There are culinary rules, adhering to which, you can really properly cook chicken breast in different ways to get the pleasure and benefit from such a dish.
How to cook chicken breast until cooked on the stove
White chicken meat in the thoracic carcass is a very tasty and dietary product, but quite capricious in cooking.
The fact is that the white muscle fibers contain almost no fat, and very delicate, with a fairly low content of connective tissue. For this reason, the chicken breast is cooked very quickly, and if you do not know the cooking characteristics of this part of the chicken carcass, it is likely that it will be easily dried out.
How to start cooking white meat
Before cooking on the stove, chicken breast must be washed with cold water, you can directly from the tap.
If the breast is frozen, it is thawed on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator before cooking.
In no case can you thaw chicken breast in water, all nutrients will irrevocably pass into the water, and the breast itself, even with proper cooking, will become hard and tasteless.
Before boiling the washed breast, unnecessary parts are cut from it, for example, roughness of the skin, feather residues.
Put in boiling or cold water?
It depends on the purpose for boiling white chicken meat.
If chicken breasts are boiled for broths or soups, they are:
- put necessarily in cold water;
- bring to a boil over medium heat;
- they remove the foam formed during the boiling;
- reduce fire to medium-low;
- cook until done.
This technology of cooking this part of the carcass in the initially cold water is due to the fact that the protein does not have time to be sealed with boiling water, and the broth turns out to be rich and tasty. The very same chicken meat will not be so juicy.
Cooking duration
The duration of cooking chicken meat of the sternum depends on the purpose for which it is boiled, for cooking soup, or as a basis for other dishes.
How much should be cooked chicken fillet for soup
If the chicken sternum is cooked on the stove for broths and soups, the approximate cooking time for the breast from the moment of water boiling with it is 45 minutes.
The timing is taken on the average-sized chicken breast, cut into two parts.
If chicken soup is cut into more parts, for example, each half of the sternum is cut into five parts, the cooking time for the broth can be reduced to half an hour.
How and how much to cook chicken broth from the breast
Cooking chicken broth is slightly different from cooking white meat in the thoracic section of the carcass for soup. The main difference is that for chicken broth it is very important its quality characteristics, such as:
- broth transparency;
- natural taste and aroma of chicken meat.
Therefore, for the preparation of first-class broth from the breast part of the chicken carcass, the following technique is followed:
- The washed bird's breast is cut into at least four pieces;
- The pieces are placed in clean, cool water;
- Water is necessarily salted, - a good pinch of salt per 900 ml of water and one breast;
- For poultry meat put one peeled raw carrots, in principle, for classic broth on this all, the other ingredients are not provided. For lovers, it is advisable to add half a raw onion, or a clove of unpeeled garlic;
- Over medium heat, bring to a boil;
- Shumovka remove foam;
- Reduce fire to the very minimum;
- Cook for at least 45 minutes without a lid;
- After cooking, season with white pepper, and remove the vegetables from the broth.
How to cook chicken breast for salad
If the meat is boiled to make salads, or to serve on its own, the cooking time is shorter to preserve its juiciness and beneficial substances.
So, from the moment of the re-boiling of the water after the whole poultry section has been put into it, it’s enough to keep the chicken ready on the stove, with a moderate boil for about a quarter of an hour, not more.
If the whole thoracic section is cut into two halves, shorten the cooking time by five minutes.
How and how much time to cook chicken breast in a slow cooker and pressure cooker
Such modern kitchen appliances as pressure cookers and multicookers really save the time of a home cook, including when cooking white poultry meat.
Such a high-speed effect of cooking chicken meat is achieved by the features of heat distribution in a multi-cooker, and the creation of increased pressure in a pressure cooker.
However, in a multi-cooker on the "Quenching" mode, the brisket of the chicken is cooked for about 50 minutes.
In a pressure cooker, white meat will be cooked in fifteen minutes.
How many minutes to cook chicken breast in a double boiler and microwave
Cooking broiler breasts in a double boiler allows you to preserve the taste and benefits of poultry meat. However, this cooking is the longest, takes at least one hour.
In the microwave oven, the brisket of the young broiler chicken, immersed in boiling water, will be cooked in 6 minutes at the maximum power of the microwave.
Useful tips
- In order for the chicken breast meat to retain all the B vitamins, it is necessary to cook the breast for a short time, the strictly recommended time;
- If the poultry section of the chicken is cooked not for soup, but as a main course, they try not to grind it, but boil it, after pretreatment whole;
- Chicken breast boiled in slightly salted water, at the rate of half a teaspoon of salt per liter of water. In this broth fit whole chicken breast;
- Seasoning for boiled breast birds try to limit: this will preserve the delicate aroma of chicken meat. For the sake of transparency and tenderness, they do not put passages into broths from pork brisket;
- The cooked chicken breast is not taken out of the broth and stored in it until serving: so the meat will not dry out and preserve its taste and juiciness.
Features of boiling white meat chicken, depending on the type of dish, are different: if boiled breast of chickens are meant for Olivier, or as a main course, processed raw chicken breasts are dipped in salted boiling water, brought to a boil and cooked over moderate heat.
For broth do the opposite, dropping the meat in cold water.
In the next video, some more information on how to cook chicken breast.
