Cauliflower is a rather unusual vegetable compared to white cabbage, beetroot, potatoes, carrots, etc., unlike chicken meat. Is it possible to combine these two products, and in what forms? Can cauliflower and chicken harm the body?
This article will answer questions about the benefits and dangers of cauliflower and chicken, tell you about the recipes for cooking chicken cutlets with cauliflower, French pie quiche with these ingredients, lettuce and pie from them, and also tell you how to properly and deliciously serve these dishes with cream. , tomato and vegetable sauces or with potatoes, garlic.
Benefit and harm
Cauliflower - a relative of white cabbage and broccoli. What are its advantages?
- A small amount of calories: 100 g only 30 kcal. Suitable for people who want to lose weight.
- No starch. Useful to those who follow the carbohydrate content.
- Many vitamins and minerals that are needed for the immune, nervous and cardiovascular systems.
- Normalization of cholesterol in the blood.
- Anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial action.
- Normalization of intestinal microflora due to dietary fiber.
Although the use of cauliflower dishes is indisputable, it still has contraindications:
- gout;
- heart failure;
- hypertension;
- allergy;
- diseases of the kidneys and thyroid gland;
- gastritis and ulcers;
- individual intolerance.
Chicken meat - a protein product in which at least carbohydrates. It is considered dietary (in a fillet only 113 kcal per 100 g) and is better absorbed by the body than pork or beef.
Chicken meat can harm the body if:
- Eat a lot of fried and smoked chicken. The level of harmful cholesterol in the blood rises.
- It is bad to process, which leads to the multiplication of bacteria and poisoning.
- Buy and cook chicken meat grown on antibiotics and hormones. It is very dangerous for the body.
- Use chicken skin. It contains harmful substances for the body. It is not recommended for people with liver disease, poor skin and overweight.
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Methods of cooking with a photo
What specific dishes can be cooked from cauliflower and chicken and how to do it? There are many options. Consider the most popular and satisfying recipes..
Chicken Cutlets
What you need to cook:
- chicken breast - 600 g;
- cauliflower - 400 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- egg - 2 pcs .;
- sour cream - 2 tbsp. l .;
- flour - 2 tbsp. l .;
- spring onions;
- cooking oil for frying;
- salt, pepper to taste.
How to cook:
- Boil the cauliflower until soft. Then cut it and the meat into small cubes.
- Grate hard cheese. Chop the green onion finely. All connect.
- Add eggs, sour cream and flour. All mix until smooth, so that there are no lumps of flour. Put in the fridge at least half an hour.
- Preheat pan with vegetable oil. Form the hands of meatballs of any shape from cooked minced meat.Important! To mince does not stick to the hands, you need to constantly moisten them.
- Fry on both sides until they turn red. Serve with any side dish.
Learn more about other delicious recipes for cauliflower cutlets here.
Kish
What is needed:
- wheat flour - 250 g;
- butter - 125 g;
- chicken fillet - 2 pcs .;
- cauliflower - 250 g;
- onions - 2 pcs .;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- cream 10 - 20% - 300 ml;
- eggs - 2 pcs .;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- vegetable oil;
- ice water - 3 tbsp. l .;
- salt and pepper to taste;
- dill.
How to cook:
- First make the dough for quiche. In a blender, mix the sifted flour, a pinch of salt, chopped butter (you need to be sure to be cold) to a crumb.
Reference! If there is no blender, you need to rub the butter with a fork or with your hands, but you need to do this as quickly as possible so that the butter does not have time to melt.
- Pour 3 tbsp. l ice water into a crumb, and as quickly as possible knead the dough and form it into a ball.
- Wrap it in plastic wrap and send it in the fridge for half an hour.
- While the dough is cooling, prepare the filling. Cut fillet into cubes and fry in vegetable oil. Onions cut into half rings or finely (at the discretion of the hostess) and fry separately in the same pan.
- Disassemble the cabbage into small florets and boil in boiling water for three minutes.
- Cheese grate on a coarse grater.
- Mix chicken, onion, cabbage and cheese. Lightly salt and pepper.
- Take the dough out of the refrigerator and evenly distribute it in a round form for baking in a thin layer.
- Cover it with foil and put a load on it: rice, dry beans, etc., so that the dough is one thickness across the entire surface.
- Put the dough in the oven, preheated to 180 ° C for 15 minutes.
- Take out the foil with a load and bake the dough until crisp for another 10 minutes.
- While the dough is baking, prepare the filling for an open pie with chicken breast: whisk or a blender, mix the cream with the eggs, crushed garlic and chopped dill. Lightly salt and pepper.
- Put the stuffing in the finished base for the cake. Distribute evenly the fill.
- Reduce the temperature of the oven to 160 ° C and bake the quiche for another 15 minutes until the potting is set.
- Take out, give sure to cool, so that the quiche does not fall apart when cutting.
Salad
What is needed:
- chicken fillet - 300 g;
- cauliflower - 100 g;
- Tomato - 2 pcs .;
- cucumber -1 pc .;
- sour cream - 5 tbsp. l .;
- green onions, salt, pepper to taste.
How to cook:
- Boil the chicken and color and cut into small pieces.
- Cucumber, tomato and green onions are also chopped and sent to a salad bowl with chicken and cabbage.
- Salt, pepper and mix the salad. Fill it with sour cream.
More details about cabbage salads can be found here.
Pie
What is needed:
- wheat flour - 600 g;
- butter - 200 g;
- kefir - 300 ml;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- Soda - 1 tsp. no slides;
- chicken fillet - 800 g;
- cauliflower - 600 g;
- egg - 1 pc.
How to cook:
- Boil chicken fillet in salted water, cool and chop in a meat grinder (or cut into small pieces).
- Cabbage send in boiling water for 3 minutes. Remove, cool and disassemble into small florets. If the cabbage is not frozen, but fresh, hold it in boiling water for 2 minutes longer.
- Prepare the dough for the cake. Mix butter and kefir, add salt and soda. Gradually add flour, kneading a uniform dough.
- Divide the dough into 4 parts. Roll the first part. Transfer gently to a greased baking sheet. Lay out half the filling. Roll out the second part of the dough and cover them with the filling. Seal the edges. Make a small hole in the center of the cake so that steam can come out of it when baking.
- Make the same second cake from the remaining dough and filling.
- Beat the egg and coat two cakes with it.
- Bake for 40 minutes. The baking tray should be on the middle shelf in the middle of the oven.
Read more about how to make cauliflower pie in our article.
Variations of dishes
How can you vary the cauliflower and chicken dishes described above?
In cream sauce
To make the chicken patties with cauliflower more tender, you can make a creamy sauce with mushrooms.
What is needed for the sauce:
champignons - 200 g;- cream with fat content of 10 - 20% - 250 ml;
- onions - 1 head;
- flour - 1 tbsp. l .;
- salt and pepper to taste.
champignons - 200 g;What to do with the products:
- Peel the onions and chop finely. Rinse the mushrooms well and also chop them (the shape and size of the pieces are optional, but they should not be very large).
- Fry the onions in vegetable oil until transparent and golden brown. Send mushrooms to it. Extinguish before evaporation.
- Pour the cream into a bowl and add the flour. Mix thoroughly until smooth, to avoid lumps.
- Pour the cream mushrooms with onions in a pan. Salt, pepper and simmer for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour sauce over burgers.
We offer you to watch a video about the preparation of cream sauce:
In tomato and vegetable
Simple cutlets can be turned into an interesting dish: fill them with tomato and vegetable sauce. Like cream sauce, it will also be cooked separately.
What you need to cook:
- carrots - 2 pcs .;
onions - 2 heads;- tomatoes - 4 pcs .;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
- tomato paste - 2 tbsp. l .;
- water - 1 tbsp .;
- salt, sugar and pepper to taste.
onions - 2 heads;How to cook:
- Finely chopped onion fry in a pan with vegetable oil. Add to it grated carrots.
- Cut the pepper and tomatoes into small cubes. Send to future sauce. Stir and simmer until the vegetables are almost ready.
- Send tomato paste to vegetables, mix and pour water. Add salt, sugar, pepper and if desired favorite spices. Leave to stew for 15 minutes. Sprinkle the prepared sauce with chopped fresh herbs.
We offer you to watch a video about cooking another tomato-vegetable sauce:
In sour cream
Chicken and cauliflower quiche dressing can be made on the basis of sour cream, not cream. The taste is not so intense, but this option is more budget.
Beat 400 g sour cream and 2 eggs.- Salt and add finely chopped dill.
- Pour mixture of filling and sprinkle with cheese.
Beat 400 g sour cream and 2 eggs.With potatoes
The basis of the pie with cauliflower and chicken can be not only the dough, but, for example, boiled potatoes (cut into 5-7 mm thick slices or in the form of mashed potatoes). This will be a cake consisting of layers:
Boiled potatoes.- Chopped boiled breast. You can also add crushed prunes to it.
- Boiled potatoes.
- Boiled cauliflower.
Boiled potatoes.The cake is poured the following mixture: 3 eggs, 800 g sour cream, 100 g grated hard cheese. Then the dish goes into the oven for 50 minutes.
With garlic
To make the salad more spicy and savory, you can add garlic or a little red pepper (fresh or ground).
Enough 2 cloves of garlic. Peel it from the husk. Cut into small pieces or crush with a special press (known as garlic press).
Important! Garlic should be chopped so that when eating lettuce, it does not come across a tooth, but only creates aroma and taste.
Options for serving dishes
- Closed and open cakes (quiche) are cut into triangles, squares or rectangles. Served as a separate dish with any sauce or just with sour cream.
- Chicken cutlets are combined with any kind of side dish: boiled potatoes with greens or mashed potatoes; boiled macaroni; rice, buckwheat, dressed with butter. The taste of the cutlets will be original, if you pour them sauce. It can also be served separately on a plate.
- Cauliflower and chicken salad goes as an extra dish to the main elements of food intake: any side dish and hot (fish, meat, etc.). However, chicken in a salad makes it quite rich, so you can use it as a healthy snack.
Cauliflower and chicken are combined in taste. They can be cooked together as a filling for pies, a base for meatballs, etc. Even a salad prepared with these two ingredients will be nourishing and useful, but if you fill it with sour cream, not store mayonnaise. If a person’s goal is to lose weight, you need to give up pies, that is, dishes that are made from flour.
