Everyone loves to go out to eat at a restaurant. You love to do it, your significant other likes to do it, and your children especially love to do it. It feels like an excellent and special occasion when you get to go out to a restaurant to eat dinner. However, you cannot go out to eat every single night. It is just not practical and it is expensive to do so. It is cheaper to make a quick chicken dinner at home. Plus, you get a sense of satisfaction making your own meals. However, just because you eat at home does not mean you can't enjoy restaurant quality food. You can have the feeling of eating at your favorite restaurant without ever leaving the comfort of your home. Enjoy the same chicken meals you would at a popular restaurant using these 16 Quick Chicken Dinner Recipes.

16 Quick Chicken Dinner Recipes

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Chinese Chicken Dinner Recipes

Mexican Chicken Dinner Recipes

BBQ Chicken Dinner Recipes

Fried Chicken Dinner Recipes

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Chinese Chicken Dinner Recipes

There is nothing better and nothing easier than ordering Chinese take out. It takes almost no time at all to order Chinese food and you get the pleasure of eating your food out of those white containers that Chinese food comes in. Now you can do the same thing in your house with these delicious Chinese chicken dinner recipe. These quick chicken dinner recipes are so easy to make and your entire family will enjoy eating the end result. 

1. Homemade Chinese Takeout Bourbon Chicken and Rice

2. Homemade General Tso's Chicken (shown)

3. Panda Express Glazed Lemon Chicken

4. PF Chang's Kung Pao Chicken Copycat

Mexican Chicken Dinner Recipes

Everyone in your family will enjoy the smell of your kitchen and your house when you cook these Mexican chicken dinner recipes. The flavors and essence of the onions and the peppers and the chicken make this meal one of the ages. We promise you that these quick chicken recipes will be a staple in your family's dinner rotation.

5. Copycat Cafe Rio Shredded Chicken Recipe

6. Copycat Cafe Rio Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe

7. Copycat Chi Chi's Chicken Chimichangas

8. Copycat Chili's Margarita Grilled Chicken

9. Copycat T.G.I. Friday's Sizzling Chicken Fajita (shown)

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BBQ Chicken Dinner Recipes

There are so many different uses and varieties of chicken that it can become a challenge trying to find the best chicken recipes that are out there. We have found the best BBQ chicken dinner recipes and all of these recipes come in different forms. From BBQ chicken pizza to BBQ chicken in a salad, these recipes are ones to be desired. 

10. BBQ Cheesy Chicken aka Chili's Monterey Chicken

11. Copycat California Pizza Kitchen BBQ Chicken Bacon Pizza

12. Cheesecake Factory BBQ Ranch Chicken Salad (shown)

13. Copycat CPK BBQ Chicken Pizza

Fried Chicken Dinner Recipes

The taste and love for fried chicken is universal. You can go up to any person anywhere in the world and ask them if they like fried chicken. The answer will always be "yes." You will fall in love with these copycat fried chicken dinner recipes. Yummers!

14. Copycat of KFC's Original Recipe Chicken

15. Homemade KFC Fried Chicken

16. Popeye's Extra Crispy Fried Chicken with Delta Sauce (shown)