How and how much should you cook chicken breast so as not to spoil the diet product?

Tender white meat with a minimum amount of fat has recently been proposed to be used in a huge number of a wide variety of recipes, especially often in snacks and salads. Therefore, it is important to know how much to cook chicken breast and how to do it in order to maximize the beneficial properties and taste. After all, we all know about the benefits of dietary white meat, recommended for nutrition to dieters, children and patients on special diets.

Benefits of Chicken Breast

The product is rich in many nutrients necessary for the body to function properly. Among them, magnesium, sodium, calcium, iodine, manganese and copper occupy a significant place. In addition, the need is filled for vitamins of groups B, E, C, PP, H, the lack of which is most often felt in winter and spring. And to get it all is simple: you just need to cook the breast correctly.

How to cook meat for cooking?

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

1. It is necessary to defrost meat if it was in the freezer. It is advisable to simply leave it for several hours at room temperature, rather than using a microwave, at the risk of overdoing it and ruining the taste of the product.
2. Rinse the meat under running water. The peel can be left or removed. Leaving, you can get more juicy meat, but also with a lot of calories. Only the skinless option will be dietary.
   

   Tip

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

3. Depending on the purpose of cooking and time for cooking, you can leave one large piece or cut into small pieces. The whole breast is tastier, the sliced ​​is boiled faster, which can then be used for salad.
4. Separately, you need to cook carrots, garlic, celery and onions, as well as bay leaves and peas. Coarsely chop the vegetables, add cold water and cook for 35 minutes. After that add spices (except salt), drain. In the vegetable broth, the taste of meat improves, and these vegetables with spices will help to properly shade the sophistication of the product.

Tip

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

Features of boiling chicken breast

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

Before you cook chicken breast, you should decide how it will be used. For soup, it is correct to 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 possibilities to boil the product.

1. Gas or electric stove. Put the contents in a conventional pan at full capacity, boil quickly. After that, remove the power so that the meat boils for another half an hour with skin or 25 minutes without. If the pieces are boiled, depending on the size, 15-20 minutes will be enough for them.
   

   Tip

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

2. Meat filled with water is put into the slow cooker for 30 minutes. It is prepared in the "Extinguishing" mode.
3. Microwaves are very moody. Depending on the model and even the mains voltage, the cooking time may vary. On average, meat should boil in 5 minutes at 800 watts, after which another 10-15 minutes should be cooked.

Tip

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

Village Chicken Features

Cooking time depends on where the chicken grew. If we are talking about familiar boilers from stores, all of the above is absolutely true. But poultry takes longer to cook.

When it comes to young chicken, it will cook about 30 minutes longer than boilers. Significantly more time will be required for laying hens. 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 needs to be cooked for at least 2 hours to achieve the required degree of readiness. In the finished chicken, the meat inside loses its pink color, and when pressed with a fork or knife, you can easily separate the piece.

On the other hand, the taste of poultry is much higher, the meat itself is healthier. In addition, the broth will have an amazing aroma that allows you to cook excellent first courses on it. In order to make it more rich, it’s right to leave not only skin, but also bones and cartilage cooked in it.

Knowing how to cook chicken breast correctly, you can use it not only for salad or first courses. Juicy and flavorful meat may well be an excellent side dish for vegetables. It will be in harmony with various sauces, including mustard, soy or lemon. It should be noted that it is advisable to store the finished meat no more than two days, leaving the chicken in the same broth in which it was boiled.

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