Composition / ingredients
Cooking method
How to make a diet pilaf with chicken?
1. Prepare the products. Cut the chicken into portions. Peel the carrots and cut them into strips. Peel the onion and cut it into half rings.
2. Heat the oil well in the cauldron. Lay out the chicken and fry until golden brown.
3. Add the onion to the golden chicken. Add salt. Stir and cook until the onion is browned.
4. Add the carrots, stir and fry well.
5. Add water and bring to a boil. Try it with salt and, if necessary, add salt. Cover the cauldron with a lid and simmer its contents for 20 minutes.
6. Then add the dry basmati rice, evenly distributing it over the surface of the meat with vegetables and cook over high heat until almost all the water has evaporated. When there is very little water, set the heating to a minimum, cover with a lid and steam the pilaf for a minute. Wrap it up and let it brew a little.
Have fun!
PS If you have a different kind of rice, adjust the amount of water. So, for this recipe with round rice, you will need not two, but three and a half glasses of water.
Important! To make rice dishes invariably delicious, read article about the subtleties of choosing rice and the secrets of its preparation .
Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .
Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper).
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Category I chicken - 238 kcal/100g
- Chicken of the II category - 159 kcal/100g
- Chicken, flesh without skin - 241 kcal/100g
- Chickens - 140 kcal/100g
- Carrots - 33 kcal/100g
- Dried carrots - 275 kcal/100g
- Boiled carrots - 25 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Sunflower oil - 898 kcal/100g
- Refined sunflower oil - 899 kcal/100g
- Jasmine rice - 353 kcal/100g