Many people want to eat right and at the same time eat deliciously. Unfortunately, some dietary or healthy dishes do not please gourmets with their taste. This is facilitated by a special technology for their preparation - boiled or oven-baked meat, for example, does not have a fragrant and crisp crust, steam cutlets in some housewives are pale and unappetizing in appearance, and soups are fresh and watery. In the article, we will reveal the secret of how to deliciously bake chicken fillet in cream in the oven. This dish is at the same time healthy, tender and satisfying.
Many ways
Cream chicken in the oven can be cooked in different ways. The taste of the dish depends on the ingredients that are used in the cooking process. Potatoes, mushrooms, hard cheese, vegetables, aromatic herbs and spices - all this in various ways gives the dish a variety of shades and aromas. In addition, the chicken can be cooked in whole or cut into portions, if desired, the meat can be marinated in sauce before cooking.
In the article, we will consider several ways how to cook chicken fillet with cream in the oven. The hostess will be able to choose the one that she likes the most.
Basic recipe: the easiest
The easiest way to cook this dish, having at hand the following products:
- chicken fillet - 450-550 g;
- medium sized onion;
- a small carrot;
- a couple of tbsp. l cream home or store any fat content;
- ordinary water - not more than 60 ml;
- salt, ground pepper - a pinch.
Wash and dry the meat with a towel, grate with a mixture of salt and pepper, leave to "rest" for 18-20 minutes. Strip the onion (remove the husk), chop in half rings, grate the carrots coarsely, mix the vegetables and add a little salt, mash them slightly, add a teaspoon of cream to the vegetables.
Cut chicken fillet lengthwise, generously grease inside and out with cream, fill with onion and carrot filling. Put the cake mix on a baking sheet, pour a couple of tablespoons of water, put in the oven. Bake at 200 degrees for 30 minutes with the lid closed, then open and cook for another 7-10 minutes so that the top is browned.
As you can see, chicken in cream in the oven is cooked very quickly and effortlessly. The dish not only has an excellent taste, appearance and smells appetizing, it is still very useful, so it can be eaten by everyone without restrictions.
Varieties of the basic version
Based on the ingredients described above, but slightly changing the cooking technology, you can get a new chicken dish:
- before sending the meat into the oven, it can be fried in a skillet in vegetable or cow oil over high heat until crisp;
- onions and carrots can be marinated by soaking them with a mixture of vinegar (half a teaspoon), water (one and a half tablespoons), salt (a pinch) and sugar (a third of a teaspoon);
- vegetables can be pre-passaged
- the form (baking sheet) is perfectly replaced by foil;
- sprinkle with chopped greens on serving.
The basic recipe for chicken with cream in the oven should be recorded in the cookbook of each hostess.
Creamy chicken with tomato and cheese
To prepare this delicious dish is very simple, every culinary specialist, even a beginner, will cope with the task. But at the same time, the food turns out to be so tasty and appetizing in appearance that it can be safely offered to guests for a holiday.
Required Products:
- chicken breast (without bone) - 450-550 g;
- large onion - 1 goal .;
- carrot - 1 small;
- small tomatoes - 2 pieces;
- hard cheese - 150 g;
- fresh cream (home or store) - 2.5 tablespoons;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil (it is best to take odorless sunflower) - 2 full tbsp. l .;
- salt and allspice, ground - a pinch;
- spices to the taste of the hostess (you can use a ready-made mixture of herbs for chicken: this seasoning is sold in every store);
- greens (dill and parsley) - a bunch.
How to cook this dish
Prepared meat (washed and dried) should be cut into medium-sized slices, seasoned with spices (1 teaspoon with a slide is enough) and salt and pepper.
Cut the onion in half rings, grate the carrots coarsely.
Scald tomatoes with boiling water and gently peel them, cut into thick circles (you need to use a sharp knife so as not to crush the fruits).
In a separate bowl, mix the egg, cream and herbs, add a little salt for taste and beat with a blender until smooth.
Lubricate the walls and bottom of the mold with vegetable oil, lay the meat on the bottom, cover it with onions and carrots, make the last layer of tomato. From above, pour everything with egg and cream mixture and send to the oven for 30 minutes. Bake at 200 degrees.
Then remove the mold from the oven and put finely grated cheese on top. Send the dish to the oven for 5-7 minutes to melt the cheese. Serve hot.
It is worth noting that the housewives who will cook the chicken fillet in cream in the oven in this way do not need to add water to the form. Tomatoes will give the required amount of liquid.
Chicken with vegetables: food stock
How else can you cook chicken cream in the oven? A recipe with vegetables is a great option for a tasty and healthy dish.
To make this dish will turn out from such products:
- chicken fillet - 450-550 g;
- onions - 1-2 heads;
- carrots - 1 large;
- pepper salad (sweet) - 3-4 pcs.;
- zucchini (young) - 2 pcs.;
- large fleshy tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- garlic - 2 large cloves;
- cream - thick homemade need to take 3 full tablespoons, store (they are usually liquid) - 80-100 ml;
- greens (parsley and dill) - 1 bunch;
- salt and pepper - at the discretion of the hostess.
Cooking
The hostess will need a deep thick-walled cauldron. All ingredients are stacked in layers, each of them smeared with cream.
So, let's start “conjuring” in our kitchen. First, prepare the meat. As before, you need to wash it, dry it with a napkin, cut into portioned pieces, put in a bowl, add salt and pepper well for flavoring.
While the meat is "resting", we work with vegetables: chop the onion in half rings, rub the carrots coarsely, peel the lettuce and cut into large rings or straws, carefully wash the zucchini and cut into rings 1-1.3 cm thick (you can not even remove from young green zucchini peel). It is best to chop the garlic with a knife, rather than garlic gum, so it will better retain its burning taste and pungent aroma. Scald the tomato with boiling water, remove the skin from it and cut into thin rings or half rings, depending on the size of the fruit.
When all the constituent dishes are properly prepared, you can proceed to the "laying". Put part of the chicken fillet on the bottom of the cauldron, grease it with cream, put the vegetables on top in the following order: onions, carrots, zucchini, lettuce and garlic, again grease with cream. Repeat the “styling” in the same order: first, meat, then vegetables, each “floor” we coat with cream. Ideally, you should get a “4-story” dish: chicken, vegetables, chicken, vegetables again.
We cover the cauldron with a lid and send it to an oven heated to 190-210 degrees for an hour. Before serving, you need to sprinkle the dish with chopped fresh herbs. This is an excellent side dish for buckwheat porridge, rice, spaghetti or boiled potatoes.
Chicken with mushrooms, potatoes and cheese
Chicken fillet baked in cream in the oven with mushrooms, potatoes and cheese is very tasty and satisfying. This dish is a full second course that can be served without a side dish. Its main components are chicken fillet, mushrooms, cream. It is not difficult to prepare a dish in the oven, for this you will need such products:
- a pound of chicken;
- 650-750 g of mushrooms (champignons);
- 4 potatoes;
- 1 onion;
- 2 tbsp. l cream
- 50-80 g cow butter;
- 4 tbsp. l odorless sunflower oil;
- 150 g of cheese (hard);
- salt, ground pepper, spices - at the discretion of the hostess;
- breadcrumbs for sprinkling molds.
How to cook
Washed under running water and dried meat, cut into medium-sized slices, salt, sprinkle with allspice, season with spices. Fry in cow oil for 6-7 minutes over high heat to form a delicious golden crust. Using a slotted spoon, put the meat in a large bowl. In the remaining oil, fry the onion, sliced in half rings. Ready onions also put in a separate bowl.
Rinse the champignons thoroughly, chop coarsely (leave the small mushrooms whole), salt and fry in a pan. When frying, a liquid first forms, after evaporation of which 2 tbsp. tablespoons of odorless vegetable oil and cook another 8-10 minutes.
Cut the potatoes into cubes and also fry in a pan with 2 tablespoons of refined sunflower oil until half ready.
Combine all the ingredients and mix gently in a large bowl to prevent “porridge”. Next, put the semi-finished product in a form sprinkled with breadcrumbs, grease the cream with cream and bake in the oven for 25 minutes. After sprinkle with finely grated cheese on top and return to the oven for another 4-6 minutes.
These foods are very high in calories: butter, cheese, potatoes, chicken, mushrooms, cream. In the oven, the dish is baked in the second place, first chicken, onions and mushrooms are fried. Given the composition and cooking technology, it can not be attributed to dietary dishes. Therefore, the food prepared according to this recipe is best consumed for lunch.
Now you know the recipe for Chicken Fillet in Cream in the Oven. Its preparation is simple, and the taste will surely appeal to all households.