Chicken Braised in Sour Cream
A quick meat dish for your everyday menu! Chicken braised in sour cream goes with any side dish and works for both lunch and dinner, weeknights and holidays alike. Kids love it — it comes out tender and delicious. And it's fast to make, so busy cooks will appreciate it too.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
How do you make chicken braised in sour cream? Gather your ingredients.
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Step 2:
Peel the onion and cut it into medium dice.
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Step 3:
Finely chop the dill.
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Step 4:
Stir the cornstarch into 50 ml (about 3 1/2 tablespoons) of cold water.
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Step 5:
Combine the sour cream, dill, salt, and pepper, and stir. If your sour cream is thick and rich, add 100 ml (about 1/2 cup) of water.
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Step 6:
Cut the chicken into serving pieces and fry them in the vegetable oil until golden brown.
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Step 7:
Put the onion and bay leaf into a heavy-bottomed pot and season with salt. Lay the chicken on top and pour the sour cream over it. Simmer over medium heat for about 20 minutes.
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Step 8:
Pour the dissolved cornstarch into the pot. Simmer for another 20–25 minutes, until the chicken is cooked through.
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Step 9:
Right at the end, stir in the pressed garlic.
- You can skip browning the chicken — just add 7–10 minutes to the braising time.
- The trick to keeping sour cream and heavy cream from curdling in a sauce is to dilute and temper them first, as done here.
- Every oil is only good up to a certain temperature — its smoke point — beyond which it starts to burn and forms harmful compounds. Choose a high-smoke-point oil for frying.
- If you use a premade spice blend, read the label first. These blends often already contain salt, so account for it or you risk over-salting the dish.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 30% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 25 % fat content - 284 kcal/100g
- Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210 kcal/100g
- Sour cream of 10 % fat content - 115 kcal/100g
- Sour cream - 210 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Bay leaf - 313 kcal/100g
- Dill greens - 38 kcal/100g
- Starch - 320 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast - 113 kcal/100g
- A mixture of ground peppers - 255 kcal/100g
