Chicken with rice is a wonderful combination of very useful and reasonably inexpensive foods. It is known that in the Russian market almost everywhere chicken meat is the most inexpensive due to the fact that almost all demand is satisfied due to domestic supply. At the same time, chicken is much easier to digest than beef, due to the lower melting point of fats, it is rich in proteins (19-22 gr. Per 100 grams), glutamine (amino acid), vitamin B3, calcium (in cartilage), which is well absorbed. Chicken meat is dietary because contains about 100-110 kcal per 100 grams of product.
The second component of the dish is rice, it contains a significant amount of B vitamins (B1, B2, B3, B6), lecithin, which positively affects the brain, oligosaccharide, which along with rice mucus improves intestinal function and protects the stomach. Rice removes excess fluid from the body and is quite high in calories - 332 kcal per 100 grams of grain (not cereal). Therefore, chicken with rice is a balanced and healthy dish.
Recently, recipes from various countries of the world began to penetrate into Russian cuisine, including Japan, where for many decades, and maybe centuries, they have prepared such a dish as chicken teriyaki with rice. The word "teriyaki" in Japanese means "sugar, shine and fry", so the adapted sauce for cooking chicken includes 1-3 tablespoons of honey, 4 tbsp. tablespoons of soy sauce, 100 ml of white wine and fresh ginger in the amount of 1 square. see. Also need 10 champignons and 800 grams of chicken, a little brown sugar, vegetable oil and sesame.
Fillet for the dish is taken from different parts of the carcass (not only the breast) and pickled for half an hour in a mixture of soy sauce, honey and 70 ml of wine. At the same time, champignon marinade is prepared from 30 ml of wine, ginger and a tablespoon of brown sugar (optional), into which mushrooms are cut, cut into quarters (pre-washed).
The chicken is removed from the marinade and fried in oil, after which the remaining marinade is added to the pan and the pieces are warmed up a bit to obtain a light glaze. In another pan, the mushrooms are fried together with teriyaki sauce until the sauce is viscous. The components are mixed. Chicken with rice in this recipe is not mixed, but is laid out along with mushrooms and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
For the preparation of friable rice, you need to take unenameled dishes, rinse the rice in 7 waters. Pour vegetable oil into the pan to the bottom, warm it, pour rice there and pour water (one and a half glasses on a glass of rice). Salt, cook until tender. For a beautiful color, you can add saffron (a coffee spoon).
Curry chicken with rice in Russian cuisine is quite widespread and has many options that are easy to prepare. For example, you can take 8 chicken breasts (fillets), two apples and onions, a glass of chicken broth (hot) and milk, three tablespoons each. butter and flour, curry powder (1 tablespoon). The oven must be heated to 175-180 degrees. Peel the apples and onions, chop finely, stew in butter, add curry and stew for 1 minute, add flour, stew for 1 more minute, add milk and broth, boil.
Chicken breasts are sprinkled with salt and pepper, laid out on a baking sheet, poured with sauce and cooked in the oven for about 50 minutes. Served with rice.
Ready-made curry mixes may include turmeric, zira, cumin, mustard, coriander, fennel, dried ginger, sometimes salt, which eliminates the need for other spices.
Quite simply, chicken and rice are cooked according to a different recipe. For him, the carcass is cut into portions and fried with a minimum of oil or fat. Two tablespoons of curry are mixed with 2 tablespoons of ketchup and 3 tablespoons of sour cream. The chicken is transferred to the stewpan, salt, pepper and the resulting sauce are added. The dish is stewed under the lid for 40 minutes. In addition to rice, a salad of green vegetables is an excellent complement to this dish.