It's no secret that stews are much healthier than fried foods. In addition, they have much fewer calories, which can not but interest people who monitor their weight. However, there is an opinion that such products are inferior in taste to fried foods, that they are always fresh and tasteless. However, this is far from the case; the main thing is to prepare them correctly.
For example, it turns out to be very tasty such a simple, it would seem, dish like stewed chicken.
Required: chicken drumstick, breast or filet about half a kilo, 100 gr. tomato paste, pieces of 10-12 olives, salt, a couple of cloves of garlic, seasoning for chicken (or just paprika powder), a few peas of pepper, bay leaf and lemon. The meat is washed, salted and rolled on all sides in paprika or ready-made seasoning, put in a saucepan. Tomato paste is diluted with water and pour the chicken in the saucepan in the sauce obtained. Finely chopped garlic, peas of peppers, olives and lemon, cut into thin rings, are laid on top of the meat. Bay leaves and pepper are placed in the sauce on the side of the chicken and turn on the fire. Stew the meat until cooked for about half an hour, remove the lavrushka from the sauce.
It turns out very tender stewed chicken in sour cream.
Required: about a kilogram of chicken, 0.2 teaspoon coriander, a small jar of sour cream, a couple of garlic cloves and a slice of butter 50 grams. In a frying pan, heat the butter and lay out the washed pieces of the fillet. Fry, periodically turning the chicken for about five minutes. Then sprinkle the chicken with coriander, salt and pour sauce with a glass of sour cream and 0.5 cup of water. Stew until the chicken is soft and easily pierced with a knife.
Stewed chicken
For cooking you will need: a pound of chicken, large onions, salt, mayonnaise, ground pepper, a couple of cloves of garlic. At the bottom of a deep frying pan lay onion chopped with thick rings and peeled cloves of garlic. On top - chicken fillet, divided into small pieces. Pour the chicken with a small amount of water, grease it with mayonnaise, salt it and sprinkle it with pepper. The meat is stewed on the smallest fire until it becomes soft and tender.
If you put out the chicken with potatoes , then you can kill two birds with one stone - prepare hot meat and a side dish for it.
The main ingredients are pieces of chicken, sweet bell pepper, large carrots and a couple of tomatoes, 4-5 pcs. potatoes, three garlic cloves, prepared spices. The washed pieces of chicken are rolled in the finished seasoning, sprinkled with finely chopped garlic, salted and left for an hour to soak. Chopped onions, fried onions are fried in a pan, after pouring vegetable oil on it. When the onion takes on a light brown hue, put chicken in the pan and mix everything. There they add carrots, chopped with thin strips, and potatoes, sliced in thick rings. Add a glass of water and stew until the meat is ready. Then add chopped pepper, tomatoes, chopped in large pieces, whole slices of garlic for flavor and keep the pan on fire for another five minutes. Everything, chicken stew with potatoes is ready.
Braised cabbage with chicken is a very hearty and prepared dish. It is prepared as follows: a kilogram of chicken meat (preferably fillet) is taken, cut into small pieces and put into a pan. Pour the meat lightly with vegetable oil and fry until lightly crusted. Then, carrots and cabbage cut into strips are added to the pan, and onion rings are added. Fry vegetables with meat for another three minutes, and then pour a glass of water and stew until cabbage and meat are ready. Add 5-6 champignons, cut into cubes, bell pepper in strips and two large tomatoes, cut into large pieces. They extinguish by lidding for another quarter of an hour, adding water if necessary. For a kilo of meat take 800 gr. cabbage, one carrot and onion.