Chicken fillet is an ambiguous meat. On the one hand, it is very healthy and literally packed with proteins, but on the other hand, its taste is not very good in the sense that it turns out to be a bit dry. Even in a fragrant chicken fried in the oven, fillet is far from the most desirable and tasty piece. And there’s no need to even talk about boiled breast. It's only good for salads. In its pure form, many people eat it with great reluctance and in cases of extreme necessity.
However, there are many ways to make fillet more juicy and attractive in terms of taste. Why just marinate it? For example, in soy sauce. Moreover, this method requires fairly quick preparation. That is, you don’t need to bother with the oven, everything can be done on the stove. And we want to offer you several options for preparing such a dish and tell you how to cook chicken fillet in soy sauce in a frying pan. The recipes offered below are quite simple and do not require a special set of ingredients. But first, a few words about the sauce itself.
The easiest way
This recipe, according to which chicken fillet is cooked in soy sauce in a frying pan, can certainly be called the simplest. The set of ingredients in this case is minimal, as is the cooking time itself. To bring it to life, you will only need half a kilogram (if you have a large frying pan, you can take more) of chicken fillet, four tablespoons of soy sauce, the same amount of vegetable oil and a pinch of black pepper. You don’t even need salt here, since the sauce is already completely saturated with it.
Chicken legs in a frying pan in soy sauce
I like meat cooked with soy sauce. Chicken drumsticks come out with a thin crispy crust, and the inside is tender and juicy. If the sauce is prepared correctly and has gone through the fermentation stage, then you will only benefit from it.
The fermentation process produces unique substances, oligosaccharides, which activate the growth of beneficial bacteria in the intestines, ensuring a healthy balance.
But since this product is very salty, moderation must be observed.
What you will need:
- 1 kg chicken legs;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 100 ml soy sauce;
- 50 ml mayonnaise;
- ground black pepper;
- salt;
What should be done?
Cut the meat very thinly into long strips. Pour soy sauce + vegetable oil into the meat, then pepper and mix everything thoroughly. Leave it like this to marinate. Preferably for half an hour, but if you are in a hurry, then 15 minutes will be enough. Then fry in oil and fairly high heat, stirring constantly. If you get a lot of meat, then it’s better to fry the chicken fillet in soy sauce in a frying pan in portions. So that it only covers the bottom of the dish and does not lie in layers. This will not take much time, since four minutes will be enough to prepare one serving. Fried cauliflower is a great side dish for it. But in principle, you can get by with mashed potatoes or vegetable salad. It will still turn out to be a very tasty dish.
Complicating the recipe
Naturally, you can cook chicken fillet in soy sauce in a frying pan in other ways. Moreover, having tried to implement all the options we have proposed, you will understand that dry white meat can be very tasty and juicy. But let's get back to our recipe. So, let's get ready. We cut half a kilogram of fillet in the same way as in the previous case - into thin strips. Place the meat in a bowl, pour in four tablespoons of sauce, stir and leave to marinate. Ten minutes will be enough. Then pour three tablespoons of starch into the meat and stir. Fry the chicken fillet in soy sauce in a frying pan over high heat and vegetable oil, after adding a few cloves of chopped garlic (adjust the amount to taste). After five minutes, you will need to pour in half a glass of chicken broth, after which you need to keep the pan on the fire until the dish thickens. Before serving, it is recommended to sprinkle the meat with sesame seeds, which must first be fried.
Calorie content of chicken marinated in soy sauce in the oven
The calorie content and nutritional value of chicken marinated in soy sauce in the oven are calculated per 100 grams of the finished dish. The data given in the table is indicative.
First, we’ll look in detail at how to cook whole chicken in soy sauce in the oven according to the classic recipe. This method is a little similar to the tobacco chicken recipe, only much simpler and faster in time. The total time you will spend will take no more than 2 hours. We will bake the chicken in the oven in a soy marinade, so the meat will be more tender and less fatty.
Ingredients:
- Chicken carcass - 1 pc.
- Garlic – 6 cloves
- Soy sauce - 2 tbsp.
- Oregano - 1 tsp.
- Sesame - 1 tsp.
- Paprika - 1 tsp.
- Mustard - 1 tsp.
- Vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. spoons
Step 1.
Let's start cooking. Preparing the carcass begins with cleaning it, rinse it and remove all feathers. Be sure to remove excess fat and rump. Next, place the carcass breast side up and cut it in half along the sternum. Open the chicken like a book. Once you cut the chicken, remove any excess inside and rinse again. To keep the chicken meat soft, cover it with a bag and lightly beat it with a hammer.
Step 2.
The next step in preparing the dish is the marinade. Mix crushed garlic with 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil, add 2 tbsp soy sauce to the resulting pulp. spoons and 1 teaspoon each of oregano, paprika, mustard and sesame seeds. Mix everything thoroughly. It's time to put the chicken in the oven. Salt the carcass on both sides and place it on a baking sheet back up, then brush it with soy marinade. Place the greased chicken in the oven at 200 degrees for 1.5 hours. Be sure to add 50-100 ml to the chicken. water, water will save the meat from drying out and will be useful to you in the future for obtaining a crust.
Step 3.
Throughout the cooking time, baste the chicken with the sauce in which it is cooked approximately every 15-20 minutes. Towards the end of cooking you will see the chicken browning. After the time has passed, turn off the oven and leave the chicken for another 15 minutes. Next, place the chicken cooked in soy sauce on a large plate and you can serve. A quick and easy dinner is ready.
If you want your chicken to be flavorful and have a slightly crispy crust, try cooking it in soy-honey sauce. You can bake a whole chicken or chicken fillet in this sauce. In our recipe we will tell you how to bake a whole chicken carcass in the oven in a fragrant soy-honey marinade.
Ingredients:
— Chicken — 1 pc. - Soy sauce - 7 tbsp. spoon - Honey - 2 tbsp. spoons - Curry - 1/2 teaspoon - Garlic - 3 cloves - Ginger - 1/2 teaspoon - Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons - Ground pepper - Salt
1. Rinse the chicken carcass thoroughly, prepare for use by removing excess fat, trimming the rump and cleaning the inside. In a separate bowl, prepare soy-honey sauce by mixing soy sauce, honey, curry, grated garlic cloves, ginger and vegetable oil. Season the resulting mixture with salt and pepper. Rub the whole chicken with this marinade and leave it in the refrigerator for 2 hours to soak it in the marinade.
2. Cover a baking tray with baking paper and place the chicken. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the chicken for 1 hour.
3. Every 20 minutes, pour the soy-honey marinade and the resulting juice over the chicken, this will give the chicken an appetizing golden brown crust.
Similar recipes:
- a great way to stew chicken in small pieces in a deep frying pan with carrots and onions (or maybe with bell peppers!). It's very tasty, quick and easy! Soy sauce will give chicken and vegetables an original taste and aroma.
Soy sauce is not yet a familiar ingredient for most Russian housewives, and the same can be said about balsamic vinegar. However, you can easily buy both of them in our stores and try what you can do with them. Highly recommended! You will receive a new palette of tastes and aromas for your table.
Need to:
- Chicken fillet – about 750 grams (we use breasts)
- Vegetable oil – 3–3.5 tablespoons
- Onion - one large onion
- Garlic – 5 large cloves
- Carrots - 2 large pieces (instead of carrots in this dish you can use sweet bell pepper, also 2 pieces, or you can use both - 1 each)
- Balsamic vinegar (white) – 3 tablespoons
- Soy sauce (we prefer classic) – 4–4.5 tablespoons
- Granulated sugar - 1.5 tablespoons
PLEASE NOTE: We do not add salt because soy sauce is very salty and it is enough to make all the other ingredients in this dish salty enough.
Preparation:
The chicken fillet should be washed with cold running water and cut into small (we focus on 3-5 cm along the longest side, without perfectionism: we will not measure with a ruler) pieces into cubes or cubes.
The carrots, of course, also need to be washed, peeled and cut into thin strips (you can chop them, as for Korean carrots, using the appropriate device - this significantly speeds up the process). If you add bell peppers (we didn’t add them this time), wash them first, wipe them, then remove the seeds and cut them into thin strips.
We need to peel the onions and cut them into thin half rings or quarter rings.
Peel the garlic cloves and cut crosswise into very thin petal slices.
Heat a deep frying pan very high, pour 1-1.5 tablespoons of vegetable oil into the frying pan, then place the chicken fillet cut into pieces into the frying pan. At a high heat level, fry the chicken pieces until golden brown (this will take 10-15 minutes, do not forget to stir the chicken pieces 2-3 times during this time so that they fry more or less evenly on all sides). When the chicken pieces are fried, temporarily place them from the frying pan into another bowl - let them “wait in the wings.”
Meanwhile, add 2 more tablespoons of vegetable oil to the frying pan (still on high) and add the chopped onion and garlic. Fry them, stirring, for a couple of minutes until the onion begins to change color to golden, and you should already notice the distinct smell of frying garlic.
Add chopped carrots (or bell peppers, if you like) to the pan, stir and fry for another 2-3 minutes to soften the vegetables. Then add soy sauce, balsamic vinegar and granulated sugar, mix everything and, continuing to stir, fry for another 1-2 minutes.
Reduce the heat level to low, return the fried pieces of chicken fillet to the pan, mix everything again (watch our video recipe!).
Cover the frying pan with a lid and simmer the chicken and vegetables on low heat for another 20 minutes (during this time you need to open the lid 2-3 times and stir the contents of the frying pan).
If not all housewives have multicookers, air fryers and other newfangled gadgets, then an ordinary frying pan can be found in every home. Chicken in soy sauce in a frying pan, the recipes for which we offer you, will amaze you not only with its bright and rich taste, but also with its beautiful appearance. Appetizing and juicy pieces of meat with a unique aroma - could there be anything more suitable for dinner with the family and a festive feast?
Fillet with soy sauce and honey
We offer another, this time a very unique recipe for chicken fillet in soy sauce. In this case, honey will be present among the ingredients. A rather strange combination of ingredients nevertheless makes it possible to obtain a dish with a surprisingly refined taste. What should be done? Mix a tablespoon of honey and dry wine (white), and then add three of the same tablespoons of soy sauce to them. Cut half a kilogram of chicken fillet randomly, but not very coarsely, mix with the resulting mixture, and then place in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil. Fry over very high heat, stirring constantly.
Chicken breast in soy sauce - tricks and useful tips
The chicken fillet must be chopped into pieces of the same size so that they stew evenly.
It is better to use fresh ginger for the marinade. The product has the desired pungency and spiciness. It will be able to soften meat pieces.
Soy sauce contains a lot of salt, so there is no need to add salt separately to the marinade.
Salt is the worst of all seasonings. It rids the meat of its aromatic juices, making it dry. It is better to use ginger and aromatic herbs. This way the chicken will have a varied taste and maintain its juiciness.
Honey can soften the fibers of chicken breast.
Raw sesame seeds should not be used for cooking meat.
Burnt sesame seeds will make the dish taste worse.
Chicken breast in soy sauce is served as a side dish with rice noodles, pasta, or as a separate dish.
Ginger in the marinade can be replaced with lemon juice.
After frying, sesame seeds need to be poured into a container. If you leave the seeds in the pan, they will burn.
The marinade in which the chicken breast was stewed can be used as a sauce.
Soy sauce can change the color of chicken meat and add brightness to the taste and color.
The smaller the chicken breast pieces, the faster they marinate.
To turn a weekday dinner into a festive one, you need to add soy sauce, a spoonful of honey and white wine to the chicken meat.
For marinade, it is better to replace sugar with honey.
You must purchase the sauce in a transparent glass container.
You can serve chicken breast in soy sauce with potatoes, rice, and vegetables.
It is a good idea to stir the pieces of chicken meat in the marinade several times so that the slices are swapped and marinated evenly.
Before placing the chicken on the baking sheet, you need to remove the pieces of ginger, garlic and onion so that they do not burn from the heat in the oven.
If the chicken begins to turn brown during the baking process, you need to turn the pieces over, pour the rendered fat over them, and cook further.
While the chicken breast in soy sauce is baking, you have time to prepare the side dish and salad.
It is thanks to marinating that the final dish is very tender. Pre-cut into half rings gives additional piquancy to the meat. And the final wonderful tenderness of the dish is achieved by pouring sour cream sauce over the meat.
I tried to tease your appetite as much as possible, because in addition to the fact that it is delicious, at the same time, minimal time is spent on it. In just 15-20 minutes, having previously marinated the chicken breast in onions and soy sauce, you will get a truly restaurant dish, for which you would pay triple or more the price of the initial cost.
And if you serve the meat with fried mushrooms, then you are guaranteed a wonderful evening in a great mood with your other half.
Well, guys, I tried to tease you, but in fact, let's move on to preparing this delicious and easy dish.
Ingredients.
Wash the chicken breast first, place it in a sieve, dry it and place it on a tea towel. Peel the onions, wash them, cut them into not very small cubes.
Remove skin from chicken, if any. Don't throw it away, wrap it and store it in the freezer. It can be useful for meatloaves. Cut the chicken breast into rectangular pieces.
Place the chopped onion and meat in a bowl.
Pour the contents of the bowl with soy sauce and stir.
Cover the bowl with a lid and marinate the meat for 15 minutes or more. The meat turns out even more tender if you marinate it for a long time, for example, overnight.
Heat vegetable oil and butter in a saucepan. Add the meat and onions and fry over medium heat for 3-4 minutes.
Stir the meat, add heat, fry for another 3-4 minutes.
While the meat is frying, quickly prepare the milk sauce: dilute a bowl of flour with cold water, stir until smooth.
Add one spoon at a time to the flour solution, stirring all the sour cream.
Salt and pepper the sour cream and flour sauce and mix.
Pour sour cream sauce over the fried chicken breasts, stirring quickly.
Stirring, bring the whole mass until smooth, cover with a lid and reduce the heat to moderate and simmer for 15-18 minutes.
Well, that's all: a wonderful evening with wonderful people eating tender meat,
And if your spouse is simply in a hurry in a respectable suit and tie for a “business date,” then you dear ladies, you can feed him on the go by preparing it using pita bread. Just warn him so that, God forbid, he doesn’t drip on his suit :-). Bon appetit!
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