Chicken breast is a very high quality source of protein and is a great side dish for fitness and weight loss. At the same time, to make a variety of home cooking style, you can also use chicken breast to replace other meat. Chicken breast is healthy and tasty, but many friends do not know how to do, so that the chicken breast is old and faggy, chewy flavor, which is a pity. In fact, no matter how to make chicken breast, marinating it beforehand is a prerequisite. But there is another important step before marinating, that is, first use the back of the knife or a small meat hammer to gently beat it, so that its internal organization is loose. This way it will be better flavored during the marinating process. One more thing, when you sauté the chicken breasts again, you should use the hot pan and cool oil method. Put the marinated chicken breasts into the boiling hot pan and slowly slide them through the low oil temperature so as to achieve tenderness. Then, you can add seasonings such as egg white and cornstarch to coat the chicken with water, which will also provide a tender state.
Here I share a home-cooked dish related to chicken breast: sweet and sour chicken with diced lotus root. If you have children at home, you can try it. The finished product is tender chicken and crispy lotus root.
Sweet and sour chicken diced lotus root homemade practice share:
▲Required materials:
Main ingredients: lotus root a section, cucumber half, carrots, a handful of green onions, a piece of chicken breast;
Supplementary ingredients: ginger, black pepper, taste fresh, consuming oil, ketchup, vinegar, sugar;
▲Detailed practices
1, the first processing ingredients: The lotus root is cut into strips and then cut into diced lotus root; cucumber, carrots, respectively, diced;
2, small onion cut into small segments, leaving a little green onion alone; ginger sliced and then cut into minced;
3, chicken breasts front and back beforehand with the back of a knife gently hammered a few times, this step is in order to marinate in the afterward when the more flavorful, more tender fried chicken;
4, chicken breasts diced and added to the minced ginger, taste, black pepper, oil, salt, a little cooking oil and marinate for at least 15 minutes;
5, make sweet and sour sauce: add ketchup, balsamic vinegar, sugar, cold water in a small bowl and mix well;
6, frying pan first hot pan, when the pan is hot, put the cooking oil directly to the chicken diced put in a quick stir-fry;
7, and then add the small onion section stir fry;
8, the lotus root diced, the chicken is not a good choice, the chicken is not a good choice, but the chicken is a good choice. p>8, the lotus root diced, cucumber diced, carrot diced pour in stir-fry, eight mature when adding the right amount of salt to taste;
9, and finally poured into the sweet and sour sauce, back and forth stirring to make it taste, with sweet and sour sauce becomes thick when the pan, sprinkle green onion green.
★Note:
1, chicken breast meat is best to use the back of the knife or a small meat hammer to shoot loose, to the chicken activities, such as his marinade when the sauce to better penetrate into;
2, frying chicken follow the method of the hot pan and cool oil, specifically is the first frying pan hot, in the pouring of cooking oil. The purpose of doing so is twofold: one is that the meat is not easy to stick to the pan, and the second is that the stir-fried meat is more smooth and tender, with a better texture, not dry and not faggy.
3, sweet and sour sauce with vegetables will be cooked when put in, so that it stewed flavor.