Smoked chicken is everyone's favorite product. Even the bird itself is a very impressive dish. But for variety, you can try several dishes with this ingredient, thanks to which they acquire a pleasant piquant taste.
Why are smoked meats so popular in cooking? The unique taste, aroma and juiciness of chicken cooked over the fire goes well with most ingredients. What to cook from smoked chicken that would be memorable at a holiday dinner or lunch with your family?
Nutritionists do not recommend uncontrolled consumption of this product, although it is difficult to call it harmful. Of course, poultry contains a lot of cholesterol, but its spicy taste stimulates the production of endorphins. Eating in moderation will not harm your figure or heart function.
Salads with the addition of smoked chicken are especially common. Probably every family has a special recipe. If you don’t know what dish you can prepare, choose the best option described below.
Smoked chicken: a flight of culinary fantasy
Smoked chicken recipes aren't just salads. Although it is in them that it is most often included in the list of ingredients. Due to its spicy taste, meat is often used as a simple cut for a festive table or meeting guests.
Outdoor recreation is a great opportunity to make sandwiches or sandwiches with smoked meats. Children also love them, devouring them before going to school.
There are many options for what dishes to prepare with smoked chicken, as this is a truly versatile product. It is combined with both vegetables and fruits, and components of animal origin - seafood, cheeses. The most common salads are with tomatoes, peppers, beans, carrots, pineapple, and mushrooms. Cooks replace smoked poultry with meat or sausage in recipes.
Hot chicken dishes are especially satisfying. Baked potatoes combined with a cheese crust, mushrooms and a bed of smoked meats are a great dinner for the whole family. It will be especially tasty if the carcasses were smoked yourself. You can read about how to do this at home
Popular smoky recipes
Smoked chicken salad with pineapple
Dozens of salad recipes are based on the combination of chicken and pineapples. One of them includes:
- 200 g poultry;
- 300 g canned pineapples;
- 300 g boiled ham;
- dressing (mayonnaise, salt, curry).
The breast or leg is cut into strips (without skin and fat). Pineapples and ham are also chopped. The sauce is prepared in a separate container and mixed with the main ingredients.
Pancake salad with smoked chicken
Another salad is interesting because of one of its ingredients – pancakes. To prepare it you will need:
- 200 g smoked breast;
- fresh cucumber;
- “dough” for pancakes from one egg, milk and flour;
- sunflower oil for frying;
- dressing – mayonnaise;
- dill and lettuce for decoration;
- salt.
The pancakes are baked and cut into thin strips. Cucumbers and chicken are chopped into cubes, roasted nuts are kneaded in a mortar. The ingredients are scattered onto the lettuce leaves, sprinkled with salted mayonnaise and sprinkled with herbs.
Smoked chicken recipes aren't limited to salads. So, soups with this aromatic component are popular. Solyanka is a dish in which you can always find something new in the recipe. For two liters of water take:
Vegetables are peeled and cut into cubes. The meat is boiled for 7 minutes, after which it is washed and boiled in clean water. Carrots and celery are poached in sunflower oil. Tomatoes are chopped and added to the dressing. Smoked and boiled chicken are chopped and cooked in the broth. Cucumbers are cut into cubes and simmered in a frying pan along with tomato paste, and added to the broth. At the end, capers, olives, and chopped herbs are added. Ready solyanka is served with fresh herbs, a slice of lemon and sour cream.
Tartlets with vegetables and smoked breast
Smoked chicken recipes include main courses, for example, tartlets with vegetables.
For 350 g of chicken breast you need: 
- bell pepper;
- medium carrot;
- clove of garlic;
- greenery;
- mayonnaise;
- vegetable oil.
The carrots are grated, the pepper is cut into thin strips, the garlic and herbs are finely chopped. The meat is separated from the bones and skin and chopped into cubes. Peppers and carrots are sautéed for 5 minutes, after which garlic is added. The bird is mixed with vegetables and mayonnaise. The mass is laid out on tartlets and cooled.
Recipes for smoked chicken salads will allow you to create an original culinary masterpiece from a standard set of products that you will want to enjoy. The nutritional value and taste of chicken make it possible to use it to prepare main dishes for a holiday feast or dinner with the family. The smoky flavor adds a savory flavor to the appetizer, highlighting the tender bird and highlighting the other ingredients. The smell instantly causes a beastly appetite.
The five most commonly used ingredients in recipes are:
Chicken meat goes well with boiled and fresh vegetables: potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, Chinese cabbage, canned corn and peas. Boiled eggs, hard cheese, champignons, Korean carrots, and olives are added to salads. Try experimenting with the flavor composition and adding dried fruits, fresh fruits, herbs and aromatic spices to traditional ingredients. You can’t do without greens - add them chopped or decorate the dish with sprigs.
Step 1. Fry the onion and garlic.
First we put preheat oven to 200 degrees. Peel the onion and chop finely. Peel the garlic and grate it into a fine grater. Heat the frying pan, pour 2 tablespoons of oil and add chopped onion and garlic. Fry, stirring the onion with garlic until the onion is soft - 7 minutes. Let's set it aside for now.Step 2. Cook the potatoes.
Peel the potatoes, cut them into 0.5 cm slices. Pour water into the pan, add some salt and let the water boil. Place chopped potatoes into boiling water and reduce heat. Cook for 13-15 minutes, depending on the thickness of the potato slices. Usually raw potatoes are put into the casserole, but our recipe uses chicken breast. To avoid drying it out when baking, the potatoes should be boiled until almost done. When the potatoes are almost cooked, drain the water and leave to cool slightly. Step 3. Prepare the smoked chicken.
We cut the chicken breasts with a knife on a cutting board into thin strips. If there are bones, we remove them. Place the chicken pieces in a frying pan with the fried onions and garlic. We chop the parsley finely and also put it in the pan along with the chicken. Mix everything. Step 4. Fill the pan with baking ingredients.
For baking, you can use a frying pan with high sides and without plastic handles or transparent microwave dishes. All layers of the casserole are visible in them - it’s beautiful and appetizing. Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil and lay out layers. Depending on the width and height of the mold, you may end up with three or five layers, the main thing is to distribute the products evenly. The bottom and top layers are potato. We spread it evenly along the bottom of the mold. Then spread all or half of the chicken filling on the potatoes. Potatoes on top again. Place sour cream on the top layer of potatoes and spread it evenly over the surface of the casserole. 
Cut the cheese into strips and place them on sour cream to cover the entire surface. Step 5. Bake the casserole.
Place the casserole dish into a preheated oven for 20 minutes. The casserole is ready. Fragrant, juicy with a beautiful crust of melted cheese. Step 6. Serve the casserole.
We take the casserole out of the oven. You can cut it into portions with a knife directly in the mold and place it on plates. It is good to serve this casserole with a salad of fresh vegetables. Bon appetit! While frying the onions and garlic in the pan, you can add some spices for the chicken.
The top of the casserole can be greased with mayonnaise instead of sour cream.
If you use new potatoes, you don’t need to boil them, but use them raw for baking. In this case, increase the baking time by 5-7 minutes.
Instead of smoked breasts, you can use smoked legs.
Sometimes, having different products in the refrigerator, it is difficult to decide on preparing a certain dish. The same ingredients can become the basis for many dishes. In such cases, collections of recipes that are based on one or more products come to the rescue.
For example, there are hundreds of recipes with smoked chicken. Without spending a lot of time, you can prepare various salads, pizza, puff braids, meatloaf, “Pomegranate bracelet” and other dishes, the main ingredient of which is smoked chicken.
Pizza with smoked chicken
Product composition:
- Smoked chicken breast - three hundred grams.
- Flour - four hundred grams.
- Oil - eight tablespoons.
- Sugar - two teaspoons.
- Milk - five tablespoons.
- Yeast - fifty grams.
- Canned pineapple - four hundred grams.
- Cheese - three hundred and fifty grams.
- Olives - three hundred grams.
- Salt - half a teaspoon.
- Olive mayonnaise - one hundred grams.
- Ground allspice - on the tip of a knife.
- Chili sauce.
Cooking pizza
To prepare the smoked chicken pizza recipe, you first need to knead the dough. To do this, stir sugar in a small amount of warm water and add yeast. After the yeast has dissolved, you can add milk, vegetable oil and leave the starter so that it can rise.
Sift the flour into a suitable bowl, add salt and pour in the prepared starter. Knead a soft and elastic dough, which, according to this recipe with smoked chicken, must be placed in a warm place for fifty minutes so that it grows.
While the dough is rising, there is time to prepare the ingredients for the filling. Drain the liquid from the canned pineapples and cut them into small pieces. Divide the cheese into two parts, grate one, and cut the second into small cubes. Grind the smoked chicken breast into small pieces. Cut pitted olives into rings. All ingredients for the smoked chicken pizza recipe are ready.
The working surface of the table should be sprinkled with flour. Place the risen dough on it, knead it again and roll it into a circle, the edges of which will be slightly thicker than the middle. Line a baking tray with baking paper, grease with oil and place the pizza base on it. Apply hot chili sauce to the dough. Then lay out the pieces of smoked chicken, which should be poured with mayonnaise. Next add pineapples and chili sauce again. This is followed by a layer of olives and diced cheese. Next is a layer of mayonnaise and chili sauce. And finally, pepper and sprinkle with grated cheese. Place the baking tray with pizza in the oven, preheated to two hundred degrees and bake for forty minutes.
Puff braids with smoked chicken
Products for cooking:
- Smoked chicken breast - five hundred grams.
- Ready-made puff pastry - five hundred grams.
- Cheese - three hundred grams.
- Eggs - two pieces.
Preparing braids
Puff braids can be considered the simplest smoked chicken recipe. But despite the fact that such braids are easy and quick to make, they turn out very tasty. We need to defrost the finished puff pastry. Roll it out a little and cut it into equal strips, the width of which should be three centimeters. The number of stripes must be even.
Cut the smoked chicken breast into small pieces and grate the cheese. Making braids. To do this, spread the meat evenly along the length of the entire strip and sprinkle with cheese. Place the second strip on top and pinch the edges well on all sides. Then carefully roll the strip into a spiral. Prepare all other braids in this way. Place the raw braids on a baking sheet lined with foil and greased with oil. Brush them with egg yolks and place in the oven, preheated to one hundred and ninety degrees for twenty minutes. The braids should grow and turn brown.
Roll with smoked chicken breast
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast - one piece.
- Lavash - two pieces.
- Cheese - three hundred grams.
- Bell pepper - two pieces.
- Dill - half a bunch.
- Green onions - one bunch.
Preparing the roll
To prepare, we chose a very simple and tasty recipe with smoked chicken. You need to quickly prepare the ingredients. Wash the bell pepper, remove the seeds and cut into small cubes. Chop the breast, wash and chop the greens. Place a layer of processed cheese on a sheet of pita bread, lay out the chopped breast, place the pepper on top and sprinkle with chopped herbs. Carefully roll the lavash with filling into a roll. Wrap in film and place in the refrigerator to cool for an hour and a half. Before serving, cut the roll into portions.
Chicken salad “Pomegranate Bracelet”
Required ingredients:
- Smoked chicken - four hundred grams.
- Beets - three pieces.
- Carrots - three pieces.
- Onion - two heads.
- Eggs - four pieces.
- Potatoes - four pieces.
- Grenades - three pieces.
- Walnuts - one hundred grams.
- Mayonnaise - one hundred grams.
- Ground pepper.
- Salt.
Cooking process
For this original dish, we chose a recipe for a very tasty smoked chicken salad. To prepare it, first boil medium-sized beets, carrots and new potatoes until tender. Peel them and grate each vegetable into a different bowl. Hard boil the eggs, remove the shells and also pass through a grater. Cut the smoked chicken meat into small cubes. Peel the onion, wash, finely chop and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown.
All ingredients for the salad are prepared. Next, you need to take a beautiful flat dish and place a glass in the middle. According to the recipe for a delicious salad with smoked chicken, all layers need to be laid out around the glass. Place a layer of new potatoes and mayonnaise on the bottom of the plate, then half a portion of beets, and more mayonnaise. Next comes a layer of carrots and mayonnaise, which must be sprinkled with walnuts.
The next layer will be a layer of half a portion of smoked chicken meat and again mayonnaise, on top of which spread the sautéed onions. Then distribute the mashed eggs and mayonnaise evenly. The last layers will be the second half of the chicken and the remaining beets. Carefully remove the glass, generously coat with mayonnaise and garnish with pomegranate seeds. Salad ready.
Chicken and Korean carrot salad
Ingredients:
- Smoked chicken - six hundred grams.
- Korean carrots - three hundred grams.
- Tomatoes - four pieces.
- Cheese - two hundred grams.
- Mayonnaise - one hundred and fifty grams.
Preparation
If you don't have time to cook, then this recipe for a simple smoked chicken salad is just what you need. The salad is prepared very quickly and easily. Place the Korean carrots in a colander to allow the juice to drain out. Grind the smoked chicken meat into small pieces. Rub the cheese through a grater. Wash the tomatoes and cut into small cubes. Place all ingredients in a suitable container, add mayonnaise and mix well. A simple and delicious smoked chicken salad is ready. When serving, it is recommended to garnish it with fresh dill.
Solyanka with smoked chicken Cover the chicken with cold water and cook for 30 minutes. Remove the chicken, place it in another bowl, pour in some of the broth and cool. Remove the skin from the chicken and separate the flesh from the bones. Cut the pulp into thin slices. Cut the onion into half rings, sauté in oil until golden...You will need: water - 2 l, smoked chicken - 700 g, pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs., onions - 2 heads, pitted olives - 12 pcs., pitted olives - 12 pcs., capers - 3 tbsp. spoons, tomato puree - 2 tbsp. spoons, vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons, sour cream - 4 tbsp. spoons, lim...
Snack cake with chicken and pineapple 
Finely chop the garlic and mix with mayonnaise. Remove the skin from the chicken and separate the flesh from the bones. Finely chop it and mix with half the garlic mayonnaise. Chop the onion and fry in oil until golden brown. Add chopped...You will need: smoked chicken - 1 pc. (1 kg), oyster mushrooms - 400 g, canned pineapple - 300 g, vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons, onions - 2 heads, boiled eggs - 4 pcs., hard cheese - 300 g, chopped walnuts - 1 glass, mayonnaise - 1 glass
Pea soup with smoked ribs 
Soak the peas in cold water for 4 hours. Then drain the water. Place the swollen peas in a steamer container, add hot water, add chopped smoked meats and steam for 30-40 minutes. Cut the potatoes into slices...You will need: peas - 1/2 cup, pork ribs or smoked chicken - 200 g, potatoes - 2 pcs., sweet pepper - 1 pc., onion - 1 head, carrots - 1/2 pcs., water - 4 cups, salt
Solyanka with smoked chicken 
Cut the onions and carrots into strips and sauté in oil with tomato puree. Cut the cucumbers into diamond shapes and fry without oil until the moisture evaporates. Cut the meat ingredients, except chicken, into slices. Cut the lemon into slices. Chicken...You will need: smoked chicken - 1/2 pcs., sausages - 4 pcs., sausages - 2 pcs., smoked sausage - 200 g, pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs., carrots - 1 pc., onions - 1 pc., tomato - puree - 2 tbsp. spoons, vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons, pitted olives - 12 pcs., oils...
Chicken soup with rice 
Separate the chicken flesh from the bones and cut into small cubes. Thinly slice the onion, place in a frying pan heated with oil and sauté until softened. Add washed rice and sauté for another 2-3 minutes. Pour rice with...You will need: smoked chicken - 1/2 carcass, onions - 2 pcs., long grain rice - 1/2 cup, chicken broth - 1.5 l, butter - 3 tbsp. spoons, chopped parsley - 3 tbsp. spoons, croutons with garlic sauce, ground black pepper, salt
Smoked chicken pies (2) 
Roll out the dough into a rectangular layer 4-5 mm thick. For the filling, cut the chicken and pepper into small cubes, add cheese, herbs, chopped garlic and pistachios and mix. Spread the filling in an even layer on the dough and roll it...You will need: chopped pistachios - 60 g, sweet pepper - 1 piece, garlic - 2 cloves, grated cheese - 30 g, smoked chicken - 600 g pulp, finely chopped dill - 2 tbsp. spoons, puff pastry - 700 g
Avocado with smoked chicken 
Cut smoked chicken, tomatoes, cucumber, pepper into cubes, combine and season with mayonnaise. Cut the avocado in half, remove the pit, scoop out the pulp, chop it finely and add to the salad. Stuff the avocado halves with the resulting salad, decorate...You will need: mayonnaise - 1 tbsp. spoon, sweet pepper - 1 pc., cucumber - 1 pc., smoked chicken pulp - 300 g, tomatoes - 2 pcs., avocado - 1 pc.
Smoked chicken salad (2) 
Boil pasta in salted water and drain in a colander. Cool. Cut the chicken flesh into strips, mix with pasta, capers and nuts, season with a mixture of mayonnaise with chopped dill and caper sauce...You will need: caper filling - 3 tbsp. spoons, mayonnaise - 250 g, capers - 2 tbsp. spoons, pine nuts - 100 g, smoked chicken pulp - 300 g, colored Makfa pasta - 250 g, dill - 1 bunch, ground black pepper
Smoked chicken salad 
Chicken and crab pulp, eggs cut into cubes, onion into half rings. Pour over the tomatoes first with boiling water, then with cold water, remove the skin, cut the pulp into cubes. Peel the pepper and cut into cubes. Combine the prepared ingredients, season the...You will need: smoked chicken - 200 g of pulp, crabs - 200 g of pulp, boiled egg - 3 pcs., tomatoes - 3 pcs., sweet red pepper - 2 pcs., onion - 1 head, grated hard cheese - 100 g, mayonnaise - 200 g, pitted olives, parsley
Pies with smoked chicken 
30 pieces Roll out the dough into a rectangular layer 4-5 mm thick. For the filling, cut the chicken and pepper into small cubes, add cheese, herbs, chopped garlic and pistachios and mix well. Spread the filling in an even layer on the dough and...You will need: puff pastry - 700 g, smoked chicken - 600 g pulp, grated cheese - 30 g, garlic - 2 cloves, sweet red pepper - 1 pc., chopped pistachios - 60 g, finely chopped dill - 2 tbsp. spoons
