Chicken sauce is a great opportunity to emphasize and reveal the taste of meat. Today there are many recipes for cooking dressings, but the most common are creamy, garlic, tomato, and sweet and sour sauces.

Creamy Chicken Sauce

Creamy chicken sauce can be prepared on the basis of cream or milk. Quite often, chicken is cooked with Bechamel sauce. Many housewives add ingredients such as garlic, mushrooms, herbs and chili to it, which add a special flavor to the dressing.

Ingredients:

  • 35 g flour;
  • 55 g melted butter;
  • 280 ml of fat milk.

Cooking method:

  1. Sift the flour and pour it onto a dry, calcined skillet.
  2. As soon as the flour becomes golden, but not brown, pour the raw milk and put the melted butter.
  3. We prepare the sauce until thickened, seasoning it with salt and pepper.

Cooking from sour cream

Sour cream is a versatile product that is often used in the preparation of a wide variety of dishes, including sauces.

The main thing is to decide what the sour cream sauce for chicken will taste like, because even the addition of one component can affect the taste of the whole dressing.

Ingredients:

  • a glass of liquid sour cream;
  • 25 ml of meat broth;
  • 30 ml of lemon juice;
  • 35 g of mushrooms;
  • 60 g of cauliflower.

Cooking method:

  1. Finely chop the mushrooms and send them to the stewpan along with the broth and citrus juice.
  2. As soon as the mushrooms get a golden hue, pour in the sour cream and wait until the mass begins to boil.
  3. Then add finely chopped cauliflower and simmer the sauce until vegetables are ready. If you want a thicker sauce, add flour or starch.

Honey mustard dressing

Since chicken meat does not in itself have a bright taste, various marinades and sauces are often used for its preparation.Honey mustard sauce gives a special flavor and juiciness to the dish.

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An important advantage of this dressing is that only natural ingredients are used for its preparation, no dyes or flavor enhancers. There are two sauces: one for cooking, the other for serving.

  • For the first, you need to take two tablespoons of mustard and honey and mix them. In this composition, you can marinate the meat and bake it in the oven.
  • For the second option, you should grind two garlic cloves, mix with two tablespoons of honey, mustard, oil and a spoon of lemon juice. Add a pinch of nutmeg for the aroma and give the finished sauce time to brew.

Instead of garlic, you can use fresh ginger, and replace ordinary mustard with Dijon mustard, which will give the sauce a more delicate and sweet taste.

Sweet and Sour Chinese Chicken Sauce

In Chinese cuisine, the most famous sauce is sweet and sour. It is served with fish, meat and, of course, with chicken. There are different options for preparing such a composition, consider one of them. For the recipe you will need juice. You can take any, most importantly, that he was sour. Suitable, for example, pineapple, apple or orange.

Ingredients:

  • half a glass of juice;
  • bulb;
  • three cloves of garlic;
  • ginger (5 cm root);
  • three tablespoons of refined oil;
  • two tablespoons of ketchup, dark sugar and soya seasoning;
  • on a spoonful of vinegar and starch.

Cooking method:

  1. Shred garlic cloves and onions, three ginger on a fine grater.
  2. In warmed oil we pass the crushed ingredients, then sprinkle them with sugar, pour juice, vinegar, sauce and ketchup.
  3. As soon as the composition is bubbling, we fall asleep starch, diluted in two tablespoons of water. We prepare sweet and sour sauce for chicken until thickened and remove from the stove.

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With horseradish and walnuts

Sauce is a unique supplement that can dramatically change the taste of any dish. Moreover, such a dressing can be meat and vegetable, cold and hot, sweet, salty or spicy. We offer a sauce option with a very interesting dense, spicy, creamy taste.

Ingredients:

  • 320 ml of heavy cream;
  • ½ tsp sweet sand;
  • 145 g horseradish (grated);
  • crumbs of white bread (two tablespoons);
  • 155 g of walnuts;
  • lemon juice.

Cooking method:

  1. Finely chop walnuts or chop them with a blender.
  2. Mix the nut mass with grated horseradish, sweet and salty granules, and bread crumbs.
  3. Pour in the cream, add a few drops of citrus juice and stir until the sauce becomes thick.

With nuts in Georgian

Georgian cuisine has a dish called Satsivi, which is made from chicken. But Satsivi is rather an unusual sauce, with which fried chicken, and sometimes other meat, is served.

Ingredients:

  • seven garlic cloves;
  • 420 g of walnuts;
  • 700 ml of meat broth;
  • two onions;
  • a bunch of cilantro;
  • two tsp saffron (Imereti);
  • three tsp hops-suneli;
  • 1 tsp. coriander and red pepper;
  • half a cup of refined oil;
  • five tablespoons of vinegar (table or wine).

Cooking method:

  1. Put chopped onions in a pan, pour half a glass of broth and simmer the vegetable for ten minutes.
  2. Grind nuts, garlic and cilantro in a blender. Put the resulting mass to the onion.
  3. Pour in the remaining broth and prepare the sauce for 15 minutes.
  4. At the end, we season it with vinegar.

Chicken Tomato Sauce

Tomato sauce goes well with chicken, and tomato dressing can be different in taste. We offer a dressing recipe that is suitable not only for meat, but also for pizza.

Ingredients:

  • 110 g of tomatoes;
  • 12 g of garlic;
  • basil.

Cooking method:

  1. Finely chop the basil and garlic.
  2. Remove the peel from the tomatoes, and the flesh together with garlic and herbs are sent to a blender. Mix until smooth.
  3. We taste the sauce, add sugar, salt or pepper.

You can also make tomato sauce with cream cheese.To do this, take a jar of tomatoes in your own juice, one sweet pepper and 150 g of cream cheese. Bake the pepper in the oven, peel it of peel and seeds, chop the pulp with tomatoes and put in a saucepan. Add spices to taste and a little chopped garlic. Once the mass boils, put the pieces of cheese and cook the sauce until it is completely dissolved. At the end, add chopped greens to the composition.

As you can see, from simple and affordable ingredients you can make a sauce for every taste. So, do not be afraid to experiment and discover new culinary masterpieces. Indeed, with various sauces it is so simple!

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