Quick and easy dishes for every occasion

The success of the best-selling Nick Nairn's Top 100 Salmon Recipes reveals that home cooks are always on the look out for new recipe ideas based around one staple ingredient. Inspired by the response to Salmon, Nick now turns his attention to another much-loved family favourite - chicken. Easy to cook, endlessly versatile and healthy too, chicken is the perfect food for every occasion. From soups and stir-fries to roasts and casseroles, it lends itself to a huge variety of flavours and cooking techniques.

Renowned for his enthusiasm for fresh produce and inventive cooking, Nick has collected together his very best chicken dishes for Top 100 Chicken Recipes. Including a wealth of quick ideas for transforming chicken breasts, such as Warm Salad of Lemon Chicken and Pan-fried Chicken with Aubergine, Tomato and Basil, the book is also packed with classic dishes -Roast Chicken with Sage Butter, Bacon and Bread Sauce and Spicy Barbecued Chicken Wings - and more unusual recipes - Char-grilled Chicken and Sweetcorn Chowder and Tajine of Chicken, Apricots and Mint. Written with foolproof step-by-step instructions, the recipes are all simple to prepare and use readily available ingredients.

So whether you fancy a warming Chicken Broth to banish the winter blues, some speedy Sesame Chicken Kebabs to feed the kids or a simple but sophisticated supper of Filo-wrapped Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Ricotta and Spinach to impress your friends, Nick Nairn's Top 100 Chicken Recipes is guaranteed to offer the ultimate inspiration.

Nick Nairn's best-selling New Scottish Cookery, containing over 160 recipes using the best produce from Scotland, will also be published in paperback by BBC Books in January 2004.

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