3 Healthy Ways To Make Chicken Breast
A healthy diet does not consist of a lot of red meat and fats. Instead, doctors and nutritionists recommend fish and chicken. However, not all cooking methods keep chicken healthy. Read this article to learn about three healthy ways to prepare chicken breast.
Preparation methods for chicken breast
Nutritionists recommend including this lean meat in a healthy diet. It is important to prepare it in a healthy way. For example, the most harmful preparation method is frying. The crust then contains a lot of carbohydrates that absorb a lot of oil. This means that you get a lot of fat when you eat fried foods.
The most recommended methods of cooking chicken breast are boiling, baking, grilling and steaming. In addition to choosing these cooking methods , you should remove the skin beforehand, as it contains a lot of fat.
The following recipes contain some of these cooking methods.
Fried chicken fajitas
To make this healthy preparation, which can be used as a filling for delicious Mexican-inspired fajitas, you need to boil and finely chop the chicken breast. This recipe is for 6 fajitas, depending on how much filling is used.
Ingredients
- 6 corn fajitas
- 1 whole chicken breast (200 g)
- 1 large tomato
- 1/2 onion
- 1 yellow bell pepper
- 3 tablespoons mustard (45 ml)
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped parsley (15 g)
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped coriander (15 g)
- Sunflower or corn oil
- lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey (25 g)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
- First, cook the chicken breast until it becomes soft. Then finely chop the chicken breast.
- Then fry the chicken pieces in a frying pan in olive oil until golden brown. Season to taste.
- Cut the tomato, onion and pepper into cubes. Then put them in a container and add the herbs, a little oil and the lemon. Mix it together and finally set aside.
- Then place the chicken, vegetables and mustard on the open fajitas. Serve immediately.
Gourmet chicken breast salad
This recipe also contains finely chopped chicken breast. This lean meat gives you enough protein to make this salad a complete dish.
Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken breast (200 g)
- Olive oil
- 1 head of lettuce
- 1 apple or pear
- salad seeds
- 1 tomato
- 1 red bell pepper
- juice of half a lemon
- 1 can of corn
- 1 cup grated or sliced white cheese (queso blanco) (200 g)
- mustard
- honey
- salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
- First, cook the chicken breast until it becomes soft. Then cut the chicken breast into small cubes.
- Then fry the chicken cubes in a frying pan in olive oil until golden brown. Season the chicken.
- Cut the lettuce, fruit, tomato and bell pepper into pieces.
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl and finally top with lemon juice, some mustard and oil.
Fried chicken breast in wine sauce
The following is a baked chicken recipe. This cooking method also preserves the nutritional value of the chicken and makes it taste great.
Ingredients
- 6 chicken breasts
- 1 cup red wine (250 ml)
- the juice of 2 oranges
- 1 onion (100 g)
- 1 red bell pepper
- 2 potatoes
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (45 ml)
- salt and pepper
Preparation
- First preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
- Then season the chicken breast and fry it in olive oil until the outside is golden brown.
- Then cut the onion and bell pepper ‘en julienne’ (narrow strips). Crush the garlic cloves and dice the potatoes without peeling them.
- Then place the garlic, chicken breasts, onion, bell pepper and potatoes in a greased ovenproof dish. Pour over the wine and juice.
- Then bake at 170 degrees for 30 minutes or until the liquids have halved.
- Finally, serve with a fresh salad.
These methods of preparation of chicken meat so keep it healthy without its excellent flavor and nutritional value of sacrifice. So use these methods and combine different ingredients to create other mouth-watering recipes.
