Hello dear readers. Today I want to share a delicious recipe on how to cook chicken breast so that it turns out juicy, tasty and soft. I bake this kind of breast for sandwiches, salads, pizza and other dishes. The chicken fillet turns out tasty and aromatic. An excellent alternative and replacement for sausage, which is used for making sandwiches and slicing. Meat can be eaten warm or cold. There are a lot of recipes for cooking chicken fillet in the oven; our family really likes breast marinated with garlic in soy sauce. It's quick and easy to prepare.
We buy broiler chicken from a friend, the meat is always fresh. We are confident in the quality of the meat, and this is the main thing. Today, chicken fillet can be bought at the market, store or supermarket.
Both children and adults adore chicken; poultry dishes are suitable for both everyday life and holidays. For example, I really like French chicken fillet with tomatoes in the oven under a cheese crust. Therefore, domestic chicken is a frequent guest on our table.
Simple recipe
A simple recipe does not always mean its use for the everyday menu.
Thus, baked chicken breast can be an alternative to store-bought sausage for sandwiches and canapés on a holiday table, since even when chilled its taste will be much better and more natural.
For a simple recipe for baking chicken fillet you will use:
- 250 g chicken fillet;
- 10 ml soy sauce;
- 5 ml vegetable oil;
- 10 g mustard beans;
- 10-12 g garlic;
- 3 g spices (seasonings) for chicken;
- 3 g salt.
The total cooking time is 90 minutes, including 30-35 minutes of baking in the oven.
The calorie content of meat prepared in this way is 120.6 kcal/100 g.
So, how to deliciously bake chicken breast in the oven:
- You should start by preparing the meat. Wash the fillet, cooled or defrosted naturally, and wipe off excess moisture with a paper towel. If there are films and fat, they must be carefully cut off;
- Then take a deep plate (bowl), transfer the meat into it, sprinkle it on all sides with salt and spices. Then pour in soy sauce and coat with mustard grains and crushed garlic using a press;
- Cover the surface of the plate with cling film and leave the breast to marinate for 30-40 minutes at room temperature;
- Place the marinated fillet on a baking dish greased with vegetable oil, which should also be sprinkled with vegetable oil on top;
- Place the meat in the oven to bake for 30-35 minutes (temperature 180-200 degrees). This time is enough for the fillet to bake but remain juicy.
Juicy, tender and soft chicken breast - cooking secrets and 8 tips
✔ 1 Prepare a marinade for the breast, I usually use soy sauce, vegetable oil, salt, pepper and garlic.
✔ 2 You can rub the meat with salt, pepper and grease with vegetable oil on all sides, this will make the chicken fillet juicier.
✔ 3 Marinate the meat for 20 to 30 minutes, you can leave it longer, about 1 hour, then the fillet will be even tastier. 20 minutes is the recommended minimum and is quite enough.
✔ 4 Be sure to pat the breast dry using a paper towel and remove any remaining garlic as the garlic burns when the breast is fried. The garlic has already given up its taste and aroma to the breast, so it is of no use.
✔ 5 To ensure that the chicken breast is juicy and tender, I bake it in the oven in foil. I wrap it tightly in foil so that the liquid does not leak onto the baking sheet.
✔ 6 Bake the breast in a preheated oven for no more than 20-25 minutes; if the fillet is large, you can leave it for 30 minutes. But do not bake the breast for more than 30 minutes, otherwise the meat will be tough.
✔ 7 Wrap each fillet half separately in foil and do not forget to add butter.
✔ 8 I fry the breast in a hot frying pan on both sides for 1 minute on each side. I place the breast on pieces of butter, so the meat turns out juicier and more tender.
Once cooked, let the chicken breast rest in the foil for about 5 to 10 minutes and then unwrap the foil.
If the flavor of garlic bothers you or you don't like garlic, don't add it to the marinade.
How to deliciously bake chicken breast in the oven:
- Use chilled chicken fillet, not frozen, otherwise the meat will be dry.
- Be sure to marinate the meat or rub it with spices and leave it for a certain time.
- You can marinate in the refrigerator if the meat is marinated for about 1 hour.
- To keep the meat juicy, first fry and then bake the breast in foil or a sleeve.
- If you are preparing meat for dietary purposes, you do not need to fry the breast in a frying pan.
- The foil or sleeve allows the juice to remain inside without evaporating, thereby making the chicken breast juicy.
- Do not exceed the cooking time for the breasts.
Dietary baked chicken breast in foil in the oven
The main mistake that an inexperienced housewife can make when baking chicken breast is over-dried meat. Food-grade aluminum foil will help prevent such an oversight, which will not only protect the fillet from the heat in the oven, but will also allow you not to lose the juices and be additionally saturated with marinade.
Chicken cooked this way turns out tender and juicy.
To bake chicken meat in foil you need to take:
- 600 g chicken breast;
- 20 ml olive oil;
- 40 ml soy sauce;
- 16 g garlic.
The cooking process will take a total of 75-80 minutes.
The calorie content of 100 g of cooked meat will be equal to 138.2 kcal.
Baking sequence:
- You need to carefully remove the skin from the breast; if you wish, you can separate the bone, but this is not necessary. Wash the meat and blot off excess moisture;
- Transfer the breast to a deep bowl for subsequent marinating, pour over soy sauce, olive oil and grate with chopped garlic. If desired, you can add other spices. Leave the meat in the marinade for half an hour, turning it occasionally;
- Cut a piece of foil so that you can form it into something like a bowl. Place the breast on it carefully, being careful not to tear the foil, pour out the marinade and cover with another piece of foil on top, folding its edges into an envelope;
- Bake at 220 degrees for 30-40 minutes. This is the average roasting time, but may require less or more depending on the size of the piece of meat.
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Chicken breast in honey-soy sauce - an interesting recipe
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast
- Honey 1 tbsp. spoon
- Vegetable oil 1-2 tbsp. spoons
- Soy sauce - 2 tbsp. spoons
- Salt and pepper
The recipe is identical to the first one, only without garlic and with honey. The breast has a slightly sweet taste. As for spices, you can add not only salt and pepper, but also dry herbs or chicken spices, if desired.
The principle is the same as in the first recipe, marinate the breast for 20 minutes.
For the marinade, mix vegetable oil, soy sauce, honey, spices and salt.
Then I fry the breast on both sides and place it on foil. I wrap it in foil and put the meat in the oven for 25 minutes.
How long and how to bake chicken breast with cheese in the oven
In previous recipes, the juiciness of the dish was achieved by marinating and wrapping the meat in foil, but these are not the only methods. The tenderness and preservation of chicken fillet meat juices in the oven can be ensured by hard cheese, which melts under high temperature and forms a crust. For such a meat dish, you need to choose a cheese that is not too refractory (Russian or Poshekhonsky).
To bake chicken meat with cheese, you will need to take the following ingredients in the following proportions:
- 500 g chicken breasts;
- 200 g hard cheese;
- 30 g pine nuts;
- 5 ml vegetable oil;
- salt and chicken seasoning to taste.
Cooking time will not take more than 65 minutes.
The calorie content of breast with cheese crust will be 189.0 kcal per 100 g.
Algorithm of actions:
- Cut each chicken breast, prepared in a manner similar to previous recipes, lengthwise into two flat pieces. Beat each piece with a hammer or the back of a kitchen knife, sprinkle with salt and spices on all sides;
- Line a baking sheet with foil and lightly grease with vegetable oil; place the chopped pieces of breast on it, tightly to each other. Sprinkle coarse cheese shavings and chopped pine nuts on top of the meat;
- Cover the top of the dish with foil so that there is an air cushion between them that will prevent the cheese from sticking to the foil;
- Bake the breast for 30 minutes under foil, then remove it and brown the cheese crust for another 10 minutes.
Chicken breast baked in a sleeve with vegetables in the oven
By baking a chicken breast in a sleeve, you can not only preserve its juiciness, but also prepare a side dish of vegetables at the same time. For the dish, you can use, in addition to the usual onions, carrots, other vegetables, for example, tomatoes, zucchini, sweet bell peppers, potatoes and others.
To prepare the breast and vegetables you will need:
- 500 g chicken breast;
- 200 g onions;
- 200 g carrots;
- 200 g tomatoes;
- 200 g bell pepper;
- 200 g potatoes;
- salt and spices to taste.
The chicken will take longer to bake on the vegetable bed, so the total cooking time will be approximately 1 hour 45 minutes.
Many will be pleased by the fact that the calorie content of this dish is only 62.0 kilocalories per 100 grams.
Sequence of cooking processes:
- Prepare the breast: wash, dry with a towel and pound a little, salt and roll in chicken seasoning;
- Wash, peel and chop the vegetables. Cut potatoes and tomatoes into small slices, peppers into strips, onions into half rings or rings, pass carrots through a coarse grater. Mix the chopped vegetables and add a little salt to them;
- Place the vegetable mixture in a baking sleeve, place the prepared chicken breast on it, tie the sleeve, place it on a baking sheet, make several small punctures on top and place in the oven;
- The baking process lasts 90 minutes at 200-220 degrees. Serve the meat hot along with vegetables.
Eggplant with chicken breast baked in the oven
Chicken breast with eggplant turns out very juicy and aromatic, but it is important to remember one feature of these vegetables - their bitterness, therefore, for the dish to be successful, they should first be soaked in brine or simply sprinkled with salt and left for a while.
To bake chicken breast with eggplant in the oven you need to take:
- 500 g boneless chicken breast;
- 200 g hard cheese;
- 500 g eggplants;
- 300 g tomatoes;
- 35 ml vegetable oil;
- 80 g mayonnaise;
- 8 g garlic;
- salt, spices and herbs to taste.
It is necessary to bake chicken fillet with eggplants for half an hour, but due to the need to prepare vegetables and meat, the total time spent on preparing the dish will be about 1 hour.
Calorie content – 137.8 kcal/100 g.
Baking method:
- First you need to prepare the eggplants: cut off the stem and the opposite edge of the fruit so that you can cut it into rectangular plates. The thickness of such plates should be approximately 5 mm. Sprinkle the sliced eggplants with salt for 30-40 minutes;
- Cut each prepared chicken fillet into two plates, beat a little and roll in salt and spices;
- Drain the resulting liquid from the eggplants. Fry the vegetables with a small amount of vegetable oil until lightly browned; there is no need to make them soft;
- In a prepared (that is, greased) form, lay out the ingredients in layers: eggplant, chicken breast, eggplant, tomato slices;
- Pour the sauce of mayonnaise, garlic and ground black pepper through a press, then generously sprinkle the dish with cheese shavings;
- Place the breast in the oven for 30 minutes. Temperature range – 200-220 degrees Celsius.
Basic rules for cooking chicken breast
It is very easy to spoil the breast during the heat treatment process. The result of this will be dry and tasteless food that you will have to grind with your teeth, but not enjoy it in any way. The breast does not tolerate prolonged heat treatment, so neither bake nor boil it for too long.
If you keep the product in the oven for the required amount of time (neither longer nor less than necessary), then the finished dish will turn out tender, juicy and aromatic. And to give the dish an unusual taste, you can use additional “correct” ingredients.
Marinade
Various products can be used as a marinade for chicken. The option you like best can be used from the following list:
- mayonnaise;
- soy sauce;
- vinegar;
- White wine;
- kefir;
- ketchup.
You can use absolutely any vinegar - balsamic, wine, apple or regular table vinegar. It is important that the vinegar is not too acidic, so to prepare the marinade it is recommended to dilute it with boiled cold water.
In addition to the main ingredient, herbs and spices are used. These products are necessary to give the finished dish a spicy aroma and taste. You can take any greens. But when using spices you need to be extremely careful. If the spices contain salt, then there is no need to add additional salt to the dish. Over-salted food is not only tasteless, it is also harmful to health.
Cooking process
The breast, washed in running water and dried, must first be marinated. We use any of the above marinade. The duration of the marinating process is about 30 minutes for vinegar and 1 hour for other marinades. It’s okay if the breast is marinated longer.
Preparation:
- heat the oven;
- transfer the marinated meat to a wire rack or place on a baking sheet;
- bake the dish for about 30 minutes;
- The readiness of chicken meat can be checked as follows - make a small cut on the surface of the breast; if the meat is pink, then it still needs to be baked; the white color of the meat indicates that the dish is fully cooked;
- After cooking, it is recommended to leave the dish in the oven for another 5-10 minutes (the heating must be turned off);
- After this, remove the dish from the oven and serve.
Zucchini with chicken breast baked in the oven
Zucchini baked with chicken breast is a dietary dish that will help diversify the menu of a person on a diet. But if it is difficult to immediately switch to such light food, then you can sprinkle the breast with hard cheese before baking, which will give the finished dish a beautiful, appetizing crust and, accordingly, add calories.
To bake chicken meat this way you will need:
- 500 g chicken breast;
- 500 g zucchini;
- 100 g sour cream;
- 20 ml sunflower oil;
- salt and spices (cukerma, ground black pepper) to taste.
The cooking time for the dish will be no more than 50 minutes.
The calorie content of every 100 grams of serving is 91.8 kilocalories.
Preparation:
- Cut washed zucchini without stalks into circles, semi-circles, strips or cubes, but not thicker than 1 cm. There is no need to salt them, the salt from the breast is enough for them;
- If the fillet is large, cut into slices. Beat with a kitchen hammer and sprinkle generously with salt and spices;
- Grease the bottom of the mold with oil, place the zucchini on it, and coat the chicken meat with sour cream on top;
- Bake everything at 180 degrees until the meat is cooked. This will take no more than 45 minutes.
