Many of us buy this generic piece of chicken because it is easy to prepare, inexpensive, and it has a lot of versatility if you are a bit creative in the kitchen.  We are going to look at several different ways to prepare the chicken breast in styles that you see in many different restaurants.  You can prepare the chicken breast in a Cajun style with a bourbon sauce, you can add them to tortilla soup, or in an Italian style in chicken Marsala that tastes like it came from the Olive Garden.

Chicken Marsala is a famous Italian dish that is easy to make.  Best of all you cook up a little pasta with this and you have a full meal.  The Olive Garden has a classic style Chicken Marsala in which you bread the chicken breasts, cook with a few seasonings and add Marsala wine.  Marsala wine is inexpensive, and I suggest that you buy the dry and not the sweet variety of Marsala wine, as it has a richer finish.

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Bourbon Chicken is very popular in the South.  It is chicken that you can use chicken breast for or any other type of chicken meat for.  Often it is made with dark meat.  If you want to save time, I suggest you buy raw chicken tenders for this dish.  For this dish you are using Teriyaki sauce, Worcestershire sauce, and brown sugar for the base of this dish.  You may want to consider cooking up some rice to serve with this dish.

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Tortilla soup is a favorite of many.  This soup has you use chicken meat, and you can basically clean out your fresh vegetable pantry and add ingredients that best suite your cooking style.  By adding shredded cheese, avocado you round out this meal nicely.  What I like about this style of soup is that it is light enough for hot weather, and still fills you up.

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We all use chicken breasts in our day to day cooking.  Sometimes we don’t always have the freshest ideas in what to cook.  Why not try these different styles, Chicken Marsala that tastes just like the Olive Garden’s, or Bourbon Chicken that tastes like the Cajun Café, and finally El Torito’s Tortilla soup.