Chicken thigh

leanitup123
leanitup123 Posts: 489 Member
in Food and Nutrition
177 calories per 100 grams compared to 165 calories in chicken breast. Higher in fat, but fat is on-trend lately. Love my grilled chicken breasts, but have been enjoying thighs lately too. What's your favorite cut of chicken?
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  • Nikion901
    Nikion901 Posts: 2,467 Member
    My preference is either the thigh or the wing
  • Rebecca0224
    Rebecca0224 Posts: 810 Member
    I love smoked chicken legs and fried chicken legs.
  • kcnwa
    kcnwa Posts: 7 Member
    Funny you mention this, I've been trending towards the boneless skinless thighs lately too. I was often eating too few calories and fat so this helped get me there without being crazy overboard. They taste so damn delicious grilled too! Make plenty for leftovers and use them for buffalo wraps and quesadillas for quick on the go options.
  • sosteach
    sosteach Posts: 260 Member
    Love the breast for less calories and the thighs for full flavor and wings...well who doesn't love wings! I like to shake it up so I don't get bored!
  • arrghmatey1
    arrghmatey1 Posts: 91 Member
    Boneless Skinless Thighs RULE!
  • CarolPre
    CarolPre Posts: 1,862 Member
    I favor boneless chicken thighs also. They have much more flavor than chicken breasts.
  • leanitup123
    leanitup123 Posts: 489 Member
    sosteach wrote: »
    Love the breast for less calories and the thighs for full flavor and wings...well who doesn't love wings! I like to shake it up so I don't get bored!

    Amen. Chicken breast is best in salad, wraps, etc. The thigh is great grilled and in tacos, nachos, pizza. :#
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,179 Member
    They're so on trend over here at the moment, that they're more expensive than breast for the first time ever.
  • CipherZero
    CipherZero Posts: 1,418 Member
    Try using chicken thighs instead of breast for Chicken Parmesan. They are godly.
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    My worse - Chicken Breast
    My Best - Chicken Drumsticks
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    I like normal chicken thighs. I eat the skin and bone after it's cooked in a crockpot several days. I also like the drumsticks.
  • MsHarryWinston
    MsHarryWinston Posts: 1,027 Member
    Yup this morning I had chicken thigh as part or my pre-gym mini meal.
  • CoueCoue
    CoueCoue Posts: 69 Member
    The SKIN! Removed from the meat after cooking the whole bird and laid out on a baking tray and put back in the oven for an extra ten minutes while carving. MELTINGLY CRISPY.
  • vnb_208
    vnb_208 Posts: 1,359 Member
    All about the breast ! actually pretty much breast only
  • toxikon
    toxikon Posts: 2,383 Member
    Looove chicken thighs. They're cheaper than breasts and way more flavourful and moist.

    I use them skinless and cut them up for curries and casseroles. And I just bake the skin-on thighs with a bit of salt and pepper and eat them as is - I love the crispy skin!
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    I don't think there's any (muscle) part of the chicken I don't like lol. Long as it is cooked to be juicy and tender, not dry.... It somewhat depends on if it's intended for a particular recipe which part I would pick. Yeah, never met a chicken I didn't like. XD
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    grinning_chick wrote: »
    Favorite cut of chicken?

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    Prepped, sliced, sauteed in butter, with salt & pepper. Preferably served on those toothpicks with the tasseled plastic tops like it's a fancy 1970s/80s hors d'oeuvre.

    My college roommate LOVED gizzards. She loved them like I Ioved baking powder biscuits with butter and honey.

    We were chubby at that time. lol
  • cangler
    cangler Posts: 104 Member
    100 grams of boneless skinless chicken thighs is more like 200 calories... at least that's "fatsecret" entry ive been using in MFP... taste so much better than white chicken breast, as it should with the calorie bump.
  • illusion2269
    illusion2269 Posts: 95 Member
    I like the whole damn bird! But I have been using a lot of leg quarters lately, they're inexpensive and tasty!
  • MJ2victory
    MJ2victory Posts: 97 Member
    I was big on thighs for a while but am back to breasts lately for texture and taste.
  • Shull_rachael
    Shull_rachael Posts: 430 Member
    The leg
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    The thigh with the skin on is my fav.
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    I love chicken thighs! I use them almost exclusively unless I am making chicken tenders or chicken salad. They just taste better to me and aren't nearly as dry.
  • MN_22
    MN_22 Posts: 4 Member
    Depends on what I'm making. For curry and soup I do dark meat. Putting on salads or in wraps I do breasts.
  • SemperAnticus1643
    SemperAnticus1643 Posts: 703 Member
    Chicken is the only time my husband is a breast man. :smiley: I prefer the boneless, skinless thighs too. Preferably cooked in the crockpot with Italian dressing and soy sauce for 6-8 hours on low. :smile:
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,839 Member
    In for leg quarters and the economics! A 10-pound bag of fresh chicken leg quarters (no added water) was $4.80 last week at the Piggly Wiggly (yes, that's a real supermarket name). It resulted in seventeen three-ounce servings of cooked chicken dark meat at $0.28 a serving! Took the bones, tendons, skin, etc. and made 10 cups of "free" luscious, gelatinous broth -- a warm cup of which cures my hunger pangs for hours.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    Thigh or wing...but we end up making more breasts because that's what the kids will eat.

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