| In this article we are going to look at five simple, yet | | | | filling and healthy! |
| effective tips to making great chicken chili recipes. | | | | Tip 4. You can save the chicken skin if you bought |
| These tips apply to making chicken chili or any chili | | | | chicken breast or leg quarters for this recipe. Just |
| recipe and will greatly enhance the experience of the | | | | peel of the skin and put in a zip lock bag for other |
| dish. So when preparing your chili recipe take these | | | | uses down the line. ( I know what you are thinking. |
| tips into account. | | | | Trust me on this one. Chicken skin can come in |
| Tip 1. Plan on cooking your chili at least one day | | | | handy for many other recipes so keep them!) |
| ahead of time as this give all the ingredients time to | | | | Tip 5. If using a tomato based chili recipe, many |
| marry or meld together. This works especially well if | | | | recipes call for using canned whole peeled tomatoes |
| you allow the chili to cool until you can handle it | | | | in puree'. That is fine, but in the interest of adding |
| safely before refrigerating it. | | | | some fine dining panache to the dish I suggest |
| Tip 2. Decide how much of all your ingredients you | | | | learning how to par boil fresh tomatoes and then |
| will need as to how many people you will be serving | | | | peeling them for use in this or any recipe that calls |
| and then take an estimate of how many servings | | | | for either whole or peeled or diced/cubed tomatoes. |
| each person can eat. | | | | You may even want to learn how to fire roast fresh |
| Tip 3. You can use any part of the chicken that you | | | | tomatoes on your grill and this adds wonderful flavor |
| want, but whole or split breasts are the best as they | | | | to the tomatoes and any dish you use them in! Either |
| are lean and have the best flavor. Make sure that | | | | way, learning how to par boil and/or fire roast your |
| you take the skin off if you have bought them with | | | | tomatoes is a good kitchen skill to have and the |
| the skin on as we do not want all of that excess fat | | | | fresher the ingredients the better the food! |
| in our chicken chili recipe as we want this dish to be | | | | |