Roasting is one of the most convenient and useful ways to cook chicken breast.
Valuable white chicken meat saturated with protein and healthy amino acids is very healthy. But to keep it juiciness when cooking is quite difficult because of the complete lack of fat. Improperly prepared breasts become dry and stiff. Hence the myth that this meat is tasteless and fresh.
Of course, it’s easier to fry the fillet in a pan. But how in this case to be with excess fat and calories? Roasted chicken breast meat is no longer dietary. Well, you have to master the method of roasting white meat. In fact, it is not so difficult, besides quickly and very conveniently. It turns out juicy, tender, soft, aromatic meat.
Spices, a tight bag to preserve juice and a high constant temperature of the oven will do the job as it should. The main thing is not to overdo it during cooking. Baked chicken breast in the oven will be one of the most beloved dishes for the whole family.
And if you prepare in advance, you can make a real culinary masterpiece from chicken fillet, which is not a shame to meet guests. The best part is that you do not need to stand at the stove for a long time. The total cooking time is unlikely to take more than forty minutes.
Baked chicken breast in the oven - the general principles of cooking
The main rule for cooking baked chicken breast is preliminary marinating meat. The marinade will make the dry breast juicy, tender, soak the meat fibers - that is, it will fulfill the role of fat.
Meat preparation is also important. Fillet must be carefully cut from the breast bone, freed from skin, cartilage, fat fragments. Then wash with cool water and pat dry with paper towels or a towel. If the meat is baked in one piece, it needs a little beat off. If according to the recipe you need to cut the fillet into pieces, then you need to cut across, and not along the fibers.
As the marinade, you can use any acidic or oily medium: vinegar, lemon juice, kefir, sour cream, ketchup, olive or any vegetable oil with herbs. Spices for chicken, you can buy ready-made or collect your own recipe. Perfectly combined with chicken sage, basil, rosemary, allspice, marjoram, mint, thyme, oregano, coriander.
Marinated meat need from an hour to two. If there is no time at all, you can get by with fifteen minutes. To preserve the juice, the chicken must be packed tightly before being sent to the oven. Foil, baking sleeve, coat of vegetables - anything will do. The main thing - do not leave the meat in direct heat. This is one of the main secrets of baking. To preserve the juice, you must carefully, as tight as possible, pack the meat in an envelope. If the meat liquid boils away, all the work will go down the drain: the meat will become hard and dry. And the smell of burnt meat juice is not very pleasant.
The optimum temperature for roasting chicken breast is about two hundred degrees, plus or minus ten degrees (discount on the individual features of the oven). The oven must be preheated. Putting meat in a cold chamber is absolutely not recommended. Keep the chicken in the oven for more than half an hour is impossible.
Oven baked chicken breast with pepper and parsley
Fragrant, juicy, low-calorie chicken breast, baked in the oven with allspice, is a real salvation on any diet. The combination of products is perfect. Potatoes, eggplant, zucchini or rice can be a side dish for meat.
Ingredients:
• fillet of four chicken breasts;
• red bell pepper;
• three cloves of garlic;
• a bunch of fresh parsley;
• spices, dried herbs to taste;
• two tablespoons of oil (preferably olive).
Cooking method:
Breasts prepare, repel and rub your favorite spices, herbs.
Put in a baking dish.
Pepper free from partitions and seeds, cut into slices.
Peel the garlic.
Grind pepper, garlic and parsley in a blender, mix with oil.
Coat the meat with a mixture of vegetables and oil, making the top layer thicker, salt and pour a quarter cup of water. Water will not allow the breasts to dry.
Bake breasts for 25 minutes.
Chicken breast baked in the oven "Spicy taste"
Tender chicken breast baked in the oven according to this recipe is quite sharp. For cooking you will need a culinary sleeve. A bag made of polyethylene will help preserve the juice, aroma, and give the meat an amazing softness. The top crisp is very tasty.
Ingredients:
• two chicken breasts on the bone;
• two spoons of spicy tomato chili sauce;
• four cloves of garlic;
• a spoonful of oil;
• spoon of mustard;
• favorite seasonings or ready-mix for chicken;
• salt and pepper.
Cooking method:
Combine mustard, chili, pepper, oil, herbs and spices.
Brush chicken breasts.
Put in a bowl for pickling, overlaid meat with crushed garlic. Pickle for two hours.
Put meat with marinade in a sleeve.
Bake for forty minutes.
Ten minutes before the readiness is ready, take the sleeve out, cut it from the top, raise the temperature to 320 degrees to get a crispy beautiful crust.
Chicken breast baked in the oven with sour cream
Sour-cream sour cream crust is the highlight of this dish. Chicken breast baked in the oven with sour cream, garlic and seasoning hops-suneli, it turns out fragrant, juicy and tender.
Ingredients:
• large chicken breast;
• five bay leaves;
• half a cup of sour cream;
• four cloves of garlic;
• bag of hops suneli;
• a mixture of five peppers, salt.
Cooking method:
Chop the chicken breast in several places and begin to cut garlic cloves cut along.
Mix hops - sunnili with salt to taste, grate the meat with this mixture.
Smear chicken fillet. Leave for fifteen minutes.
Put the meat in a mold pre-coated with foil.
Overlay chicken with bay leaves.
Preheat oven to 150 degrees, bake meat for half an hour.
Heat up to 240 degrees and bake meat for seven to ten minutes. As soon as a ruddy crust is formed, turn off the oven.
Chicken breast baked in the oven "There is no easier"
A minimum of ingredients to cope with the preparation of chicken breast, baked in the oven for this recipe, even the novice mistress. The aroma and taste of meat turns out to be natural, slightly flavored with a thin spicy note of garlic and peppers.
Ingredients:
• large breast;
• three cloves of garlic;
• two tablespoons of oil (olive or vegetable);
• a mixture of peppers or black pepper;
• salt.
Cooking method:
Chop garlic.
Combine garlic, oil, salt and pepper.
Cut the breast lengthwise in two places, grate the marinade.
Send in the refrigerator for an hour.
From the foil folded in half, make an envelope and put the meat in it.
Pack the concert very tightly and bake.
If you want to get a crust, you can take out the envelope after half an hour, carefully unfold it and send it open for ten minutes under the top heater.
Chicken breast baked in the oven "Honey tale"
The original recipe for chicken breast, baked in the oven with honey-soy sauce, can be a great solution for a family dinner. Meat can be served with rice or fried vegetable mixture.
Ingredients:
• two chicken breasts;
• a tablespoon of liquid honey;
• a tablespoon of soy sauce;
• half a lemon;
• a bunch of fresh greens.
Cooking method:
Squeeze the juice from the lemon.
Mix juice, honey, soy sauce.
Grate the marinade breasts, leave for fifteen minutes.
Greens lay at the bottom of the form.
Chicken meat to put on the greens, pour the marinade, put a lemon half, from which squeezed juice.
Bake for 35 minutes.
Oven baked chicken breast under honey and wine marinade
An excellent version of the chicken breast baked in the oven with wine and honey is especially aromatic. Gentle, juicy, tasty meat for a special occasion!
Ingredients:
• two chicken breasts;
• a glass of white semi-dry wine;
• medium onion;
• Bay leaf;
• favorite spices;
• spoon of liquid honey.
Cooking method:
Chicken fillet discourage.
Cut the onion into rings.
Grate meat with spices.
Put in a container for marinating with onions and bay leaves, pour a glass of wine and send them to marinate for two hours.
Smear with honey, put in a baking dish.
Pour marinade and bake for twenty minutes on each side.
Oven baked chicken breast "Chicken in a fur coat"
Puff pastry is an excellent "fur coat" for oven-baked chicken breast. Mushrooms, cheese, onions, greens give the dish a fantastic taste. A recipe for those who are not afraid of extra calories. A full dinner will appreciate the whole family!
Ingredients:
• a pound of puff pastry;
• two hundred grams of fresh mushrooms;
• forty grams of semi-hard cheese;
• large chicken breast;
• two medium onions;
• egg yolk;
• dill and parsley (small bunch);
• butter;
• pepper and salt.
Cooking method:
Filet off.
Grate meat with salt, a pinch of pepper.
Heat the oil and fry in a pan on both sides. On each side - no more than two minutes of frying.
Finely chop the mushrooms.
Chop the onion very finely, fry.
As soon as the onions reddened lay out the mushrooms. Fry until all the liquid has evaporated.
Coarsely grate the cheese.
Finely chop the greens.
Mix cheese, herbs, mushroom frying.
Defrost the dough and divide it into four parts.
Roll out the dough, lay the filling, put half of the chicken breast on top.
Roll the edges of the dough into an envelope, carefully join the edges.
Cover the mold with baking paper, sprinkle with water and put the dough envelopes down with a seam.
Beat the yolk and coat them with the top of the dough.
Bake for twenty minutes.
Oven baked chicken breast with kefir marinade
Gentle, dietary dish that kids love. Chicken breast baked in the oven under kefir marinade is very easy to prepare. You can take any spices: paprika, turmeric, coriander, bay leaf, chili, basil. Garnish for meat - any vegetables, cereals, potatoes.
Ingredients:
• a pound of chicken breast fillet;
• a glass of kefir;
• spices and herbs to taste;
• pepper and salt;
• three cloves of garlic.
Cooking method:
Grate meat with salt, spices, pepper.
Chop the garlic and spread the breast on it.
Pour kefir, mix.
Marinate for half an hour.
Put the meat in a form, pour the marinade.
Bake for half an hour.
To brown the top, you can add the temperature of the top heater five minutes before the meat is ready.
Holiday Chicken Breast Baked in the Oven with Prunes
Festive, tasty, sweet and sour dish will turn out of their chicken meat, baked with prunes and carrots. Very tasty and tender.
Ingredients:
• large chicken breast;
• one hundred grams of prunes;
• large carrot;
• three cloves of garlic;
• medium onion;
• pepper and salt;
• Spoon dried basil.
Cooking method
Cut meat into thin long sticks.
Finely chopped soaked prunes.
Cut carrots into strips.
Cut the onion into rings.
Chop garlic with a knife.
All the ingredients are folded into a heat-resistant form - in layers or in mixed form.
Wrap the form in two layers of foil for complete tightness.
Bake for forty minutes.
When serving, use meat juice as a gravy.
Oven-baked chicken breast - tricks and tips
- The breast meat is especially tender if it has not been frozen. Therefore, for cooking, if possible, it is better to use chilled breast.
- Chicken breast does not tolerate long cooking. You can not keep it in the oven for more than forty minutes. Nobody likes dry, tough meat, right?
- The main secret of a juicy breast - obligatory preliminary marinating. The simplest options: a mixture in equal proportions of soy sauce and apple cider vinegar: kefir just like that or with spices and salt.
- You can cook a wonderful pickle, after which the meat will idle melt on the tongue. You have to spend time, but it's worth it. For two liters of water you need to take two tablespoons of salt and your favorite spices. Boil the brine to two or three minutes, and then cool completely. Squeeze half the fresh lemon into the brine, pour the breast and leave for marinating for six hours. Meat is saturated with moisture, and lemon softens the fiber.
