Among the many recipes for cooking for the celebration the most profitable and simple solution will be the choice of baked chicken breast. You do not have to think long about how to serve the dish, how to decorate it and how to make the chicken juicy, flavorful.
The creation time of the dish is significantly reduced, which makes it possible to prepare a side dish of almost any product - all vegetables, cereals, pasta with sauce are combined with chicken breast.
Chicken breast marinated in oven
Most of the meat products perfectly absorbs the aromatic spices, is saturated with spicy herbs when pickling. The process of making the marinade is very simple, so making a great, juicy chicken breast, baked in the oven is pretty easy.
To make a fantastically tasty dish with a small amount of additional products that are not perebyut, and complement the natural flavor of the chicken itself, will be needed:
- chicken breast - 0.9 kg;
- soy sauce - 75 ml;
- sour cream (15%) - 200 ml;
- garlic - 20 g;
- spices for chicken - 10 g;
- olive oil - 50 ml.
Creating a dish baked in marinade allows you to reduce the process of "raw" meat marinating and cooking in this case takes only 45 minutes. In 100 g of a fragrant chicken breast with a ruddy peel 145 kcal will be contained.
Without removing the skin from the two breasts, you should wash them and cut them into two equal parts. Garlic peel, cut into slices. In the meat parts make cuts in 5-6 places, insert garlic, which will give the meat from the inside a wonderful aroma.
To prepare the marinade, it will be necessary to mix the spices with sour cream and sauce in one container. In the form, greased with olive oil, you need to put the breast in a single layer. Turn the oven on to warm up to 180 °.
Pour the marinade over the meat, bake for 35 minutes. The dish goes well with stewed cabbage, vegetable salads and sweet and sour sauce.
How to bake chicken breast in the oven in foil
With long heat treatment (boiling, frying, stewing), chicken meat loses most of its juice. To save them, a wonderful option would be to create a dish baked in foil - the juice will not evaporate and the chicken breast will be soaked with spices. To create a delicious oven-baked breast, you will need:
- chicken breast (without skin) - 1.2 kg;
- soy sauce - 60 ml;
- salt - to taste;
- oil (lean or olive) - 50 ml;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- lemon - 60 g (1/2 pcs.);
- seasoning for chicken grill - 30 g.
In order to bake the breast marinated in spices, you will need fifty minutes and a rather large piece of foil, but the caloric content of 100 grams of an aromatic and appetizing chicken dish is 141 kcal.
Taking a deep dish, you need to combine, mix mayonnaise, soy sauce with oil and salt, which should be added to the dish carefully, just to taste, because the sauce is quite salty.
The meat breast should be washed, cut lengthwise into two loin pieces. Wipe each piece of chicken with seasoning, put on a piece of foil, folded in half, which must be long, so that you can wrap one piece of meat in it.
Cut the lemon into rings according to the number of meat pieces and put on them, or squeeze the juice on each piece of breast.
Pour the prepared marinade over the top, wrap the meat tightly in foil. On a baking sheet, lightly moistened with butter, put the dish in foil, bake at 200 ° C in the preheated oven for 35 minutes.
When a wonderful aroma is heard, you can start setting the table from the oven, make a quick side dish of rice or vegetable puree.
Stuffed chicken breast with mushrooms and cheese in the oven
Possessing a wonderful property of spreading when baking, cheese will be an excellent gluing and retaining addition to chicken breast stuffed with juicy mushrooms. At the same time, the meat will acquire additional juiciness, rich taste and fantastic aroma. To create an easy-to-prepare dish with products that are generally available to everyone, you need:
- breast (fillet portion) - 0.8 kg (4 pcs.);
- mushrooms and hard cheese - 200 g each;
- carrot - 100 g;
- sour cream - 150 ml;
- lean oil - 30 ml;
- favorite spices for meat and salt - 10 g.
To make a baked dish, perfectly combined with young boiled potatoes with dill, it takes 50 minutes. For every hundred grams of stuffed chicken breast there are 142 kcal.
Mushrooms should be cut into thin bars, slices, fry in a pan with grated carrots. After evaporation of all vegetable moisture, you need to add two tablespoons of sour cream, which mushrooms will wonderfully soak in. After preparing the filling, proceed to the formation of chicken "pockets".
To do this, each piece of fillet must be cut across in half, without cutting to the end so that you can fold the fillet back. The resulting pocket should be sprinkled with spices, mixed with salt, put into it the stuffing of roasted vegetables. On top of the filling weave a little grated finely grated cheese and close the fillet, returning the original (only fuller) shape.
While the oven is heated to a temperature of 180 °, you need to grease a baking sheet with butter, put tightly stuffed parts of the breast on it. Pour the remaining cheese on top, make a mesh of sour cream.
Bake the dish for 20 minutes, check for the presence of ichor and roast the loin.
How to cook vegetables with chicken breast in the oven
Not everyone likes to experiment with cooking chicken breast, fearing that the dish will lose its juiciness during the cooking process and will lose its natural taste. For the unsure beginner cooks should resort to an amazing recipe for roasting vegetables with chicken fillet.
This way of creating an aromatic dish will help to check the culinary skills, as well as perfectly increase the juiciness of the whole dish. To cook the vegetables with breast in the oven will be necessary:
- chicken breast (whole) - 0.6 kg;
- tomato - 250 g;
- onions and cheese (hard) - 150 g each;
- sour cream - 50 ml;
- mustard and lemon juice - 20 ml;
- spices (ground pepper, salt, paprika and turmeric) - 10 g;
- garlic - 15 g
A chicken breast soaked in cooked sauce for two hours will bake with vegetables for 50 minutes, and 100 grams of the dish will contain 84 kcal.
Starting in the first place to prepare the marinade sauce for the breast, you need to choose a deep small container and mix in it the sour cream with mustard, add all the spices and chopped garlic with lemon juice.
Wash the breast, removing skin from its surface. Make deep cuts on the meat side and spread it on the whole perimeter with a soaking sauce.
Washed, peeled vegetables should be cut into rings, the thickness of which should not exceed 7 -10 mm, and the cheese finely grind grated. Heat the oven to 180 °. On the first piece of foil folded in half, place the meat on which to put first the onion, then the tomatoes.
After wrapping the prepared dish with vegetables with the second piece of foil connected to the first one, bake the dish for forty minutes.
After the specified time has passed, you will need to remove the top layer of foil, sprinkle the surface of the baked dish with cheese. After 5 minutes, a beautiful, appetizing cheese crust will form on the vegetable layer and the chicken breast will be ready.
Recipe for chicken breast with zucchini in the oven
With the appearance of the first young zucchini in the garden or market, there is a desire to try to cook some dish with them. An excellent option would be to roast them with chicken breast - both the product and the vegetable and meat have tremendous softness, tenderness, a number of useful vitamins and minerals.
To create a wonderful, aromatic and very juicy dishes are needed:
- 0.5 kg chicken breast;
- 200 g of broccoli (or cauliflower) and lettuce peppers;
- 0.6 kg young zucchini;
- 50 ml of sour cream and vegetable oil;
- 50 g of fresh greens;
- to taste spices (salt, pepper, dried basil, paprika, turmeric).
Forty-five minutes is required to fully prepare the dish after marinating the meat portion. For each batch weighing 100 g accounted for 86 kcal.
Vegetables are prepared quickly, so you first need to rinse the meat and marinate it, wipe it with spices over the entire surface.
Broccoli divided into inflorescences, which should be dipped in boiling water for three minutes. Remove the soft-boiled parts to a colander to remove residual water. At lettuce pepper cut the seeds, and cut it into strips. The squash is cut into rings, the thickness of which should not exceed 5-7 millimeters.
The bottom and side of the cast-iron pan or baking dish should be oiled, add chopped mixed vegetables. Put the breast on top, on the surface of which you make a mesh of sour cream.
Bake the dish should be tightly covered (cut foil) to avoid abundant evaporation of juices for 35 minutes when the temperature in the oven is 190 °.
Diet shish kebab from chicken breast on skewers in the oven
A fragrant, tasty, everyone's favorite kebab can be not only fried, fatty, harmful dish. It can be cooked in the oven using chicken breast.
The content of calories in the dish with this method of preparation will be significantly reduced, but the useful minerals, vitamins will be preserved in larger quantities. To create a diet barbecue, which even children will love, will be necessary:
- chicken breast fillet - 1 kg;
- onions - 200 g;
- lemon juice and soy sauce - 60 ml;
- olive oil - 30 ml;
- honey (liquid) - 40 ml;
- seasoning for barbecue and salt to taste.
Marinated for an hour, pieces of chicken meat will turn into a shish kebab after 20 minutes, and their caloric content will be only 116 kcal per hundred gram portion.
In a deep dish should be put the pieces of meat, cut in this way - fillet across into strips, and they into bars of 3 * 3 cm. Onion is cut into rings and poured to the meat. For the marinade, butter, honey, seasoning, salt and lemon juice are combined and mixed with the sauce. The resulting mixture is poured into the meat mass with onions, the kebab is marinated for one hour.
At the bottom, under the grate in the oven, install a pan, where juice and grease will drain from the dish. The temperature in the oven should be 210 °, and the kebab skewers should be soaked for 20 minutes in warm water. After alternating on them to put the pieces of meat, onion rings.
Dish on skewers laid out for 15 minutes on the grid, and for even roasting turns over 3 minutes.
Tips from experienced chefs
Almost all spices and herbs are suitable for chicken. Their quantity is regulated by cooks independently, but they should only add flavor, taste to meat, and not interrupt it. The main tricks of experienced chefs are as follows:
- Chicken breast should be slightly cooled, not frozen - to preserve the juiciness of the dish when baking;
- Allocating more time to the marinating process, the baked dish from chicken parts is more tender, softer;
- The breast can become dry, hard if kept in the oven for more than 2/3 hours;
- During baking under the form with a dish of chicken fillet, you can install a pan with water - it will evaporate, not allowing the meat to lose juiciness.
The most suitable spices and herbs for giving the chicken meal a greater flavor are thyme, sage, basil, oregano, celery.
A rosy shade, golden color of the breast will give turmeric, and sour cream and mayonnaise will help make the crust crisp.
Another original recipe for cooking chicken breast is in the next video.
