Not every housewife has the opportunity to spend a lot of time preparing dinner. Coming from work, I want to relax and not spend the whole evening at the stove. At the same time, dishes for the evening meal will not suit everyone: sandwiches, pies and similar snacks are too heavy to eat at night. Dietary chicken breast is better for dinner than most other foods. It is nourishing enough to satisfy hunger, and at the same time not so hard to overload the body. In addition, its taste is so good that it is able to cheer up after a hard day. The main thing - to know what to cook from chicken breast for dinner, so that, having spent a minimum of effort, to get the most delicious dish. There are many suitable recipes, and you can choose any of them, if you know the secrets of juicy and soft chicken breast preparation.
Cooking Features
Chicken breast is cooked in many different ways: fried, baked, stewed, boiled and added to the salad. In any of these ways, chicken fillet can be cooked so that it is soft and juicy. However, for this you need to know a few points.
- Juicy dishes are rarely obtained from frozen meat products. Therefore, it is best to use chilled chicken breast fillet. If you want to cook exactly frozen breast, remove it from the freezer beforehand. Only in this case, she will have time to thaw in the refrigerator. When defrosting in the microwave, the breast becomes dry and tasteless.
- Usually, chicken breast is freed from the skin, bone, cartilage, using only dietary fillets. To save time, you can purchase already prepared chicken breast fillet.
- Chicken breast is juicier if marinated beforehand. Therefore, start cooking with the preparation of the marinade and processing of the main product. While the chicken will marinate, you just have time to cook the rest of the ingredients.
- Chicken breast can be cooked immediately with a side dish. For dinner, these recipes are preferable, as they save time.
Some of the subtleties of technology depend on the method of cooking chicken breast. So, it is better to fry it in breading or batter, bake in foil or sleeve. Therefore, before cooking it does not hurt to carefully examine the selected recipe.
Chicken breast stewed in kefir with boiled potatoes
Composition:
- chicken breast fillet - 0, 4 kg;
- kefir - 0, 5 l;
- onions - 100 g;
- green onions - 50 g;
- potatoes - 0, 6 kg;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the breast, dry with napkins, cut into small pieces across the fibers.
- Mix kefir with spices and fill them with chicken pieces.
- Peel, cover with water and boil the potatoes.
- Chop green onions finely. Onions cut into half rings.
- Heat oil in a pan and put onions in it. Fry it for a few minutes, then lay the chicken pieces out of the marinade. On medium heat, fry them with onions, stirring for 10 minutes.
- Add the green onions and salt to the marinade. Pour them chicken. Cover the pan with a lid, reduce the intensity of the flame. Simmer chicken breast for 10 minutes.
- Drain and dry the potatoes.
Serve chicken breast with boiled potatoes, watering with sauce in which it is stewed. Delicate and fragrant dish not only looks appetizing, but also has an excellent taste. To prepare such a dinner, you need only half an hour.
Chicken Breast Salad with Beans and Corn
Composition:
- chicken breast, smoked or boiled - 0, 3 kg;
- canned corn - 0, 2 kg;
- beans preserved in their own juice - 0, 3 kg;
- cheese - 0, 2 kg;
- leaf lettuce - 150 g;
- lemon juice - 50 ml;
- vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- Provence herbs - 5 g.
Method of preparation:
- Clean boiled or smoked chicken breast from bones and skin. Cut into cubes of size 0, 7-0, 8 cm.
- Dice the cheese approximately the same size.
- Lettuce leaves wash and dry. Part of the bed on the bottom of the salad bowls, the remaining coarsely chopped.
- In a large bowl, mix chicken breast, cheese, lettuce, beans and corn.
- Mix oil with lemon juice and Provencal herbs. Season the salad with this mixture. Salting is not necessary, especially if you use smoked breast, as all the ingredients that make up this dish already contain salt.
You can cook chicken breast salad with beans and corn for dinner in just 20 minutes, provided that you use the ready-made breast. If you boil it just before cooking dinner, it will take twice as long.
Chicken Schnitzel with String Bean
Composition:
- chicken breast fillet - 0, 4 kg;
- spicy herbs - 20 g;
- soy sauce - 20 ml;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- bread crumbs - how much will go;
- wheat flour - how much will leave;
- green beans, fresh or frozen - 0, 4 kg;
- lemon - 1 pc.
Method of preparation:
- Pour the beans into the beans, boil them, and after boiling water boil them for 15 minutes.
- Chicken breast fillets, while the beans are being cooked, rinse in running water, blot with paper napkins. Each piece of fillet cut in half lengthwise. Put in a plastic bag and through it beat off from both sides with a culinary hammer.
- Mix soy sauce, spicy herbs and a tablespoon of vegetable oil, as well as juice squeezed from half a lemon. Marinate the chicken fillet in this mixture.
- Fold the beans into a colander, let it drain.
- Heat oil in a pan. Chicken breasts, taken out of the marinade, breaded in flour, dip in the egg and roll in breadcrumbs. Put in a frying pan and fry on medium heat for 5 minutes on each side.
- While the chicken fillet is roasting, heat a little oil in another pan, put the beans on it and then under the lid on low heat for 5 minutes, sprinkle with the remaining lemon juice.
- In the pan with chicken chops, pour in the remaining marinade, reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Spread chicken schnitzel and beans in plates and serve to the table.
If you act collected and vigorously, you can cook such a chicken breast dinner in just half an hour.
Chicken breast fillet with olives and rosemary
Composition:
- chicken breast fillet - 0, 4 kg;
- pitted olives - 10 pcs .;
- fresh rosemary - 4 sprigs;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs .;
- salt, black pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the dried and dried chicken breast fillets into small pieces.
- Crush garlic cloves with a knife.
- Squeeze juice out of lemon. Grate a little zest (half a teaspoon is enough).
- Wash the sprigs of rosemary and cut them into several pieces.
- Cut the olives in half lengthwise.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan. Put garlic, rosemary, lemon zest and olives in it. Fry them for two minutes, then remove the rosemary and garlic.
- Place the chicken pieces in a frying pan, sprinkle them with pepper and fry over medium heat for 10 minutes.
- Add some salt, reduce heat and sweat under the lid for another 5 minutes.
It is best to serve cooked breasts for dinner with boiled vegetables. It goes well with cauliflower and broccoli. They will have time to boil while the meat is fried. So dinner will be ready maximum in half an hour.
Chicken breast refers to dietary products. Many nutritionists advise her to cook for dinner. Chicken breast is also a good option for dinner because it takes very little time to prepare it, and the pleasant taste of ready-made dishes will lift your spirits and help you relax after a busy day.
