easy poached chicken breasts

Name: Easy Poached Chicken Breasts
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 quart(s) water; 1 - carrot, cut up; 1 - onion, cut up; 1 stalk(s) celery, cut up; 3 - whole peppercorns; 2 - whole cloves; 2 sprig(s) parsley; 4 - chicken breasts

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Vicki Butts (lazyme)

Grapeview, WA

Updated on Jan 2, 2019

This is the recipe that I use most often when I want to make chicken salad or need cooked chicken for a recipe. You can use as many breasts as you'd like. I usually poach 4 at a time.

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prep time 10 Min

cook time 15 Min

method Stove Top

yield 4 serving(s)

Ingredients

2 quarts water
1 - carrot, cut up
1 - onion, cut up
1 stalk celery, cut up
3 - whole peppercorns
2 - whole cloves
2 sprigs parsley
4 - chicken breasts

How To Make easy poached chicken breasts

Step 1

Bring 2 quarts water to boil in large saucepan.

Step 2

Add carrot, onion, celery, peppercorns, cloves and parsley.
Step 3

Add chicken breasts. Bring to boil again. Cover tightly, reduce heat to low and cook without lifting lid for 15 minutes.
Step 4

Turn off heat and allow to cool in cooking liquid. Keep covered.
Step 5

Lift chicken from liquid, remove bones and skin and use as directed in recipe.
Step 6

If desired, make chicken stock with the poaching liquid. Return bones to saucepan and bring liquid to boil again.
Step 7

Cover, reduce heat and let simmer 3-4 hours. Cool.
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