How to Poach Chicken Breasts

[Elizabeth Lindemann]

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If you’re looking for a healthy, low-fat, high protein recipe, you’ve got to try these easy poached chicken breasts! You only need 20 minutes and a handful of ingredients for perfectly cooked, super juicy and tender poached chicken breasts.​

You can eat the poached chicken as is for a light and healthy main course, or save it for meal prep and other recipes throughout the week.

And my favorite part about the recipe? How mess-free it is! If touching raw chicken makes you squeamish, this is the perfect chicken recipe for you, since you don’t really need to touch the raw chicken at all.

In this post, I’m going to share some tricks and tricks for getting the juiciest, most tender poached chicken breasts.

What ingredients do I need to poach chicken?

At a bare minimum, all you need is chicken, water, and SALT. The salt is super important here, for flavorful chicken! If this is all you have, you can make poached chicken.

But you also should probably have some aromatics.

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