The most popular dietary meat is chicken. Inexpensive, tasty, healthy.
But ... over time, I want some kind of variety. A great option is to cook chicken with ginger. The hot spine will not only give the dish a spicy taste, but will also help in the fight against extra pounds.
Moreover, the basic recipe can also be varied. Chicken is pickled in honey, cream, soy sauce, citrus fruit juice, tomato. Preparing pickled chicken in literally 20-30 minutes, which is very convenient.
Ginger Chicken - General Cooking Principles
Before pickling, you need to wash the chicken carcass, blot it with paper napkins and cut it into portions. For this, wings, legs are trimmed, breast fillets are cut. The backrest is used at will - if the family has lovers to gnaw soft bones.
Instead of a whole carcass, you can buy prepared parts, for example, only legs or only breast. Sometimes a recipe involves the use of sliced breasts. In addition, if desired, you can cut the fillet from the whole carcass to get a boneless dish.
After the meat is prepared, you need to make the marinade according to the recipe, coat the chicken and send it to the refrigerator for 1.5-2 hours. If there is no time for pickling, you can skip this step. However, the meat pieces should soak in the sauce for at least 15 minutes while the oven is warming up.
Ginger can be used both fresh and pickled. Fresh root is cleaned of thin skin, scraping it with a knife. Then ginger is rubbed on a fine grater and used as the base of the marinade. You can thinly cut ginger - with petals or straws. Pickled ginger is also cut at will.
You can cook chicken with ginger in the oven using foil or a baking sleeve. Another option is to stew the fillet pieces in a pan under soy, tomato or sour cream sauce.
Ginger Chicken with Soy Sauce
A simple and quick recipe with an oriental touch requires the use of exclusively filet. It turns out a spicy dish of tender meat in a spicy marinade. Sesame oil gives it a special charm. Chicken with ginger is quite high-calorie, as it is cooked in oil in a skillet. But her taste is simply amazing.
Ingredients:
• two large breast fillets weighing 500-600 grams;
• two tablespoons of grated fresh ginger;
• two tablespoons of sesame oil;
• a tablespoon of ordinary vegetable oil;
• three cloves of garlic;
• half a teaspoon of black pepper or a mixture of peppers;
• two tablespoons of soy sauce;
• two tablespoons of water.
Cooking method:
Prepared peeled ginger cut into strips as thin as possible.
Peel and chop the garlic very finely with a knife.
Wash, dry the fillet and use a sharp knife to cut into thin long strips.
A little beat off the meat, trying not to damage the fiber.
Pour sesame oil into a dry frying pan, heat and fry the meat strips until crusty for 5-7 minutes.
Leave in the chicken under the lid for 15 minutes. During this time, she will “reach” and get enough of the aroma of sesame oil.
In another pan, fry the garlic and ginger in vegetable oil.
After 5 minutes, add the fried fillet, season with salt to taste, soy sauce and pepper, mix and let simmer for 2 minutes.
Pour in water, mix again and leave to warm for 3 minutes.
Serve with stewed vegetables.
Ginger Chicken with Honey Lemon Glaze
A chicken and ginger cooked in a well preheated oven turns out to be tender, covered with a delicious caramel-honey crust. Lemon aroma makes the dish festive, and ginger gives incredible freshness.
Ingredients:
• medium broiler chicken;
• lemon;
• ginger root weighing 50 grams;
• two tablespoons of natural honey;
• half a glass of water;
• a spoon of any vegetable oil;
• some salt to taste.
Cooking method:
First cook the marinade. To do this, cut the lemon into two halves, squeeze the juice.
Grate mashed potatoes with a regular grater.
Combine lemon juice with ginger pulp and honey, mix.
Pour in water to make the marinade more liquid, mix again.
Cut the chicken into portions.
Lightly salt each slice.
Put the chicken in the marinade. It is important that each piece is completely covered with it.
Leave the meat to marinate for three hours. In extreme cases, you need to let the chicken stand in ginger-honey soaking for at least 30 minutes.
Grease a form or baking sheet with a spoon of vegetable oil.
Arrange the chicken on top of the prepared mold.
On top of each piece, distribute the remaining marinade.
Bake until cooked at 200 °.
Ginger Chicken in Garlic Honey Sauce
Garlic gives this variant of chicken with ginger an additional piquancy and piquancy. The meat is marinated long enough - during the night, but this is not necessary. But the chicken should be cooked in the foil, so that it turns out soft, but with a delicious sweetish crust.
Ingredients:
• an average chicken carcass weighing a little more than a kilogram;
• half a glass of soy sauce;
• five cloves of garlic;
• a third of a glass of honey;
• fresh ginger root weighing 50-70 grams;
• salt.
Cooking method:
For the marinade, grate the garlic and ginger root.
Combine ginger-garlic gruel, honey and soy sauce in a saucepan, mix.
On a small fire, heat the marinade until a homogeneous mixing of all components. Do not boil.
Chop the chicken into pieces and put in a bowl or immediately in a baking dish.
Pour the meat with warm marinade, cover the bowl with a lid and send overnight to the middle shelf of the refrigerator.
Remove the meat one hour before baking.
Preheat the oven.
Lubricate the mold with a small amount of oil, spread the chicken pieces and cover with foil.
Bake for half an hour at 190-210 °, then remove the foil sheet and send it back into the oven for the same time.
Chicken with Ginger and Oranges
Fragrant spicy chicken in ginger, orange juice and herbs marinade is an excellent option for both everyday and festive table. Instead of legs, you can take an ordinary carcass and chop it into portions.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of chicken legs;
• a piece of ginger root 2-3 cm;
• two oranges;
• a teaspoon of honey;
• a quarter of a tablespoon of rosemary (dried);
• pepper and salt to taste;
• some oil for the mold.
Cooking method:
Grated peeled ginger.
Remove the zest from one orange.
Then cut it into two parts and squeeze the juice with a spoon or special device.
Mix honey, ginger, orange juice and zest in a bowl, mix.
Chicken legs cut into two parts along the joint, salt.
Grate meat with marinade and put in cold for an hour.
Preheat the oven.
Cut the second orange into rings, without removing the peel.
In a greased form, spread out the chicken legs, alternating them with orange rings.
Sprinkle meat with rosemary and pepper.
Bake until cooked, that is, until an appetizing crust is formed.
Ginger Chicken with Pineapple Rings
Fresh pineapple, lime and ginger are a wonderful base for marinade, in which you can cook chicken. It turns out not only very tasty, but also remarkably healthy dish, which will look harmoniously on the festive table.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of chicken;
• small fresh pineapple;
• four cloves of garlic;
• half a teaspoon of red hot pepper;
• a tablespoon of grated pulp of ginger root;
• a teaspoon of salt;
• vegetable oil;
• one lime;
• two tablespoons of brown or regular sugar.
Cooking method:
Chopped garlic cloves finely chopped with a knife.
Ginger grate.
Cook the marinade by mixing garlic, hot pepper and ginger.
Chicken fillet cut into thin narrow strips.
Coat the meat with marinade and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Squeezed from lime juice.
Pineapple cut into thin strips.
Heat a skillet with vegetable oil.
Pour sugar into the bottom, then pour lime juice. Sugar begins to melt, forming caramel.
Immediately caramelize the chicken with the marinade, mix and fry for 3 minutes.
Add pineapple, mix again, reduce heat to a minimum and fry meat, covering the pan with a lid.
Ten minutes later, the chicken with ginger and pineapple is ready.
Ginger Chicken in Tomato Sour Cream Sauce
A traditional sauce of sour cream and tomatoes can be turned into spicy, if you add a little grated ginger and bell pepper to it. Instead of tomatoes, you can take fresh tomatoes in your own juice, but then you will have to increase the amount of salt.
Ingredients:
• medium sized chicken;
• a small piece of fresh ginger root (2-3 cm);
• a can of tomatoes in its own juice;
• onion;
• half a glass of sour cream;
• one bell pepper;
• dried or fresh herbs to taste;
• salt and pepper;
• vegetable oil for the pan.
Cooking method:
Chop the chicken carcass into pieces, lightly salt and sprinkle with pepper.
Grate garlic cloves and ginger.
Wash the pepper, cut the stalk and partitions together with the seeds, cut into thin strips.
Cut the peeled onion into thin rings or small cubes.
Heat oil in a pan, toss garlic and grated ginger, fry for 1-2 minutes.
Add strips of bell pepper and chopped onion, fry for another 6-7 minutes.
Put pieces of chicken in a pan, fry for ten minutes without a lid.
Open a can of tomatoes, cut them into pieces and pour into a skillet.
At the same time put the sour cream, stir the resulting sauce, add salt if necessary.
Cover the dish with a lid and simmer the chicken with ginger and pepper for half an hour.
Ginger Chicken - Tips and Tricks
- To reduce calories from chicken carcass or individual parts, you can cut the skin. So the meat will turn out even more dietary.
- You can serve ready-made chicken with ginger with boiled rice, mashed potatoes, fresh or stewed vegetables.
- Ginger contains many useful substances, accelerates metabolic processes. Chicken and ginger in combination - this is an excellent dish for weight loss.
