How to cook Chicken to Perfection

How to cook chicken? This might seem like basic knowledge, but I found a great recipe for how to cook chicken to perfection (i.e. not overcooked) and I figured that I should add the recipe information here to my blog. Even if you, the reader, think this is a "duh" type of recipe, I found it helpful, and this is really a blog for helping me collect my favorite recipes, so I am adding this anyway.

I found this recipe in a cookbook that I loaned from the library called: Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners. I do not recommend getting this cookbook. This was the only recipe from it that I found useful/delicious. This is only a cookbook of everyday recipes if you have tons and tons of money to spend on groceries. For example, there is a recipe for lamb burgers. I can't afford lamb for an everyday occasion, and if I buy it, I am certainly not going to make it in to ground meat for a burger! Yikes.

Anyway, this recipe is pretty much guaranteed not to overcook your chicken. I typically either buy a rotisserie chicken for my recipes or quickly cook the chicken on our George Foreman grill. However, since I am super careful, I always, ALWAYS overcook the chicken on the grill because I would rather it was overcooked than something that makes us sick. This recipe keeps the chicken nice and juicy and I will certainly be using this recipe over the grill for my chicken in the future. I plan on always buying a pack of chicken breasts, cooking them with this recipe, and using that chicken for all my necessary recipes for the week. Yum...

Ingredients:
*3-4 cups of chicken broth
*1-1.5 pounds of thawed boneless, skinless chicken breasts


Directions:
1) Bring the chicken broth to a boil over high heat in a large pan that is large enough to hold the chicken in one layer. Once the broth is boiling, add the chicken breasts and make sure they are completely covered by the broth (if they are not, simply turn the chicken every once and a while during this cooking process, that works fine). Simmer them, uncovered, for about 7 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, cover it, and let it stand for 10 minutes.
2) Remove 1 chicken breast to a plate and cut it in half to make sure it is cooked through. If it is, remove the remaining chicken breasts. If not, return to the pan, cover, and simmer it for 2 minutes more, than check again. Reserve the chicken broth for other recipes. Use the chicken as necessary for your recipe. Enjoy!

Comments:
*Make sure you plan ahead and have a recipe that uses chicken broth. This recipe makes plain chicken broth into Super Chicken Broth, and it would be a shame to waste it. (I did not think about it, and sadly, that beautiful broth was thrown away...how tragic).