Chicken in bechamel sauce

Very tender and juicy chicken fillet in cream sauce! The recipe "chicken fillet with bechamel sauce" comes from French cuisine. This simple but very tasty cream sauce based on butter, milk and flour allows you to create delicious dishes without much effort and extra time. This dish will diversify the everyday menu for lunch or dinner and decorate the festive table as a hot one.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 34 % 12 g
Fats 37 % 13 g
Carbohydrates 29 % 10 g
208 kcal
GI: 30 / 0 / 70

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 45 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare the ingredients for the dish according to the list. Chicken fillet is thoroughly washed under running water, dried with paper towels and cut into small cubes or straws, as you like.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Grease the baking dish with butter or vegetable oil. Spread the chicken fillet evenly over the entire form. Salt and pepper to taste the chicken in the form. For a special flavor and taste improvement, you can sprinkle onions cut into small cubes on top.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Cooking bechamel sauce. In a saucepan or a deep frying pan, put the butter cut into pieces. Turn on the fire. Melt the butter completely over medium heat, not letting it burn to the bottom, stirring constantly with a spatula.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Then pour in parts of wheat flour, mixing it well with butter each time so that the flour does not gather into lumps. We give the wheat flour a little brown, get a golden color. Pour the milk in a thin stream into the saucepan, at the same time with the second hand, stirring the mixture.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Boil the sauce over low heat so that it thickens a little, you do not need to let the sauce boil, otherwise it will evaporate a lot. Remove the sauce from the heat, let it cool down a little.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Pour the bechamel sauce over the chicken fillet in the form so that it almost completely covers the meat.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Grate the hard cheese on a medium grater and sprinkle it on top of the chicken fillet in a baking dish. From above, the baking dish with chicken is tightened with foil. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake chicken fillet under foil for about 20 minutes. Then we remove the foil, put the chicken form in the oven for another 10 minutes so that the hard cheese melts on top, and the dish gets a beautiful ruddy crust.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Chicken with bechamel sauce is ready. We serve it to the table, optionally with fresh vegetables and herbs, a side dish or fresh bread. Bon appetit!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglich cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "lo spalmino" - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Chicken breast (fillet) - 113   kcal/100g

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