Chicken breast meat, if it is slightly overexposed on fire, immediately becomes dry. Therefore, it is often prepared in sauces, the most popular of them is creamy. The combination of chicken and cream always makes it incredibly tender. In addition to the classic, there are plenty of recipes that use this elegant combination - chicken and cream.
Chicken recipe in cream sauce (classic)
There is a basic, classic recipe, all the others are variations. The recipe is quite simple and at the same time has a refined taste. For two servings of chicken in a creamy sauce you need:
- ≈ 500 g chicken fillet;
- 20 g of flour;
- 1 glass of cream;
- 30 ml cooking oil;
- 20 g butter;
- salt, spices as desired.
Preparation takes: 30 min.
Calories per 100 g: 270 Kcal.
Cut the fillet into pieces for frying. Fry in heated sunflower oil until light crust. In a dry skillet, fry the flour, when it turns golden, mix in the butter.
Mix the cream, salt, spices and pour in the flour with butter. Pour the fried chicken pieces with the resulting sauce.
While stirring, wait for the boil, reduce the fire to almost the minimum, bring to readiness under the lid for about another 10-15 minutes. Serve with a side dish.
Chicken with mushrooms champignons in cream sauce
Many people prefer to cook chicken in a creamy sauce with the addition of mushrooms. Mushrooms are best suited here. The combination of chicken, cream and champignons is originally French, and in French cuisine they love to fry in butter. For two servings of this dish you need:
- 500 g of champignons;
- ≈ a pound of chicken fillet;
- 1 onion;
- 1 glass of cream;
- 20 g butter;
- greenery;
- Provence herbs to taste;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- salt as desired.
Preparation takes: 30 min.
Calories per 100 g: 86 Kcal.
Onions, sliced as you like, a little sweat in butter. Put the chicken pieces in the same pan.
After the chicken has browned slightly, send the champignons there, which are not too finely chopped. It is better not to wash the champignons, but to clean them, otherwise they will give up all the aroma when washing in water.
After they have become soft, and this will happen in about 3 minutes, pour all the cream, reduce the heat and put out another 15 minutes. Add garlic, crushed garlic, salt and spices to the pan, 3 minutes before the readiness. Serve with a side dish.
Chicken with Creamy Garlic Sauce with Broccoli
The chicken in the sauce is still not a separate dish, but needs a side dish. But you can cook immediately with vegetables. Broccoli cabbage is very popular now - it is healthy, tasty and looks very bright.
The combination of protein and green vegetables is ideal, it is truly a healthy meal. You can bake in the oven, but in the absence of such, or time for it, it is perfectly possible to do it in a frying pan. Broccoli does not need prior scalding. For cooking for two you need:
- ≈ 500 g chicken fillet;
- 1 glass of cream;
- 50 grams of cheese;
- 1 onion;
- a pound of broccoli cabbage;
- 20 ml cooking oil;
- salt and spices if desired (take into account the degree of salt in the cheese).
Preparation takes: 20 min.
Calories per 100 g: 98 Kcal.
Recipe for chicken with broccoli in a creamy garlic sauce in a pan is simple. In hot oil, fry the onion first, then add the chicken pieces, after 5 minutes, add the broccoli to the pan and pour the cream all over it.
Reduce heat, simmer under the lid until the cabbage is ready. 2-3 minutes before the end, add salt, spices and grated cheese.
Chicken in a creamy sour cream sauce with zucchini in a slow cooker
As one of the options of healthy vegetables zucchini fit. It also goes well with chicken and cream. With all these products perfectly harmonizes the taste of tomato and sour cream. So, for the preparation of four servings you need:
- ≈ 500 g chicken fillet;
- 20 ml cooking oil;
- 1 glass of cream;
- 50 g sour cream;
- half a glass of water;
- 20 g of flour;
- 1 tomato;
- 1 onion;
- 2 small squash or half large;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- parsley to taste;
- salt, spices as desired.
Preparation takes: 50 min.
Calories per 100 g: 55 Kcal.
This dish is ideal for multi-cooker. Chicken fillet with zucchini in a creamy sour cream sauce in a slow cooker is cooked quickly and simply. Fry the onions in butter on the "frying" or "baking" program until transparent, add the diced chicken and zucchini in cubes.
After the chicken has gone white, add the chopped tomato, from which the skin has been removed. Add water and wait for boiling, then close the lid and transfer the slow cooker to the "quenching" mode for 20 minutes.
Next, carefully, without creating lumps, enter the flour. Pour all this with cream and sour cream and on the same “quenching” mode, let the cook go for another 5 minutes. Add the parsley, garlic, spices, and salt to the pan 3 minutes before cook.
Spaghetti with Chicken Cream Sauce
A superb, truly Italian combination of chicken, cream and spaghetti. It definitely will not leave indifferent lovers tasty and dense meal. Rather, write down the recipe for cooking spaghetti with chicken in a creamy sauce. For four servings you will need the following list of products:
- ≈ 500 g chicken fillet;
- 1 onion;
- 20 g cooking oil;
- 1 glass of cream;
- 1 pack of spaghetti;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- basil to taste;
- salt, spices as desired.
Preparation takes: 30 min.
Calories per 100 g: 102 Kcal.
Boil pasta to the stage al dente. Brown the onions in oil, add chicken to the pan and fry for another 5 minutes.
Pour the cream and then 10 minutes over low heat. Add cheese, salt and spices, stirring, hold on the fire until the beginning of the square. Now you can mix the sauce and spaghetti or serve separately. Italians, by the way, prefer separately.
Chicken paste baked with cream cheese sauce
Pasta and chicken are elegantly combined, there are plenty of options. You can also bake the pasta in the sauce in the oven. Italians themselves prefer to combine heterogeneous sauces with short types of pasta, such as shells, feathers, froth. To prepare four servings of this dish requires:
- ≈ 500 g chicken fillet;
- 1 pack of pasta;
- 1 carrot;
- 20 ml cooking oil;
- 1 glass of cream;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- half a glass of water;
- salt, spices as desired.
Preparation takes: 30 min.
Calories per 100 g: 209 Kcal.
Let us consider in detail how to cook baked pasta with chicken in a creamy cheese sauce in the oven. First you need to boil the pasta to al dente, so that they do not soften in the oven. It is necessary to boil it in salted boiling water, with vegetable oil, without cooking 3 minutes before the time indicated on the pack.
Fry chicken breast, onion and grated carrot, cut into cubes in hot oil for about 5 minutes. Put them in the form with pasta and pour water.
In a bowl, mix the cream, spices, salt and cheese, pour the pasta with chicken and send in an oven heated to 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
Chicken pasta in creamy tomato sauce
Another variation of chicken with pasta. The most difficult of all the options offered with pasta.
To prepare four servings you need:
- ≈ 500 g chicken fillet;
- 1 onion;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 4 tomatoes;
- 20 ml cooking oil;
- 30 g butter;
- 20 g of flour;
- 1 glass of water;
- 1 glass of cream;
- 1 pack of pasta;
- nutmeg, basil to taste;
- salt as desired.
Preparation takes: 40 min.
Calories per 100 g: 150 Kcal.
Boil the pasta to the stage al dente.
Heat the butter, let the crushed garlic cloves open in it, and then catch and discard them. Fry the chopped onion in this oil and add crushed tomatoes without the skin, it's time to salt the sauce, add spices and greens.
Add half a glass of water. Put on a small fire to boil for about 20 minutes. Continuously monitor that the tomato sauce does not become too thick.
Be engaged in creamy sauce. Fry the flour until brown and mix the butter in it. Gently enter the cream and the remaining water, nutmeg and salt. Stirring to bring on the fire until thick. Turn off.
Fry chicken breast pieces lightly in butter. Now you can combine tomato and cream sauces by adding it to the chicken.
All together already bring readiness. Turn off the heat and mix with pasta. Serve on the table sprinkled with fresh basil.
Pasta in mustard-cream sauce with chicken
Well, the last common pasta recipe with a combination of chicken and cream is pasta with chicken in a mustard-cream sauce. For its preparation will need:
- ≈ 500 g chicken fillet;
- 1 pack of pasta;
- 1 onion;
- 20 ml cooking oil;
- 20 ml of water;
- 20 g sugar;
- 1 glass of cream;
- 50 grams of cheese;
- 10 g of mustard beans;
- salt as desired.
Preparation takes: 25 min.
Calories per 100 g: 203 Kcal.
Boil pasta until half ready. Fry onion in butter until transparent, reduce heat, add sugar and water, wait for sugar to dissolve.
Put the chicken in the pan and wait until it turns white. Now you can report the pasta to the pan, and pour in the cream. While stirring, wait until the sauce thickens. 5 minutes before removing from the stove add salt, spices, mustard, sprinkle with grated cheese.
Cooking Tips
And for beginners and experienced cooks it will be useful to read a few tips. Although the recipes and simple, but still a few tips do not interfere, in order to avoid unpleasant surprises.
- When making cream sauces, it’s worth knowing that cream requires an average fat content of 20 to 25%. If the fat content is less, the taste will not be so creamy, and if it is more, the sauce will be too thick. In the absence of cream, you can use a mixture of sour cream and flour. If the cream on hand is only very fat, it is best to dilute them with some milk.
- For those who are strictly on a diet, it is possible to replace the cream with milk with a tablespoon of flour, for thickening. The taste will, of course, not be the same.
- If you want to give a lemon taste to the dish it is worth remembering that dairy products from the presence of acids coagulate. As an option, you can rub lightly with the zest or use lemon pepper.
- Best of all, spices are Provencal herbs, basil, curry, and various chicken seasonings.
- Onion is better to add the first of the ingredients, and the last garlic.
- When the sauce is brought to a boil, it is better to stir it constantly, but let it boil alone and reduce the heat.
- Mushrooms and chicken should preferably be fresh, not frozen
- Before cooking, the chicken must be washed and dried.
- It is best to use the breast fillet, as it does not have excess fat.
- Salt should always be added at the end of cooking.
- As a side dish for chicken, vegetables, rice and mashed potatoes look better.
All of the above options for cooking chicken in a creamy sauce along with these tips are practical win-win. Since it is easy to cook, and to taste will certainly have many. These dishes will suit both every day and hot on holidays.
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