The Chicken Recipes Our Readers Cooked (and Saved) the Most in 2025

The chicken recipes you saved for good reason.

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Leah Colins
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Leah Colins
Senior Culinary Editor

Leah is the Senior Culinary Editor at Serious Eats, and was previously a recipe developer and editor with America's Test Kitchen for almost 9 years. She has developed recipes for and edited over 20 cookbooks ranging in topic from bread baking to plant-based eating to outdoor grilling and so much more. While there, she also developed recipes and articles for Cooks Illustrated Magazine, Cooks Country Magazine, and ATK's digital platform.Before her life as a recipe developer, she cooked in 5-star and Michelin-starred fine dining establishments from coast to coast such as The Herbfarm and Aubergine Restaurant at L'Auberge Carmel; she also treasures her time flipping burgers on flattops in her teenage years, and baking and boxing cookies and pies at a wonderful family-owned German bakery in her early professional life.

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Published December 28, 2025
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Chicken is the definition of dependable cooking. It’s what many of us reach for when we want something familiar but still good—really good—and judging by what Serious Eats readers saved most in 2025, that instinct hasn’t changed. These are the chicken recipes you bookmarked because they felt achievable, adaptable, and worth returning to, whether for a weeknight dinner or a low-stress weekend project. Based on MyRecipes saves from the past year, this list leans into comfort with range: skillet dinners, braises, sheet-pan meals, and classic dishes that deliver big flavor without unnecessary fuss. Below, you’ll find the 10 most-saved chicken recipes of 2025.

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