Fragrant chicken, fragrant wings or spicy legs - what to cook for dinner? Chicken chop in breadcrumbs is a great budget and quick meal option for all households.
Selection of ingredients
First, choose chicken. For chops, both breast and meat, separated from the bone of the leg, are suitable. It's a matter of taste. If the breast seems a little dry, then you have to tinker with the legs. The fillet should be dense and resilient, without extraneous odors. The best choice would be a young chicken grown in its own yard. If this is excluded, then a bird from a trusted producer is a good option.
Breadcrumbs can be bought at the store or made by yourself. This product, despite the simplicity of the composition, easily deteriorates. Keep track of the date of manufacture. Rancid taste or unusual odor are the main nuisances of store breading. Chicken fillet in home-made breadcrumbs will be tastier and more aromatic. It is necessary to brown pieces of stale bread in the oven, grind it with a blender - and a win-win breading is ready. High-sugar baked goods will not work. Sweet notes in the dish will be superfluous.
Chicken meat can be replaced with turkey, but it is a mistake to assume that the dish will be dietary. Heat treatment in the form of frying in oil is the enemy of proper nutrition.
Everyday recipe
Chicken chop in breadcrumbs has a variety of delicacies. It is important to know that the purpose of the breading is to "seal" the meat so that the latter retains as much as possible all the juices. And then even the driest chicken breast will turn out to be unusually tender. So, the chicken fillet was washed, dried with a napkin, and beaten off with a hammer. Then, to your taste, salt, pepper, roll in homemade breadcrumbs and put in a pan with warmed sunflower oil. Browned on one side, not covering the pan, turned over, browned on the other side. Chicken meat is quickly cooked, so do not dry it much. Cover with a lid literally in a couple of minutes for cooking, in order to slightly obscure the chop and at the same time not spoil the crisp.
Holiday recipe
The festive option does not take much time. It is only necessary to marinate chicken chops in advance . Let olive oil be in the pan, and sesame seed instead of breadcrumbs. That's all the features. For pickling, you can use a mixture of lime, salt and pepper. Lemon, balsamic vinegar or soy sauce perfectly emphasize the taste of the bird. The pickling process does not have to be long - 20 minutes is enough. Dip the pieces of meat in whipped squirrels. This is necessary so that the sesame seed is firmly attached. Roll in sesame seeds and send to the pan. Fry on both sides and serve with the side dish.
Garnish
Mashed potatoes and chicken chop in breadcrumbs - a classic of the Russian feast genre. Even despite the advice of nutritionists claiming the incompatibility of these products. In fact, few people know that initially high-calorie potatoes were considered a treat with a measure of consumption of no more than 1-2 tubers. A vegetable side dish will be a useful and equally tasty addition. Steamed vegetables - broccoli, cauliflower or white cabbage, zucchini, zucchini, eggplant - the choice is huge. Fresh seasoned salad or regular seasoning is a light summer side dish. For winter - stewed frozen vegetables with rice. Experiment, add variety to everyday dishes, and then even an ordinary chicken chop in breadcrumbs will become your culinary masterpiece.