Our Easiest Chicken Recipes For A Minimal Labor Cooking Experience

Everyone's in the mood for chicken, right? Is that a very small amount of dissidence we hear? Excellent, let's throw together something quick and delicious from the easy chicken recipes department, feed everyone and go back to enjoying this lovely holiday weekend. We recommend a few ways to serve up sizzling whole or half-birds — marinating is hardly labor unless it's a labor of love — and plenty of other ways to turn a friendly staple into an impressive dinner.

This recipe is different from your typical chicken burger. These burgers are really delicious and need your attention. When you can't decide between barbecued bird and a meaty burger, they'll be there for you.

I am a firm believer that alcohol belongs in food as much as it does in a bottle, so I paired gin, with its nice woodsy undertones, with the sweetness of brown sugar for a Gin and Lemon Chicken Wings recipe so easy that you can prepare it during commercials.

Recently, sriracha has become more popular than William Shatner at a Star Trek Convention. The sriracha gives the wings a spicy kick, while the sweetness of the honey and the tanginess of the rice wine vinegar balance each other out. Make these for your next tailgate and convert your friends to the red side. 

A proper chili doesn't have to be thick.

This Roast Chicken with Garlic Sauce was inspired by several visits to L'Amis Louis in Paris, where the food is simple and honest, respecting the quality ingredients used. We buy traditionally reared Woolley Park Farm chickens, which have an amazing gamey flavour.

Beer can chicken: the beer infuses the whole chicken, the aroma infuses the whole kitchen, and you don't have to flip, chop, reduce, sous-vide or risk burning a single thing. This is in fact the easiest chicken recipe we know of.

Perloo is the Southern term for pilaf or pilau, a dish of seasoned rice often served with meat. Cookbook author, food and drink writer and Food Republic contributor Chris Chamberlain loaned us this recipe from his new book, The Southern Foodie.

Preparing half a chicken on the grill reveals the beauty of cooking chicken with the bones intact. Even though you're grilling this chicken for 30 minutes, it will turn out tender, incredibly flavorful and never dry. Thank the bones for that.

We've partnered with Panna, the popular video recipe app, to bring you exclusive recipe videos from some top chefs. First up, Rick Bayless, with a Mexican-inspired twist on the chicken caesar salad. 

Nothing satisfies quite like one of our winter chicken recipes.

Polletto alla Diavola, or, "Devil's Chicken," is typically grilled over wood chips for an earthy, piquant smoke infusion and crisp, slightly charred skin. Feel free to adjust the amount of red chili flakes you use. That's where the "devil" component comes into play.

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