Recipes for the holiday: chicken breast in sour cream sauce

It's no secret that chicken meat is tender, but slightly dry. It will help to fix this, and also make the dish more delicate and juicy correctly cooked sauce. Thus, on a festive table, chicken breast in a sour cream sauce can be a particular success.

For cooking, you need a breast on the bone. It is washed, spread on a baking tray and smeared with soy sauce. You can slightly podsolit, however, it is worth remembering that the soy sauce already contains salt. Mayonnaise is added to sour cream (approximate ratio 1: 3), chopped garlic and sliced greens. Smetana-mayonnaise mixture smeared meat and put in the oven, heated to the minimum temperature for an hour. Garnish is recommended to serve a salad of fresh vegetables.

For the next recipe, which prepares a tender chicken breast in sour cream sauce, you need a loin, so the bones are either cut off on their own or the flesh is immediately taken. Meat is cut into several pieces, salted and put for a while in the oven. At that time, sliced mushrooms with onions are fried in sunflower oil, not too thick sour cream is added (you can pour a little water to dilute it). The sauce is stewed for a few minutes, after which it pours out onto the semi-prepared chicken. The dish is baked for about 15 minutes. A chicken breast with sour cream before serving is sprinkled with finely chopped green onions.

No less simple recipe, according to which the chicken breast in sour cream sauce turns juicy and tender, will be the next. The prepared breast is rubbed with spices and salt, laid out in a mold. In sour cream squeezes out the juice of half a lemon, put finely chopped greens, preferred spices, everything is mixed. The resulting mixture is filled with meat and sent to the oven, where it is baked until cooked.

The original recipe for the festive table will be a stuffed chicken breast stewed in sour cream. To make it on a chicken fillet, an incision is made that does not reach the end. Prepared the filling, which can be different. As one of the options, you can take ground nuts mixed with crushed garlic, sour cream and a spoonful of mustard. The resulting mixture is put inside the breast, the edges are punctured with a toothpick. The meat is fried in a frying pan until golden on both sides, after which a small amount of water is added, a couple of spoons of sour cream with spices, and everything is covered with a lid. The dish is stewed on a small fire until ready (about forty minutes).

Also, the chicken breast in sour cream sauce can be prepared in the following way. Prepared meat is rubbed with spices and salt, and left for a while. At this time, the sauce is being prepared. For him, grated cheese is taken, which is poured with sour cream, mixed with a small amount of boiled water. The mixture is put on a small fire, and brought to a boil, with constant stirring. After that, a little confectionery poppy comes in here. On a hot frying pan, the breast is browned until golden, then cut into thin slices, placed in a fire-resistant dish. On top, the meat is poured with a prepared sour mixture and placed in a well-heated oven for half an hour. On the table it is better to serve the dish in a hot form, sprinkled with herbs.

There are several tips for cooking chicken meat that are worth following. One of the main, this time of cooking, which should pay special attention. It can vary, depending on the weight or variety of chicken. Readiness of meat looks on an incision from which the transparent liquid without any admixtures should follow. If you overdo the dish on fire or in the oven, it can turn out to be hard or, on the contrary, collapsing, which can spoil its appearance.