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Eid al-Fitr and Chicken Breast: The Perfect Combination of Flavour and Nutrition

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  With Eid al-Fitr coming up just around the corner, now is the time to plan the menu for the biggest Muslim festival of the year! Since the cuisine on Eid ul-Adha barely has space for any meat other than beef and mutton, many people prefer to let lighter meats like chicken and turkey dominate their spread on Eid al-Fitr. Besides, after a month of fasts, what better way to get your appetite back up than a tender, flavourful chicken meal? Roasted or baked chicken breast is a popular household favorite, but plenty of chicken breast recipes online are lesser-known treasures. Chicken is a delicacy all year round, especially loved by young people.   Since Eid al-Fitr is all about community and togetherness, you can treat your friends, family, and other loved ones to more than a few delicious and healthy chicken breast recipes without going to waste or being left over. For many people, a chicken-based diet is a good way to rebuild nutrition after a month of fasting.   However, shopping ar

Discover the Best Halal Lamb Legs Online

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  With the end of winter and the onset of spring in most parts of the world, many households welcome lighter, leaner meats into their cuisine at this time of the year. You will need an intermediary when leaping cuts of hearty beef that dominate your kitchen through winter to chicken and other bird meats. That is where lambs come in. Lamb legs are one of the most sought-after cuts of meat and have enjoyed this status for centuries. A leg of lamb is perfect for many unique and exotic recipes that no other cut of meat could carry so well. The muscle can easily be tenderized just enough to let the spices in, and a layer of fat surrounding the leg keeps the meat from drying out in your kitchen.   However, finding a butcher in your vicinity who keeps stores of lamb meat and does not sell them at ridiculously high prices is difficult for people. For Muslims who only consume halal meat, the task becomes near impossible. This is why many lamb meat enthusiasts have started getting their favori

Good Friday Feast: Amazing Frozen Halal Chicken Recipes to Try

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  Freezing chicken is the only way to store it for long periods. If marinated beforehand, frozen chicken is a blessing for surprise guests or cravings that don’t give you enough time to rush to the nearest butcher and get the new chicken off their shelves. Much like frozen veg-ready meals. Halal frozen chicken meals can be ready to eat in as little as half an hour, and with tons of recipes on the internet, the sky is the limit. Here are some of our favourites:   General Tso Chicken While waiting for your chicken to thaw , whisk egg whites in a bowl and add soy sauce and chicken stock. Once the chicken is thawed, cut it up into cubes and add about 500 grams of chicken to the bowl. Leave to marinate for half an hour.   Mix corn flour, baking powder, and salt and pepper in another bowl. Dip and roll each chicken piece into the dry powder mix, and then fry in preheated oil while stirring. Remove the chicken when it is golden.   Add vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, and corn flour to

Why Does Chicken Cook Faster Than Beef?

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Chicken and beef are the most consumed meats today. Both are incredibly versatile and go well with innumerable ingredients. And yet, you will find that most people prefer either and care very little about the other. This shows how different the two are, akin to two different but almost parallel lanes in the culinary realm. Ready chicken meals are far quicker to prepare than menu items dependent on beef if cooking times are compared. This is why fast food chains focus on chicken meals, and beef cuisines are more commonly seen in slower establishments, with lavish ambiance, seating, and live entertainment to keep guests from feeling the long waiting times associated with cooking beef. But why exactly does chicken cook faster than beef? The answer is technical but simple to understand. Birds and small animals have evolved over millennia to have bodies built for speed to escape predators. For this reason, they have thinner layers of muscle and finer muscle fibers that contract and r

Three Delicious Turkey Meals you can Prepare Using Frozen Turkey

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Despite the gruelling media campaigning that has turned food products into consumable shopping items, Sainsbury's frozen turkey has somehow maintained itself as a delicacy.  While one might think that is due to some limitations inherent to turkey products, this is not the case, as we will show you in this article.  Discover three of our favourite frozen turkey meals and how to make them! 1. Turkey Tetrazzini Add around two cups of cubed and cooked turkey to a large baking dish filled with cooked spaghetti. In a separate pan, add mushrooms sauteed in onions and butter to milk, a seasoning of your choice, mustard, and cheddar.  Use medium heat to melt this mixture to a fine, thick gravy and pour over the turkey and spaghetti in the baking dish. Add more cheeses, filling the dish almost to the brim, and bake without the lid at 350° for around half an hour. Sprinkle with parsley and chopped-up bell peppers, and serve. 2. Frozen Turkey Burger Order a frozen turkey patty or Tesco fro

Six Tips to Make the Most Succulent Grilled Chicken

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Grilled chicken is the go-to choice for family meals whenever someone’s home menu gets boring or repetitive, and for a good reason.  This article explores the six useful tips to make the best grilled chicken you’ve ever had. 1. Look for organically reared, free-range poultry. Birds that grow up in open spaces, instead of cooped-up and congested cages, have firmer, more naturally flavoured meat. 2. Brining and marinating are your best friends. It’s all about being prepared. Dousing your chicken in a solution of salt and seasoning incorporates flavour deep into your chicken cuts, and marinating them long enough is the easiest way to get the right amount of tenderness for your grilled chicken recipes .  3. Grilling a whole chicken? Butterfly it. Splitting the backbone of your whole chicken turns it into more of a surface than a rounded object with too many surfaces, making grilling a breeze. Doing this also gives your seasoning more access to the whole chicken body, leaving no morse

Healthy and Hearty: Why is Chicken Preferred Over Beef?

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Chicken and beef are probably the two most popular types of meat today, but there is often debate as to which is better. In this article, we discuss why chicken is preferred over beef. Let’s start! Chicken Vs. Beef People defend beef by referring to its superior juiciness, higher protein content, and the fact that it is called ‘red’ meat, which means that it adds more iron to your diet. On the other hand, chicken meals are more beloved by younger gourmets, possibly owing to their delicate presentation and smaller portions. Grilled chicken meals are claimed to have the lowest fat content out of any meat-based cuisine, second only to boiled meats, which are rarely on the menu anymore. When picking out an item like stir-fried beef, you will also notice that it is pricier than Piri Piri chicken stir fry. Generally, poultry products are not sold for as high a price as beef counterparts. With its higher saturated fat content, beef is no longer as popular as it used to be. But t