Chicken breast can be considered a universal product, as it is combined with a huge amount of products, even with strawberries and chocolate. Chicken fillet can be boiled, fried in a pan, but baking is considered the most tasty and useful.
The latter method of cooking is rather cunning, since you can easily overdry meat. In this regard, many housewives are interested in the question: how long should chicken breast be baked in the oven?
The duration of roasting depends on the size of the pieces of chicken, and the specific recipe. Below are the most common and tasty of baked breast variants, for example of which you can decide on the required time.
Simple recipe
A simple recipe does not always imply its use for everyday menus.
For a simple recipe for roasting chicken fillet, the following will be used:
- 250 g chicken fillet;
- 10 ml of soy sauce;
- 5 ml of vegetable oil;
- 10 g of mustard beans;
- 10-12 g of garlic;
- 3 g of spices (seasoning) for chicken;
- 3 g of salt.
The total cooking time is 90 minutes, including 30-35 minutes - roasting in the oven.
The calorie content of meat cooked in this way is 120.6 kcal / 100 g.
So, how delicious to bake chicken breast in the oven:
- Begin with meat preparation. Chilled or thawed natural fillets wash well and wipe off excess moisture with a paper towel. If there are films and grease, they need to be carefully cut off;
- Then take a deep plate (bowl), shift the meat into it, sprinkle it on all sides with salt and spices. After that, pour soy sauce and smear with mustard beans and chopped garlic using a press;
- Cover the surface of the plate with cling film and leave the breast to marinate for 30-40 minutes at room temperature;
- Put a pickled fillet on a greased baking dish, which must also be sprinkled on top of vegetable oil;
- Send meat for 30-35 minutes in the oven to bake (temperature 180-200 degrees). This time is enough for the fillet to be baked, but it remains juicy.
Dietary baked chicken breast in foil in the oven
The main mistake that inexperienced hostess can make while baking chicken breast is overdried meat. Food grade aluminum foil will help prevent such an oversight, which not only protects the fillet from the heat in the oven, but also makes it possible not to lose juices and supplement the marinade.
A chicken cooked in this way is tender and juicy.
To bake chicken meat in foil you need to take:
- 600 g chicken breast;
- 20 ml of olive oil;
- 40 ml of soy sauce;
- 16 grams of garlic.
The cooking process will take a total of 75-80 minutes.
Caloric content of 100 g of finished meat will be equal to 138.2 kcal.
Baking sequence:
- It is necessary to carefully remove the skin from the breast, if desired, you can separate the bone, but this is not necessary. Wash meat and blot excess moisture;
- Transfer the breast into a deep dish for subsequent marinating, pour with soy sauce, olive oil and rub with chopped garlic. Other spices can also be added if desired. Leave the meat for half an hour in the marinade, periodically turning it over;
- Cut a piece of foil so that you can form something like a bowl out of it. Put the breast on it gently, trying not to tear the foil, pour the marinade and cover with another piece of foil, folding its edges with an envelope;
- Bake at 220 degrees for 30-40 minutes. This is an average baking time, but it may take less or more, depending on the size of the piece of meat.
How much time and how to bake chicken breast with cheese in the oven
In previous recipes, juiciness of the dish was achieved by marinating and wrapping meat in foil, but these are not the only ways. The tenderness and preservation of meat juices of chicken fillet in the oven can provide hard cheese, which melts under the influence of high temperature, forms a crust. Cheese for such a meat dish should be chosen not too refractory (Russian or Poshekhonsky).
For roasting chicken meat with cheese, you need to take ingredients in such proportions:
- 500 g chicken breasts;
- 200 g of hard cheese;
- 30 g pine nuts;
- 5 ml of vegetable oil;
- salt and seasoning for chicken to taste.
Cooking time does not take more than 65 minutes.
The calorie content of the breast with cheese crust will be 189.0 kcal per 100 g.
Algorithm of actions:
- Each chicken breast, prepared in a way similar to previous recipes, cut lengthwise into two flat pieces. To beat off each piece with a hammer or the back of a kitchen knife, sprinkle with salt and spices from all sides;
- Cover the baking sheet with foil and lightly grease with vegetable oil, put the broken breast pieces on it, tightly to each other. Sprinkle the meat on top with large cheese shavings and chopped pine nuts;
- Cover with a foil on top of the dish so that there is an air cushion between them that prevents the cheese from sticking to the foil;
- Bake the breast for 30 minutes under the foil, then remove it and for another 10 minutes redden the crust of cheese.
Chicken breast baked in the sleeve with vegetables in the oven
Baking chicken breast in the sleeve can not only preserve its juiciness, but at the same time prepare a side dish of vegetables. For dishes you can use other than onions, carrots and other vegetables, for example, tomatoes, zucchini, sweet Bulgarian pepper, potatoes and others.
For cooking breasts and vegetables will need:
- 500 g chicken breast;
- 200 g onions;
- 200 g carrots;
- 200 g tomatoes;
- 200 g paprika;
- 200 grams of potatoes;
- salt and spices to taste.
On a vegetable cushion, the chicken will bake longer, so the total cooking time will be approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Many will appreciate the fact that the calorie content of this dish is only 62.0 kilocalories per 100 grams.
The sequence of cooking processes:
- Prepare the breast: wash, dry with a towel and discard slightly, salt and roll in seasoning for chicken;
- Wash, peel and chop the vegetables. Potatoes and tomatoes cut into small slices, pepper - strips, onions - half rings or rings, carrots pass through a large grater. Mix chopped vegetables and a little salt them;
- Put vegetable mixture into baking sleeve, put prepared chicken breast on it, tie the sleeve, put it on a baking sheet, make several small punctures on top and send it to the oven;
- The roasting process lasts 90 minutes at 200-220 degrees. Serve the meat hot with vegetables.
Eggplant with chicken breast, baked in the oven
Chicken breast with eggplants is very juicy and fragrant, but it is important to remember one feature of these vegetables - their bitterness, therefore, in order for the dish to succeed, you should soak them in brine or simply pour them with salt and leave for a while.
To bake chicken breast with eggplants in the oven you need to take:
- 500 grams of boneless chicken breast;
- 200 g of hard cheese;
- 500 g of eggplants;
- 300 grams of tomatoes;
- 35 ml of vegetable oil;
- 80 g of mayonnaise;
- 8 g garlic;
- salt, spices and herbs to taste.
It is necessary to bake chicken fillet with eggplants for half an hour, but due to the need to prepare vegetables and meat, the total time spent on cooking dishes will be about 1 hour.
Caloric content - 137.8 kcal / 100 g
Roasting method:
- First you need to prepare eggplants: cut the stem and the opposite edge of the fruit, so that it can be cut into rectangular plates. The thickness of such plates should be approximately 5 mm. For 30-40 minutes pour the sliced eggplant with salt;
- Prepared chicken fillet cut each into two plates, slightly beat off and roll in salt and spices;
- With eggplant to drain the resulting liquid. Fry the vegetables with a small amount of vegetable oil until lightly crusted, do not need to make them soft;
- In a prepared (that is oiled) lay out the ingredients: eggplant, chicken breast, eggplant, tomato circles;
- Pour over all the sauce of mayonnaise, passed through a press of garlic and black pepper, then sprinkle with cheese chips;
- Send breast for 30 minutes in the oven. Temperature range - 200-220 degrees Celsius.
Zucchini with chicken breast baked in the oven
Zucchini, baked with chicken breast is a dietary dish that will help diversify the menu of a person on a diet. But if it is difficult to immediately switch to such light food, then you can sprinkle the breast with hard cheese before baking, which will give the finished dish a beautiful appetizing crust and add, respectively, calories.
To bake chicken meat in this way will need:
- 500 g chicken breast;
- 500 g zucchini;
- 100 g sour cream;
- 20 ml of sunflower oil;
- salt and spices (kukurma, ground black pepper) to taste.
Duration of cooking will be no more than 50 minutes.
Caloric value of every 100 grams of servings is equal to 91.8 kilocalories.
Cooking:
- Washed squash without fruit stems cut into slices, semi-circles, straws or diced, but no thicker than 1 cm. You do not need to salt them, they have enough salt from the breast;
- Fillet, if large, cut into plates. Beat off with a kitchen hammer and sprinkle generously with salt and spices;
- Brush the bottom of the form with butter, lay zucchini on it, chicken meat smeared with sour cream on top;
- Bake everything at 180 degrees until meat is cooked. It will take no more than 45 minutes.
Baked potatoes with chicken breast
This dish will help out when you need to quickly and satisfyingly feed a small company. In the above version, apart from potatoes and breasts, many additional ingredients are not used, but if desired, circles of carrots or mushroom slices can be added to the potatoes.
For potatoes with chicken breast in the oven you need to prepare:
- 700 grams of potatoes;
- 1000 g potato tubers;
- 150 g onions;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 60 ml of sunflower oil;
- 12 grams of garlic;
- 30 g of mustard;
- 90 g of mayonnaise;
- 5 g of spice mix for chicken;
- salt to taste
All cooking processes will take 75 minutes.
The calorie content of the finished dish will be 151.4 kcal / 100 g.
Procedure in the cooking process:
- Prepared meat, cut into medium pieces across the fibers and marinate for 20 minutes in a mixture of mayonnaise, mustard, chopped garlic and spices for chicken;
- Cover the form with high sides with foil, brush it with sunflower oil, put onion half rings, potato circles on the foil. Then sprinkle everything with spices and salt;
- Put the pickled breast on the potatoes, pour the remaining marinade, sprinkle all the cheese chips and cover with the top of the foil, but not in contact with the food;
- In the oven at 180-200 degrees chicken with potatoes should spend about 40 minutes.
Enjoy your meal!
Another delicious recipe for roasting chicken breast is in the next video.
