Easy Party Appetizers With Chicken

Chicken is a great ingredient to use for easy party appetizers because it has a mild flavor which pairs as well with mild sauces and flavorings as with spiced ones. You can make chicken salad, chicken profiteroles or vol-au-vents, chicken canapes and lots more.

There are hot appetizers and cold appetizer recipes you can make with chicken. Cold sliced chicken is ideal for flavorful canapes. What about topping some mini toasts or crackers with cream cheese, sliced chicken and a little cranberry jelly?

You can even chop some cooked chicken breasts into cubes and thread the cubes on to toothpicks with a cube of cheddar cheese and a silverskin onion or a cube of pineapple, for cute little appetizers, if you are looking for finger food recipes.

Hot Chicken Appetizers

If you want to serve hot appetizers at your party, there are various chicken recipes you can make. You can coat chicken drummettes in a spicy mixture and cook them. Marinated chicken wings are also good. Thai style chicken kabobs are delicious and you can either serve some sauce over the chicken for a sit down dinner or serve plain grilled chicken on the skewers with a peanut dipping sauce for a cocktail party or buffet.

What about dip recipes? Combine chicken with tomatoes, melted cheese and chili peppers to make a really flavorful nacho dip. You can even make this in a crockpot and serve it in there, so it stays warm. Chicken, ranch dressing, cream cheese, hot sauce and cheddar cheese can be combined to make a really good dip, or you can get creative and add shredded chicken to any of your favorite dip recipes.

Recipe for Tarragon Chicken Puffs

These delicious hot appetizers can be made a couple of hours ahead if you like, and then reheated for ten minutes in a 325 degrees F oven or for ten seconds in the microwave. The puff pastry cases can get soggy so do not make them too far ahead of time. This recipe makes twenty four chicken puffs.

What you will need:

1/2 cup chicken broth
24 cream puffs
1 1/2 cups cooked, chopped chicken
2 teaspoons fresh tarragon
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper

How to make it:

Melt the butter in a pan, then add the flour and whisk well. Add the broth gradually, whisking the mixture all the time. Stir in the cream. Add the tarragon, cayenne pepper, nutmeg, salt and black pepper and let the mixture simmer for a couple of minutes, stirring it all the time.

Add the chicken and bring the mixture to a boil. Take it off the heat. If it is not thick, you can stir in a little flour mixed to a paste with water and heat it more. Slice the tops off the cream puffs and spoon some chicken mixture into each one. Put the tops back on and serve hot.

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