20 Easy Chicken Meal Prep Recipes

1. Shredded Chicken Breast Recipe

This Shredded chicken breast recipe is easy to prepare and due to the poaching cooking method remains tender and moist. Making it at home is fairly easy, and you get to choose your freshest chicken, add seasonings to your taste, and even make your own mayonnaise if you so desire. After you’ve made this recipe that includes several ingredients known to lift flavor without fat, you can make it in advance and keep in the fridge for a quick and healthy snack or sandwich. See shredded chicken breast recipe >

2. Marinated Chicken Recipe

This Italian marinated chicken breast recipe uses savory herbs, some light salt and pepper and vinegar to give you a juicy and tender chicken breast that will keep your taste buds wanting for more. Not only is this a delectable protein option but it is a versatile dish that goes well with a plethora of sides from pasta dishes to mashed potatoes or as an “antipasti” with a toasted bruschetta or layered with a fresh basil pesto sauce. The possibilities are limitless. View Italian marinated chicken >

3. Rotisserie Chicken Recipe

This homemade herb crusted rotisserie chicken recipe is delicious and easy to make. With the savory herb seasoning on the outside it gives the skin a little bit of crunch while leaving the inside tender and juicy. View rotisserie chicken recipe >

4. Breaded Chicken Tenders Recipe

There are so many advantages to making your own chicken fingers or breaded tenders from scratch at home. This recipe is quick, relatively easy, much more affordable than purchasing a bag from the grocery store or buying at a fast-food joint. See egg free breaded chicken recipe >

5. Fried Chicken Recipe in Skillet

This is an easy homemade fried chicken recipe you can make at home using one skillet. The spice rub used in this batter gives our chicken a slight kick of spice and savory that will leave your palate wanting more. See this one skillet fried chicken recipe for meal prep >

6. Grilled Lemon Chicken Recipe

This easy grilled lemon chicken recipe yields a tender, juicy chicken with slight zest and pick-me-up flavor. The fresh herbs give this lemon chicken recipe a deep, rounded flavor and aroma in every bite, making this a lemon chicken recipe you won’t want to miss. Grilled lemon chicken recipe >

7. Pesto Chicken Recipe

This classic pesto chicken recipe comes together quickly, so have your equipment and ingredients all ready to go. Create a restaurant-style chicken pesto meal at home with this flavor-packed, creamy pesto chicken dinner that comes together in just 30 minutes! Quick and easy chicken pesto recipe >

8. Oven Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken Wings Recipe

A garlic parmesan wing in American cuisine is an unbreaded chicken wing that is dipped in a sauce consisting of a vinegar-based cayenne pepper, hot sauce, and butter. Our easy garlic parmesan chicken wing recipe is a healthy spin to this classic recipe. It’s a delicious way to cook juicy and crispy better-than-restaurant quality wings. See garlic parmesan wings recipe >

9. Baked Teriyaki Chicken Wing Recipe

Extra crispy, extra sticky and after you try you’ll know why this is the most fantastic teriyaki wings recipe ever! Our teriyaki wing recipe uses breaded chicken wings baked to crispy perfection, topped with teriyaki glaze to taste. Combined with your favorite side this baked teriyaki wing recipe is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Better make 2 batches. See teriyaki wings recipe >

10. Easy Crispy Buffalo Chicken Wings Recipe

These Crispy Buffalo Chicken Wings are exactly what they claim to be. C.R.I.S.P.Y. Without deep frying? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS! Using a special ingredient you have in your kitchen pantry already! Tossed in a delicious Buffalo Sauce, these wings are a hit and a reader favorite! See crispy buffalo chicken wing recipe >

11. Low Calorie Quinoa Salad Recipe with Chicken

Quick-cooking quinoa is a nutritional powerhouse, packed with protein, iron, and fiber. It is also the foundation for a main-course salad with chicken and vegetables of your choice. This easy to make quinoa recipe has a light fresh taste that you can be sure is healthful. It can be served hot, warm or cold, but no matter how you serve it, it is just a satisfying healthy recipe. See low calorie quinoa salad recipe >

12. Keto Bacon Wrapped Chicken

There’s absolutely no reason to have overcooked and underseasoned chicken any longer. For instance, with this recipe, wrapping and cooking the chicken in bacon adds a bit more fat to this lean protein, keeping it moist but adding such a punch of flavor. View keto bacon wrapped chicken >

13. Keto Lemon Chicken Recipe

This Easy keto Lemon Chicken recipe yields a tender, juicy chicken with slight zest and pick-me-up flavor. The fresh herbs give this lemon chicken recipe a deep, rounded flavor and aroma in every bite, making this a lemon chicken recipe you won’t want to miss. View this lemon chicken recipe >

14. Spinach and Cream Cheese Stuffed Chicken

This chicken dish features a tasty way to prepare chicken. Very flavorful and filled with a wonderful creamy cheese & spinach delight. Paired with the ancient and extremely healthful grain, Quinoa, and your favorite veggie, it becomes an unmatched meal for both flavor and health. Spinach and cream cheese stuffed chicken >

15. Creamy Chicken Alfredo Pasta Recipe

This Alfredo Chicken Pasta is incredibly easy to make, uses just one skillet, cooked pasta and simple ingredients. The chicken turns out juicy, tender and spicy. Toss it in with the perfect comfort food linguine, and you couldn’t ask for a better meal. Chicken Alfredo pasta recipe >

16. Chicken and Shrimp Carbonara Recipe

Carbonara is an amazing alchemy of bacon, egg, a touch of cream and parmasean cheese which come together to make a silky, intoxicating flavored sauce, especially when seasoned with plenty of fresh cracked pepper and a hint of garlic. The fun aspect is making it your own. When topped with seasoned and seared chicken and shrimp, as in this preparation, you can elevate this dish to be a real crowd pleaser. See this chicken and shrimp carbonara recipe >

17. Pesto Chicken Tenders

One of our favorite quick meals at home in a pinch is chicken tenders. Chicken tenders, or fingers if we’re being really playful, cook relatively quickly and can be served on their own with a dipping sauce of your choice, whatever you fancy. When you order chicken fingers at a restaurant or purchase frozen ones from the store, the breading is often heavy and loaded with extra fats and calories, as they’ve most likely been cooked in a deep fat fryer. Pesto chicken tender recipe >

18. Chicken Piccata Recipe

Piccata is a meat, that is sliced, dredged in flour, browned, then served in a sauce containing lemon juice, butter, and capers. Chicken piccata recipe >

19. Pesto Chicken and Quinoa

This meal comes together in two skillets and creates an amazing taste combination as well as a meal you can trust won’t spike your blood sugar. Tri-colored Quinoa with crispy parsley in browned butter will satisfy and provide probably the most healthful grain you could eat. The pesto cream sauce accents the tender chicken and will have you coming back to this recipe time and time again. Pesto chicken and quinoa >

20. Low Calorie Chicken Salad

Chicken salad is a wonderful accompaniment to any plain green salad for lunch or dinner, but also especially wonderful on its own for a sandwich or with crackers. When you buy premade chicken salad at the store, it’s definitely difficult to control how much fat and other undesirable ingredients it contains. Making it at home is fairly easy, and you get to choose your freshest chicken, add seasonings to your taste, and even make your own mayonnaise if you so desire. After you’ve made this recipe that includes several ingredients known to lift flavor without fat, you can make it in advance and keep in the fridge for a quick and healthy snack or sandwich. Low calorie chicken salad recipe >