Today, chicken breast takes the lead in the list of diet foods. This dish is the main in the diet of people who monitor their weight or seek to gain muscle mass. Chicken breast is considered the lowest calorie portion of poultry. It contains only 113 kcal. But the amount of protein, on the contrary, is very high and amounts to 23.6 g per 100 g of product.
During the heat treatment, the number of calories in the bird increases. Therefore, the calorie content of fried chicken breast is already 164 kcal, which is relatively small compared to other types of meat. Below are the best recipes for this dish. But first, let's look at a few secrets to making a juicy chicken breast in a pan.
Features of preparation and recommendations
Most people, unless they adhere to a diet or principles of proper nutrition, do not favor chicken breast. They consider this part of the bird to be too dry and hard to fry in a pan or bake in the oven. And completely in vain. Chicken breast can be juicy, tasty and fragrant. The main thing is to adhere to certain recommendations when preparing it:
- Before frying in a pan, the chicken breast must be beaten off through the cling film with the side of the culinary hammer that does not have spikes.
- The meat is also beaten off if it is planned to cook in pieces. In this case, the chicken breast is cut across the fibers.
- Before cooking, it is recommended to hold this part of the bird in a marinade or in a special brine. To do this, boil on a stove 1 liter of water with salt and sugar (45 g each), adding bay leaf, allspice and other spices. Chicken breast is poured with cooled brine and sent to the refrigerator for 3 hours. With this method of pickling, it is literally saturated with moisture and turns juicy.
- Triple breading from flour, beaten egg and bread crumbs will help to preserve the meat juice inside the breast.
- Meat should be cooked quickly. First, the breast is fried on both sides on high heat for literally 2 minutes each, and then brought to readiness under the lid during the same time.
Breaded chicken breast in a pan
Below is the easiest and fastest way to cook poultry fillets. For this recipe you will need a chilled breast (400 g). If frozen meat is used, then it should first be transferred to the lower shelf of the refrigerator, and after 8-10 hours proceed with cooking. Thoroughly not recommended to defrost the fillet in water or in the microwave. Otherwise, the meat will turn out too tough.
Breaded fried chicken breasts are cooked in the following order:
- The fillet is cut lengthwise into 2-3 parts. Each piece is covered with a film and slightly beaten off.
- Prepared breasts sprinkled with salt and pepper.
- Preparing a breading. To do this, 100 g of flour is poured onto one flat plate, and bread crumbs or ground crackers (150 g) are placed on the other. In a third bowl, eggs (2 pcs.) Are broken and mixed with a fork.
- First, the breasts are rolled in flour, then they are dipped in the egg mixture and immediately immersed in breadcrumbs.
- Breaded fillet is laid out on a hot frying pan and fried on both sides until golden brown and crispy.
Fried Chicken Breast Recipe in Honey Orange Sauce
Juicy fillet according to the following recipe is recommended to cook in a grill pan. Then it turns out not only very tasty, but also looks appetizing. A step-by-step recipe for chicken fried in a pan consists of several stages:
- Wash and dry the fillet (4 pcs.) With a paper towel.
- In a deep bowl, prepare the marinade from orange juice (50 ml) and lemon (1 tbsp.), Honey (1 tsp.) And olive oil (2 tsp.). To this are added a pinch of cumin, black and red pepper, garlic squeezed through a press (2 slices).
- Chicken breasts are immersed in a prepared marinade for 30-90 minutes.
- Before frying, the fillet must be removed from the marinade, salt to taste and put in a pan with vegetable oil.
- Fry the breasts on both sides over high heat, then reduce it to medium and continue cooking, periodically turning the meat over.
Chicken Breast in Sweet Pear Sauce
The next dish has a special taste. Fried chicken breasts according to this recipe are cooked in a sweet pear sauce with caramel notes. This dish will appeal to gourmets and everyone who just likes the combination of tender meat with fruit. The recipe consists of only a few steps:
- Chicken fillet (2 pcs.) Is cut across the fibers into large enough pieces and laid out in a pan with olive oil. At this point, it is important to fry it as quickly as possible in order to keep the juice inside.
- Ready breasts, without removing from the pan, salt, add finely chopped onions and garlic clove. After a couple of minutes, when the vegetables are soft, pour 30 ml of dry white wine. Stew meat under the lid for 3 minutes.
- Add sliced pears and a tablespoon of honey to the pan to the breasts. Cook the dish for another 3-4 minutes, periodically mixing the ingredients in a pan.
Chicken breast fried with mushrooms
This dish is prepared in literally 15 minutes. So, using this recipe, you can cook a delicious dinner very quickly.
For this dish you need:
- Cut the chicken breast (150 g) large enough, beat slightly and fry over high heat until medium brown until brown on one and the other side. It is important not to dry the fillet at this stage.
- Add onion sliced in half rings to the meat and cook in a pan with fried chicken breasts for 2 minutes.
- Next, put the mushrooms (150 g), cut into 4-6 parts. Cook the meat with mushrooms until the liquid evaporates. Salt to taste.
Juicy breast fried in soy sauce
The next Asian dish is rich in taste and speed of preparation. Chicken breasts are fried in soy sauce for literally 3 minutes. But the stage of marinating meat for this recipe is a must. Step-by-step instructions for cooking are as follows:
- Chicken breasts are cut into small cubes or strips no more than 2 cm wide.
- Ginger root (2 cm) and a clove of garlic, a pinch of ground chili and black pepper, soy sauce (4 tbsp.) Are added to a bowl of meat.
- All ingredients are mixed with each other, after which the bowl is puffed with a film and sent to the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes.
- Chicken breasts are fried in vegetable oil in a deep pan or in a wok so that the pieces of meat do not touch each other.
- First, the filet is cooked over medium heat on one side, then it should be turned over, heated to increase and fry the breasts for another 1 minute, constantly stirring them in a pan. Sprinkle the dish with sesame seeds before serving.
Chicken breast in a pan with onions
According to the following recipe, chicken fillet is fried for no more than 5 minutes. This allows you not to dry it in a pan and preserve the juiciness inside.
To prepare such a dish, chicken breast (1.2 kg) is cut into long strips across the fibers and fried in a pan with vegetable oil for 5 minutes. At this time, the meat must be constantly stirred so that the pieces do not stick together and fry evenly. The finished breast is laid out in a bowl, and the onion sliced in half rings is passaged in the same oil. Strips of bell pepper can be added to it if desired.
When the onions become soft, the breast returns to the pan. Salt, black pepper, curry, garlic are also added here. The ingredients are mixed and warmed up under the lid for another 1 minute. After this, the pan is removed from the heat.
How to cook fried breast for salad?
The next light and hearty dish is prepared on the basis of dressing from olive oil and balsamic vinegar. But optionally, you can use mayonnaise. Such a salad of fried chicken breast will also turn out to be very tasty. But first you need to figure out how to prepare the fillet for him.
A step-by-step recipe consists in the following sequence of actions:
- Fillet (500 g), cut into small cubes, salt, pepper, add a pinch of sweet paprika. Leave the meat for 10 minutes on the table, and then fry it evenly on all sides for 2-3 minutes.
- Frozen green peas (4 tbsp. L.) Pour boiling water first, and then dip in cold water.
- Put dried peas, finely chopped red onions, sweet pepper in strips and a celery stalk in a bowl to the cooled breast.
- Season the salad with olive oil (3 tbsp.), Balsamic vinegar (1 tbsp.), Spices. Sprinkle the dish with herbs.
Caesar salad with fried breast
The recipe below consists of the following steps:
- To prepare a salad with fried chicken breast, fillet (300 g) must first be marinated. To do this, mix a tablespoon of lemon juice, liquid honey and olive oil along with salt and spices.
- The meat is marinated for 40 minutes, after which it can be fried in a pan. First, the breast is cooked on high heat on one side and the other for a minute, and then brought to readiness under the lid with moderate heat.
- The cooled meat is cut across 1 cm thick and spread on salad leaves.
- In the salad to the breast is added grated parmesan, cherry tomatoes (10 pcs.), Crackers fried in butter (150 g). Dressed with Worcester sauce, olive oil and lemon juice.