For many novice housewives relevant question "How to cook chicken breast?". After all, this is the most useful part of the poultry bird! Find out the answer?

It is recommended by doctors and nutritionists, it ranks first in the ranking of essential ingredients for meat salads (even the famous Olivier initially used chicken breast, and only the starving people of the USSR thought of replacing it with sausage). Broth from it has healing properties, and breast protein is perfectly absorbed even by people suffering from gastrointestinal diseases. At the same time, there is a minimum of calories in it, and there are no harmful substances that, as you probably know, accumulate in the legs and liver (who knows what they fed the bird!). The popularity of chicken meat rolls over - is it possible not to be able to cook it? Moreover, it is so easy! Even easier than.

Its subtleties exist everywhere. How to cook chicken breast? What ingredients to add to the broth? Let's think together!

The purchased product, of course, you need to wash with cool water and carefully remove all the veins and cartilage. The bone bone, if it exists, can be not cut, - pull it out of the finished meat, it will make the broth more rich. But it is better to remove the skin: the broth with it will be quite fat. But if you like just that - leave. This preparatory process is completed.

Cooking Breast for Salad

You do not know what to do during cooking? Restrain yourself not to constantly look under the cover? Boil eggs for the same salad! Here you can read correctly, i.e. so that they do not burst.

Is the breast ready? Do not rush to remove it from the broth, - let it cool down with it. Then the meat will not be dry and soaked with the resulting fragrant liquid.

Cooking breasts for soup

The technology of cooking the breast for soup or broth differs from cooking it for the salad only in that you can pre-cut the prepared “spare” into strips 1-2 cm thick. This will save cooking time and at the same time allow the meat to give the broth yourself

Did you know?

Many kids (and teenagers too) turn up noses from the first courses - they do not like boiled vegetables. But almost all of them love “Zelenushka” soup. Put on the fire a small bowl with freshly prepared and filtered through cheesecloth (strainer) broth. When it boils, put a pinch of five-minute vermicelli and finely chopped chicken meat there. Smaller chop fresh dill and parsley, throw in the same place. Salt if needed. Five minutes later, the soup is ready! Pour it into the plate and call the child to the table.

When making broth for such a soup, you can put in it not only whole onions and carrots, but also potatoes (also whole). Then take out the vegetables and eat them yourself, without provoking a fastidious kid.

"Broth Chancellor"

The original broth recipe was coined in Germany: chicken fillet sliced ​​into strips for 40 minutes. soaked in cherry liquor. After that, the meat was lightly squeezed and cooked for 10 minutes. the classic way (with herbs and spices). With this method of cooking so-called. "First broth" merge, of course, is not necessary.

How much to cook chicken breast?

How much to cook chicken breast? A good housewife brings her to a boil, turns off the gas and turns on the timer, forgetting about the saucepan to the bell.

And the cooking time depends on what she is (breast, of course, but not the hostess). The “spare part” from a domestic chicken is tougher than a broiler breast - “Bush chicken”, and it cooks for about two hours (a very old bird is cooked even longer: up to 3 hours). Whereas tender chicken fillet will be ready in 20 minutes. You can also see how much to cook the chicken and how to make the meat of the "pensioner" softer.

Now you know exactly how to cook chicken breast and how long it will take to cook it. Want more details? Take a look at the video!

Chicken breast (white chicken meat, brisket) ─ the front part of the chicken carcass, the meat of which is distinguished by its white color and peculiar taste.

It contains little fat, a lot of protein and is an indispensable product for those who are on a diet and adhere to proper nutrition. Also, the breast is always present in the athletes menu.

The most useful way to cook white meat chicken is cooking. However, many boiled breast meat seems tasteless and tough. Just these people do not know how to cook it properly.

Boiled white meat can be eaten with a side dish, added to salads or used for cooking other dishes (pizza, tacos, etc.)

You can boil chicken breast in different ways ─ on fire, in a microwave oven, in a slow cooker.

How to boil chicken breast on the fire?

Breast can be cooked in water, and can be in vegetable broth.

To cook vegetable broth in a saucepan, you need to pour 2 liters of water, put shallot onions, celery stalk, peeled onion, a couple of garlic cloves, and carrots. Put the pan on the fire, salt and cook for 40 minutes. A few minutes before the readiness add fresh greens, bay leaves, a few peas of pepper.

If the meat is frozen, then it should be thawed at room temperature, rinsed thoroughly, salt, season and leave in a bowl for a couple of hours. You can cover with cling film. To breast cooked faster, you can cut it into two or four parts.

Put the meat in a saucepan, add water or vegetable broth, from which you need to pull out greens and vegetables. The fluid should completely cover the breast. Put on high heat and bring to a boil. Then reduce the fire and continue cooking the meat.

Cooking time depends on the type and size of the chicken breast.

Breasts with cartilage and skin boil for 30 minutes.
Whole breasts without skin and cartilage prepare for 20-25 minutes.
If the breast is cut in half, the cooking time will be 15-20 minutes.
Small pieces of breast will be ready in 10 minutes.

How to boil chicken breast in a slow cooker?

To cook chicken breast in a slow cooker, you will need chicken meat, milk, salt, and seasonings.

Add salt to the breast, season and pour over milk so that it completely covers the meat. Cooking breast should be on the mode "Quenching" for 1 hour. After cooking, put the breast in a saucepan or bowl, cover and allow it to cool.

Also in a slow cooker you can cook a chicken breast for a couple. To taste this meat is no different from boiled. Moreover, it retains absolutely all the useful substances, some of which, during ordinary cooking, turn into broth.

Pour 1 liter of water into the multicooker container. Place a special steamer-grill on top and place the breast on it, which must first be salted and seasoned. Turn on the slow cooker to the "Steamer" mode and cook meat for about 40 minutes

How to boil chicken breast in the microwave?

You can easily and quickly cook boiled brisket in the microwave. To do this, the meat (500 g) should be washed, put in a special dish for the microwave, salt, season and pour boiling water. There should be enough water so that the chicken is covered, but there is still room for boiling broth. Then you need to cover the dishes with a lid and put in the oven at maximum power.

When the liquid boils, it is necessary to set the cooking time. For different microwaves time will be different. If the power of the microwave is 750 watts, then the cooking time is 15 minutes, if the power is 1000 watts, then the breast will cook for 10 minutes. If the weight of the meat is more, the cooking time will increase.

It is important for the breast to cool in the broth. Otherwise, it will turn out dry and tasteless.

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Chicken meat is a valuable dietary product. Especially useful is white meat of the breast, which contains a minimum of fat and a lot of protein. Boiled chicken breast is a must-have product for athletes that make up many diets. In addition, it is widely used in cooking in the preparation of various salads and appetizers. If the chicken breast is cooked incorrectly, we will get tough and tasteless meat. How much to cook chicken breast and how to do it to get not only tasty, but also useful?

How to cook chicken breast

The time required to prepare this product will directly depend on the size of the breast:

1. A whole breast, along with bone, cartilage and skin, must be boiled for about 30 minutes from the moment water is boiled.
2. Fillet without skin and bones boiled for 20-25 minutes.
3. Breast without bone, cut into 2 equal parts cooked for 15-20 minutes.
4. The fillet cut into pieces is cooked about 10 minutes from the moment of its boiling.

This time, which is necessary in order to cook chicken meat, bought in the store. Homemade chicken will cook longer, about 15 minutes. In order to cook a village laying hen, you need at least 2 hours.

Cooking methods

Before sending the product to the pan, rinse it with water and remove the skin in which there are fats.

Use the pan

The most common way to cook chicken breast is to cook it on the stove. To do this, prepared meat is placed in a pan and poured with water or broth, which must completely cover the chicken. Put the pot on the fire and bring to a boil. After that, salt the water and add the peeled carrots and onions.

Depending on the size of the piece of meat, it will cook for 10 to 30 minutes. Once the chicken breast is cooked, it should be pulled out of the water. Properly cooked meat will be uniform white in color and easily cut into pieces.

Using Multivarki

Chicken meat prepared in such a way is no less tasty and healthy. We prepare it as follows:

1. Cut the breast into small pieces.
2. We put them in the bowl multicooker.
3. Fill with milk so that it covers a little meat. As a rule, for 1 medium-sized breast it takes from 0.5 to 1 liter of milk.
4. Add salt and spices to taste.
5. We close the lid and set the mode "Stewing", in which the meat will be cooked for 1 hour.

The presence of multicooker allows us to cook a diet product for a couple. To do this, pour water into the bowl of the multicooker, and set a special stand on top, where we put the chicken meat. Before putting the breast into the slow cooker, salt and rub it with your favorite spices. Now it remains to close the lid and turn on the device in the “Steaming” mode. Cooking time - 1 hour.

Microwave use

Washed and peeled breast with salt and rub with spices. After that, put in a dish suitable for use in the microwave. Fill the meat completely with boiling water and put in the microwave at maximum power.

For a microwave with a power of 1000 W, set 5 minutes. During this time, the water should boil. Further, the power is left the same, and the time is increased to 10 minutes. Cooked chicken in this way must be cooled in broth and taken out after it has completely cooled.

It is especially well suited for people who have chosen for themselves the hard way of proper nutrition. This is the front part of the chicken carcass, many consider it the most useful.

There are several distinctive features of chicken breast: white color, fibrous structure and a large amount of protein, which is part of.

This part of the chicken carcass is used in its menu by both professional athletes and ordinary people, preferably choosing for themselves dietary products.

In the process of eating pieces of chicken breast, a person receives the following minerals and trace elements: copper and manganese, cobalt and chromium, fluorine and zinc, sodium and magnesium, iodine and calcium, as well as vitamins of group B, A, C and H.

In today's reality, it is simply necessary to eat chicken meat at least 2 times a week in order to get all the substances that a person needs.

How to cook chicken breast

Once you have decided that this particular product you lack in your daily diet, you need to choose a method of cooking meat. The most popular is the usual cooking. But many newcomers to the culinary business make a number of mistakes, which lead to the fact that the chicken becomes tough and tasteless, and sometimes not at all edible.

Each novice cook should prepare before cooking the breast.

First of all, the meat must be prepared for cooking as well, secondly, follow strict procedures:

To defrost chicken breast should be slowly and gradually, so defrosting in the microwave - the worst option of all. Also, do not use hot water, as it just wash all the nutrients. It is best to leave the fillet on a plate at room temperature, and the defrosting process will occur naturally;

After that, pieces of meat at room temperature should be washed with cold water to remove all dirt and excess mucus;

If you are preparing a diet version of the dish, then the skin should be removed, but you can cook with it. This will not affect the taste and quality of the meat. Just for the broth it would be preferable to leave the chicken breast on the bone and with the skin, because it will turn out to be more nourishing and tasty;

Put the breast into the pan. Meat is cooked for salads, pre-filled with hot water, and cold for broths. Just because of the hot water, all the minerals and vitamins remain inside, because the protein is denatured (curtailed) and does not release them outside. And with the help of cold you can boil chicken, and all the substances will go into the soup. Then just boil the meat until tender.

Chicken breasts can be cooked in a regular saucepan, and in a slow cooker or double boiler.

How much time to readiness to cook chicken breast

Of course, the cooking time depends on the size of the piece of chicken meat, as well as on how well the hot plates on your stove heat up the pan. In most cases, the chicken will be ready within 30-40 minutes after boiling. Then she needs to stand a little and cool, and then you can eat. If you want to have time to cook the chicken breast in the shortest possible time, then one little trick can help you: chop the fillet into pieces 2-4 centimeters wide. Due to the greater area of ​​contact with hot water, minced meat will cook much faster than whole breasts. In addition, you can shorten the cooking time with another trick: just cut the breast off the bone and peel it off.

How to cook chicken breast: recipe number 1

With this recipe, we get a fragrant and delicious chicken breast. For this we need a small set of ingredients: 2 chicken fillets, salt, spices, garlic and carrots.

The first step is to prepare the breasts. First, the meat must be thawed and rinsed with water. If you have not bought a fillet already cut, then you will have to do it yourself, separating the meat from the bones and removing the skin. Next you need to make oblique cuts in the breasts along the entire length at a distance of 2-3 centimeters from each other. Rub spices and salt all over the periphery of the breast, especially pay a lot of attention to the “pockets”: they should be filled with spices.

Now we clean the garlic and carrot. They need to be cut into plates with a thickness of 3-5 millimeters and a maximum of 2 centimeters long. We put them in improvised "pockets" so that the pieces carrots and garlic did not stick out and definitely did not fall out.

Pour warm water into a saucepan and set on fire.   Lower breasts and boil for another 30-40 minutes after boiling. The readiness of meat can be checked in one simple way: stick the edge of a knife or fork, if the point enters easily, then the fillet is ready. Let it cool, and you can start the meal.

How to cook chicken breast: recipe number 2

Now let's talk about other ways of cooking chicken breast, for example, cooking in a slow cooker. For this option, we also need 2 chicken fillets, but besides this is also butter, sauce (in our case mustard) and spices.

Meat preparation consists of the same steps as in the first recipe, except that we do not make any cuts, leaving the chicken breast in one piece. Next, we carefully rub it with spices and lubricate with oil. In addition, pour some oil into the bowl of the slow cooker.

The next question is the preparation of the sauce. In our case, there will be a ready-made purchase option - mustard. Generously we coat all sides of the fillet, and also add 2-3 tablespoons in the crock-pot to the butter and mix them. Put the missed chicken fillets inside the device.

Next, you need to run the multicooker. To do this, select the mode if you have a multifunctional multicooker. For her go modes such as "baking", "stewing" or "steaming." Often breasts prepare for about 40 minutes, but after 30 you can check their readiness with a fork. If they are still raw, steam them 15-20 minutes extra.

How to cook chicken breast: recipe number 3

There is another unusual way to cook chicken breast - in the microwave. No specialized devices are needed - just a deep plate and a lid.

We prepare the meat according to the plan already known to us and rub spices into it. Put the chicken fillet in a deep plate and fill it with water so that it covers it completely. Add some salt water, add some more spices. Top cover and send in the microwave.

First, we set the maximum power and in this mode we “cook” the chicken breast fillet for 10-15 minutes, then we set the average power and we add 10 more minutes. After that, we leave it right in the microwave, without opening the lid, the meat is still 10 minutes long so that it will infuse and become juicier. After cooling it can be eaten both separately and added to salads.

How to cook chicken breast: recipe number 4

The latest recipe will tell you how to cook chicken breast based broth. For this we need onions, potatoes, carrots, spices and chicken breasts.

Prepare the meat in a standard way, peel potatoes, potatoes and onions. We grind them, cutting into cubes. Fill the pan with cold water and put the chicken fillet and spices there. Do not forget to salt the water. Next you need to bring the fillet to a boil and remove the foam.

Then you can add potatoes, carrots and onions. Cook another 20-30 minutes all together. The longer the chicken fillets are cooked from the breasts, the broth will be rich. After that, it cools down for another 10 minutes and everything: the soup is ready!

How to cook chicken breast. Tips hostesses

The age of chicken meat is very easy to determine if you use a simple trick: the meat of a young chicken is compressed easily, and the old one can hardly be compressed;

To carefully cut off the chicken meat from the bone, you need to move the knife in the direction perpendicular to the meat fibers;

The breast of the old chicken is best cooked, cut in half, and the young - in one piece;

It is better to soak the fillet of old chicken in milk, then it will be much softer and tastier;

There is another way to prepare dietary dishes besides cooking - this is baking. Many recipes for cooking can be remade and for use in the oven.

According to the rules of healthy eating, carbohydrates are needed as a side dish to the breast - the ideal option would be whole grain pasta with vegetable roasting, rice or mixed vegetables.

Chicken breasts are rich sources of protein and are widely used during various diets, as well as in demand among athletes, so this article will look in detail at how much time and how to cook chicken breast in a saucepan or multi-cooker to make it tasty, soft and juicy.

How much to cook chicken breast in time?

Cooking time of chicken breasts primarily depends on such factors as the type of chicken used (broiler or country chicken), the breast is boiled whole, or cut into pieces, as well as in a saucepan, or using kitchen appliances (slow cooker, steamer). Let us consider in more detail how many minutes you need to cook chicken breast until cooked in various ways:

• How to cook chicken breast until cooked in a saucepan?   Cooking time of chicken breasts in a saucepan averages 10-30 minutes: chicken breast with skin and bones is cooked for 30 minutes, skinless and bones (fillets) are cooked for 20-25 minutes, and chopped chicken breast fillets cut into small pieces 10-15 minutes after boiling water in a saucepan.
• How to cook chicken breast in a slow cooker?   Whole chicken breast will be cooked in a slow cooker in 30 minutes in the mode of "Quenching", or 40-45 minutes in the mode of "Steamer" ("Cooking").

To the note: it is better to defrost frozen chicken breast before cooking (so that it cooks evenly), while it is better to defrost it beforehand at room temperature or using a microwave in the “Defrost” mode.

After we have considered how much chicken breast should be boiled, consider further how to cook it in a pan and a slow cooker so that the meat turns out to be juicy, soft and tasty.

How tasty to cook chicken breast in a pan?

One of the most common and affordable ways to cook chicken breasts is to cook them in a saucepan on the stove, so we will see below how to boil the chicken breast in a saucepan:

• The first step is to defrost the chicken breast, which we will cook. It is better to do this in advance by defrosting it at room temperature or using a microwave.
• We rinse the breast under running water, if necessary, cleaning the feather residues if they are left on the skin and from the skin itself, subcutaneous fat and bones.
• Place the chicken breast in a saucepan and pour cold water over it so that the water completely covers it.
• Put the saucepan on a large fire and bring to a boil, then reduce the fire (so that the water does not boil too much), remove the foam formed on the surface of the water with a spoon. If the breast is cooked for soup, it must be salted after boiling water, if the breast is cooked for salad (or as a finished product for eating with a diet), then it is better to salt it at the end of cooking (5-7 minutes before the end of cooking). Also after boiling water, 1-2 laurel leaves, 3 sweet peppers in the form of peas are added to make the meat tastier.
• After boiling water, cook the breast for 30 minutes if it is whole with skin and bones, 20-25 minutes - if it is without skin and bones (large fillets) and 10-15 minutes - if the fillets are cut into small pieces.
• At the end of cooking, if the chicken breast is not cooked for broth (soup), we take it out and wait until it cools to use it for cooking salad or other dishes.

It is also possible to cook chicken breast in a slow cooker or a double boiler, so anyone who has these gadgets will find it helpful to read further on how to cook a chicken breast in a slow cooker in different modes.

How to cook chicken breast in a slow cooker?

Multicooker can slightly facilitate the process of cooking chicken breasts, because during the cooking process does not need to follow. Consider step by step how to cook chicken breast in a slow cooker (steamer):

• As with cooking in a pan, first thing is to defrost, clean and wash the chicken breast under running water.
• Washed breast rubbed with salt and spices (eg pepper), then placed in a slow cooker and poured with cold water so that it completely covers the meat or add a liter of water to the slow cooker and chicken breast put on a special grid for steaming (as in a double boiler) .
• We set the cooking mode “Quenching” in a slow cooker, if the chicken breast is cooked completely in water and the cooking time is 30 minutes, or the “Steaming” mode and the cooking time is 40-45 minutes if the meat is cooked under the influence of steam on the grill.
• After the beep, we take out the cooked breast from the multicooker, check it for readiness (the meat inside must be white) and wait until it cools before using it or using it for cooking other dishes.

Note: in order to cook meat from chicken breast faster in a slow cooker, as when cooking in a saucepan, the breast can be peeled from the skin and cut into smaller pieces. In this case, the cooking time may be reduced by 1.5-2 times, depending on the size of the slices of the chopped breast.

Useful tips to help boil juicy and soft chicken breast

• Chicken breast meat after cooking will be more succulent if the breast is cooked whole, and it is also important to salt the breast 5-7 minutes before the end of cooking in the pan, because if you salt it at the beginning of cooking, the meat will be dry.
• In order to boil chicken breasts deliciously, it is better to add bay leaf, peppercorns (black and sweet), and also celery to the water in the saucepan.
• If you remove the skin from the chicken breast before cooking, then after cooking the meat will be less high-calorie, but less soft and juicy inside.
• Chicken breasts (like other parts of the chicken) are best thawed gradually in the refrigerator or in the microwave, but do not fill them with water, as they will then be less tasty after cooking.

In conclusion to the article it can be noted that knowing how to cook chicken breast so that it is soft and juicy, you can always quickly and tasty cook it with any side dish, or for your favorite chicken salad. Your useful tips and reviews, how much time to cook chicken breast until ready, leave in the comments to the article and share it on social networks, if it was useful to you.