How to cook chicken fricassee? Any housewife asks this question sooner or later. Prepare it from certain parts of the chicken or from the whole. Translated from French, fricassee means "all sorts of things." Roughly speaking, this is a stew that is made from any white meat and any seasonal vegetables. It can be cooked from chicken and rabbit, veal and other meat. The meat is cut into small pieces, fried, and then stewed with broth and other ingredients. Season at the end with pepper, beaten egg yolk and cream.
Cream Chicken
If you do not know how to cook chicken fricassee, take this recipe as a basis. It is quite simple, and even novice housewives can handle it. Chicken in combination with cream is tender and juicy. A dish can be served for a holiday, or just cooked for dinner.
Ingredients:
- a pound of chicken,
- 50 grams of butter,
- 5 tablespoons of flour
- nutmeg, teaspoon,
- salt with pepper to taste.
From this set of products, 6 servings are obtained, a dish is prepared in only about half an hour.
Rinse chicken thoroughly, dry with a paper towel and salt. Cut into small pieces, sprinkle with flour a little and then roll in it. Put butter in a pan and wait until it melts. Put the chicken in the pan and sauté until it turns white. Now you need to take the cream (any fat percentage) and pour the chicken. Try to pour so that the chicken pieces are drowned in cream. Add nutmeg and pepper. Stir, turn on the heat to the minimum, cover the pan and simmer the chicken for about 20 minutes, until the cream becomes thick. This is a signal that the chicken fricassee is ready.
Simple and fast fricassee
- 300 grams of chicken breast
- 100 grams of bell pepper
- 50 grams of canned black olives,
- a few feathers of green onions,
- 100 grams of 20% cream,
- salt and pepper to taste.
How to cook chicken fricassee with vegetables? Cut the chicken into strips, and pepper sufficiently large cubes. Olives do not need to be cut. Finely chop the onion, fry the chicken with vegetables, then add the onion, salt and pepper. Cook over low heat until the cream evaporates a little. In about fifteen minutes, the chicken fricassee will be ready.
Classic fricassee recipe
If you did not know how to cook chicken fricassee with mushrooms, try making it according to this recipe.
Ingredients:
- a pound of chicken breast
- 2 tablespoons,
- chicken broth - one glass,
- half a liter of 10% cream,
- 3 cloves of garlic,
- 3 chicken eggs
- sour cream
- 250 g fresh champignons,
- one sweet pepper (green or red),
- one onion,
- some vegetable oil
- butter - 50 grams,
- salt with pepper to taste.
How to cook chicken fricassee (recipe)?
We wash the chicken breast well with running cold water and dry it a little with a paper towel. Cut the fillet into pieces with 2 cm thick bars.
Prepare the vegetables: cut onion into half rings and pepper into strips. Rinse and chop mushrooms arbitrarily, but not very finely.
Fry the chicken in vegetable oil at a temperature slightly above average. Separately, melt the butter, pour flour into it (do not stop stirring!) And slightly fry it all over low heat. Then pour in the cream and, while stirring, boil the creamy sauce. White gravy turns out quite thick.
During this time, the chicken has already become golden and fried. Put it in a creamy sauce, add chicken stock or plain water, mix and reduce heat. Leave the chicken to simmer over low heat, for now, take care of the side dish. Fry onions in vegetable oil, put mushrooms there and fry it all for about five minutes. Send the same green pepper. Cover the pan, make the fire smaller and simmer. About five minutes before cooking, salt and add sour cream. We return to the chicken. The fillet is saturated with cream and tender. Just a little bit left. Separate the yolks from the whites and beat them with a fork. Squeeze the garlic into the cream with chicken, pour the yolks, salt and mix. Cover again to warm everything together and become homogeneous. Serve.
First put the side dish and the chicken and sauce on top. You can decorate with a lettuce leaf or finely chopped green onions.
Fricassee with beans
This fricassee is made from chicken or chicken drumsticks. Red beans and seasonal vegetables are used as additional ingredients. From a given set of ingredients, two portions of fricassee are obtained. The time taken to cook is one hour.
Ingredients:
- four chicken drumsticks,
- half a glass of red dry beans (or a can of canned in own juice),
- two sweet peppers
- one carrot
- a glass of cream of any fat content or milk,
- two tablespoons of olive oil,
- one tablespoon of butter,
- nutmeg,
- flour - two tablespoons,
- ground pepper and salt.
Cooking fricassee with beans
How to cook chicken meat fricassee "Meat"? Take a pack of frozen drumsticks. Thaw them beforehand, remove the skin from them and cut off the joint with the bone. You can cook fricassee from whole drumsticks, or you can cut meat. Soak red beans in advance and then cook it. If you do not want to bother, then use beans from a jar in your own juice without tomato paste. From it just drain the liquid.
Heat olive oil in a pan, fry carrots, cut into small cubes, for five to six minutes. Then add pieces of chicken there and fry over a rather high fire until it is browned. It will take you 10-12 minutes. Do not forget to stir. Salt and pepper a little.
Cut large onions, bell pepper, remove seeds and cut into large slices. Add nutmeg, chopped onions and peppers to the chicken. Cook with the meat until vegetables are cooked. Add red beans at the end. Cover and let simmer for ten minutes on low heat. Vegetables release moisture, so you can not add water.
Melt butter in a skillet and make bechamel with milk or cream. How to make it? In melted butter, fry the flour. When it is a little golden, pour cream or milk there, stir vigorously so that there are no lumps. Add salt, nutmeg and pepper at the end. We return to the fricassee. When the liquid is gone, pour everything with the resulting sauce, mix and let it simmer a little over low heat.
Fricassee in sour cream
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - half a kilo,
- bow - one head,
- sweet pepper - one or two,
- 4 cloves of garlic,
- low-fat sour cream - 250 grams,
- spices and salt.
If you want, marinate the meat in sour cream with garlic overnight, but without it it will be juicy.
Rinse the meat and cut into cubes. Onions - half rings. Pepper and cut into strips. Pass the garlic through a crush. Fry onions and peppers. Combine the chicken with sour cream and garlic. Stir and transfer to vegetables. Bring to a boil. Then close the lid and simmer for about seven minutes. Do not forget to mix. Now you know how to cook chicken fricassee with sour cream.