If you want to make starter recipes to impress, meat starters usually have the desired effect. Whether you want to make chicken starter recipes, beef starters or try something more unusual such as veal or venison, there are lots of different recipes for starters you can consider.

Chicken is an especially popular choice because it is economical, tasty and its flavour suits all kinds of other flavourings and spices. You can serve chicken in a mild sauce, with hot spices or simply by itself and the flavour never disappoints.

Ideas for Chicken Starter Recipes

You can serve chicken hot or cold. If you want to serve hot chicken, what about honeyed chicken wings or chicken kebabs? You can make an easy sate sauce or sweet Thai dipping sauce to serve with the kebabs. For cold chicken dishes, an easy chicken salad always makes a good starter. Chop some cooked chicken breast, an avocado, an apple, some cheddar cheese and a few cherry tomatoes. Throw in some walnut halves and add some mayonnaise and a little lemon juice, salt and black pepper. Serve this mixture on a bed of lettuce.

Chicken goes well with other meats and you could make a chicken and ham salad or a chicken wrapped in bacon recipe. In the following recipe chicken and ham are combined to make this delicious chicken starter recipe.

Easy Recipe for Ham and Chicken Pinwheels

This meat starter recipe can be served at a sit-down dinner or as part of a buffet. These pinwheels look really elegant and they are simple to make. This recipe makes twenty four servings. If you like, you can omit the crackers.

What you will need:

- 4 chicken breast halves, boneless and skinless
- 4 thin slices ham
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon plus 1/8 teaspoon dried basil
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon orange juice
- 1 teaspoon grated orange rind
- 8 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 24 crackers

How to make them:

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C. Pound the chicken breasts to 3/4 cm thickness. Mix the salt, garlic salt, 1/8 teaspoon of the basil and black pepper together and sprinkle this over the chicken, then put a ham slice on each chicken breast.

Roll them up Swiss roll style and put them seam-side down in a buttered 30 cm x 15 cm baking dish. Sprinkle the paprika over the top and drizzle on the lemon juice. Bake the chicken pinwheels for half an hour or until the juices run clear. Cover the chicken and put it in the fridge to chill.

Mix the orange juice and orange rind into the mayonnaise. Add the rest of the basil. Cut the cold chicken rolls into 1.5 cm slices. Top each cracker with some of the orange spread, then a chicken and ham pinwheel. Serve them immediately.

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