10 min • How to Cook Ground Chicken • Loaves and Dishes

Ground chicken is a flavorful, lower fat and useful option as a substitute for other ground meats. You just have to know how to cook chicken and you’ll be off and running!

How to Cook Ground Chicken

There are so many ways to use ground chicken that you will be surprised. In fact, if you can imagine a use for a ground meat, then ground chicken is probably the answer! Way back when, I wrote a comprehensive guide for ground beef and most of what’s in there holds true for ground chicken too!

But no worries, I won’t send you off looking somewhere else for your answers, you can find them right here!

This recipe shows you how to cook ground chicken as a ground meat to use for recipes. You can also use ground chicken for burgers, simply pat it into a burger and use it that way for that purpose (you may want to mix in a bit of ground sausage for flavor and texture).

Here’s What You’ll Need

• Ground chicken
• 2 Tbs of oil
• Seasoning of your choice (salt, pepper, sage, cayenne, red pepper, thyme and Italian seasoning are all good options).

Here’s How You Do It

1. Depending on your recipe, you’ll want to break up your ground meat in a frying pan with the oil.
2. Add the seasonings and cook until it is brown all the way through.

Special Supplies

You won’t need any special supplies, but I do love to cook my ground chicken on the stove top in my Lodge Cast Iron 10″ pan.

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What My Family Has to Say About This Recipe

Ground Turkey makes tacos, spaghetti and other recipes taste GREAT!

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Substitutions

• You can substitute the ground chicken for most any other type of ground meat.
• Substitute the seasonings listed in the recipe below with any of your favorite dried herbs.
• Try vegetable oil, butter, EVO or any other cooking oil for the oil noted.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)

Tips and Tricks

• Ground chicken is a GREAT addition to other ground meats. It’s perfect to add to ground pork or ground turkey to give those bulk or less fat.
• Ground chicken holds together about the same as ground beef and is kind of sticky. You can directly substitute it for other ground meats.
• When cooking ground chicken as a burger, allow the meat to completely sear and cook on one side before trying to turn. Otherwise, the meat will stick to the surface and tear the burger.
• Break up the meat as you are putting it into the pan. Pinch off or break off small pieces to put in the pan, this makes breaking them up as they cook much easier.
• Use this cooked ground chicken for all kinds of dishes including spaghetti sauce and taco pie!

Watch Me Make This Dish

(This is actually a video on breaking up ground beef, however, it is the same concept for ground turkey)

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• 2 Tbs oil optional, based on fat content of the ground beef.
• 1 lb chicken ground
• 1 tsp Kosher Salt

• In a frying pan set over medium heat on the stove top, add oil to the pan if your ground chicken is very low fat. Use your fingers to break up and pull off pieces of the ground chicken chunk and put into the pan.

• Once the ground chicken is all added to the pan, use a potato masher to mash and break up the ground chicken into fine and small pieces. Repeat this as the ground chicken cooks.

• Once the ground chicken is turning all brown part, add ½ tsp salt, taste. Add the remainder if the ground chicken needs it.

• Turn off the heat and proceed with whatever recipe you plan to use finely crumbled ground chicken for.

• Chicken is very lean and you may not have any fat to drain, don’t worry about this. 
• Chicken will need more seasoning than beef, usually. 
• Allow the meat to cook and sear well before trying to flip or turn. When the meat is completely seared, it will release from the pan, but before that, it will stick and it makes trying to brown the meat a bit nightmarish.
• If you do not have a potato mashing tool, use a meat pounder or wash a can of soup very well and then use that instead.
• Add salt to your ground meat before using it in your recipe, this will lend a lot of flavor to your recipe.

Nutrition Facts

How To Cook Ground Chicken

Amount Per Serving

Calories 179
Calories from Fat 135

% Daily Value*

Fat 15g23%

Saturated Fat 3g15%

Trans Fat 0.1g

Polyunsaturated Fat 4g

Monounsaturated Fat 8g

Cholesterol 41mg14%

Sodium 619mg26%

Potassium 103mg3%

Protein 10g20%

Vitamin A 76IU2%

Vitamin C 1mg1%

Calcium 6mg1%

Iron 0.5mg3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

A Verse to Share

I am finding that as I get older, I have to forgive and forgive more and more. It makes me think that someone else is probably forgiving me a lot too without me knowing it. Thank goodness for the grace of every day people and of my Lord too.

Colossians 3:13

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you