The 10 Chicken Recipes Our Readers Make on Repeat

Our readers have spoken: These are the chicken dishes you've saved the most.

By Jess Eng
Published September 09, 2025
Chicken dumpling soup in a bowl with a spoon garnished with parsley

Serious Eats / Lorena Masso

Chicken is one of those weeknight-friendly meals that rarely disappoints. Our site features a robust collection of chicken recipes, including creamy chicken salad, lemony chicken cutlets, and a variety of one-skillet dinners. With so many options, it can be hard to know where to begin. That’s why we’ve rounded up our most-saved chicken recipes from MyRecipes, our free tool for saving and organizing recipes. So what are you waiting for? Grab your ingredients, fire up the stove, and find your new favorite chicken recipe.

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  • Creamy Garlic-Chicken Spanakopita Skillet

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    Morgan Eisenberg

    This satisfying weeknight dinner gives the classic Greek appetizer spanakopita a one-skillet dinner makeover. After browning the chicken in butter and combining it with spinach and a creamy garlic-feta sauce, we top it with crumpled sheets of store-bought phyllo dough. A short bake—about 20 minutes—yields a crackly topping with a rich, savory filling.

  • Chicken Saltimbocca

    Two plates of chicken saltimbocca with sauce broccolini and lemon wedges on a table setting

    Serious Eats / Frederick Hardy II, Prop Stylist: Christina Daley, Food Stylist: Margaret Dickey

    Chicken saltimbocca—golden, crispy chicken layered with prosciutto and finished in a lemony pan sauce—is a fancy-seeming dinner that's surprisingly easy to prep. Frying the sage leaves before searing the chicken infuses the oil with an earthy flavor and perfumes the poultry. Starting the chicken prosciutto-side down ensures the meat has full contact with the pan, resulting in a shatteringly crispy exterior.

  • Sheet-Pan Chicken Piccata

    A plate of chicken piccata with lemon slices and capers on a table next to glasses of white wine

    Serious Eats / Jatin Sharma

    This weeknight-friendly chicken piccata is built for the sheet pan. Halving and pounding boneless, skinless chicken breasts helps the meat cook quickly and evenly, while tossing the meat in panko breadcrumbs creates the lightest, crispiest coating. Topped with a lemony butter sauce spiked with salty capers, the chicken combines briny, tangy, and buttery-rich flavors for a satisfying bite.

  • Chicken Scarpariello (Braised Chicken With Sausage and Peppers)

    Chicken scarpariello in a round ceramic platter. The platter is on a maroon colored piece of cloth, and there is a broken loaf of bread on the left hand side of the image.

    Serious Eats / Julia Estrada

    Chicken scarpariello is another one-pan Italian American favorite for busy weeknights. This version starts with well-browned, seasoned chicken pieces and browned Italian sausage, peppers, and onions. The sweet and sour sauce—made from jarred pickled cherry peppers, pickling juice, sugar, and chicken stock—gives the dish a bright, acidic punch. For the crispiest chicken, place the browned chicken skin-side up on top of the sauce and the vegetables while it finishes cooking in the oven.

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  • Chicken Souvlaki With Tzatziki Sauce and Greek Salad

    Skewers served with salad, pita, and tzatziki sauce

    Serious Eats / Julia Estrada

    For a weekday meal packed with flavor, make chicken souvlaki. A classic vinaigrette of lemon, red wine vinegar, olive oil, oregano, and garlic works as both a marinade and a dressing. Even without a grill, cooking the skewers on a grill pan creates a satisfying char.

  • 30-Minute Lemon Butter Chicken Paillard

    A plate with chicken paillard and a side of greens, placed on a wooden table with a fork and a napkin

    Serious Eats / Fred Hardy

    This 30-minute dish of juicy, golden cutlets comes together in no time with a luxurious lemon-herb butter sauce. Swirl pieces of cold butter into the reduced pan sauce to create a glossy, emulsified sauce and finish with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, lemon zest, and fresh parsley, chives, and tarragon for a bright and herbaceous meal.

  • Chicken Marsala

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    Vicky Wasik

    Though chicken marsala may sound fancy, it's simple to make: Just brown the chicken cutlets well; bloom some gelatin in stock and deglaze; and finish with butter and a little soy sauce to round out the savoriness of the sauce. The result is a velvety, restaurant-worthy dinner that feels fancier than its quick cooking time might suggest.

  • Air-Fryer Southern Fried Chicken

    A blue platter with air-fryer fried chicken

    Serious Eats / Photographer: Jen Causey, Food Stylist: Ana Kelly , Prop Stylist: Josh Hoggle

    This air-fryer version of Southern fried chicken delivers big flavor with none of that deep-fry mess. Brining the chicken in a combination of pickle juice, buttermilk, and seasonings creates extra flavorful meat, while a well-seasoned dredge made from wheat flour and rice flour with a bit of baking powder produces an ultra crispy exterior. It's the kind of recipe that makes weeknight fried chicken entirely doable.

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  • The Best Classic Chicken Salad Sandwich

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    Serious Eats / Qi Ai

    It seems rather obvious, but you can't make a standout chicken salad sandwich without a superior chicken salad. We go the extra mile by cooking the chicken sous vide with lemon and herbs to keep the meat tender and flavorful before dressing it in homemade mayo. (If you don't have an immersion circulator for sous vide, don't worry—we also have instructions for poaching, roasting, or grilling the chicken.) Mounding the salad on Bibb lettuce is key to fluffy, non-soggy bread for the most pleasant sandwich-eating experience.

  • Chicken and Dumplings

    bowl of chicken dumpling soup on a rustic stoneware bowl, with a tarazzo tabletop, dark green textiles and the pot of soup to the side

    Serious Eats / Lorena Masso

    Few dinners are more comforting than a bowl of chicken and dumplings. This version features a rich homemade broth made from a whole chicken and is loaded with vegetables and shredded chicken. Fluffy dumplings enriched with tangy sour cream offer a light and tangy contrast to the savory soup.

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