Pineapples and meat - this is no longer a strange combination. It is actively used in cooking for the preparation of hot dishes and snacks. Although, more and more meat is replaced by chicken. The bird is cheaper, more accessible, everyone likes the taste and it is perfectly friendly with the fruit.
Here are three recipes of chicken with pineapples: step by step, in detail, with all the tricks and nuances.
Chicken with pineapples - general principles of cooking
Chicken with pineapples prepare two kinds of dishes - hot or salads. Below there are different recipes, preparation is described step by step. Chicken fillet is most often used, since pieces on the bone are more difficult to combine with the fruit. Fillet is cut into slices or plates, sometimes beats off. For salads, you can boil any parts of the carcass, then pick the flesh from the bone, chop or tear.
Pineapples are most often used canned. That is why often in the lists of ingredients is not the weight, but the number of rings. If the bank pieces, then take an approximate amount. Pineapples do not require any prior preparation, you only need to strain the syrup, sometimes cut it.
What else you might need:
• cheese;
• mayonnaise, sour cream;
• butter or vegetable oil;
• spices;
Additional ingredients depend on the dish. Very often mushrooms, nuts, onions and other vegetables are added. All these ingredients are perfectly combined, allow you to get chic dishes from chicken and pineapple.
Chicken with pineapples: recipe (step by step in the oven under the cheese)
Step-by-step recipe for chicken with pineapples in the oven. For this dish is used tender white meat, that is, fillet from the breast. It is saturated with pineapple juices, it turns out very tasty and does not dry out.
Ingredients
• 500 g chicken;
• 200 g pineapples;
• 70 grams of sour cream;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• salt pepper;
• a clove of garlic;
• to decorate cherry tomatoes, greens.
Cooking 1. Cut the chicken with plates to make some kind of chops. Thin slices do not need to, about 2 cm thick, as they will still fight back. It is advisable to cut the fillet across the fibers, so it will be better soaked with sour cream and pineapple juice.
2. We lay out the plates on the cutting board, several pieces are possible at once, but we make the distance between them not less than 4-5 cm. We cover with cling film, beat off a little bit with a hammer, do not make thin pieces. You can beat a chicken without a film, but then the juice will splash, and the pieces may tear.
3. Sprinkle the bird with salt and pepper. You can take the seasonings for chicken or a mixture of curry, also get delicious.
4. Mix sour cream and one minced garlic clove. You can cook without it or use dry garlic.
5. Spread chicken chops on a baking sheet in a single layer. You can make a sheet of parchment or foil, so you do not wash.
6. Lubricate the chicken with sour cream and garlic, albeit slightly marinated.
7. We get pineapples from the jar, approximately 5 ringlets will be needed. Shake syrup. We spread on a chopping board and cut into small cubes. You can immediately lay the rings on the chicken, too, you get beautiful and tasty.
8. Spread tinned pineapples on a greased sour cream chicken. Since they are cut, it is very convenient to distribute over the surface, it turns out evenly.
9. Cheese needs to be rubbed coarsely. You can use thin-sliced product, it will conveniently cover the filling. Or just take the grated cheese and gently fall asleep pineapples. We try to keep the chips from falling on the baking sheet.
10. We put in the oven. The stove must be preheated to 200 degrees. Lower temperature is not necessary, as the fillet is cooked quickly.
11. Bake the chicken under the pineapples and cheese for 20-25 minutes, achieve a beautiful and golden brown. If the cheese is of high quality, then it will spread well and melt.
12. We take out the dish from the oven, spread it on the plates, supplement it with greens, decorate with sliced cherry tomatoes and serve immediately to the table.
Layered salad “Chicken with pineapples”: a recipe (step by step) with nuts and mushrooms
Option delicious salad. In the step-by-step recipe of chicken with pineapples, mushrooms are additionally used. But in fact there are a lot of options, often they are replaced with prunes, fresh cucumbers, corn are added.
Ingredients
• 200 g of champignons (fresh mushrooms);
• 400 g chicken fillet;
• 200 g pineapples;
• 200 g of mayonnaise;
• 60 g of walnuts;
• 1 onion;
• butter.
Cooking
1. For a salad, you can take a fillet or whole chicken leg, as you prefer, but then take the chicken leg more, taking into account bone and skin. They will not go to the salad. Fill with water, boil until done. To improve the taste, you can add bay leaf, pepper to the water.
2. Chill the chicken, cut into pieces or simply disassemble the fibers by hand.
3. We cut onions and mushrooms, champignons are most often used. Pour some oil into the pan, fry the onions for a couple of minutes, then add mushrooms to it and bring them together until done. At the end, fill with salt, stir and cool. All ingredients of the salad should be cold or at room temperature.
4. Separate the right amount of canned pineapples, cut into small cubes.
5. Measure out the right amount of mayonnaise. You can use its mixture with sour cream, it will reduce the caloric content, reduce the fat content of the snack.
6. Pour the walnuts on a dry frying pan and fry for a minute. Also cool and chop with a knife. We do not use a blender, we need not crumbs, but visible pieces.
7. We take a deep salad bowl and lay out a layer of mushrooms and onions in it, level and lightly, quite a bit, lubricate with mayonnaise. Mushrooms already have butter on which they were fried, so there is not much need for sauce.
8. Now on the mushrooms lay out a layer of chicken fillet. We coat it with sauce more abundantly so that the bird is well soaked, tender and juicy.
9. Now go pineapple slices. They also need to miss with mayonnaise. You can put a layer of boiled eggs or cheese here, but this is optional. 10. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts, send chicken with pineapples in the fridge. Let stand for at least 2 hours.
Baked Pineapple Chicken: Recipe (Step by Step with Mushrooms)
Option of a festive, tasty and beautiful dishes. It turns out very fragrant and juicy chicken. The recipe is detailed, step by step describes all the stages of preparation. Even a newbie will succeed!
Ingredients
• 4-5 chicken fillets;
• 8-10 rings of pineapples;
• 250 g of champignons;
• 2-3 onions;
• 100 g sour cream or mayonnaise;
• 170 g cheese;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• butter.
Additionally, you will need spices: a mixture of peppers, curry, sweet paprika or any other to your taste, you can restrict yourself to salt and black pepper.
Cooking
1. Wash the chicken with cold water. Take paper towels or thick napkins. Drain. If the napkins are thin, then the paper will stick and stay on the product.
2. Each chicken fillet must be cut lengthwise to make two plates. We put on the board, as it was done in one of the previous recipes and knock gently with a hammer. We try to beat off the fillet so that the pieces become the same thickness over the entire area and between themselves.
3. We take a mixture of spices, sprinkle chicken fillet. Grind fingers immediately and salt. We lay on top of each other so that nothing dries out, we cover it with a film or an inverted bowl on top. Let pickled.
4. Clean the onions, reem in small cubes. Melt the butter in a skillet. You can take and vegetable oil, but the cream turns out much tastier. Pour onion chopped to it, fry until transparent.
5. Wash fresh champignons. In general, in this dish, you can use pickled mushrooms, then they do not need to fry. Fresh mushrooms cut in half and then the plates.
6. Pour the mushrooms to the onions and fry together. It is difficult to say the exact time, all the water should evaporate, so we make fire big and stir. As soon as the mushrooms begin to “squash”, that is, fry, then cook for a couple of minutes and turn them off. Cool the champignons with onions in a bowl. 7. Add sour cream or mayonnaise to the mushrooms, salt it immediately, squeeze the garlic (optional) and stir.
8. Pineapples for this recipe do not need to be cut, the whole rings will be put in, but it is advisable to put them in a colander in advance to get rid of the excess sweet syrup.
9. Spread the fillet on a greased baking sheet in a single layer.
10. Immediately on each piece put a circle of pineapple.
11. Now we lay out the fried mushrooms. Part of the place in the hole of the pineapple, the rest around and slightly on top of the ring. Do not rush, we do it carefully.
12. Grind cheese on a coarse grater. Sprinkle the mushroom layer on top. We lay quite a lot so that the crust is dense.
13. Put the chicken with pineapple baked. The oven should be heated to 200 degrees, the process takes about half an hour.
Chicken with pineapples - useful tips and tricks
• To get the chicken soaked well, you need to cut the pieces across the fibers. If cut along, the sauce or marinade cannot penetrate.
• If you do not like sugary sweetness in meat dishes, it is better to use fresh pineapple.
• If the cheese starts to fry very quickly and is even almost ready, you need to immediately reduce the temperature to 160-170 degrees. You can additionally lubricate the crust with sour cream or mayonnaise, this will prevent it from burning.
• To ensure that a delicious dinner is not overshadowed by the laundering of trays, make it a habit to cover the sheets with parchment or foil. Better yet, use comfortable silicone mats. They need to be washed, but everything comes off the surface very simply and without extra effort.
