Rice with chicken and mushrooms is often eaten by sports people, motivating by the fact that a large amount of protein in these dishes remarkably supports muscle mass, without causing an increase in adipose tissue. Such food, whether it is salads, main dishes or casseroles, can be prepared in various ways, using an almost identical set of products. Several recipes from rice, mushrooms and chicken, described below, significantly diversify the usual cooking methods. Choose a more acceptable one for you and enjoy dietary cuisine!
Essential Ingredients for Making Chicken Rice Salad
- Mushrooms: Usually pickled shiitake mushrooms are used in this salad, but champignons can perfectly replace them. We take 100 grams.
- Chicken breast - 300 grams.
- Rice - 0.5 cups, if you stick to the Asian version of the salad, it is better to take brown.
- Bell peppers: half of the fruit is red and green.
- Onions - half the onion.
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil.
To prepare a rice salad with chicken and mushrooms, first you need to boil the chicken until cooked and, after cooling, cut into thin slices. Boil rice, according to the rules of cooking this cereal, and cut mushrooms in the same way as chicken. Peel the onion, cut the onion into four parts and finely chop. Peppers cut into thin strips. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl, pour oil and mix, you can add salt at will or add one teaspoon of soy sauce - the taste will become more oriental, as required by rice with chicken and mushrooms. Salad is usually served cold and immediately cooked - it is not necessary to insist.
Peking cabbage rice
Cook rice, chicken and mushrooms in the same way as in the previous recipe, although if the chicken meat is additionally slightly fried in 1 tbsp. a spoonful of olive oil with a pinch of coriander - the taste will be gorgeous! Raw carrots are washed and peeled from the upper skin and rubbed on a grater for Korean carrots, you can lightly sprinkle it with 1 teaspoon of soy sauce.
Finely chop the Beijing cabbage, put it on a serving plate, put boiled rice on it with a slide, grated carrots on top and sprinkle with lemon juice and oil. Sprinkle the whole portion mixed with mushrooms and pieces of chicken. You can lightly sprinkle with ground black pepper.
This dish is perfect as a lunch or dinner: it is quite light in taste, despite the presence of a large number of protein products, fiber of cabbage and carrots makes the food easily digestible, but satisfying. Number of ingredients:
- rice: 200 grams;
- mushrooms - 70 grams;
- chicken fillet - 250-300 grams;
- Beijing cabbage - 160 grams;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of freshly squeezed lemon juice;
- 1 tbsp. a spoon of olive oil.
Cooking in pots
For lovers of a more refined serving of hot dishes, there is another recipe for rice with mushrooms, chicken and vegetables, which can be an excellent decoration for a festive family dinner.
For cooking you will need:
- 400 grams of chicken;
- 200 grams of long grain rice;
- 2 tomatoes;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- 1 onion;
- 200 grams of champignons;
- 1 carrot;
- 100 grams of olive oil;
- 0.5 teaspoon of coriander and black pepper, salt according to taste preferences.
Cut the mushrooms into slices and fry in half a portion of olive oil, when browned, put in a bowl, pass the finely chopped onion in the same oil, add the grated carrots and keep it on the fire until soft, then pour the tomatoes, cut into small pieces, and then darken for about 5 minutes, stirring. Chop the chicken fillet and fry in the remaining oil with spices. Cook rice until half cooked.
Put meat on the bottom of the pots, mushrooms on top and sprinkle them with crushed garlic. Next, put cooked rice on them, and stewed vegetables on it. Pour boiling water so that there is more water on the surface of vegetables for two fingers. Send pots of rice, chicken and mushrooms to the oven for half an hour, be sure to cover them with lids. The baking temperature is -190 degrees.
Classic version with cream
Rice with chicken and mushrooms can be prepared according to the standard European recipe, such a dish is often served in restaurants. First, chop 500 grams of chicken into small pieces and fry in 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons of butter until ruddy, must be seasoned with salt and black pepper, you can also use nutmeg - it goes well with cream.
Fry 300 grams of mushrooms until tender in the same vegetable oil, adding finely chopped onion in the process. Then mix mushrooms and chicken in one pan. Rice (350 grams) separately boil, rinse with warm running water. When the rice is almost ready, turn on the fire under a pan with meat and mushrooms, pour in 250 grams of cream and simmer for about 2-3 minutes. Put rice on a serving plate, and on it a meat slide with mushrooms and cream.
Calorie dishes
Such dishes from rice, chicken and mushrooms are considered dietary, as the average calorie content of such dishes is from 130 calories per one serving. Of course, the energy value of a cream dish will be an order of magnitude higher, but given the presence of a large amount of protein, this is not particularly significant.
If you are subject to weight fluctuations, it is better to choose options with a large number of vegetables and seasoning stimulating metabolic processes, if, on the contrary, it is necessary to increase muscle mass - choose a more high-calorie option.
Useful Cooking Tips
- If brown rice is not available, it can be replaced with ordinary unpolished or, in extreme cases, long.
- Shiitake mushrooms can be replaced with ordinary champignons.
- If you use soy sauce instead of salt, the dish will be salty and with a flavor typical of Chinese cuisine.
- Fried chicken with mushrooms and rice can be baked in the oven under a cheese crust using the same ceramic pots.
- If black pepper is half replaced with allspice, the dish will acquire a more pronounced aroma.