How and how much to cook a chicken breast for tasty and healthy dishes?

Delicate white meat with a minimum amount of fat has recently been suggested for use in a huge number of a wide variety of recipes, especially in snacks and salads. Therefore, it is important to know how much to cook a chicken breast and how to do it in order to maximize the preservation of useful properties and taste. After all, we all know about the benefits of dietary white meat, recommended for food for those who want to lose weight, children and patients on special diets.

Useful properties of chicken breast

The product is rich in many nutrients necessary for the body to function properly. Magnesium, sodium, calcium, iodine, manganese and copper take a significant place among them. In addition, the need is replenished for vitamins of group B, E, C, PP, H, the lack of which is most often felt during the winter and spring period. And get it all just: you just need to properly prepare the breast.

How to cook meat for cooking?

In order for meat to retain all its useful properties, it is necessary to properly boil it, and not the last place in this is the preparation for boiling.

1. You need to unfreeze the meat if it was in the freezer. It is advisable to simply leave it for several hours at room temperature, and do not use a microwave, risking overdoing and spoiling the taste of the product.
2. Rinse meat under running water. The peel can be left or removed. Leaving, you can get more juicy meat, but with more calories. Dietary is only an option without the skin.
   

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   If you cook a breast without skin, 100 g of chicken will have a caloric content of 120 kcal, if the skin is removed after cooking - 150 kcal.

3. Depending on the purpose of cooking and cooking time, you can leave one large piece or cut into small pieces. Tastier whole breast, faster cooked cut, which then can be used for salad.
4. Separately, you need to prepare carrots, garlic, celery and onions, as well as bay leaves and bell peppers. Vegetables chopped, pour cold water and cook for 35 minutes. After that, add the spices( except salt), drain. In the vegetable broth, the taste of meat improves, and these vegetables with spices will help to properly highlight the sophistication of the product.

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Especially piquant taste of meat can be obtained by adding white dry wine to the broth. The aftertaste will be delicate, exquisite, which will make the product desirable not only for salads, but also as part of the original cold snack.

Features of boiling chicken breast

To put meat to prepare, it is necessary to lower it into a pan with cold water or cold vegetable broth. The main condition - the liquid should completely cover the breast. Even if you need to cook meat very quickly, you should take a smaller saucepan to reduce the liquid, but do not leave part of the product without water.

Before cooking a chicken breast, it is worth determining how it will be used. For the soup to properly salt at the beginning of cooking, for salad - only 5 minutes before the end of cooking. Otherwise, the meat will be overdried. There are several ways to boil a product.

1. Gas or electric cooker. The contents in a normal saucepan are put at full capacity, quickly boil. After that, remove the power, so that the meat on a weak boil was cooked for another half an hour with the skin or 25 minutes without. If pieces are cooked, depending on the size, they will be enough for 15-20 minutes.
   

   advice If the vegetable broth was not boiled ahead of time, you can add the vegetables to the meat and cook together. The taste will be the same, but it will be necessary to carefully clean the breast of the contents of the broth.

2. In a multivark, the meat filled with water is put on for 30 minutes. Prepared in the "Quenching" mode.
3. Microwave is very whimsical. Depending on the model and even the voltage in the network, the cooking time may vary. On average, the meat should boil for 5 minutes at 800 watts, after which it is necessary to boil another 10-15 minutes.

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In any case, after cooking, the meat should be left in the broth for 30 minutes, then it will be more juicy. If the chicken should become a part of the dish in a dry form, it should be extracted from the broth only at the last moment, in order to avoid excessive dryness.

Features of the village chicken

The cooking time depends on where the chicken grew. If we are talking about the usual boilers from the stores, all of the above-described is an absolute truth. But the poultry is preparing longer.

If it is a young chicken, it will be cooked about 30 minutes longer than the boilers. Much more time will be needed on the hen. An adult two-year-old chicken is first soaked for several hours in cold water, then the breast is cut into several pieces, and at the same time it should be cooked for at least 2 hours to reach the required degree of readiness. With a ready-made chicken, the meat inside loses pink color, and when pressed with a fork or knife, it's easy to separate a piece.

On the other hand, the taste of poultry is much higher, the meat itself is more useful. In addition, the broth will have an amazing aroma, allowing you to cook on it excellent first dishes. In order for it to get better, it is correct to leave it in it not only the skin, but also bones, cartilage.

Knowing how to cook a chicken breast correctly, you can use it not only for salad or first courses. Juicy and flavored meat may well become an excellent side dish for vegetables. It will also harmonize with different sauces, including mustard, soy or lemon. In this case, it is worth considering that storing ready-made meat is preferably not more than two days, leaving the chicken in the same broth in which it was cooked.

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