The most popular diet meat is chicken. Inexpensive, tasty, useful.
But ... over time, I want some variety. A great option is to cook chicken with ginger. The hot spine will not only give the dish a piquant taste, but also help in the fight against extra pounds.
Especially since the basic recipe can also be varied. Chicken marinated in honey, cream, soy sauce, juice of citrus fruits, tomato. Pickled chicken is cooked in literally 20-30 minutes, which is very convenient.
Ginger Chicken - General Cooking Principles
Before marinating the chicken should be washed, blotted with paper napkins and cut into portions. To do this, trim the wings, legs, cut the breast fillets. The back is used at will - if there are lovers in the family to bite soft bones.
Instead of a whole carcass, you can buy prepared parts, for example, only legs or just a breast. Sometimes the recipe involves the use of sliced breasts. In addition, if desired, you can cut the fillets from the entire carcass to get a boneless dish.
After the meat is prepared, you need to make the marinade according to the recipe, coat the chicken and send it to the refrigerator for 1.5-2 hours. If there is no time for marinating, you can skip this step. However, the meat pieces should soak in the sauce for at least 15 minutes while the oven warms up.
Ginger can be used both fresh and marinated. Fresh root is cleaned from thin skin, scraping it with a knife. Then ginger rubbed on a fine grater and used as a basis for the marinade. You can finely chop the ginger into petals or straws. Marinated ginger is also cut at will.
Cooking chicken with ginger can be in the oven using foil or a roasting sleeve. Another option - to put out the fillet pieces in a pan with soy, tomato or sour cream sauce.
Chicken with ginger in soy sauce
A simple and quick recipe with an oriental hue requires using only fillets. It turns out a spicy dish of tender meat in a spicy marinade. Sesame oil gives it a special charm. Ginger chicken is quite high-calorie, as it is cooked in butter in a skillet. But her taste is simply amazing. Ingredients:
• two large breast fillets weighing 500-600 grams;
• two tablespoons of grated fresh ginger;
• two tablespoons of sesame oil;
• a tablespoon of plain vegetable oil;
• three cloves of garlic;
• half a spoon of black pepper or a mixture of peppers;
• two tablespoons of soy sauce;
• two tablespoons of water.
Preparation:
Prepared peeled ginger into slices as thin as possible.
Peel and chop the garlic very finely.
Wash the fillet, dry it and cut it into thin long strips with a sharp knife.
Slightly beat off the meat, trying not to damage the fibers.
Pour sesame oil in a dry frying pan, heat and fry the meat strips to a crust for 5-7 minutes.
Leave the chicken in the lid for 15 minutes. During this time, it “comes” and sated with the aroma of sesame oil.
In another pan, fry the garlic with ginger in vegetable oil.
After 5 minutes, add the fried fillet, season with salt to taste, soy sauce and pepper, mix and leave to stew for 2 minutes.
Pour in water, mix again and leave to warm for 3 minutes.
Serve with steamed vegetables.
Chicken Ginger Honey-Lemon Glaze
Cooked in a well-heated oven chicken with ginger turns out to be tender, covered with delicious caramel-honey crust. Lemon flavor makes the dish festive, and ginger gives incredible freshness.
Ingredients:
• medium broiler chicken;
• lemon;
• ginger root weighing 50 grams;
• two tablespoons of natural honey;
• half a glass of water;
• spoon of any vegetable oil;
• some salt to taste.
Preparation:
First cook the marinade. To do this, cut the lemon into two halves, squeeze the juice.
Ginger mash with a regular grater.
Combine lemon juice with ginger gruel and honey, mix.
Pour in water to make the marinade more liquid, mix again.
Chicken cut into portions.
Lightly salt each piece.
Put the chicken in the marinade. It is important that each piece is completely covered with it. Leave the meat to marinate for three hours. In the extreme case, let the chicken stand in the ginger-honey soaking for at least 30 minutes.
Grease the form or pan with a spoon of vegetable oil.
Spread the chicken over the prepared form.
Spread the marinade on top of each piece.
Bake until tender at 200 °.
Chicken with ginger in garlic-honey sauce
Garlic gives this variant of ginger chicken extra spice and piquancy. Marinated meat for a long time - during the night, but it is not necessary. But to cook the chicken should be in foil, so that it turned out soft, but with a tasty sweetish crust.
Ingredients:
• average chicken carcass weighing a little more than a kilogram;
• half a cup of soy sauce;
• five cloves of garlic;
• one third cup of honey;
• fresh ginger root weighing 50-70 grams;
• salt.
Preparation:
For the marinade, rub the garlic and ginger root.
Combine ginger-garlic gruel, honey and soy sauce in a saucepan, mix.
Heat the marinade over medium heat until all the ingredients are mixed uniformly. Do not allow boiling.
Chop the chicken into pieces and fold it into a bowl or immediately into a baking dish.
Pour the meat with warm marinade, cover the bowl with a lid and send overnight to the middle shelf of the refrigerator.
Remove the meat an hour before baking.
Preheat the oven.
Grease the form with a small amount of oil, spread the chicken pieces and cover with foil.
Bake for half an hour at 190-210 °, then remove the sheet of foil and send to the oven again for the same time.
Chicken with ginger and oranges
Fragrant spicy chicken marinade of ginger, orange juice and herbs - a great option for both everyday and festive table. Instead of legs, you can take the usual carcass and cut it into portions.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of chicken legs;
• a piece of ginger root 2-3 cm;
• two oranges;
• teaspoon honey;
• a quarter of a tablespoon of rosemary (dried);
• pepper and salt to taste;
• some form oil.
Preparation:
Ginger peeled grate.
From one orange to remove zest. Then cut it into two parts and squeeze the juice with a spoon or special tool.
Mix in a bowl honey, ginger, orange juice and zest, mix.
Chicken legs cut into two parts along the joint, salt.
Grate marinade meat and put in the cold for an hour.
Preheat the oven.
The second orange is cut into rings, without removing the peel.
In a greased form, spread chicken legs, alternating them with orange rings.
Sprinkle with rosemary and pepper.
Bake until cooked, that is, until an appetizing crust is formed.
Chicken with ginger under pineapple rings
Fresh pineapple, lime and ginger - a wonderful marinade base in which you can cook chicken. It turns out not only very tasty, but also wonderfully healthy dish that will look harmoniously on the festive table.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of chicken fillet;
• small fresh pineapple;
• four cloves of garlic;
• half a spoon of red hot pepper;
• a tablespoon of grated ginger root gruel;
• a teaspoon of salt;
• vegetable oil;
• one lime;
• two tablespoons of brown or regular sugar.
Preparation:
Peeled garlic cloves finely chopped with a knife.
Ginger grate on a fine grater.
Prepare the marinade by mixing garlic, hot pepper and ginger.
Chicken fillet cut into thin narrow strips.
Spread the marinade on the meat and put in the fridge for half an hour.
Juice squeezed from lime.
Pineapple cut into thin strips.
Preheat pan with vegetable oil.
Pour sugar into the bottom, then pour in lime juice. The sugar will begin to melt, forming caramel.
Immediately put the chicken into the caramel along with the marinade, mix and fry for 3 minutes.
Add pineapple, mix again, reduce heat to low and fry meat, cover the pan with a lid.
Ten minutes later, chicken with ginger and pineapple is ready.
Chicken with ginger in tomato-sour cream sauce
The traditional sauce of sour cream and tomatoes can be turned into spicy, if you add a little grated ginger and Bulgarian pepper. Instead of tomatoes in their own juice, you can take fresh tomatoes, but then you have to increase the amount of salt. Ingredients:
• medium-sized chicken;
• a small piece of fresh ginger root (2-3 cm);
• Bank of tomatoes in its own juice;
• bulb onion;
• half a cup of sour cream;
• one Bulgarian pepper;
• dried or fresh herbs to taste;
• salt and pepper;
• cooking oil for the pan.
Preparation:
Chop the chicken carcass into pieces, lightly salt and sprinkle with pepper.
Grate garlic cloves and ginger.
Pepper wash, cut the stem and partitions together with the seeds, cut into thin strips.
Cut the peeled onion into thin rings or small cubes.
Heat oil in a frying pan, toss garlic and grated ginger, fry for 1-2 minutes.
Add strips of bell pepper and chopped onion, fry for another 6-7 minutes.
Pieces of chicken into a frying pan, fry for ten minutes without a lid.
Open a jar of tomatoes, cut them into pieces and pour into a griddle.
At the same time put sour cream, stir the resulting sauce, add dosol if necessary.
Cover the dish with a lid and simmer the chicken with ginger and pepper for half an hour.
Ginger chicken - tricks and helpful tips
- To reduce the caloric content of the chicken carcass or individual parts, you can cut the skin. So the meat will be even more dietary.
- Serve ready-cooked ginger chicken with boiled rice, mashed potatoes, fresh or stewed vegetables.
- Ginger contains many useful substances, accelerates metabolic processes. Chicken and ginger in combination - this is a great meal for weight loss.
