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How to cook chicken breast. Video recipe
Boiled chicken is much healthier than fried. It is ideal for salads and sandwiches, it can be added to stews and casseroles, a hot breast seasoned with sauce with a side dish of vegetables is a great healthy dinner. To make the chicken breast juicy, avoiding digestion, the culinary technique of sewing will help – slow boiling in small amounts of liquid of a certain temperature.
How to cook chicken breast. Recipe
How to prepare chicken breast for boiling
The ideal way to preserve all the juices in a boiled chicken breast is to slowly simmer it in a flavored liquid at a temperature below the boiling point. In world culinary practice, this technique is called poaching (from the French word pocher), this is how not only chicken is cooked, but also other poultry, as well as fish, meat, offal, if they want to preserve their taste as much as possible, without resorting to sealing over high heat. It is known that for a rich broth, it is better to take meat on the bone, so if you cook sauce from the broth, then choose a whole breast with skin and bone.
If you are not planning on using chicken stock and are interested in preparing the breast as soon as possible, use meat alone. It is better to cut the plump chicken breast in half lengthwise, and if you are in a hurry and you need chopped meat, then cut it into cubes. Before cooking, the chicken must be quickly rinsed under running water and then patted dry with a paper towel.
How to cook juicy chicken breast
You can boil chicken breast in plain water, without even adding salt to it, if you achieve complete purity of taste, but, as a rule, when poaching, they try to diversify the taste and aroma of the product in every possible way, using various liquids, aromatic herbs, roots and spices for this … Chicken is boiled in:
- chicken broth
- apple cider
- natural dry white wine or a combination of these liquids
Also put in the water:
- chopped onions
- leek stalk
- peeled and sliced carrots
- celery root or stalks
- dill, parsley, rosemary and thyme
- lemon juice and zest
- cloves of garlic
- carnation
- Bay leaf
- bell pepper
To prepare poached breast, you can take an ordinary deep frying pan, high enough to immerse all the meat in liquid
How to cook chicken breast
Bring liquid to a boil and immediately reduce heat, add herbs and spices if desired, reduce heat to medium. Place the chicken breast in a cooking bowl, making sure that the liquid covers the entire food. Cover with a lid. It is necessary to sew at a temperature of about 85-90 degrees, that is, when rare bubbles form in water, broth, other liquid, but not during boiling. Chicken breast on the bone with skin is boiled for about 30 minutes, meat freed from bone and skin is boiled for 15 to 20 minutes, diced chicken breast is boiled for about 10 minutes. The finished chicken is taken out with a slotted spoon, if the broth is used for the sauce, it is filtered.
Ready-made boiled breast can be stored in the refrigerator in an airtight container for no longer than 2-4 days, if you wish, you can freeze it, then it will be usable within two months
Boiled chicken breast with apples
Try poached apple breast. This is a delicious, healthy dish.
You will need:
- ½ cup clarified apple juice or natural apple cider
- 1 clove garlic
- ¼ teaspoon dried tarragon
- chicken breasts without skin and bone, total weight 400 g, cut in half lengthwise
- 1 medium apple, de-cored and cut into slices
- 1 tablespoon of water
- 1 XNUMX/XNUMX teaspoons cornstarch
In a small, wide saucepan or skillet, combine apple juice with dried tarragon, add peeled garlic, bring liquid to a boil, and reduce heat. Place the lid on the dish and cook the chicken for 5 minutes, add the apple slices, cover again and cook for another 4-5 minutes. Remove the chicken and apples with a slotted spoon, place on a plate and cover with cling foil. Stir in water and starch, pour into broth and cook sauce until thickened, about 2-3 minutes. Pour the sauce over the chicken breasts and serve.