By combining chicken and cheese of different varieties, culinary professionals create many unique and truly delicious dishes.
These two ingredients blend perfectly, and complementary foods give the dish special flavors and aromas.
If you have a chicken breast and a slice of cheese, then for lunch or dinner today you will have a dish worthy of a festive table.
And our recipes will help you realize this venture.
Chicken fillet with cheese - general principles of preparation
The fillet is prepared under the cheese elementary, it is enough to rinse the meat, cut it, soak it with salt and spices. Put on a baking sheet, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake.
But to make the dish more satisfying, and the taste more interesting, add any products of your choice: potatoes, eggplant, zucchini, cabbage, tomatoes, mushrooms and others. Make a variety of sauces: sour cream, mayonnaise, mustard, soy and others.
Each time, laying out something new for the chicken, you will get a new interesting dish. Furthermore, the principle of preparation and baking time are practically unchanged. From 5 to 20 minutes it will take to prepare the ingredients, from 20 to 40 minutes - to the baking itself.
What should be considered before proceeding with the preparation of chicken fillet with cheese?
• Take only fresh and quality chicken. Chilled carcasses are best suited for cooking. Their advantage is that they do not require defrosting, and due to not long storage (usually no more than 5 days) - they are always fresh in implementation.
• Beat the chopped pieces of chicken, so they cook faster and get tastier. And so that the meat does not splatter, wrap it in cling film or in a regular plastic bag.
• Purchase cheeses in packaging. If you take cheese by weight, be sure to smell it and pay attention to the structure - the smell should be unobtrusive, match the products, the cheese should be dense, not loose.
1. Chicken fillet with cheese
The dish tastes very similar to the favorite meat of many in French. It turns out to be no less appetizing and tasty, tender and juicy. If desired, you can add potatoes, but it is best to serve the mashed potatoes.
Ingredients:
• three chicken fillets;
• three cloves of garlic;
• 180 grams of mayonnaise;
• 240 grams of cheese of any hard variety;
• salt, pepper, spices.
Cooking method:
1. Choose fillet without skin and pits. If only breast is available, then thoroughly rinse it, remove the skin, remove the bones. Dry the fillet itself.
2. Wrap the meat in a film, slightly beat off on both sides with a special hammer.
3. Sprinkle meat with salt and spices to taste - it can be Provencal or French herbs, paprika, curry, basil.
4. Grind the garlic in any convenient way, mix it with mayonnaise.
5. Put the fillet in mayonnaise, remove for an hour in the refrigerator.
6. Rub the cheese with small chips.
7. Take a suitable shape in size, grease it with oil.
8. Put the prepared chicken in several layers, sprinkle with cheese chips.
9. Bake chicken fillet under cheese for about half an hour in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
2. Chicken fillet with cheese and vegetables
Usually, the breast cooked in the oven turns out to be slightly overdried, but thanks to the vegetables and cheese crust, your dish will turn out to be very tender and juicy.
Ingredients:
• two chicken breasts;
• large onion;
• two cloves of garlic;
• five potatoes;
• two tomatoes;
• two sweet peppers;
• a can of corn;
• 160 grams of cheese;
• a third pack of butter;
• salt, vegetable oil, spices.
Cooking method:
1. Peel the onion and garlic, grind both ingredients on a grater. Add spices, salt and vegetable oil to the onion-garlic mass. Mix.
2. We wash the breasts, separate the skin, remove the bones. Lightly beat the fillet, carefully lubricate the meat with the prepared marinade. We clean for an hour in the refrigerator.
3. While the chicken is pickled, peel the potatoes, cut them into small cubes, fry in butter until tender. Do not forget to stir so that nothing burns.
4. Peel the tomatoes, peel the peppers, cut the vegetables into small cubes.
5. Put the pickled fillet in a pan in heated oil, fry on one side, then turn and fry on the other.
6. Add tomatoes and peppers to the chicken, sauté, stirring for 10 minutes.
7. Put the fried potatoes in a greased form, lay the chicken fillet with pepper and tomatoes on top.
8. We open a jar of corn, pour the marinade, and sprinkle the grains on the meat.
9. With the last layer evenly distribute finely grated cheese.
10. Bake at 165 degrees for 20 minutes.
3. Chicken fillet with cheese in sour cream sauce
Sour cream gives chicken meat not only a new interesting taste, but also special softness and tenderness. Use high fat sour cream.
Ingredients:
• 700 grams of chicken breast;
• 200 grams of sour cream;
• garlic - at will (you can without it);
• 210 grams of cheese;
• 1/3 teaspoon nutmeg;
• 20 ml of soy sauce;
• half a lemon;
• salt pepper.
Cooking method:
1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2. Separate the fillet from the bone and skin, rinse, dry, cut into thin strips.
3. Pepper, salt. We spread the chicken evenly in a heat-resistant form greased with butter.
4. Cook the sour cream sauce: put the garlic, passed through the press into a large container, pour soy sauce, lemon juice and sour cream, pour nutmeg. Mix.
5. Pour the chicken sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese.
6. Bake for 30 minutes.
4. Chicken fillet with cheese and potatoes
The chicken and potato recipe is not a novelty in cooking, but, as you know, traditionally beloved dishes, never lose their relevance. Fillet with potatoes and cheese is always delicious and very satisfying.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of fillet;
• kilogram of potatoes;
• three onions;
• mayonnaise;
• 200 grams of cheese;
• salt, pepper, vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the chicken fillet into small cubes, salt and sprinkle with pepper.
2. Cut the peeled onion into half rings, cut the potatoes into cubes. For this recipe, the potato variety is important so that it is baked with meat at the same time and not undercooked, we select early varieties.
3. Grease the baking sheet, heat the oven to 180 degrees.
4. First put half the meat on the baking sheet, then 1/2 part of the onion, potatoes. Salt and grease with mayonnaise.
5. Again chicken and onion leftovers.
6. Sprinkle all the ingredients with small chips of cheese.
7. Bake for 45 minutes.
5. Chicken fillet with cheese with tomatoes and olives
Juicy and tasty chicken fillet - is it long and difficult? But no. Thanks to tomatoes and olives, chicken becomes very soft and tender, and acquires an unusual taste.
Ingredients:
• 550-600 grams of chicken;
• a pound of potatoes;
• 100 grams of pitted olives;
• two meaty tomatoes;
• half a lemon;
• Bell pepper;
• 130 grams of cheese;
• olive oil;
• spices, salt;
• greenery.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse the fillet, cut into cubes, sprinkle with lemon juice.
2. Sprinkle the chicken with spices and salt, remove for 20 minutes to the side.
3. We wash the tomatoes and peppers, cut the tomatoes into cubes, and the pepper with a thin straw.
4. We shift vegetables, rings of olives and chopped greens to meat.
5. Cut the peeled potatoes into slices and add to all other ingredients.
6. Add spices, salt and olive oil for about two tablespoons.
7. Carefully shift everything into a baking sleeve, tie it on both sides and shake.
8. Bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 30 minutes.
9. After the allotted time, we get the meat with vegetables. We make an incision at the top of the sleeve, open the polyethylene.
10. Sprinkle everything with grated cheese, send to the oven for another 15 minutes.
11. Serve portionwise while hot.
6. Chicken fillet with cheese and bacon
And this recipe is for those who like unusual combinations of products and the original taste of dishes.
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of bacon;
• 900 grams of fillet;
• French mustard with grains;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• salt;
• lemon juice;
• honey.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the washed chicken fillet in long strips, beat off with a hammer.
2. Slightly add meat and roll up the roll.
3. Cut the bacon into wide thin strips, wrap rolls in it.
4. Spread them seam down on a greased baking sheet.
5. Set the oven to heat up to 250 degrees. In the meantime, it’s warming up, let's do the sauce.
6. For the sauce, mix the mustard with lemon juice and honey. We take the amount based on our own taste preferences, but usually for such an amount of chicken and bacon two tablespoons of mustard, a spoon of honey and a spoon of lemon juice are enough.
7. Grease the resulting mustard-honey marinade rolls.
8. Sprinkle the center with grated cheese, bake for 25-30 minutes, after 10 minutes of cooking, reduce the oven to 180 degrees.
7. Chicken fillet with cheese and mushrooms
The classic combination of chicken, mushrooms and cheese has not left anyone indifferent, try this amazingly delicious dish too.
Ingredients:
• kilogram of chicken;
• 300 grams of champignons;
• onion;
• 100 grams of mayonnaise;
• a third glass of flour;
• 215 grams of cheese;
• 70 ml of olive oil;
• greens, salt, spices.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the chicken into medium-sized chunks. Pepper, salt.
2. We heat the oil in a pan, spread the chicken, fry, roll each piece in flour, over medium heat until golden brown. We don’t hold for a long time, literally two minutes is enough.
3. Take the fillet into a plate, and put the onion and mushrooms, diced into a pan. Fry mushrooms with onions, salting and adding spices, until the liquid evaporates and until golden brown.
4. Mix finely grated cheese with chopped herbs and mayonnaise.
5. Spread pieces of meat on a greased baking sheet, spread mushrooms with onions on top, grease everything with cheese mayonnaise.
6. Cook at 200-210 degrees 30-40 minutes.
Cheese Fillet with Cheese - Useful Tips
• Chicken is the most tender meat and it is cooked very quickly, so keep in mind that if prior to roasting it is necessary to pre-fry the fillet, it should not be kept on the stove for several minutes, so that the meat is covered with a crust, preserving the juices inside.
• It is most convenient to cut slightly frozen meat, so if you only have a very thawed fillet, put it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes.
• Chicken - meat that is saturated with the aroma and taste of the products included in the dish, so be careful with the amount of ingredients such as pepper, garlic, spices.
• To cook chicken fillet with cheese, you do not have to buy expensive cheese. You can purchase semi-solid grades, such as "Dutch", "Russian". No less interesting is the taste of the dish, if you use sausage cheese.
