Chicken breast with mozzarella is a juicy and tender dish. It is seasoned with a variety of spices, using various additives, such as tomatoes. All this allows you to get very tender pieces of chicken. You can also make a beep with champignons, aromatic herbs or wrap slices in bacon.
Delicious bacon dish
Traditionally, many are afraid to dry chicken, because then it will be dry. But there are recipes for perfect dishes. To prepare tender and fragrant chicken breasts with mozzarella, you need to take:
- four breasts;
- as many slices of bacon;
- 600 grams of cheese;
- a tablespoon of thyme leaves;
- one rosemary;
- 15 ml of olive oil;
- spices to taste.
Thanks to herbs, this dish is very aromatic. A bacon allows you to save chicken juice inside the pieces. So such a fillet remains very tender.
How to cook a delicious fillet?
The chicken is washed, dried. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cut the pieces. The cheese is cut into thick strips, put in a cut. Each breast is wrapped with bacon so that the chicken breasts with mozzarella do not fall apart, and they are fixed with toothpicks.
Add spices and herbs to taste. You can also lay the part in a cut, to the cheese. A baking sheet is greased with oil, the billets are laid out. Cook the chicken breasts with mozzarella in the oven for about twenty minutes.
Light side dishes made from fresh or baked vegetables are great for them.
Tasty dish with cheese and tomatoes
Tomatoes in this recipe are a source of extra juiciness. The following products are taken for this dish:
- six breasts;
- 250 grams of champignons;
- 90 grams of hard cheese;
- 150 grams of mozzarella;
- two tomatoes;
- favorite spices to taste, for example, you can take ready-made seasonings for chicken, your favorite dried herbs.
To start, the treated breasts are fried in a pan for three minutes. This is another way to seal juice pieces inside. Transfer slices into a baking dish. Mushrooms are peeled, cut into slices, tomatoes are cut into cubes. Mushrooms are fried in the same pan for about five minutes, after which tomatoes are added and stewed, stirring, for another seven minutes. Sprinkle with spices to taste.
This mass is placed on the breast, sprinkled with grated hard cheese. Mozzarella cut into cubes, put on top of the chicken. You can also sprinkle everything with dried herbs, such as basil.
Send the chicken breast with mozzarella and tomatoes into the oven until the cheese starts to melt. A great addition will be any kind of pasta.
A simple recipe - a minimum of products
Despite the fact that few ingredients are used in this recipe, the dish is great. It not only looks beautiful, but also allows you to immediately get both a meat ingredient and an appetizing sauce. For this cooking method, the following ingredients are used:
- one breast;
- two small tomatoes;
- one hundred grams of mozzarella;
- three tablespoons of thick sour cream;
- salt and spices;
- a bunch of dill or basil leaves.
Tomatoes are washed, cut in circles. The cheese is ground in the same way. Breast is divided into two fillets, each slice is cut, salted. Mugs of tomato and cheese are sent to the cutouts, they are inserted along a sprig of dill or basil.
The baking dish is poured with sour cream, the remaining dill is added, finely chopped beforehand. Lay breasts. Bake them for about thirty minutes at a temperature of two hundred degrees.
This dish looks very elegant. When serving, be sure to pour it with sour cream sauce.
As a side dish, you can use rice or mashed potatoes.
Chicken breast, a product that is certainly healthy. However, not everyone knows how to cook it deliciously. After all, with improper frying, it can become dry. Then simple recipes for the oven come to the rescue. The mozzarella, which is used in these dishes, melts very well, covering the ingredients. She gives the dish a juiciness.