Chicken fillet is one of the most common purchases in supermarkets and markets. Since this name is often given to meat that is separated from the bones, let's immediately understand the concepts. Fillet is white meat, pectoral muscles without bones.
Hens are broiler and domestic. The fillet of such birds varies in shape and quality.
Broilers - meat breed. They do not carry eggs and fall on the counter at the age of six to eight weeks. In such chickens, the breasts are large under the influence of growth hormones, which are added to the feed.
Ordinary breeds are not as large as broilers, their meat is more rigid and fibrous.
Now that we’ve figured out the origin of the breasts, we’ll find out how much to cook chicken broilers and ordinary breeds.
The answer to many questions was given by the specialists of the All-Russian Institute of Consumer Tests, who claim that more than half of the store poultry is infected with salmonella. To prevent the infection from causing you vomiting, diarrhea, severe complications or convulsions, cook the chicken fillet in an ordinary pan on the stove for at least thirty minutes. It is advisable to pre-process this product with pepper and salt and hold it in the refrigerator for a little while under the lid.
The time required for
sanitization extends to cooking in a double boiler. Some argue that white meat cooks faster in a double boiler than in a conventional cooker on a stove because the temperature of the steam is higher and the product is processed under pressure. So how much to cook the chicken in a double boiler so that it is not just cooked, but also neutralized from salmonella? Standard steamer programs last twenty minutes. But when you consider that these devices are designed in Europe, where the quality of products is controlled very strictly, in our conditions it is better to hedge extra time. To do this, it
is better to stand
chicken for thirty minutes in a marinade, and then cook in a double boiler for twenty-five or thirty minutes. An additional ten minutes will never be superfluous and will not spoil the product.
The meat of ordinary village hens is tougher than that of broilers, so you need to cook it longer. Nobody will tell you exactly how much to cook the chicken fillet of a village chicken, because it is rarely boiled separately. Poultry is usually cooked whole for broth. Cooking time is more than an hour, but it all depends on how you cook and with what intensity.
A universal recommendation when cooking any meat: it is necessary to remove the foam with a slotted spoon.
How much to cook the chicken fillet, you can determine by checking its softness with a fork every ten minutes after half an hour of processing.
If you decide to bake the broiler’s white meso, it is also necessary to observe the minimum cooking time frame. Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees and pre-marinated breasts bake for at least half an hour over low heat. This is necessary to kill harmful bacteria. So that the
baked chicken fillet is not dry, it can be put in a thermal sleeve or in a dish under the lid, preferably adding three tablespoons of water or broth.
If you decide to cook chicken in a pan, then you need to fry it for half an hour under a lid over low heat.