Properly prepared batter allows you to keep the bird juicy inside and at the same time creates an appetizing crisp on its surface. This hot meal is ideal for daily dinner and will be a worthy decoration for the festive table. There are several ways to cook chicken breast in batter. We offer proven options.

Classic chicken breast in a batter in a pan

Ingredients: 470 g of bird fillet, a mixture of peppers, salt, 2 tablespoons, 2 large tablespoons of fat mayonnaise, 4 tablespoons of white flour.

  1. The fillet is washed, dried and cut with longitudinal plates. Each of them needs to be beaten off properly with a special hammer. You must first cover the meat with cling film. This will not allow them to tear when beating.
  2. Mayonnaise is combined with a whipped mixture of eggs, salt and peppers. Little by little flour is added to the mass. The result should be a pretty thick batter without lumps.
  3. Prepared pieces are dipped in turn into the resulting mixture and fried until tender in oil.

Each slice will be in the pan for about 6-7 minutes before the appearance of rosy barrels.

Simple and quick recipe

Ingredients: 620 g of chicken, about 120 ml of refined oil, 2 tablespoons, a large spoon of filtered water and 5 tablespoons of wheat flour, salt.

  1. Washed and dried bird is cut into long steaks along the fibers.
  2. The blanks are placed in cellophane and beat off well with the blunt side of the knife or with a special hammer. Filet is salted. You can sprinkle it with your favorite seasonings.
  3. The eggs are broken in the bowl. Gradually flour is added to them, and water is added. The mixture must be mixed until it is homogeneous without the slightest lumps. Batter is salting.
  4. Pieces of bird are immersed in the resulting mass.
  5. Then they are immediately immersed in a pan with boiling oil and fried on both sides.

It is advisable to put the slices on a paper towel while still hot, to rid them of excess fat.

How to make batter from crackers?

Ingredients: 5 tablespoons of crumbs, 2 tablespoons, 4 tablespoons of thick fat sour cream, 2 pinches of granulated sugar, a mixture of peppers, salt. How to make a batter for chicken breast is described below.

  1. First of all, the eggs turn into a homogeneous mixture with a fork, after which they add, beat well with a whisk or a mixer.
  2. To taste, salt and a mixture of ground colored peppers are added to the mass. Sugar is added immediately. The mass is well mixed.
  3. Sour cream and sifted wheat flour are added to the mixture. The components are stirred until even the smallest lumps disappear.

The finished dough is smeared with chicken pieces before frying.

Cheese batter

Ingredients: 330 g of chicken, 90-110 g of hard cheese, a large egg, 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise (can be replaced with sour cream), 2 tablespoons of light flour, salt to taste, Italian herbs.

  1. The washed and dried fillet is cut across the fibers into 3-4 parts each. Billets are salted, sprinkled with spices to taste.
  2. For batter, flour, mayonnaise / sour cream, chicken egg, salt are combined. If mayonnaise is used, then you need to remember that it is initially salted and not to overdo it with such an additive.
  3. Grated cheese is added to the egg mixture last. All batter ingredients mix well.
  4. The chicken is sent to the cheese mass so that it completely covers each piece.

Meat is fried over low heat for a couple of minutes on each side. The cheese will melt quickly, so you need to make sure that the batter does not burn in the pan.

With bran and sesame seeds

Ingredients: 600-650 g chicken fillet, 5 tablespoons of wheat bran, 2 very large eggs, 4 tablespoons of light sesame, a pinch of salt, a mixture of colored peppers.

  1. First, eggs are broken in a deep bowl. Proteins should combine with the yolks in a homogeneous mass.
  2. In a separate flat container, sesame and bran are mixed. The latter need to be thoroughly kneaded with a mortar or chopped using a special blender nozzle.
  3. Chicken pieces are finely chopped and slightly beaten. Meat should be salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Slices of breast should be dipped first in the egg mixture, and then - roll in dry - sesame with bran.
  5. Pieces are fried in hot oil until golden brown.

This type of batter is considered the most dietary and low-calorie. It should be used by those on a diet. As an additional ingredient, in addition to sesame seeds, you can take flax seeds.

Chop in beer in a pan

Ingredients: a pound of bird fillet, 1.5 cups of light beer, 6 tablespoons of wheat flour, 2 tablespoons eggs, 90 ml of medium-fat cream, table salt to taste, any aromatic herbs.

  1. In a deep glass container, beer and cream are mixed. Table eggs are driven into the mass one at a time. All components mix well. They are tasteful and sprinkled with aromatic herbs.
  2. At the end, flour is poured into the dough in small portions. The ingredients need to be mixed very well so that not the slightest lump remains. Otherwise, lumps of flour can greatly ruin the taste of the finished dish.
  3. The batter should stand a little. Then it is possible to dip small pieces of chicken, previously beaten, into it and fry them in hot oil.

Chicken breast chops served deliciously with yogurt-based garlic sauce.

With dry yeast

Ingredients: 2 chicken fillets, a glass of high-grade sifted flour, 2 tablespoons, ½ teaspoon of fast yeast, half a glass of filtered water, a pinch of salt.

  1. Water is heated, yeast is bred in it.
  2. Separately, flour, slightly beaten eggs, salt are combined.You can use any dried herbs.
  3. A still warm dough pours into the flour mixture. The components mix quickly. Let the batter stand for 10-12 minutes.
  4. The fillet is cut into pieces and beaten.

It remains to dip the bird slices in batter and fry in hot oil.

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