How to cook chicken with mushrooms

Due to its fast heat treatment and relatively low cost, chicken is probably the most sought-after meat product.

In what form it is not served! It is boiled, stewed, fried, baked. Chicken meat is used to make salads, snacks, toppings for pies.

Chicken is combined with almost any food and vegetables.

Hostesses are experimenting with chicken meat, adding eggplants and zucchini, tomatoes and cucumbers, potatoes and turnips to it. They did not ignore the mushrooms.

Of course, some people think that two types of protein (animal and vegetable) together are overkill. But if you follow the rules of separate nutrition, the meat can not be eaten with many foods.

Leave this topic for nutritionists. Here we are talking about delicious, unusual, and most importantly, hearty dishes. And evaluate what you cook, will be your household. And, most likely, will be satisfied.

Chicken with mushrooms: the subtleties of cooking

Mushrooms can be taken absolutely any. It all depends on the time of year and the financial capacity of the hostess. These can be fresh champignons, oyster mushrooms or wild mushrooms, dried mushrooms, frozen or canned.
Chicken meat and mushrooms have different cooking times. This must be taken into account when mixing them. As a rule, first bring the chicken to half-cooked (fried or stewed), and then add the mushrooms.
You can also fry chicken and mushrooms separately and then combine. For the dish to have a rich taste and seem complete, chicken and mushrooms need to be stewed together for a while.
If you take dried mushrooms, before using them, you should soak them in water or milk (preferably) for two hours. Since dried mushrooms are cooked for a long time, they need to be put together with chicken - they will be prepared almost simultaneously.
For the sauce you can use sour cream, cream, flour brewed with milk (bechamel sauce). It is white sauces best suited to chicken meat and mushrooms.
Of vegetables, onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes, and green bean pods are usually added.
Chicken and mushroom dishes do not need a lot of spices, as their smell should not clog the natural flavor of mushrooms.

Chicken with mushrooms, stewed in sour cream

Ingredients:

chicken carcass - 700 g;
potatoes - 3-4 pcs .;
onions - 2 pcs .;
carrots - 1 pc .;
champignon mushrooms - 150 g;
sour cream - 400 g;
garlic - 3 cloves;
butter - 30 g;
vegetable oil - 20 g;
dill greens;
salt.

Preparation Method

Wash chicken, cut into portions. Fry in butter until golden brown. Put in a thick-walled pot or cauldron.
In the pan with the remaining butter, put the sliced mushrooms, sour cream, stir and simmer on low heat for 15 minutes.
Heat vegetable oil in another pan. Save onion finely chopped onions and grated carrots on a medium grater. Add diced potatoes, lightly fry them, making them half cooked.
Put all the vegetables in a meat pot, put on the fire and simmer for about 25-30 minutes at a low boil - until the chicken is soft. 2-3 minutes before readiness, put chopped garlic and chopped greens.

Chicken with mushrooms in cream

Ingredients:

small chicken (chicken) - 1 pc .;
cream - 150 ml;
champignons - 300 g;
butter - 100 g;
grape juice - 250 g;
black pepper and salt.

Preparation Method

Chicken cut into portions and fry in butter until tender. Put in the cauldron.
Wash champignons, cut into slices, put in a saucepan. Pour grape juice, salt. Simmer for 10 minutes. Pour in the cream, put the pepper. Continue stewing until the mushrooms are ready.
Fill the chicken pieces with mushroom sauce and heat well over low heat.

Chicken with mushrooms: Julien

Ingredients:

chicken fillet - 400 g;
fresh mushrooms - 300 g;
milk - 1 tbsp .;
flour - 1 tbsp. l .;
butter - 5 tbsp. l .;
sour cream - 250 g;
cheese - 50-100 g;
salt.

Preparation Method

Cut the chicken fillet into strips. Cut the champignons into thin slices. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a pan, put the meat and mushrooms, fry until golden brown.
In another frying pan, dry the flour, cool slightly, pour into a dipper or saucepan, mix with two spoons of oil. Gradually pour in warm milk. Put on a slow fire and bring to a boil.
Mix the prepared sauce with sour cream in a 1: 1 ratio.
Put the meat and mushrooms in a deep mold, pour over the sauce. Cheese rub on a small grater, pour them meat. Sprinkle with the remaining melted butter.
Place the form in an oven heated to 200 degrees and bake until golden brown.

Chicken with mushrooms in a slow cooker

Ingredients:

chicken fillet - 0.5 kg;
fresh mushrooms (oyster mushrooms or champignons) - 300 g;
onions - 2 pcs .;
cream - 250 ml;
flour - 1 tbsp. l .;
vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l .;
salt;
black pepper;
Dill and parsley - a thin bunch.

Preparation Method

Drain the fillets, cut into small slices. Wash mushrooms, blot with paper towel, cut into plates. Shred onion finely.
Pour oil into the bowl of the multicooker, heat it in frying or baking mode. Lower the meat first, and when it is slightly roasted add the mushrooms. Stir. When all the moisture released from the mushrooms has evaporated and they begin to roast, put the chopped onion. Save it to softness, without darkening.
Place the flour in the cup, gradually dissolve the cream. If lumps form, strain through a strainer. Salt, pepper. Pour chicken and mushrooms with this sauce.
Switch the frying mode to “Quenching”. Cook under the lid for 40 minutes. If you think that the liquid is not enough, dilute the sauce with boiling water. Chopped greens add to the already prepared dish. Let stand for a few minutes, and then serve with any side dish.

Chicken with mushrooms in tomato sauce

Ingredients:

chicken - 700 g;
fresh mushrooms - 200 g;
tomato paste - 1 tbsp. l .;
sour cream - 2 tbsp. l .;
onions - 1 pc .;
garlic - 3 cloves;
vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
salt;
black pepper;
parsley or dill.

Preparation Method

Wash the chicken, chop it into portions, dry it with a paper towel.
Wash mushrooms, blot with a towel. Cut into slices.
Cut onion into thin half rings. Chop the garlic with a knife.
Heat oil in a pan, fry pieces of meat on it until golden brown. Transfer to the cauldron.
In the remaining oil, fry the mushrooms, then add the chopped onions to them. Cook until it is soft. Transfer to the cauldron with meat.
Put tomato paste, sour cream, salt and pepper in a frying pan. Stir by adding a little hot water to make a rather thin sauce. Bring to a boil, but do not boil. Pour them chicken with mushrooms. Close the cauldron with a lid, simmer for half an hour over low heat.
Finely chop the greens and garlic, add to the already prepared dish. Remove the cauldron from the stove and let it brew for 10-15 minutes.

Chicken baked with mushrooms

Ingredients:

chicken breasts - 0, 6 kg;
canned mushrooms - 200 g;
onions - 1 pc .;
vegetable oil - 40 g;
mayonnaise - 200 g;
cheese - 50 g;
salt;
flour - 100 g;
ground black pepper.

Preparation Method

Chicken breasts cut into large slices. Put in a bowl, add salt, pepper and one tablespoon of mayonnaise. Stir, leave to marinate for one hour.
Dip meat in flour.
Heat the oil in a frying pan, fry the fillets on both sides until golden brown. Put in a greased form.
From the jar of mushrooms, drain the liquid, and cut the mushrooms themselves into slices. Place them on top of the breasts.
Chop onions into thin half-rings. Cover them with meat and mushrooms.
Mix the remaining mayonnaise with the cheese grated on a fine grater. Fill the sauce with the contents of the form.
Place the chicken and mushrooms in the oven heated to 200 ° and bake for about half an hour. Serve immediately on the table.

Mistress to note

The article did not mention soups with chicken and mushrooms, salads, which, in addition to chicken meat, put mushrooms, pilaf with chicken and mushrooms. As you can see, the range of dishes is quite extensive. Therefore, feel free to add mushrooms to almost any dish with chicken meat, while taking into account the recommendations that were given at the beginning of the article.

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