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30 best-ever budget chicken recipes

Make the most of cheaper cuts of chicken to create one-trays, stews, curries and stir-fries the whole family will love.

30 recipes
Turning the chicken upside down makes for tender meat.

Roast chicken and garlic, lemon and parsley salad

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Andrew McConnell
One-pot chicken, spinach and orzo stew.

Danielle Alvarez's lemony chicken and orzo stew

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
Vietnamese chicken served with red rice and coleslaw.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats' Vietnamese chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Nagi Maehashi
This simple chicken roast is a one-tray wonder.
EASY

Roast chicken thighs with potato, garlic and rosemary

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
This versatile creamy mushroom sauce will soon become your go-to recipe.

RecipeTin Eats’ chicken with creamy mushroom sauce

  • Nagi Maehashi
Adam Liaw's malt vinegar baked chicken.
EASY

Adam Liaw's malt vinegar baked chicken

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
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Serve this curry with naan and rice.

Chicken in spinach and green pea curry

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
One tray creamy potato, mustard and tarragon roast chicken.
EASY

One-tray creamy potato, mustard and tarragon roast chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Sticky honey soy chicken.
EASY

Honey, soy and ginger drumettes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Hot, sour, sweet and savoury: Chicken, sausage and capsicum bake.
EASY

Sweet and spicy chicken and sausage tray bake

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chicken and capsicum traybake.

Chicken and peppers

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Garlic oil chicken.
EASY

Garlic oil chicken

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Tamarind and tomato chicken curry
EASY

Chicken curry with tamarind and tomato

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Chicken fricassee.

Adam Liaw's chicken fricassee

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Sri Lankan chicken curry.

Adam Liaw's easy Sri Lankan chicken curry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Adam Liaw's arroz con pollo.
EASY

Adam Liaw's arroz con pollo

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Rice malt and soy baked chicken.
EASY

Adam Liaw's rice malt and soy baked chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Kylie Kwong's stir-fried chicken fillets with fresh asparagus spears.
EASY

Chicken and asparagus stir-fry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Pastrami-spiced chicken with pickles and a zippy sour cream drizzle.
EASY

One-tray pastrami-spiced chicken thighs with pickles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Slow-roasted chicken drumsticks with butter and sage.
EASY

Slow-roasted chicken drumsticks with butter and sage

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Chicken and sausage cassoulet. 

Chicken and sausage cassoulet

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Spicy fried chicken with sour cream dip.

Spicy fried chicken with sour cream dip

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Italy with a detour to Spain: Chicken amatriciana one-tray wonder with chorizo and potatoes.
EASY

Chicken amatriciana traybake

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Build-your-own souvlaki bowls.
EASY

Chicken souvlaki bowls with haloumi

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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One-pan wonder: Roast chicken marylands and haloumi cheese with added fresh honeycomb (if you're feeling extra).
EASY

One-pan chicken and haloumi bake with honey and lemon

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw's classic roast chicken.

Classic roast chicken with buttered vegetables

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Yakitori is best cooked over charcoal for the traditional smoky flavour.

RecipeTin Eats’ chicken Yakitori

  • Nagi Maehashi
Curried rice with chicken and cauliflower.
EASY

One-pan chicken curry rice

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Flash in the pan: Chicken with mustard cream sauce.

One-pan chicken with mustard cream sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
This chicken dish is a creamy, tomato-ey, cheesy one-pan wonder.
EASY

Creamy tomato one-pot chicken

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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