Chicken fillet is a light dietary meat that gives the chef a lot of possibilities. It can be boiled, baked, fried.
General principles of cooking chicken fillet
Chicken fillet is, as a rule, white meat from the breast without bones, skin, cartilage. In itself, it is lean, very easy to overdry. Various marinades, for example, based on soy sauce and spices, can be added to give softness and juiciness; you can also use lemon juice or yogurt.
Before cooking, the fillets must be washed and always dried with a napkin or paper towel. This is especially important if the meat will be fried, the excess moisture will not allow it to brown well. For the same reason, when frozen fillets are used, they need to be completely thawed.
An interesting sound chicken fillet gets in salads - they can be made both very nourishing and light. It goes well with both vegetables and fruits - orange, pineapple, apple. Pleasant flavor notes give chicken meat garlic, basil, black pepper, coriander, thyme, oregano, it is in perfect harmony with nuts, prunes, cheese. Chicken fillet in a creamy or sweet-sour sauce is very tasty.
Quick and tasty cooking light salad with chicken fillet
Very fresh, summer version of salad. Suitable for those who follow the figure.
Ingredients
300 grams of chicken fillet;
100 grams of mozzarella cheese (small balls);
a small bunch of green lettuce;
2 tablespoons cedar nuts;
100 grams of strawberries;
1 tbsp of lemon juice;
olive oil, salt.
Method of preparation
1. Boil the chicken fillet, cool, cut into cubes.
2. Fry nuts lightly in a dry skillet.
3. Wash lettuce leaves, dry well with paper towels, tear hands into small pieces.
4. Strawberries are my, cut off the stem, berries cut into four. 5. Drain liquid from mozzarella balls.
6. All the ingredients combine in a salad bowl. Mix oil and lemon juice in a bowl, season with salt. Fill the resulting dressing with our salad, mix, serve.
Quick and tasty cooking chicken fillet on a vegetable cushion
A full lunch or dinner of juicy meat and spicy vegetables. We will cook in the sleeve for roasting, it is simple, and quick, and practical.
Ingredients
Kilogram chicken fillet;
a pound of pumpkin pulp;
7-8 potatoes;
2 carrots;
3 cloves of garlic;
dried basil and thyme;
olive oil;
5 tablespoons soy sauce.
Method of preparation
1. Mix basil, thyme and soy sauce.
2. Wash my fillet in a bowl, pour soy sauce with herbs. While preparing vegetables, chicken meat is marinated.
3. Remove the rind from the potato, cut the tubers into fairly large pieces. Carrot clean, cut into circles, pumpkin pulp - diced. Garlic we press or finely crumble.
4. Combine all the vegetables, add olive oil, garlic, mix.
5. Fold the sleeve for baking the size we need on the baking sheet. Inside, evenly distribute the vegetables. Top - chicken fillet, pour all the remaining marinade.
6. Tie the sleeve, make a couple of small holes to release steam. We put in the oven for 45 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees.
7. Take out the finished dish from the oven, open the sleeve, avoiding hot steam. Before serving, you can decorate with finely chopped greens.
Quick and tasty cooking salad with fried and smoked chicken fillet
Tropical fruits and smoked chicken in this recipe give a pleasant combination of sweet and salty. Leaf lettuce can be chosen to your taste - the usual green, lollo ross, arugula or take the finished mixture.
Ingredients
1 smoked chicken breast fillet;
1 fresh chicken fillet;
1 orange;
150 grams of a mix of leafy salads;
70 grams of canned pineapple slices;
pesto, fresh mint and basil.
Method of preparation 1. Wash fresh chicken fillet, dry with a napkin. Cut into strips, fry until cooked in vegetable oil.
2. Smoked fillet also cut into strips.
3. Remove the peel from the orange, cut the flesh into slices, separate all the films. Pickled pineapple with pieces we get out of the jar, give to drain the juice.
4. Put the prepared ingredients in a salad bowl, season with pesto sauce, use mint leaves and basil for decoration.
Quick and tasty we prepare a hearty chicken fillet roll
With this recipe will have to tinker a little longer. But the finished dish will be a spectacular snack on a festive table.
Ingredients
3-4 chicken fillets
100 grams of walnuts (already peeled);
2 tablespoons lemon juice;
200 grams of bacon;
100 grams of melted cheese;
bunch of dill;
1 teaspoon thyme (dried);
1 tbsp of liquid honey;
2 cloves of garlic;
ground pepper, salt.
Method of preparation
1. Preheat oven to 190 degrees.
2. Wash the fillets, dry them with a paper towel. Now it is necessary to repel, salt and pepper.
3. Using a press press garlic, rub them with chicken fillet. Sprinkle with thyme, sprinkle with lemon juice.
4. Dill and nuts finely-finely cut, mix with melted cheese.
5. Bacon cut into long strips.
6. Lay out the broken chicken fillet so that the pieces overlap each other, forming a solid layer. We spread the filling, distribute evenly.
7. Fold the roll, wrap it with bacon strips, fasten with the help of a culinary thread. Put on a baking sheet and bake for 40 minutes.
8. After the allotted time, we take out the roll, spread it with liquid honey and send it to the oven for another quarter of an hour.
9. Cut the culinary thread from the finished roll, cut into neat slices.
Quickly and tasty cook chicken fillet in baked milk
Soft cream sauce and juicy, melting meat in the mouth. Serve as a side dish with rice or mashed potatoes.
Ingredients
2 chicken fillets;
1.5 cups of baked milk; 50 grams of butter;
half a cup of sour cream;
pepper, salt.
Method of preparation
1. Heat the oven to 200 degrees.
2. Wash chicken fillet, dry and cut into strips, season with ground pepper and salt.
3. Fry the meat until browning in butter.
4. Shift the fillet with melted butter in the baking dish. Mix baked milk with sour cream, you can also add to taste any aromatic herbs. Fill the meat.
5. Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Quickly and tasty cook a chicken kebab
Barbecue can be cooked in the oven! Grilled chicken skewers just 20 minutes, but the marinating of meat will take some time. Also for this recipe will need wooden skewers.
Ingredients
2 chicken fillets;
a teaspoon of liquid honey;
2 cloves of garlic;
30 ml of olive oil;
40 ml of soy sauce;
ground pepper.
Method of preparation
1. Skewers for skewers placed in water for half an hour.
2. Cooking marinade. To do this, mix soy sauce, chopped garlic, olive oil, ground pepper, or if desired, other spices, honey.
3. Meat cut into long strips. We put it on the prepared skewers, as if we are collecting a frill, put it in the marinade and put it in the fridge for a couple of hours so that the fillets are well marinated.
4. The oven is set at 200 degrees. We take a suitable size shape, put skewers with skewers, bake for 20 minutes. To get a ruddy crust on all sides, be sure to turn the skewers a couple of times.
Quickly and tasty cook a salad of chicken fillet with cheese and prunes
This salad turns out surprisingly fresh, but at the same time satisfying. For dressing, you can use mayonnaise in its pure form or, if desired, mix it with sour cream to make the dish less fatty.
Ingredients
1 chicken fillet;
100 grams of prunes pitted;
2 eggs;
100 grams of cheese;
2 small cucumbers;
mayonnaise.
Method of preparation
1. Boil chicken fillet. Take out of the broth, leave to cool. 2. Fill the prunes with hot water, let them soften a little.
3. Boiled eggs. Cool, clean and three grated.
4. Grate cheese on a coarse grater.
5. Cut the cucumber and prunes into thin strips. We disassemble chicken meat into feathers-fibers.
6. We take a beautiful plate or a small dish, we begin to collect the salad. Spread it in layers - chicken, cucumber, egg, cheese, prunes, and again in the same manner.
7. A lot of dressing this salad does not require, it is already juicy due to the cucumber and spicy, thanks to the 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 or with threads from top to bottom, as fantasy tells.
If you want to make this dish more nourishing, you can put layers of ingredients in a salad bowl, smearing with mayonnaise.
Secrets and tricks of cooking quick and tasty chicken fillet dishes
• Too long heat treatment makes chicken meat dry. The best frying time is a quarter of an hour for small pieces, 25 minutes for whole fillets.
• If there is very little cooking time, you can purchase ready-made chilled chicken fillet. However, if you buy an uncut chicken breast on the bone or a whole chicken and separate the fillets yourself, it will be more economical.
• We cut the fillets correctly: cut them across the fibers, if we cook the whole, for example, we fry the chops - cut them neatly along.
• When boiling chicken fillet for salad, put onion and bay leaf in the pan, the meat will be more fragrant.
• Softer when cooked, you get a chilled fillet, not a frozen one.
