Chicken meat is one of the most widely available meat products in almost all countries of the world.
Chicken is one of the best types of meat for dietary nutrition, chicken is easily digested. At low fat content, chicken meat contains a large amount of high-quality protein and valuable amino acids, as well as compounds of potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, sulfur, selenium, copper, iron and vitamins (mainly a wide range of group B).
From meat of a hen it is possible to prepare various dietary dishes, recipes are known set, the main thing - to prepare correctly.
How to cook delicious dietary dishes from chicken?
In any case, for the preparation of dietary dishes choose young chickens, or buy chilled or frozen parts of carcasses or entrails separately. Meat should look good.
To prepare dietary dishes, the skin from the chicken needs to be removed, there are too many unpleasant substances in it.
The best part of chicken carcass for dietary dishes is breast, somewhat dry, lean, fibrous white meat. Meat from the thighs and lower legs is somewhat oily, but without the skin is also suitable for preparing different dishes in certain diets. According to recent scientific studies, it is a mistake to think that normal nutrition should be without animal fats. Back, neck, upper part of the wing and lower legs are good for broths, hearts - for goulash and stew, the liver can be stewed or boiled and cooked pate.
There are three main healthy ways of cooking chicken:
- boiling or steaming;
- baking;
- extinguishing (relatively healthy way).
Dietary chicken recipe, cooked in broth
Ingredients:
- chicken breast without skin (or neck, back, drumstick, thighs) - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- spices for broth ( bay leaves , cloves, peppers, peas, etc.);
- parsley root - 1-2 pcs.
Preparation
We put the meat in a saucepan with cold water in small quantities and set it on the fire to cook. Boil after boiling for 3-8 minutes, then rinse with boiled water and transfer into a clean pan. Again, pour water and lay spices, peeled onion and parsley root. After boiling, reduce fire, collect noise, cover and cover for at least 40 minutes. Bulb and bay leaves are thrown out, the meat is slightly cooled in the broth and extracted, the broth can be filtered and used to make soups.
Boiled chicken meat can be used as an ingredient of various compound dishes. Garnish will suit anyone (potatoes, beans, rice, buckwheat, polenta, pearl barley, etc.). Served with greens, with vegetable salads, you can also prepare a light, delicate sauce based on broth.
Dietary goulash made from chicken hearts
Ingredients:
- chicken hearts - about 500 g;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- spice;
- chicken fat or vegetable oil (preferably not sunflower), or melted creamy.
Preparation
We cook in a saucepan, cauldron or a deep thick-walled frying pan.
The hearts are cut in half along, remove the vessels and films, carefully rinsed.
You can also approximately prepare hearts with potatoes, young beans, (lay 20 minutes before the meat is ready).