Alas, in our hectic age, all adult members often work in the family. Therefore, there is no one to prepare intricate and time-consuming dishes for everyday lunch. But I want to eat something! And so many people, rushing home from work, puzzle over what to prepare a delicious lunch from. Of the chicken, of course! This bird has dietary meat. Unlike beef, it is cooked very quickly. Chicken meat goes well with all products: cheese, milk, vegetables, mushrooms and even fruits. It can be boiled, fried, baked, stewed, grilled, smoked. And you can buy chicken already chopped. This is an inexpensive type of meat. In addition, you can purchase as a whole carcass of a bird, and its individual parts - quarters, breast, wings, legs. Everyone can eat chicken, except perhaps vegetarians. This product is permissible in both Islamic and Jewish religious diets. Now it remains only to figure out what to cook for dinner from chicken. The recipes with photos offered below will help you feed the whole family with a delicious meal.
Salad
Chicken meat has one feature. It is neutral in taste and is fully "tuned" to related products. Therefore, even if you cook a salad, soup and a second chicken dish, no one will guess that the whole lunch consists of one type of meat. Let's start cooking lunch with a snack. As such, we will have a salad. However, this dish is so non-laborious that it can be left for later . Unless, of course, you have boiled chicken breast. But serving salads was the first to serve. Therefore, telling what to cook for dinner from chicken, we will pay attention to this appetizer. There are many salads that have become classic. For example, Caesar often includes chicken. But we will give a recipe for an even easier meal. Boil one hard boiled egg. Peel and chop it into small cubes. Two apples free from the skins and fruit boxes. Cut them into thin slices. We chop one cucumber in half rings. Boil chicken. Remove 200 - 250 grams of meat from the bone. You can buy not a carcass, but a breast. Cut the boiled meat into medium cubes. We mix all the ingredients. Salt, sprinkle with pepper, season with mayonnaise. The dish should stand for a while in the refrigerator before serving, so that all the ingredients are saturated and harmonious with each other.
Winter salad
The previous recipe is good to implement in the summer, when there are juicy crispy apples and cucumbers, plucked directly from the garden. And what about winter, what can you cook for lunch from chicken for snacks? We offer such a simple recipe. Boil poultry (200 - 250 grams) boil until tender. We hold the broth for the soup (see its recipe below). We take out the meat and cut into small pieces. We open canned food with red beans and sweet corn, we filter out the liquid from them. Add to the meat one hundred grams of the contents of each jar. We carefully wash a small head of Beijing cabbage and finely chop it. It takes a quarter plug. Now it remains only to season winter salad. Dressing - to your taste. This may be mayonnaise, vegetable oil, soy sauce, olandes , aioli , a little Tabasco .
Warm salad for lunch
If you follow the figure, then you can dine with one dish. It should be vitamin, light and at the same time satisfying the feeling of hunger. And if you are thinking about what to cook for dinner with chicken, use the following recipe. Boil until cooked two pieces of chicken. We cut it into small pieces , keep it warm. Grind two tomatoes and half a pod of pepper. We cut a large bunch of lettuce, combine with vegetables. Three also 50 grams of hard cheese. Sprinkle with finely chopped almonds (teaspoon). Now we are preparing a gas station. Pour into a saucepan: half a glass of vegetable oil, a third of a cup of apple cider vinegar, a tablespoon of soy sauce. Add a pinch of ginger, ground pepper, garlic salt and sugar. We put the saucepan on the fire and bring the dressing to a boil. We combine chicken meat with vegetables. Pour with hot sauce and serve .
Shawarma
Parents often think about what to cook for lunch with chicken, to bring their child to school. Well, not the soup from the jar, he will slurp at recess? Let's prepare shawarma for the baby. To do this, remove chicken meat from the bone. Pour it into thin strips. Sprinkle with Caucasian spices and set aside to marinate a little. At this time, you can do vegetables for shawarma: chop a tomato, onion, chop cabbage, tear fingers with a leaf of lettuce or Beijing cabbage. We put the pan on the fire, pour the vegetable oil. Fry the chicken until cooked. We unfold the Armenian pita bread and put the filling there. You can flavor it with mayonnaise or ketchup. We turn the shawarma roll and put it in a tightly closed container.
Julien
And what can you cook for dinner from chicken from hot snacks? We bring to your attention Julien's recipe. This French dish will appeal to everyone, without exception. For its preparation, you will need special miniature frying pans - “cocotte makers”, but any small heat-resistant molds are also suitable. For julienne it is better to take not chicken breast, but legs - there the meat is not so dry. In a regular frying pan, we pass onion in vegetable oil (we cut one head as small as possible). When it is gilded, add chicken, cut into slices - 60 - 100 grams of meat without bone and skin. Fry until a yellow crust is formed. Salt and pepper to taste. Pour cream or diluted water with sour cream (two tablespoons). You can add mushrooms - porcini or champignons - about one hundred grams at this stage. Stew until the meat is fully cooked. The contents of the pan are distributed in portioned heat-resistant tins with a narrow top. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake the julienne for about half an hour.
What soup to cook for lunch from chicken
The Slavs do not share the views of Europeans that the first course should be eaten only for dinner. Without soup, lunch is not lunch, but just lunch. But on the other hand, the first dishes are so difficult and long to prepare ... Here we do not urge you to cook complex Poltava borsch. Let's look at what to cook for lunch from chicken is delicious and fast. The first thing that comes to mind is the broth. If you took raw chicken to prepare the salad, then you should now have an amber broth. It only remains for us that "bring it to mind." We put in the broth the roots for the soup - parsley, celery. Pour the vegetable oil into the pan. Strain onions, garlic, carrots. We send the roasting to the pan with the broth. Cook on low heat for about twenty minutes until the roots soften. There are several ways to serve such a broth: with crackers or croutons, with boiled and cut into pieces egg and herbs. The soup will be even tastier if you add a spoonful of Madeira to each serving. And finally , the traditional way of serving chicken broth is with homemade noodles. Do not want to bother with the test? Use rice pasta ( Rolton , Mivina ). Place the noodles in a hot broth and cover to soften.
Lagman
Consider other options for what soup to cook for dinner from chicken. If the soul wants something oriental, satisfy its desire, prepare a lagman . This is completely uncomplicated. For cooking, we need a cauldron. If not, a pan with high sides will do. Pour in vegetable oil there, warm it well and add 300 grams of chicken cut into pieces. We fry for about eight minutes over high heat, so that the meat is covered with a golden brown. By this time, we should already have prepared, that is, washed and cut into small pieces, vegetables. This is a large onion, two carrots, bell pepper and 2 tomatoes. All vegetables must be folded separately. First, add onion to the fried meat, then carrots, after a couple of minutes pepper and finally a tomato. When the tomato starts juice, pour a spoonful of sugar and two pinches of salt into the cauldron. Leave under the lid to stew for about a quarter of an hour. If you knew in advance what to cook for lunch with chicken, then you already have a noodle dough. We quickly roll it out, cut pasta. Boil in a separate bowl in salted water. We recline in a colander. Add two tablespoons of tomato paste, three pinches of ground black pepper and half a glass of water to the chicken and vegetables. Continue to simmer another five minutes. Wash and cut fresh herbs ( cilantro , parsley, dill). Put the noodles in a deep bowl. We pour a hot lagman on it . Decorate the dish with herbs.
Second courses: what to cook for lunch with chicken
Delicious recipes, and, moreover, very simple and budget ones, are offered to your attention. The first on the list is "fake beef stroganoff." As you know, the original dish is made from cow meat (" beef " in French - "beef"). But we will prepare it from chicken so that no one will guess about the substitution. For fake beef stroganoff we take 500 grams of breast. Cut the fillet into thin small strips. Put it in preheated vegetable oil in a pan. Salt, season with spices and fry for about six minutes, stirring constantly. We chop a large onion in half rings. Add to the pan to the meat. Continue frying until the onion is golden. Add a soup spoon of flour. Thoroughly roll meat with onion in it. Pour 150 milliliters of cream of 10% fat into the pan. Stir and leave to simmer under the lid over low heat. In a glass, mix 50 ml of tomato juice with a teaspoon of mustard. This gas station will be sent to a common boiler . We continue to simmer another fifteen minutes or until the meat is ready. We serve beef stroganoff with any side dish. It is especially tasty with mashed potatoes.
Rulada
If we are considering what to cook for dinner with chicken fillet, then it is impossible to ignore this recipe. We beat the meat so that the thickness of the piece was no more than half a centimeter. Grind three cloves of garlic, rub them on both sides of the chicken fillet. Salt it, season with black pepper and cardamom. From three eggs and a small amount of milk we make an omelette mass. Fry it in the form of thin pancakes. You can make chicken roe from pancakes. Put the omelet on the chop. We try to match the size. Turn the roll. We tie a thread from both ends so that the roll does not turn. We fold the bundles into a pot of water and boil over low heat. Ready coils are cooled under a press. When serving, remove the threads and decorate with mayonnaise and herbs. If there is a desire and mood for creativity, you can do otherwise. Place the slightly boiled rolls (already without thread) in a baking sheet. Between the rows we put pieces of butter. Sprinkle with grated hard cheese. Place the baking sheet in the preheated oven and bake until a rosy “hat” is formed.
Saltimbocca
You should know that chicken fits perfectly with everything, even with other types of meat. It may be pork. So, if we have a real Italian prosciutto (4 slices) or, in terms of import substitution, a brisket, let's see what to cook from chicken for lunch. The recipes of the dish known to gourmets called Saltimbocca are plentiful. We suggest making this chicken fillet dish. Four of its pieces are rolled between two sheets of cooking paper so that they become the same thickness. Add salt and pepper to the meat. We put prosciutto on each slice of chicken. Between them we place three leaves of sage. In a pan, mix a spoonful of olive oil and 40 grams of butter. We heat and spread the meat so that the pork is bottom. Fry for five minutes, then turn over. When the chicken is browned, remove the meat from the pan, and pour 150 milliliters of marsala, half a glass of chicken broth and a spoonful of lemon juice in its place. Boil until thickened. Green beans (200 grams) are boiled separately in salted water. We recline in a colander, and then, when all the liquid has completely drained , - in a pan. Add two tablespoons of almond petals and butter. Mix and boil a little more. We pour saltimbokka with this sauce. You can quickly cook dinner with chicken, if these chops are served with some simpler sauce - sour cream, bechamel , mustard.
Carcass dish
Before that, we presented recipes in which any part of the chicken was an ingredient. Quite simple to work with breast. But in the oven, it can become a little dry. What about the carcass? What to cook for lunch from chicken? Simple recipes will give you some ideas. Tobacco chicken is a classic of Georgian cuisine. This dish can be cooked even by a novice cook. The chicken needs to break the chest cartilage, put it on the cutting board with its back up and beat off so that the carcass becomes slightly flat. Grate the chicken inside and out with a mixture of salt, pepper and garlic. In a large frying pan, fry the chicken in butter for 15 minutes on each side.
There is another recipe for making whole chicken. We cook the bird with the side dish. We also break the chest cartilage and remove the skin from the carcass. Butter should be mashed with a spatula with finely chopped garlic. Spread the carcass with this mixture. We cut the lemon, half the onion and the peeled garlic clove into the peritoneum. We spread the chicken in a baking dish. Nearby we place vegetables chopped, sprinkled with olive oil and seasoned with spices (this can be not only potatoes, but also zucchini, green beans or eggplant). If you want to make chicken without a side dish, you can limit yourself to an onion pillow. Pour some broth. Grease the protruding parts of the chicken with butter and cover with a piece of foil. Sent to the oven. This dinner can feed the whole family.