Chicken breast is cooked fairly quickly and simply.
It is combined with a variety of seasonings, spices, suitable for the preparation of many dishes, will satisfy both the ordinary food lover and the refined cuisine lover.
Among the common and favorite cooking options, chicken breast in sour cream sauce occupies a worthy place. It can be served both on weekdays and included in the holiday menu.
Chicken Breast in Cream Sauce - General Cooking Principles
The main thing in cooking any dish is not to save on the quality of the ingredients: they must be of the highest grade.
Chicken breast can be cooked both on the bone, and use only the loin.
As a rule, the meat is first fried in a griddle or baked in the oven for a bit with a variety of spices, spices and traditional vegetables.
Sour cream sauce is prepared in most cases separately. The basis of it is, of course, sour cream. In accordance with the recipe, the sauce may contain butter, mayonnaise, seasonings, wine, etc.
Cooking in the oven involves the use of foil or baking paper. Useful and so-called roasting sleeve.
Apply heat-resistant glassware, baking, ordinary deep pans (stewpot).
Recipe 1. Chicken breast in cream sauce in a microwave
Microwave - the most efficient cook. The dish will cook much faster than in the oven or on a regular stove.
Thick sour sauce will give the dish originality, white pepper - a slight spiciness and rich flavor.
The taste of chicken breast, cooked in sour cream sauce, will favorably complement the salad of fresh tomatoes and lightly fried champignons.
Ingredients
Breast - 250 g
Oil - 25g.
Wine - 75 g.
Sour cream, milk - 100 g. Each
Fresh parsley.
A glass of brandy.
Ground white pepper.
Salt.
Cooking method
Prepared meat sprinkled with salt and pepper.
On the stove in a skillet, melt the butter and lightly fry the chicken breast.
Toasted meat sprinkle with brandy. Burn it, following the rules of personal safety. The flame will quickly go out.
Place chicken breast in heat-resistant dishes.
Cover with milk and close the saucepan with a lid.
Cook for 10 minutes by setting the microwave to full power.
Cut parsley into smaller pieces.
Remove the finished meat, put it in the dish and leave for a few minutes.
Add wine and sour cream to the sauce and boil a little.
Chicken breast is watered with sour cream sauce. Sprinkle parsley on top.
Recipe 2. Chicken breast with prunes and apples in cream sauce (in pots)
Useful and tasty dish containing plum and apple flavors. Prunes give the chicken breast in sour cream a savory sweetness, and apples - a pleasant sourness. Seasoning - the minimum amount. The dish is served without garnish.
Ingredients
Chicken Breast - 500 g
3 apples.
Prunes - half a kilo.
Sour cream - 450 ml.
Salt pepper.
Fresh parsley.
Cooking method
Meat divided into four pieces.
Salt a little. Sprinkle with pepper.
Fry the meat in sunflower oil, not forgetting to turn.
Peel the apples by removing the peel, middle and seeds. Cut into slices (large).
Boiled prunes cut into small pieces.
Roasted meat put in pots.
Add apples, prunes, pour sour cream.
Place the pots in the oven (180 degrees) and hold there for 15 minutes.
Finished chicken breast can be served in pots or sprinkle their contents on a plate, garnished with fresh parsley.
Recipe 3. Chicken breast baked in foil in cream sauce with mustard and curry
Tender chicken breast is ideal for vegetable salads and olives. You can cook it for lunch and dinner in the evening, enjoying the pleasant combination of spicy curry and sour-sweet apple.
Ingredients
2 breasts.
Sour cream - 200 ml.
Dijon mustard - 1 tsp.
Garlic - 4 cloves
2 apples.
Curry.
Salt.
Greenery.
Cooking method
Chicken breasts are released from the bone, washed and lightly dried.
Cut into oblong pieces of medium size.
Sauce
Finely chop the garlic or crush with the help of a garlic shove.
Pour it into sour cream, add mustard, curry, salt. All mix well.
Chicken breasts are placed in the sauce and grease them from all sides.
The meat is soaked with sauce (marinated) for at least 50 minutes.
Apples cut into cubes with the peel. Middle delete.
Marinated breasts put on the foil, carefully pour apples on top.
Foil tightly wrapped and placed on the baking sheet.
Meat is cooked in the oven (200 degrees) for about an hour.
Sprinkle the finished dish with greens and eat hot.
Recipe 4. Chicken breast with broccoli in cream sauce “Guess what's inside?”
The dish tastes tender with an unusual flavor. Crimean onion gives it sweetness, a mixture of curry with peppers - sharpness and piquancy.
Ingredients
Chicken breast (boneless, but with skin) - 400 g
Crimean onions.
Sour cream - 100 ml.
Cheese - 100 g
Baked milk - 300 ml.
Broccoli - 200 g
Cognac - 30 g
Mayonnaise "Provence" - 50 ml.
Bay leaf.
Curry, a mixture of peppers.
Cooking method
Cut the prepared meat (along with the skin).
In a heated pan well fry. We do not regret oil and add it in time.
We clean the onions, cut them in half, cut them into half rings, send them to the chicken and fry well.
We salt, we pepper. We pour in cognac and light it very carefully.
Fried chicken spread on a baking sheet.
Sour cream sauce:
Pour flour into a pan in melted butter, stir it.
Fry the flour so that it smells like cookies.
Spread sour cream, mayonnaise.
Pour milk, do not forget to mix everything.
Add spices: bay leaf, curry, salt, pepper. Cook a few minutes.
Spread broccoli on the chicken and fill it with fragrant sauce.
Top generously sprinkled with hard grated cheese.
Place the baking sheet for 15 minutes in the oven. Done!
Recipe 5. Chicken breast in spicy cream sauce with sweet tomatoes
A simple dish will make lunch tasty and satisfying. Add chicken chicken or mashed potatoes. It is appropriate to add vegetable salad, parsley sprigs.
Ingredients
Chicken breast (pitted) - half a kilo.
Red tomatoes - 2 pcs.
Seasoning for chicken (to your taste).
To prepare the sauce:
classic sour cream 25% - 200 g
lemon.
garlic - 4 cloves.
salt.
a mixture of peppers. Cooking method
Cut the meat into thin pieces (1 cm) and make small cuts-pockets. Cuts can be 3 or 4.
Sprinkle meat with seasoning, grind evenly and leave to soak.
Washed tomatoes cut into small slices (can be half rings and split them in half).
Making sour cream sauce:
Let's start with cleaning garlic. Freeing it from the husk, chop with garlic strips.
Sour cream spread in a prepared bowl.
Squeeze the juice from the lemon. We enter it into sour cream, not forgetting to mix.
Add garlic to the bowl; we salt, we pepper, we mix. The sauce is ready.
Fill the cuts in the chicken fillet with tomatoes. Put the meat in a baking dish.
Fill chicken breasts with sour cream sauce and cover with foil.
The dish is cooked in the oven for 45 minutes. The oven warms up to a temperature of 200 degrees.
Remove the dish with the finished chicken breast from the oven and open the foil. The dish should stand a little.
Recipe 6. Chicken Breast with Watercress in Sour Cream Sauce “It Can't Be Easier”
It is easy to prepare the dish, and the beginning cook will be able to handle it. Chicken breast, cooked in sour cream sauce, juicy and tender. Watercress will give the dish an unusual sharp taste, similar to the taste of horseradish.
Ingredients
Chicken Breast - 300 g
Sour cream - half a glass.
Vologda oil - 70 g.
Cress - 100 g
1 tsp. crackers.
Salt.
1 egg.
Cooking method
Prepared chicken breast salt, put in a saucepan and pour with melted butter.
Bake in the oven until half cooked.
We take out a stewpan from the oven, sprinkle chicken breast with breadcrumbs, top with cream.
Cover with a saucepan and stew on the stove until done.
Egg boil hard-boiled, cool and chop up.
Watercress sorted, kept in salt water and washed.
Put half of the salad in a saucepan with chicken and pour crumbled eggs on top.
In a few minutes we remove the dish.
Chicken breast is laid out on a dish and poured from saute pan with sour cream sauce.
We decorate the dish with leaves of the remaining watercress.
Recipe 7. Chicken breast with turmeric in cream sauce “Unpretentious Dinner”
Another simple recipe for a delicious dish that is suitable for lunch and dinner. The combination of sweet onion, dill and fresh, slightly burning turmeric will give it an exotic taste. You can supplement the dish with fresh tomatoes. Ingredients
Chicken breast bone - 800 g
Crimean onion - 3 pcs.
Turmeric.
Salt.
Oil for frying.
For the sauce:
Sour cream of average fat content - 150 ml.
Purified water - 150 ml.
Flour - 1 tbsp. spoon
Dill.
Cooking method
Thoroughly wash the breasts and lightly dry them.
Grate the meat with salt and turmeric.
Pour some oil into the pan and fry the breast slightly. She should lightly redden.
Peel the onions from the husk, wash, cut into half rings.
Fry it in a separate skillet, add a spoonful of flour, mix and turn off the heat.
Cooking sauce:
In a blender pour sour cream and water. Add chopped dill, salt. Turning on the blender to achieve a uniform consistency.
Pour the contents into a frying pan with onions and flour, boil on low heat until the sauce is completely thick.
In a thick and boiling sauce lay out the chicken, stir. After half an hour the dish is ready, it must be removed from the heat and serve until it has cooled.
Recipe 8. Delicate Chicken Breast in Sour Cream Sauce European-style
Provencal herbs are perfectly combined with chicken breast, emphasizing the already expressive taste of the dish. It can be prepared for a family holiday.
Ingredients
Chicken breast bone - 600 g
Peasant oil - 30 g.
Nutmeg.
A mixture of Provencal herbs.
Garlic.
Salt.
For the sauce:
Oily sour cream - 450 ml.
Champignons - 120 g.
Cheese, butter Vologda - 100 g. Each
Black truffles - 100 g
3 cloves of garlic, onions.
Cooking method
Wash the breasts, salt well, grate first with garlic, and then with a mixture of Provencal herbs. Put in a deep dish and send to the fridge. During this time, the smell of herbs and spices will become more intense and bright.
Prepare a baking sheet: spread out the foil and rub with plenty of oil.
Put chicken breast on a baking sheet, cover slightly with foil and send to the oven for baking. Bake until a light crust appears on the chicken. At a temperature of 200 degrees, cooking will take about twenty minutes.
Bake the pan out of the oven and put on the table: let the chicken breast cool slightly.
Sauce:
Onions and champignons cut into small pieces.
Finely chop the garlic.
Cut the truffles into thin flakes. Fry some onions, champignons, truffles. Then add the garlic, mix. Cover the stew-pan with a lid for a couple of minutes, let the future sauce drip a little.
Then pour the sour cream over the mixture and let it stew for another.
Add a piece of cheese, constantly stirring the sauce with a wooden spoon. The cheese should melt in the sauce so that it is homogeneous.
Pour hot chicken sauce. Put the nutmeg a little bit.
Again cover with foil and send for half an hour in the oven.
Remove the foil from the chicken and leave to prepare for another quarter of an hour.
Chicken breast cooked with this recipe in sour cream sauce should be served with green salad.
Chicken Breast in Sour Cream Sauce - Tricks and Tips & Tips
- If the breast in the oven is very browned, but is not ready yet, it is covered with parchment on top.
- Sour cream sauce can be mixed in a blender to make its consistency tender and homogeneous.
- Nutmeg is added in small amounts for flavor and light spice.
- The use of cognac and its burning (flaming) helps to create a delicacy with a crisp crust and a wondrous aroma.
- Chicken breast is dietary meat, it is better to cook it without a skin that contains not only a significant amount of calories, but also a lot of useless substances.
- Rapid stirring slows the brew. Therefore, the sauce should be interfered with slow circular movements.
