Chicken breast is not only a dietary product, but also a very tasty product. You can make amazing first dishes from it, fry it with spices in a pan or serve as an ingredient in a salad. But the most delicious diet meat dishes are baked in the oven, flavored with hard cheese, which adds a spicy golden crust to the dish. How to cook chicken fillet? Recipes ( including in the oven with cheese ) are in this article.
Some secrets
Chicken breast meat is quite solid in taste, therefore it is better if each piece is cut into at least three parts before cooking in the oven. It is very good if you can cut the fibers along, forming 2-3 identical plates. To make the meat tender, before cooking it is thoroughly beaten, wrapped in polyethylene. This is done so that excess juice does not come out.
You can immediately lay the pieces on a baking sheet. However, it is better if the fillet is first salted and pepper, spread with mayonnaise or sour cream and left under the lid for at least an hour at room temperature. Thus, the meat will absorb salt and spices before cooking, and the taste of the finished dish will be excellent.
Chicken fillet: recipes in the oven with cheese and tomatoes
Cheese is like no other product in harmony with tomatoes. It is logical that this combination is reflected in the following recipe. As ingredients we need:
- chicken fillet - 3 pieces;
- mayonnaise as a sauce for soaking meat;
- tomatoes - 3-4 pieces;
- one large onion;
- hard cheese - 150-200 gr;
- salt;
- spices to taste.
Put the dish on a baking sheet
The process of cutting and pickling meat pieces is omitted - we talked about this in detail a little higher. We turn to how to properly form chicken fillet on a baking sheet . Recipes in the oven with cheese and tomato do not take much time with the hostess, so they can easily be classified as fast-food dishes. While the oven is heating up, put the ingredients on a baking sheet.
As usual, grease the baking dish with vegetable oil. First, lay out the marinated pieces of meat, then onion, sliced in half rings. Some housewives add onion half rings to the meat at the stage of pickling. It is believed that in this way the onion gives even more to its juiciness and aroma to the chicken.
Spreading the onions evenly over the surface, we do the same with tomatoes. How you cut them is a matter of individual taste. You can thin slices, but you can and circles. Do not forget to lightly salt the tomatoes, as well as grease them with mayonnaise or sour cream. It remains to lay out a layer of cheese grated on a coarse grater and place the mold in the oven, heated to 200 degrees, for about half an hour. Here you are ready tender and juicy chicken fillet. Even a schoolboy can easily learn recipes in the oven with cheese.
Mushroom Baked Filet Recipe
What do we love as much as tender, slightly spicy diet meat? Of course, mushrooms. Moreover, from the variety of mushrooms the quality and taste of the dish will not change at all. If the mushroom season is already behind, then frozen porcini mushrooms or champignons can easily be found in stores. We suggest that they be included in the recipe.
To prepare the dish we need:
- 2-3 large chicken fillets;
- champignons (forest mushrooms) - 200 gr;
- one large onion;
- sour cream for sauce - 3 tablespoons;
- vegetable oil for greasing the pan;
- salt and spices;
- hard cheese grated on a coarse grater - 150 gr.
The optimal thickness of the meat plates is 1 centimeter, the width is not more than 5 cm. After all the above manipulations with the meat have been done, we put it in a baking dish and send it to the heated oven.
Fry mushrooms
We have exactly 15 minutes to roast mushrooms and onions - that is how much meat should be spent in the oven alone. The temperature of the preheated oven is standard (200 degrees).
Cut the mushrooms into small cubes and send them for 10 minutes to a pan greased with sunflower oil. You can fry over medium heat.
Onions can not spoil meat or mushrooms, so the larger the onion, the better. We cut it into half rings, send it to the mushrooms and bring it to a state of onion transparency.
We combine the ingredients
But have not our other components languished for our languishing chicken? Recipes in the oven with cheese and mushrooms have many options. It was proposed to combine separately fried mushrooms with meat after the fillet was simmering in the oven for some time.
We take out a baking sheet with half-prepared meat from the oven, put the mushrooms fried with onions on the fillet and pour sour cream on the dish. It remains to spread the grated cheese on the surface and again send the dish to the oven until fully cooked. A browned crust forms in 10-15 minutes. And now our rosy and juicy chicken fillet is ready . Recipes in the oven with cheese and mushrooms will not leave indifferent even the most demanding gourmet.
How to serve a dish?
It may seem to someone that the presented dish is completely independent. However, it will be useful to chop vegetable salad as a side dish, boil buckwheat or rice. Some housewives stew vegetables for such a dish. Why do several manipulations when it is quite possible to combine dishes. Now we will tell you how else to bake chicken fillet. Recipes in the oven with cheese and potatoes imply even more multi-stage baking.
First, cut vegetables (potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, zucchini in any combination) into thin baking sheets with thin plates, salt and pepper if necessary. Then we spread the cooked fillet and send it to the oven for 15-20 minutes. To top it all off, add to the dish fried mushrooms with onions, smeared with sour cream, season with cheese and again sent to the oven. We increase the total cooking time by another 5-10 minutes.
Enjoy your meal!