

Recipe for Barbeque Marinated Chicken Drumsticks

Exotic Chicken Curry

Categories: Chicken/ Dinner

Recipe for Homemade Exotic Chicken Curry

Chicken curry is a very common dish in many parts of Asia and the Caribbean. In Asia a curry dish mostly gets its flavour from ginger, chili, garlic and a whole series of different spices. Outside Asia it's more a tradition to use curry powder which is a mixture of different spices.

This chicken curry dish is very delicious and the pineapples and coconut gives it a nontraditional but wonderful exotic taste. The coconut milk gives it a cream and rich flavor where the pineapples gives a great sweetness to the dish. [Read more...]

Chicken Cordon Bleu with Cheese and Ham

Categories: Chicken/ Dinner

Chicken Cordon Bleu with Cheese and Ham

Cordon bleu is a nice and classic dish for dinner. A Cordon bleu is meat wrapped around some cheese and sometimes ham, then it's breaded in flour, egg and bread crumbs and fried. We have been told that the first Cordon bleu has its origin in Switzerland and goes back to around the 1940s were it was made with veal. One time we had processed Cordon bleus for dinner and decided to try making our own - and we're so happy that we did. The processed Cordon bleu can't be compare at all to the homemade ones. They are just way more delicious! The fact that you can use ingredients of a certain quality means a lot. The processed Cordon bleus you can buy at the supermarket, in fancy and good looking card board boxes, are typically made from the cheapest ingredients and packed with different artificial additives. The ingredients used in this recipe are simple and fresh. [Read more...]

Grilled Chicken Meatballs on Wooden Sticks

Categories: Chicken/ Dinner/ Healthy Food

Recipe for Healthy Chicken Meatballs on Wooden Sticks

In the summertime our grill is used regularly, there is just something great about preparing food in a grill. You get this particular grill taste to the food and the entire area has this nice grill smell. Whether your are in your backyard, on your apartment balcony or at the beach, food made on a grill is just great. In this page I have listed one of my favorite grill recipes, small grilled chicken meatballs on wooden sticks.

These meatballs are very simple and easy to prepare and goes perfectly together with some bread and a salad. This dish is very healthy and can be made in under one hour. The small meatballs are loved by kids and are great as a pre-snack if you are waiting for the main dish to be done.

If you do not own a grill you can fry the chicken meatballs in a saucepan or in the oven.

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Grilled Chicken Meatball

Super easy recipe for grilled chicken meatballs on wooden sticks. These chicken meatballs are healthy and a great option for your barbecue party.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time35 minutes
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Danish
Keyword: Barbecue recipe
Author: NordicFoodLiving.com

Equipment

  • Wooden sticks

Ingredients

  • 400 g ground chicken
  • 1 egg
  • 1 onion (chopped)
  • 1/2 dl all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 dl bread crumbs
  • 1 dl grated parmesan
  • salt
  • rosemary
  • chili powder
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Place the wooden sticks in a bowl of water (15-20 minutes). This will prevent the sticks from burning when you grill the chicken meatballs.
  • Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl. Add some salt, rosemary and chili powder as your prefer.
  • Shape the meat into 30 small balls and put 3-4 balls on each wooden stick.
  • Grill the meatball sticks approximately five minutes on two sides. You can also fry the meatballs on a saucepan or in the oven.

Notes

Serve the meat balls with a salad and some sweet-chili sauce

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Recipe for Healthy Chicken Meatballs on Wooden Sticks

Chili con Pollo - Chicken with Beans and Chili

Categories: Chicken/ Dinner

Chili con Pollo Recipe- Chicken and Chili

The Chili con Pollo recipe is very simple and easy to prepare. It is great when you are in a hurry and still want a delicious and healthy dinner. The preparation time is about 45 minutes and that is from start to the dinner can be served. Chili con Pollo is basically a chicken, beans and chili stew. It can be served all-year around but is especially perfect for the cold winter period. [Read more...]

Pulled Chicken

Categories: Chicken/ Dinner/ Healthy Food

Recipe for homemade Pulled Chicken

I am completely in love with pulled pork. I normally make pulled pork out of 4-5 kg (9-11 pounds) pork and then I just freeze the prepared meat in small plastic bags. Then I can take it out of the freezer in the morning and reheat it for dinner in the evening. Simple and super delicious! After having had so must pulled pork I decided to try out pulled chicken. In this page I describe how you can make healthy and tasteful pulled chicken. The great thing about pulled chicken is that it is not that difficult and time consuming to make compared to pulled pork, at least if you follow my recipe.

See also: Recipe for pulled pork

The cooking time of the chicken fillets is only about 3 hours compared to 10-15 hours for pulled pork. However, you get the best result if you marinade the chicken fillets overnight to make sure all the nice spices kicks in. The marinate step can be skipped if you are in a hurry.
Because pulled chicken is made out of chicken fillets it is a very healthy alternative to regular pulled pork which has a larger amount of fat and calories. You can choose to serve the pulled chicken with homemade burger buns or maybe in a homemade flour tortilla. In both cases the chicken goes great with coleslaw.

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Pulled Chicken

Simple recipe how to make pulled chicken. Compared to the traditional pulled pork - pulled chicken has way fewer calories and is therefore a healthier alternative.
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time3 hours 15 minutes
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Danish
Keyword: Chicken
Servings: 3 people
Author: NordicFoodLiving.com

Ingredients

  • 3 chicken fillets

Marinade

  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp ketchup
  • 1 tbsp honey
  • 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp paprika
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tsp liquid smoke (optional)
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp garlic powder

Instructions

  • Mix all the ingredients for the marinade.
  • Put the chicken fillets on a piece of aluminum foil and place them in a baking dish.
  • Pour the marinade on top of the fillets.
  • Use the extra aluminum foil to wrap around the fillets and put the them in the fridge for a couple of hours or preferred overnight. If you are in a hurry simply skip this step.
  • Put the chicken in the oven at 150 C (300 F) for about 15 minutes. Turn down the heat to 110 C (230 F) and let the chicken cook for about 3 hours.
  • After the 3 hours take out the chicken and use two forks to pull the meat into small pieces.
  • Serve the pulled chicken with some freshly baked burger buns and some coleslaw.


Recipe for Pulled Chicken

Recipe for Pulled Chicken

Recipe for Pulled Chicken

Recipe for Pulled Chicken

Recipe for Pulled Chicken