It's no secret that stews are much more useful.fried. In addition, they have much fewer calories, which can not but interest people watching their weight. However, there is a perception that such products are much inferior in taste to fried ones, that they are always fresh and tasteless. However, this is far from the case, the main thing is to prepare them correctly.
For example, very tasty it turns out such a simple, seemingly dish, as chicken stew.
Would need:chicken drumstick, breast or fillet about half a kilo, 100 gr. tomato paste, pieces of 10-12 olives, salt, a couple of cloves of garlic, chicken seasoning (or just paprika powder), a few peas of pepper, bay leaf and lemon. The meat is washed, salted and rolled on all sides in paprika or ready seasoning, put in a saucepan. Tomato paste is diluted with water and poured chicken sauce in a saucepan. Finely chopped garlic, peppercorns, olives and lemon are put on top of the meat, Laurel leaf and pepper are cut into thin slices and put on the side of the sauce and turn on the fire. Stew meat to readiness for about half an hour, take laurel from the sauce.
Very gentle it turns out Chicken stew in sour cream.
Would need:about a kilo of chicken fillet, 0.2 tsp of coriander, a small jar of sour cream, a couple of garlic cloves and a piece of butter 50 grams. In a frying pan, drown butter and spread the washed pieces of fillet. Fry, occasionally turning the chicken for about five minutes. Then sprinkle chicken with coriander, salt and pour sauce from a glass of sour cream and 0.5 cups of water. Stew until the chicken is soft and it is not easy to pierce with a knife.
Chicken stew with onions
For cooking you will need:a pound of chicken fillet, large onion, salt, mayonnaise, ground pepper, a couple of garlic cloves. At the bottom of a deep frying pan lay onions sliced with thick rings and peeled garlic cloves. Top - chicken fillet, divided into small pieces. Fill the chicken with a little water, smear it with mayonnaise, salt and sprinkle some pepper. Meat is stewed on the smallest fire until it becomes soft and tender.
If put out chicken with potatoes, then you can kill two birds with one stone - cook a hot meat and side dish for it.
The main ingredients are chicken pieces, sweetBulgarian pepper, large carrots and a pair of tomatoes, 4-5 pcs. potatoes, three garlic cloves, ready-made spices. Washed pieces of chicken roll in the finished seasoning, sprinkle with finely chopped garlic, salt and leave for an hour to soak. Cut onions on thick rings fry in a pan, pre-filling it with vegetable oil. When the onions take on a light brown tint, they put chicken meat in the pan and mix everything. There also add carrots, chopped into thin strips, and potatoes, cut into thick rings. Add a glass of water and stew until meat is cooked. Then add chopped pepper, tomatoes, cut up into large chunks, whole cloves of garlic for flavor and keep the pan on the fire for another five minutes. Everything, chicken stew with potatoes is ready.
Chicken Braised Cabbage - very satisfying and ready meal.It is prepared as follows: take a kilogram of chicken meat (preferably fillet), cut into small pieces and fold into a saucepan. Meat must be slightly watered with vegetable oil and fry until light crust. Then put carrot and cabbage cut into strips into the pan, add onion rings. Fry vegetables with meat for another three minutes, and then pour a glass of water and stew until cooked cabbage and meat. Add 5-6 champignons, cut into cubes, Bulgarian pepper into strips and two large tomatoes, cut into large pieces. Stew, covered with a lid for another quarter of an hour, if necessary, adding water. On a kilo of meat take 800 grams. cabbage, one carrot and onion.
