Who does not like chicken:fried, grilled, steamed, baked with vegetables! From the enumeration of these dishes, many of you probably already "drooling." But true connoisseurs of chicken meat know that the most delicious thing in chicken is breast. It is no coincidence that this tender, completely fatless white meat is the basis for many dietary meals and diets that help to get a beautiful figure, get rid of extra pounds. We believe in such promises to the word, and few of us think about it - but in fact, how many calories are in chicken breast? And how should it be cooked to become a truly dietary food?
How many calories in fresh chicken breast
What do you think, what low-calorie dishes you canto make chicken breast? The very first thing that comes to mind is to cook this product for a couple. Chicken breast in a double boiler is prepared very simply. It is enough to pre-soak it in a sauce made from kefir, aromatic herbs and salt. After an hour in it the meat will be tender and soft. Now it is necessary to allow the breasts to flow around (place them on the lattice). In the meantime, dice potatoes, bell peppers, tomatoes. Salt vegetables, add cream to them (may, but may not be desirable). Make cuts in the breasts so that you get "pockets" that you and fill with vegetables. Put all this miracle in a double boiler and cook until fully cooked (25-30 min.). And one more tip: those who want all the juice from vegetables and chicken breasts not to leak out can wrap each breast in foil and cook in it. Only in this case it is necessary to take into account that the cooking time will increase by 10-15 minutes.
Those who are interested in how many calories in chicken breast with vegetables, steamed, say that the caloric content is almost minimal and is 164 kcal per hundred grams of the finished dish.
"Chicken Parmesan" - simple, but very tastydish. In order for you to get a real baked chicken breast "Parmesan", it is necessary to mix dry and "wet" ingredients in two containers separately. In one bowl, mix Dijon mustard, with apple juice, 2 garlic cloves skipped through garlic press, and a couple of tablespoons of melted butter. The mixture should turn out like dough on pancakes. We do not specifically indicate the quantity of mustard and juice, because here it is a matter of taste. Soak chicken breasts in this sauce for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, in another bowl, mix about 100 grams of grated Parmesan cheese, 50 grams of crushed almonds, salt, pepper, basil and fresh white bread, crushed into crumb. Then everything is simple: dip dipped pickled breasts in a mixture of dry ingredients, wrap them in foil and send them in the oven for half an hour.
To call this recipe completely dietary is difficult, butstill, if we try to calculate how many calories in “Parmesan” chicken breast, we get a figure in the range of about 185 - 220 kcal. Why do not we specify more precisely? Because the caloric content of this dish will largely depend on the amount of butter, nuts and bread you used to make it.
Here you can indulge yourself with such tasty and very healthy white meat chicken in a hard time dieting!
