Cutlets are rarely served as a separate dish, they will be tastier and more satisfying if they are decorated with a suitable side dish. Boiled macaroni and rice, mashed potatoes are versatile additions to minced meat products. But if you cook them every time, they quickly get bored. The hostess, who wants to diversify the menu, almost inevitably raises the question of which side dish to make to chicken cutlets, so that he harmonizes with them. There are many options, it is not forbidden to use the author's recipes, but they all must obey the general rules.
Cooking Features
When choosing foods from which you intend to prepare a side dish for chicken cutlets, you need to consider a few important points. Otherwise, the supplement may not improve, but worsen the taste of the main course.
- The choice of side dish depends on the composition of the main course. If there are any vegetables or cereals in the composition, it is at least unwise to make an addition to the meatballs. Chicken cutlets baked with rice will be tasty with a vegetable side dish, but not with rice, and vice versa, if there are zucchini in the stuffing, you should not serve them with zucchini - rice is more appropriate here.
- The way of making cutlets leaves an imprint on the choice of side dish. Steamed vegetables, boiled rice, mashed potatoes, stewed vegetables stew are suitable for steamed products. Vegetables baked in the same way are most suitable for oven-baked products. For fried meatballs, you can serve a side dish of fresh vegetables, fried potatoes.
- Corn goes well with chicken cutlets, adding a bit of it to a familiar side dish, you change the taste and appearance of a familiar dish, turning it into something bright and appetizing.
- Remember that the side dish is not the main course, but only an addition to it. It is not necessary to use complex recipes for its preparation. By the number of side dishes, too, should not be too much. Cutlets should not be lost on its background.
- The temperature of the cutlets and side dishes should be the same. If you serve them with lettuce, let them cool down to at least room temperature. If the side dish was prepared before and had time to cool down - heat it up.
By adhering to the above recommendations, even an inexperienced cook can make a delicious side dish for chicken cutlets that perfectly complement their taste.
Garnish for Chicken Rice Cutlets
Composition:
- rice groats - 0, 3 kg;
- water or chicken broth - 1 l;
- carrots - 0, 5 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- garlic - 1 head;
- bitter peppers - 40 g;
- sesame or other vegetable oil - 100 ml;
- salt, a mixture of peppers - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash vegetables.
- Peel carrots, cut into thin bars of about 2, 5-3 cm in length.
- Free from peel, cut onion into thin half-rings.
- Pour oil into the cauldron, warm it up.
- Put onions in butter, fry until golden brown.
- Add carrots. Cook, stirring, until it is almost completely soft.
- Fill with water or broth.
- Add spices, add salt to taste.
- Wash the rice, put it in the cauldron, flatten it with a spoon.
- Put a garlic clove in the center, drowning it in rice. Stick a couple of hot peppers in rice.
- Boil the rice under the lid for half an hour until the water evaporates completely. 10 minutes before the readiness, garlic and pepper can be taken out, rice mixed.
- After the rice is ready, wrap the cauldron with a towel and leave it for 20 minutes to set the side dish.
Rice cooked in this way will be a good addition to minced chicken cutlets cooked in a pan.
Vegetable salad garnish for chicken cutlets
Composition:
- leaf lettuce - 100 g;
- cucumbers (fresh) - 0, 3 kg;
- stem celery - 30 g;
- tomato - 150 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 2 kg;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- yogurt - 60 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the eggs. Cooled in cold water, peel and cut into large cubes or small slices.
- Wash vegetables, pat dry.
- Cut the tomato and cucumber into small-sized cubes, chop the pepper into straw, after having cleared the seeds.
- Rinse celery stalk well, remove coarse fibers. Finely chop the scape.
- Wash lettuce leaves, shake well. Break your hands.
- In a bowl, fold all the ingredients together and mix them in with yogurt.
Such a salad will be a wonderful side dish for chicken cutlets baked in the oven or fried in a pan. If desired, this dietary salad can be served with steam cakes.
Side dish of courgettes
Composition:
- zucchini - 0.6 kg;
- lemon peel - 5 g;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- chicken egg - 3 pcs .;
- fresh greens - 150 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Finely chop the greens and garlic, mix with salt and lemon zest.
- Wash zucchini, dry, cut into washers. Immerse in the green mixture and leave for half an hour.
- In a bowl, beat the eggs, mixing them with a small amount of salt.
- Heat the oil.
- Dip the zucchini mugs into the eggs and fry on both sides in a frying pan.
- Spread on a napkin so that it absorbs excess oil.
Serve the zucchini in an egg with fried chicken cutlets.
Potato salad for chicken cutlets
Composition:
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- fresh greens - 100 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- lemon juice - 20 ml;
- olive oil - 40 ml;
- salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Boil the potatoes in a uniform. When it cools, peel and cut into small cubes or cubes.
- Finely chop the greens and garlic.
- Add oil and lemon juice to greens and garlic, stir.
- Put the potato pieces in this mixture, salt to taste, mix.
This dish is suitable as a side dish for chicken cutlets no matter how they are cooked. If you have hot patties, the salad can be heated in an oven or microwave.
When cooking vegetables or cereals for chicken cutlets, add red pepper, paprika, garlic, turmeric in them - these seasonings help to reveal the taste of chicken. When choosing a supplement to chicken cutlets, consider the way they are cooked. If the products are dietary, steamed, then the garnish they need appropriate.
