Chicken breasts owe their popularity to their own dietary qualities. This product is equally good for all people. Yes, and to cook any dish in a slow cooker based on chicken breasts is a real pleasure. You just need to take some time to process the components before dipping into the kitchen unit and after some time already enjoy the cooked fragrant chicken breast in a slow cooker.
Favorite or not?
Someone uses them to build muscle (weightlifters and bodybuilders), someone because of the unique characteristics of chicken to strengthen the body after surgery.
And most people love chicken, in particular, and the breast itself for the fact that the preparation of this product does not require special skills, but it always works out well.
Although there are those who consider the breast a little dry, how many are not toms in a slow cooker.
Healthy and tasty diet
We suggest preparing some dishes from this product using your kitchen assistant - a multicooker. Dietary chicken breasts in this device will surely turn out to be tender, not dry and very fragrant. The taste of the product will come to your rescue in such a demanding internal willpower and perseverance as diet. When you cook a dish according to this recipe, then, of course, you will find in yourself the ability to continue your diet.
- Before baking chicken breast in a slow cooker, it should definitely be freed from the skin. The skin is often oily and, accordingly, a high-calorie product, but we do not need it. At least in this version of the formulation.
- To fully maintain the qualities beneficial to your health, we use only the most true seasonings. No chemical component! Ground pepper or peas, a bay leaf, a mixture of aromatic herbs, garlic - these are all suitable options for cooking chicken breasts in a slow cooker.
- For baking, you will also need a good quality vegetable oil.
How will we cook?
The first variation in the preparation of diet chicken is roasting. We make small cuts in several places of the semi-finished meat product. Pour and rub salt into it and those seasonings that you have chosen for yourself. Pour oil in a non-stick bowl, about 2 tablespoons, put the breast there. Its convex side should be in oil, at the bottom of the apparatus. The recipe for chicken breast in a slow cooker is not difficult in this embodiment. All you need to do next is put the baking mode with the lid closed for 20 minutes. After this time, the breast will need to be turned over and the oven again for the same amount of time, closing the lid. And now you have a wonderful aromatic and, importantly, dietary meat!
Steam treatment
This cooking option is designed for those who do not want the use of any oil for several reasons. Steamed chicken breast in a slow cooker is an even more dietary product. To taste a delicate, juicy dietary chicken, you need a slow cooker with a mode that helps in such a good thing as steaming. Make sure that this function works for you and immediately prepare a special lattice tank from your model. Such a thing with holes is usually inserted when picking into the bowl and, clinging to its sides, rests on the sides of the multicooking pan.
Steam cooking. Slow Cooking Chicken Breast Recipe:
- We release the semi-finished product from the skin we do not need.
- Generously showered with a rich bouquet of special seasonings.
- Rub these seasonings into the chicken, at the same time adding a little salt to them.
- Now foil is very useful to us. But if it was not there, you can use the sleeve for baking. Place the breast in foil, here you need to properly wrap the meat. Chicken is laid on the shiny side of the foil. That is, the matte side should be on the outside. So the heat in the cooking process will not reflect on the shine of the foil and everything will go into our dietary chicken.
- After proper packaging of meat, pour about 1 liter of water into the slow cooker. Salt, as you probably understand, is useless here. We install our upper steam container, put the prepared semi-finished product in it.
- Steaming lasts about 45 minutes. After this time, the chicken breast in the slow cooker is ready.
Not just a diet
If chicken is a dietary product, then what about everyone else who doesn’t follow a diet, but enjoys life to the fullest and loves gastronomic masterpieces? How to cook chicken breast in a slow cooker so that it captivates the eater with its taste and leaves only joyful memories for a long time?
Such a yummy can happen, most likely, only if you add respectable potatoes to the meat! We love this vegetable with us. Without it, a little dish does. We present to your attention a recipe for chicken breasts with potatoes in a slow cooker.
Walkthrough for easier cooking
We will need these products:
- The main “heroines” are 3 chicken pieces.
- Potato - about 1 kilogram (you can take a little more).
- Sour cream product - 350 grams.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons.
- Garlic to taste. If you really like the garlic flavor in a dish, put about 5 cloves of large garlic. If you need an average dose - 2-3 cloves will be quite enough.
- Bay leaf.
- Large onion.
- If desired, special seasoning for chicken dishes.
- Salt to taste or 2 teaspoons.
Cooking a delicious dish!
We will prepare the products accordingly so that the chicken breasts with potatoes in the slow cooker are tender and fragrant.
- Remove bone and skin from the loin. We cut meat in medium slices.
- Wash the potato and after the cleaning procedure, cut the bars. Try not to chop the potatoes very hard. Depending on the type of vegetable, it may turn out that it is steamed. Although, if you prefer this option, then cut the small bars.
- Onions can be cut into thin rings or half rings. If you are not very passionate about onion dishes, chop it as small as possible.
Preparing the sauce for pouring
Mix sour cream in a bowl with seasonings. Add the garlic that has been processed by the press and the bay leaf.
We season the sauce with seasonings prepared for the dish.
Salt is an important element, we add it at this stage.
Mix our sauce.
The process of laying chicken breasts in a slow cooker begins with dipping them in the prepared sauce.
Pour the entire rate of oil into the bowl and lay the breasts on the bottom.
When the whole chicken is where it should be, you need to put the potato sticks in a bowl with the remaining sour cream sauce. In the same dishes add onions. Stir the bars and onions in the sour cream sauce, adding to the meat, lay on top.
The dish is baked for about 1 hour. We lay out the most delicious and delicate potatoes with chicken breasts on plates and enjoy this culinary fruit with pleasure.
Stewing chicken breast
This simple recipe is loved by many. Try it, maybe he will subdue you too!
Cut the chicken into pieces. To it we add carrots grated on a large or on a "Korean" grater in an amount of 1-3 pieces. If you like carrots, choose a variation with plenty. If this root vegetable is not among your kitchen favorites, then take 1 piece. Add to these products also onions - 1 head. Cut the onion as you prefer. Next, fill in a container in which you will cook 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil. And download the rest of the products. Salt and pepper is a must. Stir all the ingredients and with the multicooker closed cook the dish in the "Stew" mode. Cooking a delicious and juicy chicken will take about 1 hour.
Beautifully serve the dish to the table
It is not enough to create a culinary masterpiece of inimitable taste. You need it and file beautifully. Tips will help you with this:
- When you cook the whole breasts, cut them into portions when serving and put on a plate.
- Garnish for chicken can be not only potatoes and pasta. This meat goes well with unsweetened types of cereals, with vegetables and rice cooked on water.