As a side dish for chicken, you can serve not only the usual mashed potatoes or pasta. There are many other interesting options that will surely appeal to all family members. These are vegetables prepared in different ways, and cereals, and pasta with original sauces.

Garnish with oven-baked chicken

Product Composition:

  • a pound of potatoes;
  • 1 pickled cucumber;
  • 3 to 5 garlic cloves;
  • 2/3 Art. medium fat sour cream;
  • ½ cup classic mayonnaise;
  • salt, pepper, fresh dill;
  • vegetable oil.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Rinse the potatoes thoroughly about the same size. Grease each with vegetable oil.
  2. Wrap the tubers separately in foil and bake such a side dish to the chicken in the oven at high temperature to a soft center.
  3. Combine mayonnaise and sour cream. Add chopped dill, salt, crushed garlic and pepper.
  4. Pour small cubes of pickled cucumber into the sauce and mix the ingredients well.
  5. Cut each potato directly in the foil in half, add salt and a fork to knead the middle.
  6. Top with halves of vegetable sauce.

Serve the potatoes to the table hot.

Cooking from vegetables

Product Composition:

  • 2 pcs. small zucchini;
  • 4 things. potatoes;
  • 1 purple onion;
  • 4 things. carrots;
  • 150 g of fresh champignons;
  • 3 garlic cloves;
  • ½ tbsp sunflower oil;
  • ground pepper and salt.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Rinse vegetables and peel if necessary. Cut into slices. Pre-dip the potatoes and carrots in boiling water for 5 minutes, then cool.
  2. Peel and chop mushrooms with plates.
  3. Combine oil, pepper, mashed garlic and salt. The resulting marinade pour the prepared ingredients. Leave them as such for at least 6 hours.

Bake the vegetable side dish in the oven at medium temperature until the desired degree of readiness.

You can make it soft and tender or, conversely, crispy.

To fried chicken

Product Composition:

  • 250 g of spaghetti;
  • 2/3 Art. pasta from tomatoes;
  • fresh garlic to taste;
  • sunflower oil;
  • 1 tbsp. water;
  • by ¼ tsp dry oregano, basil, sugar, paprika;
  • salt.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Cook the pasta until cooked in salt water.
  2. Fry garlic slices in sunflower oil until light brown. Add sugar, all spices and tomato paste.
  3. Pour in boiled water and boil lightly.

Serve the prepared pasta with the resulting tomato sauce as a side dish to the fried chicken.

Garnish with chicken chop

Product Composition:

  • 450 g dry chopped peas;
  • 800 ml of filtered water;
  • salt and pepper;
  • fresh greens;
  • vegetable oil.

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Algorithm of actions:

  1. Rinse the peas thoroughly, changing the water at least three times.
  2. Put it in a pan and pour hot water. To salt.
  3. Boil the beans until soft.
  4. Puree the mass with a blender. Spice up.

Season the pea puree with vegetable oil, sprinkle with fresh herbs and serve as a side dish to the chicken chop.

Tasty Rice Garnished

Product Composition:

  • 1 tbsp. with a hill of steamed rice;
  • 2 full glasses of filtered water;
  • 1 teaspoon of turmeric;
  • 2 dessert spoons of ghee;
  • salt.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Dissolve ghee in a small thick-walled pan.
  2. After half a minute, pour turmeric. At this point, black mustard seeds can also be added to the pot. This is an optional ingredient, but it adds special piquancy to the finished dish.
  3. Warm turmeric and seeds in ghee.
  4. Pour dry rice into the hot mass and warm the cereal for a couple of minutes. The grains absorb a certain amount of fat and become translucent.
  5. In a separate bowl, bring the water to a boil, add salt and very carefully pour oil into the cereal. Add water in small portions.

Cook delicious rice in a side dish for 20 - 25 minutes.

What goes well with baked chicken

Product Composition:

  • a kilo of young small potatoes;
  • 10 - 15 g of fresh chopped dill;
  • 2 dessert spoons of softened butter;
  • salt and pepper.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Wash young potatoes well, dry and pour in one layer in a baking dish.
  2. Spread softened butter on top, sprinkle potatoes with pepper and salt.
  3. Cover the mold with foil and bake the side dish in the oven (at 200 ° C) for approximately 20 to 25 minutes.

When the vegetable softens, remove the foil, shake the container and bake its contents for another 10 minutes under the same conditions. When serving, sprinkle the side dish with chopped dill.

Diet side dish

Product Composition:

  • 250 g of frozen spinach;
  • 2 tbsp. vegetable broth;
  • 3 medium sized potato tubers;
  • 1 large sweet and juicy carrot;
  • dry spices and salt.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Rinse vegetables thoroughly and peel them. Pour in water and send to boil. Potatoes and carrots need to be cooked until they are easily strung on a fork.
  2. Grind cooked and cooled vegetables to a smoothie in a blender bowl.
  3. Pour the spinach with boiling water in a separate saucepan and cook until tender. It will be enough 4 - 5 minutes of heat treatment.
  4. Combine boiled spinach and vegetable puree in a common bowl. Together, interrupt the components of the dish with a suitable blender nozzle.
  5. Dilute the thick mass with broth to the desired consistency, salt and add favorite dry spices to your taste.

Serve the resulting mashed potatoes as a low-calorie dietary side dish for chicken.

To boiled bird

Product Composition:

  • 1 tbsp. with a barley of pearl barley;
  • half a liter of filtered drinking water;
  • 5 to 7 g of rock salt;
  • 50 g of butter.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. In the evening, pour pearl barley in a roomy bowl. Pour it with water and leave it in this form for the whole night.
  2. In the morning, throw the soaked product into a colander and rinse thoroughly with running water.
  3. Transfer prepared pearl barley to a pan, pour it with the amount of drinking water specified in the recipe and add salt.
  4. Close the pan with a lid. Cook future porridge for 45 - 55 minutes.
  5. Next, wrap the container in a warm blanket and leave to evaporate for another 40 minutes. You can skip this point due to lack of time, but this procedure will make porridge especially tender and tasty.

Ready side dish season with butter.

Buckwheat

Product Composition:

  • 1 tbsp. with a slide of buckwheat;
  • 2 full glasses of filtered water;
  • 2 boiled eggs;
  • 1 onion;
  • butter;
  • salt;
  • a small pinch of sugar.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. To deliciously cook buckwheat for chicken, first of all, pour the cereal into a bowl and rinse it several times with cold water. If necessary - sort out. Remove trash and hard black grains.
  2. Pour buckwheat into a saucepan, add salt water to it and add sugar. This porridge will not work out sweet, sand will only make its taste a little brighter.
  3. Boil buckwheat over low heat under a tightly closed lid for 20 to 25 minutes until the liquid is completely absorbed.
  4. Cool pre-cooked eggs and cut them into small, neat cubes. Grind the peeled bulb in the same way.
  5. Melt half of the specified amount of butter in a skillet and fry the onion in it until golden.
  6. Transfer the contents of the pan with butter to the finished buckwheat. Add egg cubes to the same place and mix porridge with these ingredients well.

Lay out the side dish. Spread the remaining butter over them.

Sophisticated side dish

Product Composition:

  • 200 - 300 g of potatoes;
  • 50 g of cheese (necessarily hard);
  • 1 chicken egg;
  • 3 dessert spoons of milk;
  • 50 g of flour;
  • 5 dessert spoons of crumbs;
  • salt and dry spices;
  • vegetable oil.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Salt and beat the contents of the raw egg with milk. Add half the flour to the mixture.
  2. Finely rub the potato and squeeze the juice from the resulting chips.
  3. Add salt, spices and 1 dessert spoon of milk batter to the resulting mass.
  4. Cut the cheese into neat little cubes.
  5. Make balls of potato dough. Inside, put on a cheese cube as a filling. Roll balls in the remaining flour.
  6. Dip the blanks in batter and sprinkle with crumbs.

Fry the balls in hot oil until golden brown.

A simple potato recipe

Product Composition:

  • 700 g of potatoes;
  • 200 g of onions;
  • 100 g carrots;
  • salt and vegetable oil.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Cook the potatoes until soft, right in the peel.
  2. Peel, chop and fry onions and carrots in hot oil.
  3. Pour the cubes of peeled boiled potatoes to half-prepared vegetables. Salt the ingredients.

Cook the vegetables together for another 7 to 8 minutes.

Multicooked Chicken Garnish

Product Composition:

  • 350 g of young cabbage;
  • 450 g of chicken thighs;
  • 1 onion head;
  • 1 tsp Paprika
  • 1 garlic clove;
  • salt pepper;
  • sunflower oil;
  • ½ tbsp boiled water.

Algorithm of actions:

  1. Chop the thighs into large pieces and fry them in a multicooker bowl until light brown.
  2. Add small pieces of onion and garlic. Cook together for 4 to 5 minutes.
  3. Pour finely chopped and mashed cabbage into the bowl of the kitchen assistant.
  4. Fill everything with water. Salt, pepper.
  5. Activate extinguishing mode for 25 minutes. Suitable for this purpose and “Soup” or “Vegetables”.
  6. Last add paprika to the dish.

Serve the finished meal with fresh bread and pickled vegetables.

When choosing a side dish for fried or boiled chicken, you should pay attention to the recipes for tender cereals and mashed potatoes. Dry side dishes are good for baked chicken with gravy - rice without sauce, boiled or fried potatoes, any vegetables cooked in the oven, buckwheat dried in a pan.If you need to reduce the calorie content of your lunch, then you should supplement the bird with raw vegetables or their salads seasoned with light oil sauces.

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