Chicken fillet is a light dietary meat that gives the cook a lot of opportunities. It can be boiled, baked, fried.
General principles for the preparation of chicken
Chicken fillet is usually white meat from a breast without bones, skin, cartilage. In itself, it is non-greasy, it is very easy to dry. Various marinades, for example, based on soy sauce and spices, can also give softness and juiciness. You can also use lemon juice or yogurt.
Before preparing the fillet, it is necessary to rinse and always dry with a napkin or paper towel. This is especially important if the meat is fried, excess moisture will not allow it to brown well. For the same reason, when frozen fillet is used, it must be allowed to thaw completely.
Chicken fillet acquires an interesting sound in salads - they can be made both very hearty and light. It goes well with both vegetables and fruits - orange, pineapple, apple. Garlic, basil, black pepper, coriander, thyme, oregano add pleasant taste notes to chicken, it harmonizes perfectly with nuts, prunes, cheese. It turns out very delicious chicken fillet in a creamy or sweet and sour sauce.
Quickly and deliciously prepare a light salad with chicken
Very fresh, summer version of salad. Suitable for those who follow the figure.
Ingredients
300 grams of chicken;
100 grams of mozzarella cheese (small balls);
a small bunch of green salad;
2 tablespoons pine nuts;
100 grams of strawberries;
1 tbsp lemon juice;
olive oil, salt.
Cooking method
1. Boil chicken fillet, cool, cut into cubes.
2. Lightly fry the nuts in a dry skillet.
3. Lettuce leaves, dry well with paper towels, tear with your hands into small pieces.
4. My strawberries, cut the stalks, cut the berries into four parts.
5. Drain the liquid from the mozzarella balls.
6. We combine all the ingredients in a salad bowl. Mix oil and lemon juice in a bowl, season with salt. Pour our salad with the resulting dressing, mix, serve.
Quickly and deliciously cook chicken fillet on a vegetable pillow
A full lunch or dinner of succulent meat and spicy vegetables. We will cook in the sleeve for baking, it is simple, fast and practical.
Ingredients
A kilogram of chicken;
a pound of pumpkin pulp;
7-8 potatoes;
2 carrots;
3 cloves of garlic;
dried basil and thyme;
olive oil;
5 tablespoons of soy sauce.
Cooking method
1. Mix basil, thyme and soy sauce.
2. My filet, put in a bowl, pour soy sauce with herbs. While preparing vegetables, chicken meat will slightly pickle.
3. Peel the potatoes, cut the tubers into fairly large pieces. We clean the carrots, cut into circles, pumpkin pulp into cubes. Press garlic or finely chopped.
4. Combine all the vegetables, add olive oil, garlic, mix.
5. We lay out the sleeve for baking the size we need on the baking sheet. Inside, evenly distribute vegetables. Top - chicken, fill with the remaining marinade.
6. We tie the sleeve, make a couple of small holes for the steam to exit. We put in the oven for 45 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees.
7. Take the finished dish out of the oven, open the sleeve, avoiding hot steam. Before serving, you can decorate with finely chopped greens.
Quickly and deliciously prepare a salad with fried and smoked chicken
Tropical fruits and smoked chicken in this recipe give a pleasant combination of sweet and salty. Leaf lettuce can be chosen according to your taste - ordinary green, lollo rossa, arugula or take the finished mixture.
Ingredients
1 fillet of smoked chicken breast;
1 fresh chicken;
1 orange
150 grams of a mixture of leaf salads;
70 grams of canned pineapple slices;
pesto sauce, fresh mint and basil.
Cooking method
1. Wash fresh chicken fillet, dry with a napkin. Cut into strips, fry until cooked in vegetable oil.
2. Smoked fillet also cut in stripes.
3. Remove the peel from the orange, cut the flesh into slices, and separate all the films. We take the pineapple, preserved by slices, from the jar, let the juice drain.
4. Put the prepared ingredients in the salad bowl, season with pesto sauce, and use mint leaves and basil for decoration.
Quickly and deliciously prepare a hearty chicken fillet roll
This recipe will have to tinker a bit longer. But the finished dish will be a spectacular snack on the festive table.
Ingredients
3-4 chicken fillets
100 grams of walnuts (already peeled);
2 tbsp lemon juice;
200 grams of bacon;
100 grams of cream cheese;
a bunch of dill;
1 teaspoon thyme (dried);
1 tbsp liquid honey;
2 cloves of garlic;
ground pepper, salt.
Cooking method
1. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
2. Wash the fillet, dry with a paper towel. Now it is necessary to beat off, salt and pepper.
3. Using the press, squeeze the garlic, rub them with chicken. Sprinkle with thyme, sprinkle with lemon juice.
4. Dill and nuts finely and finely chopped, mixed with cream cheese.
5. Bacon cut into long strips.
6. We lay out the beaten chicken so that the pieces overlap each other, forming a whole layer. We spread the filling, distribute evenly.
7. Turn the roll, wrap it with strips of bacon, and fix it with a culinary thread. Put on a baking sheet and bake for 40 minutes.
8. After the allotted time, we take out the roll, coat it with liquid honey and send it to the oven for another quarter hour.
9. From the finished roll, cut the cooking thread, cut into neat slices.
Quickly and deliciously cook chicken fillet in baked milk
Soft creamy sauce and juicy meat melt in your mouth. As a side dish, serve rice or mashed potatoes.
Ingredients
2 chicken fillets;
1.5 cups of baked milk;
50 grams of butter;
half a glass of sour cream;
pepper, salt.
Cooking method
1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
2. Chicken fillet, dry and cut into strips, season with ground pepper and salt.
3. Fry the meat until browned in butter.
4. Transfer the fillet with melted butter into a baking dish. We mix baked milk with sour cream, you can also add any aromatic herbs to taste. Pour the meat.
5. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Quickly and deliciously cook chicken skewers
Barbecue can be cooked in the oven! Chicken kebab is fried for only 20 minutes, but marinating meat will take some time. Also for this recipe you will need wooden skewers.
Ingredients
2 chicken fillets;
a teaspoon of liquid honey;
2 cloves of garlic;
30 ml olive oil;
40 ml of soy sauce;
ground pepper.
Cooking method
1. Skewers for barbecue put in water for half an hour.
2. Cooking the marinade. To do this, mix soy sauce, chopped garlic, olive oil, ground pepper or other spices, honey if desired.
3. We cut the meat into long strips. We put it on prepared skewers, as if we are picking a frill, put in a marinade and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours so that the fillet is well marinated.
4. We set the oven to 200 degrees. We take a suitable shape in size, put the skewers with a kebab, bake for 20 minutes. To get a golden crust on all sides, be sure to turn the skewers a couple of times.
Quickly and deliciously prepare chicken fillet salad with cheese and prunes
This salad is surprisingly fresh, but at the same time satisfying. For dressing, you can use mayonnaise in its pure form or, if desired, mix with sour cream to make the dish less greasy.
Ingredients
1 chicken fillet;
100 grams pitted prunes;
2 eggs;
100 grams of cheese;
2 small cucumbers;
mayonnaise.
Cooking method
1. Boil the chicken. We get out of the broth, leave to cool.
2. Fill the prunes with hot water, let it soften a little.
3. Hard boiled eggs. Cool, clean and three on a grater.
4. Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.
5. Cucumber and prune cut into thin strips. We disassemble chicken meat into fiber feathers.
6. We take a beautiful plate or a small dish, we begin to collect the salad. We spread it in a slide in layers - chicken, cucumbers, egg, cheese, prunes and again in the same order.
7. This salad does not require a lot of dressing; it is already juicy due to cucumber and spicy thanks to cheese. Therefore, mayonnaise can be used from above, as an element of decoration - squeeze it out of the package in a spiral around the salad slide or with threads from top to bottom, as the fantasy suggests.
If you want to make this dish more satisfying, you can lay the layers of ingredients in a salad bowl, smearing with mayonnaise.
Secrets and Tricks of Cooking Fast and Delicious Chicken Fillet Dishes
• Cooking too long makes chicken dry. The optimal frying time is a quarter of an hour for small pieces, 25 minutes for a whole fillet.
• If there is very little time to cook, you can purchase ready-made chilled chicken fillet. However, if you buy not chopped chicken breast into bones or a whole chicken and separate the fillet yourself, it will turn out more economically.
• We cut the fillet correctly: into slices across the fibers, if we cook whole, for example, fry the chop, we cut it carefully along.
• Boiling chicken for salad, put onion and bay leaf in the pan, the meat will be more flavorful.
• Chilled fillet, not frozen, is softer when cooking.
