Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to cook chicken breast broth? Prepare the products. Take the breast on the bones — the broth will be slightly richer. Wash and peel the onions and carrots, but do not cut them — you will need the whole vegetables. Dill will be needed for serving, you can exclude it or take other greens to taste. You can add bay leaf and peppercorns when cooking.
Step 2:
Wash the breast, remove the skin from it. Remove excess fat — so the broth will be more dietary. Cut the fillet from the bone.
Step 3:
Take a pot of the right size. Pour clean cold water into it. It is better to use filtered or bottled water for cooking. If you use tap water, keep in mind that it can give the dish an unpleasant characteristic taste. Bring the water to a boil and lower the bone into it. Meat protein will immediately curdle in boiling water and will not turn into foam, which usually occurs when cooking broth.
Step 4:
Cook the bone for 15 minutes on low heat. Then lower the onion and carrot into the broth. Wait until boiling and boil the broth for another 5 minutes. Then throw the chicken fillet into the broth. Wait for boiling again, make the fire minimal.
Step 5:
Cook the broth for 40 minutes at a very low boil — then it will remain transparent. 10 minutes before the end of cooking, add salt to the broth and, if desired, bay leaf with pepper. Remove the onion and carrot from the broth with a slotted spoon. The broth is ready, it can be served. And you can cook any soup from it.
Step 6:
Before serving, you can strain the broth through cheesecloth — it will become more transparent. You can add fillet slices, carrots, chopped dill, and boiled egg to the plates. Bon appetit!
Important! Regardless of whether the amount of water for soup is indicated in the recipe or not, it is best to focus on your own preferences (thick or more liquid soup you like), as well as on the size of your pan and the products taken for cooking. Do not forget that the author has his own view on the amount of meat, potatoes, cereals and other ingredients in the soup, which may not coincide with yours. In practice, this means that if you are cooking for the first time, you should not cook a whole pot at once. Make a soup for tasting - for one or two people. To do this, reduce the amount of all ingredients according to the recipe to 1-2 servings, and take the amount of water from the calculation: from one cup per serving - if the soup is very thick, to 1.5-2 cups - if more liquid. Do not forget to take into account that part of the liquid will boil off during the cooking process. After tasting a small portion of soup, you can adjust both the amount of liquid and the proportions of ingredients to your taste. In the future, like most experienced housewives, you will be able to pour water for soup and lay the ingredients “by eye".
How to choose the perfect pot for soup, porridge or pickling cucumbers read the article about pots.
Note that the quality and taste of the finished dish largely depends on the proper defrosting of the ingredients. How to avoid mistakes and choose the best way to defrost chicken read in article about proper defrosting of products .
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Dill greens - 38 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken breast - 113 kcal/100g