The look of this dish is incredibly appetizing, and the aroma of baked meat and cheese seasoned with spices makes French chicken meat always welcome at any festive and everyday table.

Classic French Oven Chicken Meat Recipe

Initially, during the time of Count Orlov, the meat for this dish was taken exclusively by the most tender veal, from which the French chef prepared the “meat casserole”. The name “French meat” has taken root in us, and any meat is used (pork, turkey, chicken).

The following products will be required:

  • Chicken (sirloin) - 0.8 kg
  • Cheese (hard) - 0.2 kg
  • Processed cheeses - 2 pcs. 100 g each
  • Turnip - 3 medium heads
  • Garlic - 3 cloves.
  • Mayonnaise - 100 g or 2 tbsp.
  • Sunflower oil - 100 ml
  • Salt, pepper to taste

Step-by-step preparation:

  1. Separate the flesh from the bone or use ready-made pieces of fillet. Free from the skin, veins, rinse the meat well. Soak excess fluid with wipes.
  2. Pack fillet pieces in cellophane bags or cling film so that the juice does not splatter during beating and pieces of meat do not fall apart.
  3. Gently beat off all cooked sirloin pieces on both sides with a hammer.
  4. Separately, in a small bowl, mix the sunflower oil, pepper and salt. And with this marinade carefully lubricate every bite. Let stand a little so that the fillet is saturated with marinade.
  5. To prepare a mixture for lubricating meat, you will need a bowl in which you need to mix thoroughly and beat the cream cheese, mayonnaise, garlic, pepper and salt passed through the press. The texture should be cream.
  6. Rinse the peeled onions, cut into thin rings. Spread it out on a baking sheet evenly.
  7. Put the pickled fillet slices tightly on top of each other onion.
  8. Spread a layer of chicken fillet with a prepared cream cheese paste with spices.
  9. Rub cheese (hard) on a coarse grater. Sprinkle it on top of the greased meat.
  10. Place a baking sheet with prepared ingredients in an oven heated to 180 ° C and bake for 40-45 minutes. The readiness of the dish is determined by the absence of liquid on the surface of the baking sheet secreted by the meat and a golden cheese crust.

Slow Cooking Recipe

 

Baked meat from a chicken in a slow cooker is as tender and juicy as cooked in the oven.

Essential Ingredients:

  • Chicken (sirloin) - 0.6 kg
  • Cheese (hard) - 0.15 kg
  • Processed cheeses - 2 pcs. 100 g each
  • Turnip - 2 medium heads
  • Garlic - 2 cloves.
  • Mayonnaise - 100 g or 2 tbsp.
  • Sunflower oil - 70 ml
  • Spices, pepper, salt to taste

Step-by-step culinary process:

  1. Divide the chilled fillet of the chicken with a knife into medium pieces, remove the veins and rinse well. Wipe the meat from the liquid with a paper towel.
  2. Pack the fillet in plastic bags or cling film.
  3. With a hammer for beating, treat each piece so that the meat thickness remains at least 2 cm.
  4. With a mixture of vegetable oil, salt and pepper, wipe all the fillets and leave for half an hour to soak.
  5. To prepare a mixture for lubricating meat, you will need a bowl in which you need to mix thoroughly and whip the processed cheese, mayonnaise, garlic, salt, pepper passed through a press. The texture should be cream.
  6. Rinse the peeled onions. Chop in the form of whole rings or halves.
  7. Place prepared foods alternately in the multicooker bowl. At the bottom are onion rings, on them are broken pieces of fillet, located tightly to each other. Smear the meat with a sauce of processed cheese, and sprinkle with cheese chopped on a grater.
  8. Set the timer at 40 minutes, and the “Baking” mode.
  9. The sound signal will remind you that the delicious dish is ready!

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Classic recipe in a pan

If there is no possibility or desire to bake meat in French from chicken in the oven or slow cooker, you can use the pan.

The following ingredients will be required:

  • Chicken (sirloin) - 0.6 kg
  • Cheese (hard) - 0.15 kg
  • Turnip - 2 medium heads
  • Garlic - 1 clove.
  • Sour cream - 150 ml or 2 tbsp.
  • Spices, ground pepper, salt to taste

Step by step cooking:

  1. Rinse and chop peeled onions with the thinnest rings and half rings.
  2. At the bottom of a large pan, preferably with a non-stick coating, lay onion rings in a layer.
  3. Rinse chicken, dry with a paper towel and cut into medium pieces.
  4. Wrap the meat in cellophane and slowly beat off on both sides.
  5. Season each piece of salt, pepper and put on top of the onion in a pan.
  6. To prepare the pouring sauce, mix sour cream with water (1 tablespoon), garlic, squeezed through a press, and salt.
  7. Pour the chicken meat with sour cream sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
  8. Put the pan on the stove, close it tightly with a lid and cook over low heat for about 40 minutes.

French meat with tomatoes

Adding this red, juicy vegetable will make the dish even more piquant and mouth-watering.

The following ingredients must be prepared:

  • Chicken (sirloin) - 0.8 kg
  • Cheese (hard) - 0.2 kg
  • Tomatoes - 0.7 kg
  • Turnip - 3 medium heads
  • Garlic - 2 cloves.
  • Mayonnaise - 200 gr
  • Oil (sunflower or butter) - 30 ml
  • Spices, ground pepper, salt to taste

Step by step cooking:

  1. Peeled onions, rinse and cut with transparent rings.
  2. Peel the tomatoes, for this, immerse each vegetable for half a minute in boiling water. Cut peeled tomatoes thinly into slices.
  3. To prepare the marinade, take mayonnaise, mix it with chopped garlic cloves, add salt and pepper.
  4. Divide the chicken fillet into beautiful medium pieces, beat off with a hammer on both sides.
  5. Grease a baking sheet or other large fireproof dish.
  6. Put the meat chops in the bottom layer, grease them with plenty of mayonnaise sauce, spread the onions evenly, put the tomato slices above and sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
  7. Put the pan in the oven preheated to 180С and bake for 40-50 minutes.
  8. Let the finished dish cool and serve this delicious meat to the table!

How to cook meat in French with minced chicken?

 

If the fillet part of the chicken was not at hand, then it can be advantageously replaced by minced chicken, to which pieces of different sizes will go, and the finished dish will be softer and juicier.

You will need the following products:

  • Minced chicken - 0.4 kg
  • Potato - 4 tubers
  • Tomatoes - 4 pcs.
  • Cheese (hard) - 0.2 kg
  • Sour cream or mayonnaise - 200 ml
  • Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
  • Turnip - 2 medium heads
  • Butter - 30 gr
  • Spices, ground pepper, salt to taste

Step-by-step culinary process:

  1. It is necessary to prepare all layers for baking separately. Cut the peeled onion with a sharp knife into the thinnest rings.
  2. Remove the peel from the tomatoes, for this we put the tomato in boiled water for half a minute and take it out. Cut into thin slices.
  3. Peel, rinse and chop the potato tubers so that they are visible.
  4. For meat pouring, it is necessary to mix sour cream with chicken egg, ground pepper, salt.
  5. In a baking sheet, pre-oiled, put on the bottom slices of potato tubers, salt, and pepper. We spread the onion evenly with the top layer.
  6. Close the onion rings with minced chicken.
  7. Pieces of tomatoes are distributed over the entire surface of the meat.
  8. Pour the contents of a baking sheet with sour cream sauce.
  9. Set the temperature in the oven to 190С and bake for 45 minutes.
  10. Pull out the baking sheet, sprinkle the baked mass with grated cheese and send to bake until golden brown.

A tasty, juicy dish is served hot or slightly cooled.

French Chicken Fillet with Pineapple and Cheese

 

There is a desire to cook meat in French with a "twist" to surprise and delight guests? A tropical fruit - pineapple will come to the rescue, the taste of which is in harmony with any meat.

The following products must be prepared:

  • Chicken (sirloin) - 0.5 kg
  • Pineapples (canned) - 1 can (500 gr)
  • Cheese (hard) - 0.1 kg
  • Sour cream or mayonnaise - 100 ml
  • Turnip - 2 medium heads
  • Butter - 30 gr
  • Spices, ground pepper, salt to taste

Step by step cooking:

  1. Remove the canned pineapples (rings or half rings) from the can and cut them in half so that two pieces come out of one.
  2. Thin the peeled onion into half rings. There are three types of onion use that are - raw, pickled and fried. Prepare the marinade as follows: dilute 9% vinegar with 1/1 water and add salt, pickle the chopped onion for 10 minutes.
  3. To prepare the sauce, you need to mix sour cream with ground pepper and salt or use mayonnaise.
  4. Cut fillet meat into portions, gently beat off. Spread each piece with a mixture of salt and spices.
  5. Butter a large baking dish with butter.
  6. Spread onion rings evenly with the bottom layer.
  7. Place chicken chops tightly on top of each other onion.
  8. Smear the meat with sour cream sauce or mayonnaise.
  9. Garnish with pineapple slices each piece of chicken.
  10. Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
  11. Choose an oven temperature of 190C, and leave the products to bake for 40 minutes.

Cut the prepared meat into mouth-watering slices and can be served hot or warm.

Chicken and Potato Recipe

We will call this dish “two in one”, a side dish mixed with meat. It turns out a layered and original baked mass.

The following ingredients will be needed:

  • Chicken (sirloin) - 0.4 kg
  • Potato - 4 tubers
  • Cheese (hard) - 0.1 kg
  • Sour cream or mayonnaise - 200 ml
  • Chicken Egg - 1 pc.
  • Turnip - 2 medium heads
  • Sunflower oil - 40 gr
  • Spices, ground pepper, salt to taste

Step by step recipe:

  1. Slices of meat from the loin of the chicken gently beat off with a hammer.Before beating, the meat can be wrapped in a plastic wrap so that it remains intact and the juice will not be sprayed.
  2. From a mixture of vegetable oil, salt and ground pepper, make a marinade and grease them with all the pieces of meat. Chops should be marinated for at least 10 minutes.
  3. Cut peeled potatoes into thin slices so that during cooking it is not damp.
  4. Chop the onion into thin half rings.
  5. Baking tray, pre-oiled, spread chopped potatoes. Sprinkle it with salt and ground pepper.
  6. Put the whole chopped onion on top of the potatoes.
  7. Close the layers of onions and potatoes with meat pickled chops, laid tightly to each other.
  8. Lubricate the whole mass generously with mayonnaise or sour cream and bake in the oven, heated to 180 ° C for 30 minutes.
  9. Sprinkle the baked mass with cheese, crushed on a grater and return to the oven.
  10. After 10 minutes, the melted cheese is covered with a golden crust. This means that meat in French with potatoes can be served.

Bon Appetit!