Despite its apparent simplicity, cooking with chicken breast is an art. It is important not to dry out the dish, leaving the breast juicy and soft.
Cooking time largely depends on the specific recipe and method - baking in foil, a sleeve, on a baking sheet or under a coat of cheese or vegetables.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Cook the breast for no more than 20-25 minutes and 30-35 minutes for large pieces. The number of breasts in the oven does not matter.
Slicing and pre-marinating also affect the time, so there is no universal tablet; a normal author prescribes the time in each recipe.
Let's give two examples.
Baked chicken breast express
If you don’t have time to wait 8 hours, turn on the oven at 220°C.
Take skinless chicken fillet. Cut lengthwise into two parts, slightly flatten the thick part of the fillet. You can use a meat hammer, or just the butt of a knife. Sprinkle the preparations with salt, pepper, utskho-suneli and dry garlic, grease with vegetable oil. Place in a non-stick pan and cover with foil, but do not wrap.
Place in a heated oven. After 10 minutes, carefully remove the foil with tongs or two forks and continue baking at the same temperature for another 10 minutes.
We remove it, cut one part of the fillet and make sure it is ready.
Let stand for 3-5 minutes and serve.
How to cook “Chicken fillet in foil in the oven”
Wash the chicken fillet. Cut it into medium cubes. Then soak the chicken in milk for an hour and a half.
Form a baking dish. Fold the foil several times. Cover the bottom of the jar with it. Fold back the ends. Make 6 molds this way.
Place the foil molds on a baking sheet and grease with oil. Wash the potatoes, peel and cut into circles. Lay it out into shapes. Salt and pepper the potatoes.
Peel the onion. Cut it into rings, which you then spread on top of the potatoes in the ramekins.
Then place the chicken fillet in the molds. Salt and pepper everything again.
To fill, whisk milk with eggs. Pour this mixture over all portions.
Wash the tomatoes and cut into circles. Place them in portions. Then chop the garlic, which you also distribute into the molds.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. At the end, sprinkle the ingredients with grated cheese.
Bake the dish for 20 minutes. Serve hot with herbs.
General principles
- Don't be afraid to experiment.
- If possible, make one portion for testing - you can periodically cut the meat and check the degree of readiness.
- Two tablespoons of mayonnaise per 0.5 kg of chicken breast will not increase the calorie content catastrophically, but will add piquancy to the dish. Use homemade mayonnaise so you don't have to worry about trans fats.
- If the manufacturer left the skin on the chicken breast, do not rush to get rid of it. The skin can be removed after cooking, and the meat will be juicier. Moreover, there is always someone who likes baked leather.
- Instead of the spices mentioned in the recipes, use any spices you like.
Chicken fillet with sour cream in the oven
Although there are a huge number of recipes, they have the same principle. Even the ingredients are the same. The only differences are that in some places slightly different products may be added, and in others the preparation of the component is different. For example, in one recipe you need to cut the onion into half rings, in another you just need to chop it, in the third you replace it with garlic. How many people, so many recipes. Therefore, choose the one that suits your heart.
This is a dietary option. Take chicken fillet - 400 grams, 1 onion, a couple of tomatoes (cherry tomatoes are an option, their sweetness goes well with the fillet), 100 grams of sour cream and cheese. And, of course, seasonings: salt, pepper and whatever else you want, maybe curry or especially for chicken. Yes, we almost forgot, mustard - you will need it for pickling.
Prepare the fillet: cut into portions. Do not cut less than 5 mm. In the oven, some of the moisture will be lost and the fillet will become “wooden” or even “rubbery.” More precisely, eating it will be unpleasant and almost impossible. The optimal width of each piece is 5-7 mm. Then rinse each “portion” with water, dry and beat with a hammer. Rub each piece with salt, pepper and mustard. Leave to soak for 30 minutes.
Fry the chicken pieces in a frying pan until golden brown. While the chicken is fried, cut the onion into half rings and the tomatoes into circles. Place the fillet on a baking dish, onion and tomatoes on top. And top with sour cream and cheese mixture. Ask how to make it? Mix sour cream with grated cheese.
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. And bake until browned. This usually takes 20-25 minutes.
Recipes for fillet in the oven with mayonnaise
Chicken fillet in the oven with mayonnaise is a very tasty dish. You will need chicken fillet - about half a kilogram, onion, cheese and mayonnaise, also 100 grams each. Well, your favorite spices, salt and vegetable oil.
And now the cooking process itself. The fillet must be cut into portions. Hit each one well. Grease a baking sheet or baking dish with butter. Do you want vegetable, or olive? Now lay out the chicken. And pepper every piece.
Finely chop the onion and mix with salt. And spread this onion-salted mixture on each chicken. Did you remember to turn on the oven? Come on, quickly preheat the oven to 180 degrees. And while it is gaining temperature, cover each “fillet” with a layer of mayonnaise. And now send the baking sheet with the chicken to bake. After 20 minutes, remove and sprinkle each piece with grated cheese. And bake again. But now let the temperature be 200-220 degrees, and the baking time – a quarter of an hour, i.e. 15 minutes.
The result is an amazingly tasty dish that can be served either for dinner for the family or not ashamed to put a plate with it on the holiday table.
Even this recipe can be made some changes. For example, you can add chopped garlic. In just 10 minutes, such an aroma will spread through your kitchen that even your neighbors will start drooling. Or maybe they are already standing at your door with plates in their hands and hope in their eyes that they will be fed such a delicious meal?
Tomatoes will add juiciness to the chicken. If you don't like them, then, of course, you don't have to put them in. But in the oven they will release juice, which the bird will absorb. But we all know that breast is a little dry. Therefore, tomatoes are a salvation.
But you can also change the layers. For example, not mayonnaise, but cheese on top, but, on the contrary, cheese, and then mayonnaise. But then the baking time is reduced to 20 minutes. Although the time depends rather on the thickness of the piece of meat and the age of the bird.
Bake chicken breasts in cream
Many housewives classify chicken breast with creamy sauce as a holiday dish, but it can also be cooked every day. It has a delicious aroma of cheese, spices and a subtle creamy taste.
List of products per kilogram of fillet:
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- cream - a glass;
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- mustard - 1 tsp;
- thyme and pepper - to taste.
Chicken slices are fried in oil, salted and sprinkled with pepper. Salt, chopped garlic, mustard and thyme are added to the cream. All this is whipped until foamy. Then the fillet is placed in a roasting pan and poured with sauce. At the end, all that remains is to sprinkle the dish with generously grated cheese and bake for half an hour.
Chicken fillet baked in a sleeve in the oven
A baking sleeve is a very useful thing. Cooking in a sleeve prevents the splashing of fat, and the meat that is cooked in it becomes juicy.
Products:
- breast fillet - ½ kg;
- tomatoes - 1-2 units;
- potatoes - 4 units;
- bell pepper - 1 pod;
- olive oil;
- olives - 20-30 units;
- greenery;
- lemon juice;
- salt, ground black pepper, other spices.
Let's prepare it like this:
- Sprinkle washed and sliced chicken with lemon juice, salt, pepper and mix.
- You need to cut the tomatoes into cubes and the bell pepper into strips.
- Place olives (pitted) in a bowl, chop the herbs and sprinkle with any spices.
- Peel the potatoes, wash them, cut them into slices and add them to the vegetables. Mix everything together with the meat and fill the sleeve with the resulting mixture.
- Tie the edges of the sleeve with a tight knot and make punctures in several places to allow steam to escape. Place the sleeve with the contents on a baking sheet.
- It will take approximately 40 minutes for everything to bake. When the contents are ready, you need to transfer it from the sleeve to plates.
Chicken fillet with potatoes in the oven
Fillet with potatoes in the oven is perhaps the most common option for preparing a quick, complete dinner.
The list of products is as follows:
- fillet 500 g;
- chicken seasoning 1 tsp;
- 200 g cheese (hard);
- mayonnaise 50 g;
- 150 g onion;
- 300 g sour cream;
- pepper, salt
- sunflower oil - a couple of table. spoons
Let's prepare it like this:
- Combine washed and sliced meat in a bowl with mayonnaise, pepper and salt, mix and let stand in the refrigerator.
- Chop the peeled onion into half rings. Cut the potatoes into thin circles. Grind the cheese on a grater.
- Sour cream must be seasoned with pepper, other spices and salt - you will get a sauce for the dish.
- On a baking sheet (it is greased with oil), first put chopped onions, and then part of the potatoes, which are smeared with sour cream sauce.
- Place meat pieces on the potatoes, sprinkle grated cheese on them, add the remaining potatoes and spread the sauce again. The next layer is meat, then cheese is poured.
- Then the baking sheet should be placed in the oven for an hour (the temperature should be about 180 degrees).
Advice. It is advisable to take chilled fillet - such meat turns out much juicier and tastier than ice cream.
