Oven-baked chicken cutlets are a great option for a family dinner. They are tasty with vegetables, cereals, mashed potatoes, and they are also useful. Nutritionists readily recommend chicken cutlets to adults and children, especially in the lightweight version. The recipe is grateful and to diversify the dish is very nice. We will teach you the best options.

Oven Chicken Cutlets - Classic

Chicken minced meatballs can be prepared from any part of the carcass: from fillet, thighs, legs, of your choice. Many do not like to use chicken breast for cutlets, which is completely in vain: the food will come out very juicy, subject to certain nuances. It is better to cook the meat yourself by scrolling pieces of chicken meat through a knife with small holes. So it will turn out fluffy, tender, and the cutlets will turn out to melt. And yes, do not forget to put the crust of the loaf soaked in milk!

 

For cutlets (at the rate of 8 servings), prepare:

  • 800 g of chicken;
  • egg;
  • onion;
  • black pepper (optional);
  • long loaf (humpback);
  • milk or cream 200 ml;
  • deboning flour - 100 g;
  • salt to taste;
  • frying oil.

Scroll chicken through a meat grinder. It is better to use a knife with small holes, but you can first scroll through a large sieve, and again through a shallow one. Add the crumb of the loaf soaked in milk and squeezed into the prepared meat. Cut the onion into tiny cubes, add to the minced meat. Break the chicken egg, salt and pepper to taste.

Life hack for juicy minced meat: onions, grated on a coarse grater; it fries faster and gives the cutlets a pleasant aftertaste.

Forcemeat well beat off and form small cutlets. Give them the shape that you like more, that round, that oblong cutlets will be equally tasty. Bone each in flour.

 

We heat the pan, pour the oil and quickly fry the patties on both sides until golden brown. We spread on a baking sheet, oiled. We put in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes until tender.

The main secret of cooking: do not overdo the dish in the oven, otherwise the products will turn out dry. It is easy to determine readiness by their appearance - a beautiful golden brown color and an appetizing smell.

Add garlic or not - you decide; in chicken cutlets, this bright spice seems superfluous to some gourmets.

Cutlets can be served with a salad of fresh vegetables, any cereals, pasta. But the most delicious combination is with mashed potatoes. The dish is a win-win, it causes appetite and instantly is eaten without a trace.

With cheese - a step by step recipe

Chicken cutlets with cheese will certainly become a hit in your family. Try once to repeat it again and again at the first request of the household.

Write down a step-by-step recipe:

  1. Prepare minced chicken 500-800 g.
  2. Add the chicken egg.
  3. Slice the cheese into large cubes.
  4. Prepare breadcrumbs.
  5. Form cutlets from minced meat.
  6. Add a piece of cheese in the middle of each.
  7. Stick it on all sides so that the cheese is not visible.
  8. Fry the patties in a hot skillet until crusty.
  9. Transfer to an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
  10. Bake for 20 minutes until tender.

 

If you prefer a processed product instead of a solid one, the dish will only win: the triangle of cheese will completely melt inside, filling the minced meat with a delicious creamy sauce. Such meatballs with a secret - a favorite delicacy of choosy children.

The “trick” of the dish is that the finished product is obtained with a surprise. Imagine cutting it into pieces, and in the center is waiting for a creamy and viscous melted cheese! It is so tasty and unusual! Cheese chicken cutlets are good served with cherry tomatoes and a French loaf. A burger with warm crispy bread is the dream of every gourmet.

Chopped Chicken Cutlets

Chopped chicken meatballs have a slightly different taste than minced chicken. Some cooks do not fundamentally grind meat in a meat grinder, preferring to cut it into small cubes. Try the recipe and you are sure that it will not leave you indifferent.

To prepare the meal, prepare the poultry meat. Do not hesitate, they will not be dry cutlets, we will add a secret ingredient. Follow the tips and prepare fragrant chopped cutlets.

 

Finely chop the meat into cubes the size of half a centimeter. Stir minced minced meat. Add a little garlic, two or three tablespoons of mayonnaise, three tablespoons of semolina or a tablespoon of potato starch. Let the meat be infused for 30-40 minutes.

Heat the frying pan and spread the minced meat with a spoon there, slightly leveling it on the surface. It should be a kind of flat "pancakes". As soon as they brown, we spread them on parchment paper. Bring to readiness in a preheated oven for 8-10 minutes. Cutlets are tasty and hot and cold. They can be safely prepared in advance and treated to guests at a dinner party.

Dietary cooking option

Chicken cutlets will be less high-calorie if you do not fry them in advance, but spread them on a baking sheet immediately. Such dietary meatballs will help to put yourself in order by the summer and pamper everyone who complains about the stomach.

For minced meat, it is better to take chicken breast, and achieve juiciness by adding a large onion and a little cream (50 ml of force). We form the product, put it on a baking sheet, greased with oil, and bake until cooked for 30 minutes. At the end, you can turn on the grill mode, so that a delicious golden crust appears on top.

A little tip: minced chicken can be immediately wrapped a lot and frozen with lumps or thin plates; the product will not lose its taste and nutritional properties, but it will significantly save the hostess time.

An ideal side dish for such patties is a salad of arugula, fresh vegetables and herbs, sprinkled with unrefined olive oil.

With the addition of zucchini in the oven

Cutlets with zucchini is important to learn how to cook for everyone who is on a diet. In the season when the zucchini is young and tender, this dish simply must often appear on the table: it is light, unobtrusive, goes well with any vegetables: fresh, stewed or grilled. Bread is never added to such stuffing.

How to cook a version of a dish with zucchini:

    1. In minced chicken, three one small zucchini.
    2. Three a little onion.
  1. Break the chicken egg.
  2. Salt and pepper to taste.
  3. We sculpt products of any size.
  4. We spread in a baking dish.
  5. Bake at 220 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Serve the cutlets with any low-fat sauce. Eat spicy and tasty with a sauce of natural yogurt, garlic, mint with a pinch of salt and black pepper. The dish contains a minimum of calories and is suitable for everyone who follows the figure.

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Kiev

Chicken cutlets are easy to cook in the manner of Kiev, if instead of cheese, hide inside a piece of high-quality butter. Those who have at least once tasted the dish know very well how great it is: to bite a patty, feeling the delicious creamy broth, which, as if jumping into the mouth itself.

To cook chicken Kiev in the oven is better guided by the recipe for meat patties with cheese. There will be two fundamental differences. Firstly, cutlets are crushed first in an egg, then in breadcrumbs, and then fried in a large amount of butter. Secondly, the forcemeat needs to be beaten off so well that the consistency becomes dense, elastic.

 

Then we also act and bring the product to readiness in the oven for 7-10 minutes, no more (otherwise they dry up).

With mushroom filling

Instead of cheese and butter, we recommend adding mincemeat from mushrooms fried with onions in butter inside the cutlets. In the center of the tortilla from minced meat, spread the mushroom filling and carefully pinch the edges.

We spread on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown. Mushroom cutlets are ideally combined with mashed potatoes, and garnished with pickled gherkins, salted "Iwashi" herring, served with slices of bread.

 

Breaded

Breading allows you to hold all the juices inside the cutlet, so that it turns out to be very juicy, even if it is prepared from pure chicken fillet. For breading, it is easy to dry the loaf in the oven, and then grind the crackers in a blender with a pair of garlic cloves. It will result in a spicy garlic-bread crust, and inside - a meat filling flowing out with aromatic juices. The rest of the dish is easy to cook, adhering to the basic classic recipe.

 

With cabbage

Diet cutlets are easy to cook with cabbage. It is interesting that cabbage is not felt in such cutlets, but they become very juicy. In order for the products to not fall apart, it is important not to overdo it with the vegetable component. For a kilogram of minced meat, 200 g of fresh cabbage is enough, which is rubbed on a grater and carefully mixed in the meat mass. Some housewives pass the vegetable immediately along with poultry meat through a meat grinder. But in this case, cabbage releases juice, and it becomes very difficult to sculpt cutlets: they fall apart at a rapid speed.

 

Cabbage and meat cutlets are ideally seasoned with Provencal herbs or oregano: these spices give a light herbal flavor, very appropriate for such a gastronomic union.

Shred or three cabbage in minced meat. Add the egg, knead and form large cutlets. We spread them on a baking sheet and bake at a temperature of 200 degrees. If you are too lazy to chop the cabbage thinly, it simply will not bake, and will crunch. For the dish, tomato sauce with herbs will be the perfect complement. You can eat them without a side dish in a bite with black dried toasts.

Chicken cutlets are a budget, easy-to-execute dish that every housewife will easily repeat. Experiment with proportions, cook them from different parts of the birds, be well-fed and happy!

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