A simple, but very elegant and tasty dish - chicken roll with omelette - is becoming increasingly popular among gourmets of different countries. Everyone tried it at least once and praised more than once, but not all housewives know how to cook it correctly.
To get an excellent and unlike other chicken roll with omelet, the recipe must also be special. To do this, you can add your own to the basic ingredients: those that, according to the hostess, will give the finished dish a sophistication and uniqueness.
The foundation and tradition
In order to get a classic chicken roll with omelette, a set of basic products is needed: chicken meat, eggs, milk (although most cooks prefer to add homemade mayonnaise to the omelette - a whole section is devoted to this recipe in the article), herbs and spices.
Other ingredients are at the discretion of the hostess. You can add gelatin, then the roll will be very unusual in appearance, with a delicious jelly layer; and if you put mushrooms in an omelet (cut them very finely so as not to interfere with the omelet pancake to curl well), then in this dish notes of the champignon taste will be clearly felt.
To prepare this dish, you can use chicken in any form: take the ready-made minced meat, whole chicken, chicken legs - in any case, it will turn out amazingly beautiful and tasty.
Perhaps the whole family will have to solve a pleasant dilemma: how to cook chicken roll - chicken in or out? It doesn’t really affect the taste of the dish, but if you want to try the dish in different interpretations, you can cook it at least every day - it doesn’t get boring, and it doesn’t take much time.
Making Homemade Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise is usually introduced into omelet pancakes , since they are very loose on milk, which is why they are not quite suitable for the intended dish.
How to cook chicken roll, if one of its components is too airy?
High-quality mayonnaise, without any GMOs, can be prepared from two eggs, a teaspoon of dry mustard, the same amount of sugar and salt, 320 g of sunflower oil (always refined!) And lemon juice.
To get the product GOST, all components must be at room temperature.
First, mix the eggs, salt, sugar and mustard, then beat everything with a blender. Gradually, you need to pour oil in a thin stream without stopping the whipping process, and watch when the mixture reaches the mayonnaise consistency. The final chord is the addition of lemon juice.
It is impossible to store such a product for a long time - no more than a week in glassware under a lid.
Stuffing - Omelet
Chicken roll with omelet, when chicken is made the basis of the dish, it is prepared from the whole chicken or its parts.
The meat is separated from the bones, but left in the skin, then beat off slightly, trying to give the layer uniformity.
Such a dish on the table looks very impressive due to the addition of various colored impregnations: red, yellow or green pepper, spinach, parsley.
Stuffing - Chicken
It was just like a mirror image of the above dish, with the only difference in the order of placement of the components: in this roll, they are reversed - the meat is wrapped in an omelet pancake.
This option involves the use of minced chicken. And you can add nutmeg, turmeric, Provence herbs to the eggs, which add spice and aroma to the dish.
And although all varieties of this appetizer have a unifying name - meatloaf with omelette, here you can argue and fantasize about a new one, for example, omelette loaf with meat.
Options - do not count
Any of the options for cooking this dish is good in its own way. But each of the culinary specialists has his own vision of the most successful. And based on the preferences of his family or his guests, he chooses how to cook chicken roll to please everyone.
Chicken roll can be baked in the oven, cook in the microwave, cook in broth and fry in a pan.
For taste and color, as they say, there are no friends or relatives, however, the overwhelming majority of the most delicious recognized baked chicken roll with omelet.
Cooking from whole chicken
Chicken roll with omelet, the recipe of which is presented in the section, is easy to prepare. The only thing that confuses inexperienced housewives is the process of separating meat from bones. It is necessary that the carcass maintain its integrity, and this is not for everyone the first time.
Ingredients:
- chicken weighing 1.5-1.7 kg;
- spices and salt;
- 2-3 eggs;
- milk or homemade mayonnaise 6-7 tbsp. spoons;
- flour 1 tbsp. l;
- greens;
- butter.
Stages of preparation:
- Cut the chicken: put the breast up, make an incision from the neck along the abdomen. Cut deeply, gently lifting the meat from the bones, free the wings and legs from the bones, remove all unnecessary things - tendons and cartilage.
- Spread the chicken and beat it well.
- Salt the meat, sprinkle with spices to taste and rub them into the chicken.
- Leave the chicken to "rest" and soak in the taste of spices, and in the meantime you can do omelettes: beat the whites and yolks separately, then combine, add milk or mayonnaise, salt, and you can add greens. Fry in a pan. Then ready omelet, which, incidentally, should not be too thick, put on chicken.
- Roll the carcass and omelette into a roll (twist along the body) and wrap in 2-3 layers of foil or place in a baking sleeve. Take the foil (sleeve) with a margin so that after wrapping the meat it was possible to fix the edges of the “wrapper”, getting the shape of a full cracker or candy.
- Put the “candy” in a mold or on a baking sheet, add cold water with salt, bay leaf and a few cloves of garlic - and send it to the preheated oven for an hour and a half.
- The cooled roll, without removing from the mold, leave for several hours in the cold.
Aesthetically sliced chicken roll with omelet, photo which are presented, is an excellent snack and decoration of any feast.
Chicken and Cheese Omelet
Is it worth repeating that chicken fillet rolls are always a great option for working women (they cook surprisingly fast), for smart housewives (this dish is the least expensive) and for fans of the diet menu (few calories and protein in excess).
For ease of preparation, you can divide all the products for each of the components of the dish.
For omelet: 5 large eggs and 300 g of mayonnaise.
For filling:
- 300 g chicken fillet;
- one medium onion;
- 200 g of hard cheese;
- greens;
- salt;
- spice.
Stages of preparation:
- Beat eggs with mayonnaise in a blender.
- Cover the baking dish with parchment paper, creating sides from it, grease it, pour the egg-mayonnaise mixture.
- Bake the omelet for 10-15 minutes, make sure that it doesn’t “sit down” and turn out too thin. When an omelet is a filling, then it should be made thinner. Now is not the case.
- While the eggs are baking, you can start cooking the filling: fry the onion until golden brown (not brown, this will affect the taste of chicken), add the onion to raw minced meat. Salt, pepper, and spices are also there. Mix everything well.
- Grate the cheese with large holes, cut the greens and leave for now.
- Cool the scrambled eggs (otherwise it will be impossible to form a roll) and lay the minced meat on it with an even layer, distribute greens and cheese evenly over the entire surface.
- Now you need to roll the roll very carefully. In the event that the paper does not want to let it go, it is necessary to use a spatula, but again as accurately as possible.
- The formed meatloaf with omelette is again sent to the oven to brown for 15 minutes at 150 0 .
If there is no chicken, there are chicken legs
In the absence of a whole bird in the refrigerator, you can perfectly dispense with its parts and prepare a roll of chicken legs with omelet.
The principle is the same as when cooking a meal from full-fledged chicken, only the output will be not one large roll, but 3-4 small rolls, depending on the number of chicken legs taken.
This cooking option may seem even simpler:
- free the legs from the bones;
- beat off the meat;
- wrap a thin omelet in it;
- roll up and fix rolls;
- ready to cool and put under oppression for several hours.
Bake minced meat rolls with omelettes faster because it is smaller in size.
Do not bake, but cook
Despite the fact that chicken with omelet is cooked in a package, it is necessary to cook the roll in broth or in water with spices - thus, boiled chicken omelette will get the necessary “dose” of taste and aroma even through a plastic wrap.
Another idea for a boiled version of this dish is to put thin plates of cooked sausage on top of fried eggs. Rolled up it will look very interesting.
Cooking time - 50-70 minutes.
The role of dry gelatin
One of the recipes for appetizers from chicken and omelet suggests sprinkling meat and eggs with dry gelatin. In the process of baking, gelatin mixes with the resulting juice, swells and is independently distributed on the roll.
And when the dish cools down, the hostess will have the opportunity to organize a spectacular presentation: transparent jelly will serve as an excellent decoration.
Gelatin is a favorite ingredient, because every self-respecting culinary specialist “fights” not only for delicious, but also beautiful chicken roll. Photos of such “beauties” can be found on all culinary resources - they just run their eyes.
Omelette: a simple to complex dish
From time immemorial, eggs and chicken have been walking alongside, they are so complementary in cooking that no one will even think how to cook chicken roll without using products produced directly by the bird.
What would seem to be difficult in an omelet? Eggs + milk + salt and spices = ready omelet.
But there are some secrets, thanks to which the dish turns out to be tender, and does not fall apart with every careless movement:
- to make the omelet flexible, but not porous, dairy products should not be added to eggs: a spoonful of water and grated cheese are allowed;
- when adding milk, you can add a little flour to the mixture - 1-2 tbsp. spoons (it will restrain the dairy product and not allow it to create porosity);
- to obtain tenderness and juiciness, the omelet should be fried for 15 minutes under the lid, for a golden crust - 20.
The tenderness and juiciness of the output dish depends on the quality of the selected products, and on the method of their preparation. A banal omelet can play a decisive role, so it is necessary that it turns out perfect: not too hard and not too airy. Using simple tips, you can surprise your family and friends with an excellent dish, making it perfect the first time.