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30 Awesome Ways to Spice Up Boring Chicken Breasts
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  1. Cayenne-Rubbed Chicken With Avocado Salsa
    When you want to make something easy, this fits the bill. This cayenne-spiced chicken gets topped with a fresh, tasty salsa and stars avocado, which comes with its own benefits — it can improve cholesterol levels and is loaded with vitamins E (yay, antioxidants!) and B6 to help keep your skin looking good. Not too shabby for a dinner!
  2. Brown Sugar Spiced Baked Chicken
    A quick, sweet, and savory dinner doesn’t get easier than this. Preheat the oven while you coat chicken in a blend of sugar, paprika, cumin, salt, pepper, oregano, and superfood garlic. Bake for 20 minutes, and enjoy.
  3. Chicken Breasts With Spicy Rub
    If you like heat, this chicken is for you. Up the spice quotient by using more rub. Not ready to fire up the grill? Feel free to bake or sauté in a pan — you’ll still get all the zesty flavor.
  4. Cocoa and Curry Rubbed Chicken Breasts
    Hershey’s for dinner? Believe it or not, using cocoa powder intensifies the taste of the cumin and curry powder in this simple rub, without leaving behind a chocolatey taste (we’ll leave it up to you to decide whether or not that’s a good thing).
  5. Spice-Rubbed Grilled Chicken With Everything Sauce
    A simple rub that can be used on chicken breast — or other meats — ups the ante with an accompanying sauce made with superfood Greek yogurt, honey, and Dijon mustard. Don’t let the long list of ingredients intimidate you, because this meal comes together super easily.
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