Minced chicken is a product from which housewives with pleasure prepare a variety of treats. There are a lot of them!
Delicious and delicate dietary dishes of minced chicken, cooked in the oven or slow cooker, are suitable for consumers who, in order to improve their health, have to carefully plan their daily diet.
For housewives, these treats are attractive due to the availability and simplicity of the recipe. Due to the low calorie content of dietary dishes from minced chicken, they are also included in their diet by those who dream of losing weight.
Delicacies with this product, fried in a pan or grilled, cause a sincere admiration for gourmets who are not concerned about the problems of organizing diet food. However, all dishes can be a real decoration of both cozy family dinners and festive feasts.
In this article, we propose to familiarize yourself with some methods of cooking dietary dishes from minced chicken. Recipes with photos in the oven and slow cooker will certainly interest home-cookers.
Tsukune: tender chicken cutlets on skewers (Japanese cuisine)
Tsukune is one of the very interesting, useful and unusual dishes of Japanese cuisine for a European, as you know, requiring strict observance of all stages of preparing refreshments (even a strictly fixed amount of stirring is provided in the process).
To prepare this dietary dish of minced chicken in a recipe, the following products are supposed to be used:
- one glass of Yakitori sauce;
- 4 feathers of green onions;
- 2 tablespoons of sesame oil;
- 500 g of minced chicken;
- 1 tbsp Miso paste.
How to cook a delicious diet of minced chicken?
Tsukune is cooked like this:
- Wooden skewers are soaked for half an hour in cold water.
- The oven is heated to 220 degrees or coals are prepared.
- Half the volume of minced chicken specified in the recipe is fried in a pan for 1-2 minutes. with constant stirring. As a result, the color of the product will completely change; pink pieces should not remain in it.
- Separately mix the Miso paste with sesame oil (until a homogeneous mass is obtained).
- Then mix the fried and raw minced meat. Then add chopped green onions, a mixture of oils and half the volume of Yakitori sauce to it. Stuffing is thoroughly kneaded: it is necessary to make exactly thirty mixes clockwise and the same amount against. The mass should be sticky, but dense enough to hold well on the skewer.
- After that, small sausages resembling kebab, meatballs or meatballs are formed from the finished mass and stringed onto skewers. The open end of the skewer is wrapped with foil to prevent char or wood burning.
- Next, the products are laid out on a greased baking sheet or in a baking dish. Using a culinary brush, the sausages are additionally greased with the remaining Yakitori sauce.
- Bake products for about 6 to 10 minutes, turn them over 1 time. Ready-made sausages should look well-browned.
The dish is served hot to the table, adding a light vegetable side dish (any) to it, or is used as a filling for rolls, sandwiches, sandwiches.
Oven Dietary Chicken Meat Dish : Minced Meat and Cabbage Casserole
The classic combination of cabbage and minced meat does not leave indifferent connoisseurs of delicious food. To prepare this treat, which is one of the most popular diet dishes of minced chicken, use:
- 100 ml of natural yogurt;
- half a head of cabbage;
- two eggs;
- one head of onion;
- two tablespoons of tomato paste;
- 500 grams of minced chicken;
- black pepper, salt to taste.
Cooking
This delicious diet of minced chicken is prepared as follows:
- The cabbage is finely chopped and placed in boiling water for 10 minutes.
- Onions are cut in half rings, stewed in a pan with oil (vegetable) to a state of transparency.
- Stuffing is added, warmed up until the meat is light. Next, natural yogurt is mixed with tomato paste, salted and pepper to taste.
- Then butter (vegetable) grease the baking dish, spread Β½ part of the cooked cabbage, as well as minced meat. Then pour sauce with tomato paste and yogurt (only half of the mixture is used).
- The remaining cabbage is spread on top, watered with yogurt (remaining), greased with beaten eggs.
The dish is baked in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, for 30β40 minutes. Some housewives also cook such a casserole in a slow cooker. In this case, all the ingredients are laid in the bowl at the same time.
"Glomeruli": chicken cutlets in puff pastry
This original treat refers to the dietary dishes of minced chicken, which are cooked in the oven. Cutlets are balls woven from strips of dough like Christmas-tree decorations.
Ingredients
For cooking you will need:
- 500 grams of minced chicken;
- 250 grams puff pastry;
- 1 egg yolk;
- 1 whole egg;
- 2 heads of onions;
- a little black pepper and salt.
About the cooking method
The dish is prepared like this:
- Minced chicken is mixed with finely chopped onions (some housewives pass it through a meat grinder). Then an egg (raw) is driven in for a bunch, salt and pepper (ground) are added to taste.
- Puff pastry (ready-made, from the store) is laid out on a floured board or table and rolled into a layer 0.5 cm thick, then cut into narrow strips.
- Cutlets are formed from minced meat, wrapped in strips of puff pastry and spread on a baking sheet covered with paper. Billets for baking grease with yolk (whipped).
- Cutlets are baked in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, for 30 to 40 minutes, until a golden crust is formed.
Original chicken βballsβ are served on a table with green lettuce and cranberry sauce. The sauce can be served separately in a special gravy boat. Some housewives recommend supplementing the dish with vegetable slicing (any) or salted (pickled) homemade preparations.
Milk Sausages (Chicken, Steam)
According to many housewives, it is very convenient to cook dietary dishes of minced chicken in a slow cooker. You can find recipes and photos of some treats in the article. Will appeal to both children and adults, milk diet sausages steamed from minced chicken. The following list of products is used:
- 1100 grams of chicken fillet;
- 900 grams of chicken thighs;
- 300 grams of milk;
- 50 grams of milk powder;
- 1 tsp coriander (ground, with a slide);
- 0.5 tsp nutmeg;
- 0.5 tsp garlic powder;
- 3 tsp sweet (dried) paprika;
- 1 tsp black pepper (ground);
- 40 grams of salt (can be sea);
- 2 tsp Sahara;
- two meters of guts.
Cooking
A delicious diet dish is prepared as follows:
- The meat is washed, dried. Fillet is cleaned of films and with a blender is ground into gruel. Skin is cut from the hips, a bone is removed, cut into a medium or small size cube so that small pieces are clearly visible in the section. Then add spices, milk and powdered milk, salt. All mix well.
- The belly is thoroughly washed with salt. In its absence, the minced meat is wrapped in a film (food), which is folded in several layers. Then it is shaped into sausages, the ends are tied with thread.
- Then, with the help of a nozzle, the round is stuffed with minced meat and sausages are formed. The finished product is sent to the refrigerator for ripening for 4-6 hours.
- Then about 1 liter of water is poured into the multicooker bowl. Then it is installed, sausages are transferred to it, and cooked for about 20 minutes. in steaming mode.
- After this time, the multicooker should be opened and the sausages slightly cooled.
The dish is served with fresh vegetables in Tartar sauce.
About the preparation of chicken a la Cordon Blue
We present another interesting recipe for cooking dietary dishes from minced chicken in a slow cooker. The hostesses offer these tender cutlets with a fragrant viscous filling to cook in a multicooker of the Vitek VT-4205 BK brand.
Ingredients
Use products:
- 500 grams of minced meat (chicken);
- 300 grams of hard cheese (it is better to use mozzarella);
- 300 grams of ham;
- two chicken eggs;
- black pepper;
- salt;
- one slice of loaf;
- 50 grams of milk;
- breadcrumbs for breading.
From the presented number of products, six servings of the dish are obtained. It takes 1 hour to cook.
Process description
The treat is prepared as follows:
- Pepper, eggs, salt, crumb from a loaf soaked in milk are added to the minced meat. To make the stuffing thicker and more pliable for modeling, add breadcrumbs to it.
- Ham is cut into plates, cheese - in small cubes.
- Next, the forcemeat ball flatten. A sandwich consisting of two pieces of ham with cheese in the middle is laid at its center. They form immediately, each of them is crushed in breadcrumbs (breadcrumbs).
- Turn on the βFryingβ mode and heat it in vegetable oil from all sides until the sides of the product become rosy.
Stuffed cabbage
This interesting dish is prepared very simply from the available products. It is difficult to say that these cabbage rolls are the most delicious - their flavorful filling, tender meat or crisp.
The treat is quite budget, and on the table it looks quite spectacular. Mistresses recommend using the VITEK VT-4207R crock-pot for cooking dishes (among other advantages, this model perfectly fry foods - to a crispy golden crust).
Structure
Use:
- two chicken breasts;
- 300 grams of white cabbage;
- half a white onion;
- one carrot (small);
- four tablespoons of rice (boiled);
- one chicken egg (used for breading);
- 10 tablespoons of wheat flour (for breading);
- one tablespoon of tomato paste.
The cooking process takes about 50 minutes.
Cooking
Act as follows:
- First, the filling is prepared. Cut carrots, onions, chopped cabbage. A little vegetable oil is poured into the multicooker bowl, chopped vegetables are laid out, salted. Some housewives recommend adding sugar (a pinch). Next, the slow cooker for 10 minutes is set to frying. After 10 minutes, the composition is mixed, add paste (tomato), which is previously diluted with half a glass of water. Then the slow cooker is switched to the "extinguishing" mode and the products are extinguished for 20 minutes. After this time, add rice, (boiled), mix, add salt and pepper.
- Chicken breast is cut into layers, lightly beaten, seasoned to taste with pepper, salt and spices. Then put the filling on the breast and roll the roll.
- Next, prepare the breading. Break the egg into a bowl, beat it lightly with a fork, pour a little flour into another bowl. Rolls roll alternately first in flour and then in egg and put into a slow cooker, into which a little oil (vegetable) is poured before frying.
- The products are fried for about 20 minutes from all sides until a delicious golden crust appears.
Ready-made rolls can be served both hot and cold, with sour cream sauce with salt, any spices, garlic, herbs. Enjoy your meal!