Chicken fillet in kefir is a healthy and tasty dish in different variations. The best recipes for chicken fillet in kefir, marinated, baked

Breast in kefir - basic principles of preparation

Poultry breast is healthy and tasty meat, but it has one drawback - during the cooking process it can turn out to be dry. Cooks use kefir as a marinade to make the breast juicy, tasty and soft.

The breast in kefir is baked in the oven, fried in a pan or stewed.

To diversify the dish, the meat is cooked with mushrooms, vegetables, dried fruits and other products. If you bake or stew the breast with vegetables or potatoes, you will get an independent dish that does not require additional preparation of a side dish.

Meat, baked or fried without any additives, is served with a side dish of potatoes, rice or pasta.

The breast is washed, skin and excess fat are removed. Cut into pieces or leave as a whole piece.

A marinade is prepared from kefir, herbs and spices, the meat is placed in it, mixed so that it is evenly distributed over the entire surface of the breast, and left to marinate for two hours. Then the meat is fried until golden brown, after which the marinade is poured in and the breast is simmered until cooked.

Pot, cook!

Despite the variety of modern kitchen devices, ordinary clay pots have not ceased to be popular. And the secret of their success lies in the ease of the preparation process. So chicken fillet baked in a pot has won the hearts of many gourmets.

Compound:

• 0.5 kg chicken fillet;
• 400 ml kefir;
• onion head;
• 3-4 garlic cloves;
• greenery;
• vegetable oil;
• chicken seasonings and salt.

Preparation:

1. Wash the fillet, dry it and cut it into small pieces.
2. Peel and chop the onion and garlic cloves.
3. In a separate container, combine chicken fillet, garlic and onion.

4. Fill everything with kefir and season with spices, salt and mix.

5. We wash and chop the greens, and then add them to the meat, remembering to mix everything thoroughly again.

6. Grease the pots with vegetable oil and place the meat and vegetables in the kefir marinade into them.

7. Close the pots and put them in the oven. Bake the dish at 180 degrees for half an hour, then open the pots and cook for another quarter of an hour.

Recipe 7. Breast in kefir with herbs and garlic

Ingredients

430 g chicken breast;

pepper and dill;

230 ml kefir;

15 g garlic.

Cooking method

1. Pour kefir into a cup. Rinse the greens and dry them. Finely chop with a knife. We peel the garlic and pass it through a garlic press. Place dill and garlic in kefir, season with pepper and mix.

2. Cut off the skin and excess fat from the washed and dried breast, cut into portions and dip in kefir marinade. Leave to marinate in the refrigerator for an hour.

3. Place the breast pieces in a frying pan without oil, add the marinade, and simmer, covered, for half an hour. Serve the breast in kefir with a vegetable side dish or salad.

Chicken breast baked in the oven

Many people have heard about the Dukan diet, which is based on lean meat.
So, chicken breast in kefir has firmly entered this menu, and this recipe is given below. Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet – 500 g
• Kefir 1% – 100 ml
• Spices - 1 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste
• Onion - optional

Preparation:

1. Wash and dry the breast. Cut it into 3 parts, beat it lightly with a kitchen hammer and sprinkle with spices.
2. Peel the onion, rinse and cut into half rings.
3. Place the breast in a baking dish, sprinkle with onions and pour in kefir to cover the product. Cover the pan with foil and a lid on top and leave to marinate for half an hour.
4. Then heat the oven to 200°C and send the chicken into the chamber directly in the form in which it was marinated. Bake it for 20-25 minutes. Check readiness by piercing a knife - it’s soft, which means it’s ready.

Recipe 8. Baked turkey breast in kefir

Ingredients

one and a half kg of turkey breast;

salt and spices;

kefir – 300 ml;

lemon - half.

Cooking method

1. Rinse the turkey breast, dry it and make punctures with a sharp knife along the entire surface of the breast.

2. Pour kefir into a deep plate. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon into kefir, add salt and season with spices. Stir until smooth and add the breast to the marinade. Let the meat marinate for three hours.

3. Cover the pan with foil and place the marinated breast on it. Wrap the meat in foil and bake in the oven for half an hour at 200 C. Serve the breast with a side dish of rice and vegetable salad.

Cooking tender chicken meat in a slow cooker

It is difficult for a modern housewife to imagine her life without kitchen appliances that facilitate the process of preparing a variety of dishes. If you don’t know what to serve for dinner, and you don’t have any time to stand at the stove, cook chicken fillet in kefir in a slow cooker. Your household will definitely appreciate this dish.

Compound:

• 0.5 kg of chicken meat;
• 250 ml kefir;
• onion head;
• softened butter;
• chicken seasonings and salt.

Preparation:

1. We prepare chicken fillet in a way we already know.
2. Cut the meat into pieces and make cuts on each piece with a knife.
3. Peel the onion and cut into rings.
4. Combine the fillet with onion, pour in kefir, add a mixture of seasonings and salt, mix well. Place in the refrigerator for half an hour to marinate the meat.

5. Grease a multi-bowl with butter and place the kefir-marinated breast with onions into it.

6. We set the “Baking” program and cook until it ends.

Recipe 1: Chicken fillet in kefir

Ingredients:

• kilogram of chicken fillet;

• 600 ml kefir;

• salt, seasonings.

Cooking method:

1. Wash the chicken fillet thoroughly, cut it into small pieces, and place it in a bowl.

2. Sprinkle with salt, spices and seasonings. Mix.

3. Pour kefir over the meat so that the chicken is completely immersed in it.

4. Place the fillet in the refrigerator for two hours.

5. After the time allotted for marinating, preheat the oven to 170 degrees.

6. Place the chicken fillet in a heat-resistant dish and cook for an hour until an appetizing golden brown crust forms.

Delicious quick meat dish

You can quickly prepare a tender and juicy meat dish by frying chicken fillet in kefir in a frying pan. The peculiarity of this recipe is that we will marinate the meat after heat treatment.

Compound:

• 0.6 kg chicken meat;
• 1 tbsp. kefir;
• refined vegetable oil;
• seasoning mixture and salt.

Preparation:

1. Wash the fillet and cut into medium portions.
2. Season the meat with spices and salt, mix and leave for 15 minutes to soak in.

3. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the pieces of chicken fillet. The golden crust will tell us that the meat is ready. It would also be a good idea to lightly pierce the fillet with a knife to make sure that it is also cooked inside.

4. Place the finished fillet in a deep container, cool slightly and fill with kefir. Let the meat marinate for a couple of hours.

5. After this time, the dish will be ready. The kefir can be drained or left as a gravy. It all depends on your preferences. And to give the meat flavor, sprinkle it with chopped fresh herbs.

On a frying pan

The most interesting! Chicken breasts in kefir in a frying pan are no less aromatic and juicy than meat cooked in the oven. What will you need for this? Chicken breast, two glasses of medium-fat kefir, onion, dried herbs, green onions, spices, pepper, salt, vegetable oil.

Where to begin? Everything is as usual. The breast must be washed, the skin separated, cut and bones removed. It is best to blot the prepared fillet using paper napkins.

Kefir is poured into a deep bowl, salt, ground pepper and spices are added. Everything is thoroughly mixed, meat is added, and mixed again. The chicken is marinated for about two hours. At this time, you can just cut the onion into rings and chop the green onions.

In a frying pan heated with oil, the onions are initially fried until golden brown. After which it moves to the side. Place the breast in the pan (without marinade). Everything is fried until the moisture evaporates. Then the marinade is poured in. The fire is decreasing.

Finally, add green onions, pepper and salt into the pan. During the process, everything is stirred periodically. The best side dish for this dish is rice.

Here's another option. Chicken breasts marinated in kefir in foil. They cook as quickly as possible, while retaining absolutely all their taste. To prepare the dish you will need the following ingredients: half a kilogram of chicken breast, three or four potatoes, a couple of cloves of garlic, a glass of kefir, herbs, pepper, salt, spices.

So, more details. The chicken fillet is separated from the skin and bones and filled with kefir. Salt, spices and pepper are added to the marinade, the garlic is squeezed out, everything is mixed and infused for about two hours. At the same time, you can peel and cut the potatoes.

The baking sheet is covered with foil, on which the potatoes are laid out along with the marinated chicken. The products are covered with another layer of foil. The dish is baked in the oven for about forty minutes at a temperature of about two hundred degrees. Fifteen minutes before cooking, the top layer of foil is cut. At the same time, the chicken is browned.

After forty minutes, the dish can be removed from the oven. You can supplement it with a wide variety of vegetables.

For juicier and tastier breasts, experienced housewives use full-fat kefir. Only for those who are on a diet, kefir should be taken low-fat. Then the calorie content of the dish will be as low as possible.

Or you can simmer it. Chicken breasts in kefir with garlic and other vegetables are also very easy to prepare. The recipe will require: about three hundred grams of meat, three cloves of garlic, three hundred milligrams of kefir, a couple of onions, carrots, suneli hops, salt, crushed pepper, soy sauce, two potatoes, some champignons (about two hundred grams), two handfuls of beans.

The beans are washed and soaked in cold water. The washed breast is wiped with napkins and coarsely chopped. Peeled garlic is crushed, mixed with salt, spices and pepper. The resulting mixture is rubbed into the meat. The breast is laid out in a prepared container.

A little onion is peeled, chopped into half rings, placed in a cup and filled with kefir. The resulting marinade is added to the breast. The meat is marinated for about half an hour.

The remaining mushrooms and vegetables are peeled and washed. Mushrooms, onions, potatoes and carrots are crumbled into quarters. Place the pan on low heat, add a little oil, add mushrooms and beans. After this, water is added so that it lightly covers the mixture of beans and mushrooms. All this is simmered for about a quarter of an hour over moderate heat.

After this, potatoes are placed in the bowl. The dish cooks for another ten minutes. If necessary, you can add water. Soy sauce, salt and pepper are added to taste. The dish is stewed until all the vegetables are completely softened.

The breast is placed in a separate frying pan. The marinade is also poured here. Simmer the mixture over low heat for about half an hour. Stewed vegetables are initially laid out on the plates, with pieces of meat on top.