As soon as you can: chicken breast dishes. Chicken breast in a creamy sauce with Provencal herbs Chicken fillet in Provencal herbs

step by step recipe with photo

The baked chicken breast with herbs is fragrant and very juicy. You can bake in a sleeve or foil. Let's choose the second option. To make the breast even more tender, it is best to marinate it longer, several hours or even overnight. You can choose a set of herbs yourself or use the ones indicated in the recipe. Each time you prepare a breast like this, you can experiment with different herbs and spices.

Ingredients

• 1 chicken breast (800 g)
• 1 tsp salt
• 4 tbsp. l. soy sauce
• 0.5 tsp dried oregano
• 0.5 tsp dried thyme
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
• 0.5 tsp spices for chicken

Preparation

1. Wash and dry the chicken breast from excess liquid. Cut off all unnecessary - the remnants of feathers, pieces of skin.

2. Take a knife with a sharp, long and preferably thin blade and make about 20 punctures on all sides of the breast. Peel the garlic and cut the cloves into smaller pieces that are thin but long. Place the garlic in the punctures.

3. Make the marinade. Mix in a bowl soy sauce, vegetable oil, salt, spices and herbs, mix everything.

4. Line a baking dish with foil, place the breast and pour the marinade on all sides. Marinate the breast for several hours, occasionally pouring the marinade over it.

5. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Send the chicken dish to the oven, cover the dish itself with foil. Bake for half an hour. Then unfold the foil and bake for another 20 minutes, during which time the breast will acquire a delicious golden hue. Serve the breast warm or hot, cut into small slices. It goes well with sauces and vegetables. Such a breast may well be considered a dietary meal. You can also remove the meat from the bones, chop it and use it as an ingredient in a salad or any other snack.

Provencal chicken baked in the oven is considered one of the most delicious French dishes. On my own behalf, I will add that this is a very practical recipe that, with a minimum investment of time, allows you to get a delicious and beautiful dish, moreover, from the most common products that can be bought at any grocery store. So, how is chicken prepared in French?

Ingredients:

(4-6 servings)

• 1 chicken (1.8-2 kg)
• 3 pcs. Luke
• 5 pieces. ripe tomato
• 150 g pitted olives
• 6-8 cloves of garlic
• 2 tsp dry provencal herbs
• 1/2 tsp fennel or dill seeds
• ground black pepper
• 1.5 tsp salt
• 50 gr. olive oil
• 150 g hard cheese

• Cut the chicken carcass into pieces: two pieces from each breast, two pieces from each leg, wings. We leave the ridge, from it you can cook an excellent broth.

• If you want to prepare a dietary meal, then remove the skin from the chicken. Salt the meat and set it aside for a while.
• Peel the onion. Cut each onion in half, then chop the onion with feathers. Whoever likes it in half rings, you can cut it in half rings.
• We take ripe fleshy tomatoes. If the peel of the tomato is thick, then the tomatoes should be doused with boiling water, and then the peel should be removed. Cut the tomatoes into slices. Seeds and liquid are best removed.
• Cut the pitted olives in half.

• We mix olives, tomatoes and onions. Salt a little, but remember that the olives are quite salty and that during cooking they will give off some of the salt.
• Put half of the vegetable mixture on the bottom of a baking sheet or heat-resistant form. Put chicken pieces on top.

• Finely chop the garlic, combine it with dry Provencal herbs, fennel seeds, add salt, pepper and olive oil. It is advisable to mash this mixture a little with a mortar so that the garlic and spices impart some of their taste to the oil.

• Coat the chicken with the resulting mixture of garlic and seasonings.

• Put the vegetable layer on top of the chicken pieces again.

• We put the baking sheet in the oven. We bake chicken in French in the oven at a temperature of 180-200 ° C.
• To prevent the vegetables from burning during cooking, cover the baking sheet with foil after half an hour.
• Provencal chicken is cooked for about 1.5 hours. About 15 minutes before the end of cooking, sprinkle our dish with grated cheese and put it in the oven again. When the cheese is melted and lightly browned, remove the chicken from the oven.

• That's the whole recipe. Chicken baked in the oven in the French manner is ready. As you can see, there is a minimum of preparatory operations, and a minimum of body movements during cooking. Be sure to prepare this dish. I am sure you will like it very much.

Bon Appetit!
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Feedback and comments:

Nina 01/16/13
When I saw this dish, I immediately caught fire to cook. It turned out well, very tasty, even though I was too lazy to remove the chicken skin. Probably even tastier without the skin. Alena, thanks for the great site!

Alyona
Nina: I also really like this Provencal chicken. I prefer to remove the chicken skin, especially since this operation does not take so much time.

Oleg 02/08/13
Delicious! This is one of the few dishes that you want to eat even before you put it in the oven and bake it. It doesn't even matter that the chicken is raw. Tomatoes, olives, oil and spices smell so bad that they are tired of swallowing saliva.

Natalia 09/19/13
Great recipe. It's just a miracle. This weekend I will make your homemade dumplings, and then this chicken. Thanks for your recipes.

Alyona
Natalia, thank you. I am always glad to receive your feedback and comments.

Natalia 11/04/13
Hello Alena. Today I'm cooking this chicken. I did not cover it, but, on the contrary, watered it with the released juice. The recipe is MIRACLE! I think this recipe will take its rightful place in my holidays. In general, I love this combination of products and a vegetable pillow. The smell is awesome! I congratulate everyone on the holiday of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and Unity !!!

Natalia 11/04/13
Alena, thank you so much for such a delicious recipe. Even my husband, who doesn't like condiments, said that he was shocked by the deliciousness. And my daughter, who is 11 years old, said I liked it, but give me another piece. Like this. We had guests today and everyone clinked their tongues as delicious. THANKS !!!

Alyona
Natalya, you are just smart, you have golden hands. Watering the chicken with juices - it will turn out much tastier)))
Thank you for your congratulations! I also congratulate you and your family on the holiday. Be healthy and happy!

Lily 10.11.13
Chicken in French is, of course, a masterpiece of world cuisine. We cook it often, sometimes we put pork instead of chicken, it's also delicious. I sprinkle cheese right away, then the vegetables do not burn, and in general nothing happens to the cheese, the main thing is to reduce the heating in the oven after the maximum. As for the foil - this is an idea, next time I will definitely do so.

margo 12/16/13
I love to cook chicken in different variations, and although my husband does not like it, he willingly ate this recipe. Pravanese herbs and tomatoes give an original taste.

Anya 01/02/14
French cuisine has been famous at all times and it's never too late to get to know it! So Provencal chicken promises to be tasty and induces a healthy appetite). You just need to hurry up and stock up on dry Provencal herbs so as not to disrupt the correct course of preparation). The recipe is excellent, I will use it myself and recommend it to a friend.

Natalia 04/19/14
On the festive table I will cook this, already loved by everyone, dish. Christ is Risen!!! Happy holiday to all of you, Alena! May God give you all the very best! Thank you so much for your work.

Alyona
- Truly resurrected !!!
Natalia, happiness, health and peace to you and your family!

Larisa 11/05/14
Alena, please tell me what Provencal herbs are and where can I get them?

Alyona
Provencal herbs are a dry mixture of herbs that includes rosemary, basil, thyme, sage, peppermint, garden savory, oregano, marjoram. They are widely used as an additive to meat, fish soups, sauces and salads. The name of the mixture comes from the French province of Provence, famous for its spicy herbs. You can buy them at any major supermarket. However, if for some reason you still could not find Provencal herbs, do not despair, for cooking Provencal chicken, fragrant dill seeds alone will be enough.

Wash the chicken, pat dry with paper towels and cut into quarters.

Combine salt, pepper, dry garlic, ground coriander and Provencal herbs. Add olive oil, stir. You should get a mushy mass.

Grate chicken pieces with this mixture, cover the bowl with a lid or cling film and leave to marinate for 1-2 hours at room temperature. You can leave it for a longer time, for example, overnight, in which case the chicken should be removed to the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.

If you put the chicken in the refrigerator, you need to take it out 1 hour before cooking. Place the chicken pieces on the top wire shelf of the Airfryer.

If the chicken is rather large, you can install a special expansion ring on the airfryer. Bake chicken with Provencal herbs at 240 degrees for 30 minutes. Then gently turn the chicken pieces over to the other side and bake at the same temperature for another 30 minutes. Thanks to the uniform blowing of hot air in the airfryer, baked chicken always comes out with a crispy golden crust, and excess fat from it flows down to the bottom of the airfryer. The finished chicken should be soft, and the juice flowing out of it should be clear. According to the same recipe, you can bake chicken in a preheated oven for 1 hour at a temperature of 200-220 degrees. If your oven has a grill + convection setting, turn it on for the last 20 minutes of roasting.

Delicious, juicy and fragrant chicken with Provencal herbs is ready.

Bon appetit, please your loved ones!

This delicious and simple chicken breast recipe is very popular in France. Chicken breast marinated in French herbs has always been very popular.

Any part of the chicken can be marinated. This cooking method works great with chicken wings or chicken legs. Today we will take chicken breasts for marinating. Each country has its own set of herbs for cooking. In Russia, it is, first of all, dill and parsley, we are also used to bay leaves.

My grandmother, when cooking chicken, always said: “The chicken doesn't like lavrushka! Remember!" Although in oriental dishes, when preparing chicken curry, bay leaf will certainly be added. Everything is relative.

Most Popular French Herbs

French herbs are a bunch of flavors most used in cooking in the south of France.

Let's list the main

• Basil
• Fennel
• Lavender
• Rosemary
• Marjoram
• Sage
• Thyme

Most often it is a mixture of herbs that you can choose yourself or buy a ready-made set of French herbs. The Italian pesto sauce goes well with chicken breast.

Chicken breast marinated in French herbs

Ingredients

• 2 chicken breasts
• ½ cup olive oil
• 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
• Provencal Herb Blend
• Salt, pepper to taste

Preparation

1. Prepare chicken breasts. Divide each breast in half, remove the bone. Season with salt and pepper.
2. Prepare the marinade in a separate container. Mix olive oil with herbs, stir well.
3. Pour chicken breasts with herbal marinade and let soak for 20 minutes (if there is no time) to several hours in the refrigerator.
4. Place the marinated chicken breasts on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes.

From time to time, the breasts should be turned and watered with the released juice. At the end of cooking, pierce the meat with a knife. If the juice stops coming out, then the breasts are ready. They should be of a pleasant gold color. Everything, you can serve! Chicken breast goes well with Italian pasta salad. Tip: It's best not to remove the skin from the breasts. The skin helps to retain moisture in the meat and makes it softer.