Supporters of diet in ordinary poultry have always been more seduced by breasts than chicken thigh, whose caloric value is much higher. However, the fillet averts many with its dryness - yet most prefer more succulent meat. When under your own prohibitions there are more fatty types of meat like pork and lamb, I would like to get more pleasure from the bird! And here it’s quite possible to sometimes afford a chicken thigh - its calorie content can be reduced by skinning and cooking methods. Naturally, boiled meat was and remains the most dietary.
Cook delicious
For many, boiled meat is boring. However, it can also be prepared so that subsequently the dish will become your favorite. The main thing here is to remember that to get soft, but not falling apart thighs, they should be put in boiling water, and not in cold water, along with onions and a small carrot. When the water again clogs with a key, it is detected for half an hour (per kilogram of purchased spare parts). About ten minutes before hour X salt and seasonings are sprinkled; it is very elegant to add fresh herbs such as tarragon, parsley or dill. And here is a ready-made, aromatic and tasty chicken thigh in front of you. The calorie content of such a dish is the lowest and amounts to only 160 kcal per hundred grams of the dish - unless, of course, you stepped on the throat of your culinary song and removed a harmful skin from your limb. Together with her, the figure will rise to 177.
Stew with pears
If you are completely tired of boiled foods, allow yourself occasionally to go the other way. Braised chicken thighs , of course, are slightly more high-calorie: every 100 grams of them will bring 185 kcal to your body, but this is not such an overkill. But an unusual dish will be remembered by you for a long time. First, the onion is chopped with squares and a small ginger root is rubbed. Onions are passer (preferably in olive oil), after which ginger is added, a couple of small cinnamon sticks, a little salt with pepper. After stirring, four hips are placed in such a sauce, if necessary, a quarter glass of water is added, the container is closed and left alone for 40 minutes. Three fairly hard sweet and sour pears are cut into slices and put in melted butter mixed with a couple of tablespoons of honey. When the fruits are caramelized, they are transferred to the chicken and stewed with a quarter of an hour. You can enjoy it!
Bake in Madeira
Cooked in the oven, chicken thigh calorie content is higher - as much as 216 kcal, so dieters allow themselves quite rarely. However, holidays also happen in them, and in such a case - our recipe. A kilogram of thighs washed with cut fat is folded into a greased form, sprinkled with salt with your favorite seasonings and “massed” for their better distribution. Unfolding should be skinned up. Then a glass of Madeira is poured (you can also dry wine, but the taste will not be the same), the form is wrapped with foil and put in the oven, where it will spend half an hour at 210 Celsius. Then the foil is removed, and the hips are brought to a crust without it.
By the way, if you remove the skin, then the calorie content of the dish will drop to an indicator of 195 kcal.
Fry the hips
This, of course, is the most harmful method of preparation: fried chicken thighs are tightened by as much as 245 kcal. But in the most solemn occasion, you can treat yourself to such a treat. A piece of six washed hips is rubbed with pepper and salt, wrapped in a bag and left overnight for pickling. You can skip this step, but pickled ones will be much tastier. In a frying pan with a thick bottom, sunflower-seed, odorless oil is heated to bubbles, chicken parts of the body are put in and fried for five minutes, then turned over and the procedure is repeated. With such turns, the process lasts about a third of the hour. When the juice starts to stand out clean, without blood, the hips are smeared with grated garlic, the pan is covered for about ten minutes (for relaxation and flavoring), and delicious meat is served for dinner.