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25 Ground Chicken Recipes

Ground chicken is affordable, easy to work with, and cooks in minimal time. It’s no wonder that people would prefer using it for a quick but delicious dinner.

Ground Chicken Recipes

Ground Chicken Recipes 

Ground chicken is particularly useful when you need to put a healthier and more affordable spin on your favorite ground beef or pork recipes. I’ve put together a list of 25 ground chicken recipes that will completely transform dinner nights.

Bless your table with these delicious, affordable, easy, quick, and mouthwatering ground chicken recipes. There’s something for every occasion — cookouts, cold nights, fancy dinners, picnics, or festive holidays. Enjoy!

1. Sweet Potato Hash

If you’re looking for a tasty, quick, and filling breakfast idea, then you should try my sweet potato hash recipe. It is made with sweet potatoes, ground chicken, onions, pepper, and spices — all in one pot!

2. Sesame Ground Chicken

This sesame ground chicken recipe is one of the easiest you can whip up to pair with rice, pasta, and noodles for dinner.

3. Ground Orange Chicken

On nights when you want to order from your favorite Chinese takeout but are worried about calories and high-fat content, try this recipe. It is perfect, especially if you’re looking for a healthy version of the regular orange chicken recipe.

4. One Pot Ground Chicken Fajita Pasta

What’s not to love about the ease of cooking ground chicken, pasta, cheese, sour cream, onions, a different blend of peppers and spices together in one pot?

5. African Chicken Pie

Put your ground chicken bits to good use by making a delicious filling for this classic Nigerian Chicken Pie. It is perfect as a snack, but can also be eaten for breakfast or brunch.

6. Ground Chicken Taco Casserole

This recipe is easy, cheap, and fun to make. Indulge your junk cravings (without actually eating any junk) by enjoying this meal packed full of salsa, seasoned ground chicken, spices, cheese, black beans, and your favorite taco toppings.

7. Italian Ground Chicken Pasta Skillet

Not sure what to make for dinner? Try this quick and delicious one-skillet dish with mushrooms, ground chicken, pasta, cheese, fresh basil, roasted tomatoes, and garlic. 

8. Ground Chicken Burger

Having a cookout or a late-night dinner with family? Season your ground chicken with your favorite spices to make a great and flavorful patty for your burgers.

9. Ground Kung Pao Chicken

Replicate the great taste from your favorite Chinese spot at home with this simple, one-pan Ground Kung Pao Chicken recipe.

10. Chicken Meatballs in a Cream Sauce (Tefteli)

Tefteli is a traditional Russian cuisine with ground meatballs cooked in rich creamy sauce. They’re perfect with sauteed or roasted veggies, rice, pasta, mashed potatoes, or noodles.

11. Firecracker Ground Chicken

This is a low-carb, high-protein dish that is easy for everyone to make, irrespective of their level of expertise in the kitchen.

12. Chicken Samosa

This is one of my favorite ground chicken recipes. It’s a crispy, flaky fried or baked dough stuffed with savory chicken fillings. Perfect as a snack, appetizer, or entree.

13. Ground Chicken Picadillo

This ground chicken picadillo recipe is a healthier twist on the traditional Latin American dish with ground beef. It’s savory, sweet, spicy, and healthy. Serve with cauliflower rice to keep it completely low-carb.

14. Spicy Coconut Ground Chicken

Short prep and cook time — check. Well-seasoned, spicy, creamy ground chicken sauce — check. What’s not to love about this recipe? For the best feeding experience, serve in a burrito bowl, quinoa bowl, or over plain white rice, pasta, cauliflower rice, and steamed veggies.

15. Honey Lemon Chicken Stir-Fry

If you’re looking for something sweet and savory to go on your noodles, pasta, veggies, rice, or quinoa bowl, then try this recipe. Every bite is bursting with juicy, honey, lemony flavor. 

16. Oven Baked Chicken Scotch Eggs

If you want to enjoy scotch eggs without having to worry about the immense amount of fat required for deep frying, you should definitely check out this oven-baked chicken scotch egg recipe.

17.  Thai Meatballs

Trying out Thai cuisine for the first time? Then this recipe is a safe place to begin. Make your meatballs with ground chicken, some spices, and dip in sweet chilli sauce. Serve with a side of rice, pasta, or noodles.

18. Cheesy Chicken Fritters

Serve these juicy, flavorful chicken fritters as appetizers, sides, or as patties between sliders and sandwiches. Alternatively, you can pair them with your favorite dip.

19. Chinese Lettuce Wraps (San Choy Bow)

San Choy Bow is a Chinese vegetable wrap made with ground chicken, vegetables, and lots of spices cooked in a savory brown sauce and wrapped with lettuce. 

20. Sesame Chicken Potstickers

These chicken potstickers are packed full of flavor. Surprisingly, cooking them from scratch takes less time than thawing and cooking frozen store-bought packs and they taste way better.

21. Chicken Enchiladas

Light meal packed with ground chicken, black beans, chiles, and topped with a blend of shredded Mexican cheese, crumbled cotija cheese, spicy red enchilada sauce, and your favorite toppings. 

22. Chicken Meatloaf Wellington with Sun Dried Tomatoes

This is a clever way to combine a chicken meatloaf and classic Wellington in one meal. It is fast, easy, delicious, and impressive. 

23. Chicken Burrito Bowl

Save time, cut down calories, and meal prep time with this spin on the classic Chipotle burrito bowl.

24. Extra Cheesy Classic Homemade Lasagna

If you’re hosting a fancy dinner, you can never go wrong with the classics. Serve this extra cheesy blend of Italian chicken sausage and ground chicken, homemade pasta, and bechamel sauce, and watch your guests rave about your cooking all night. Switch the homemade pasta for dried lasagna noodles if you’re short on time.

25. Chicken Meatball Noodle Soup

Homemade chicken noodles soup is a classic comfort food for those cold winter nights. This chicken meatball version is a serious upgrade from the original. If you have extra meatballs, keep them frozen for a quick meal when you need them.

25 Ground Chicken Recipes

Ground chicken is affordable, easy to work with, and cooks in minimal time. It’s no wonder that people would prefer using it for a quick but delicious dinner. Ground chicken is particularly useful when you need to put a healthier and more affordable spin to your favorite ground beef or pork recipes. I’ve put together a list of 25 ground chicken recipes that will completely transform dinner nights.
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