French-style meat is a recipe that almost every person from the Soviet Union knows. The dish was prepared for big holidays like New Year’s Eve or Jubilee. Products for the dish were not cheap, but many people wanted to surprise their guests with such a dinner.
However, if you ask a Frenchman about French-style meat, he will say that he does not know about this dish. Or a resident of France will tell about cutlets rather than about the Soviet dish. The fact is that French-style meat was invented by Soviet cooks for elite hotels in the South.
Let’s tell you how to cook chicken in French.
Ingredients for French-style chicken:
- vegetable oil – 10 ml;
- potatoes – 300 g;
- red bell pepper – 1 pc;
- chicken breast – 300 g;
- black pepper – 15 g;
- salt – 30 g;
- onion – 2 pcs;
- carrots – 1 pc;
- pickled cucumbers – 100 g;
- sour cream – 110 g;
- mozzarella – 100 g;
- cucumbers – 2 pcs;
- feta cheese – 100 g;
- dill – 20 g;
- green onions – 10 g.
Preparation of French-style chicken:
Cut peeled potatoes into plates. Grease parchment (10×10 cm) with vegetable oil, overlap 5-6 potatoes in a circle.
Repeat this way with the remaining 5 sheets.
Cut bell pepper into rings, place a ring each on the potato bumps
. Cut chicken meat
into
small pieces, beat with
a
hammer under food film.
Sprinkle chicken fillet with 5 grams of black pepper and 10 grams of salt.
Place a battered chicken fillet on each tuberosity.
Cut onions into half-rings, fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil until soft. Grate carrots on a coarse grater and fry together with onions, add 5 grams of pepper and 10 grams of salt.
Grate pickled cucumbers on a fine grater and add to onions and carrots
.
Put the roasted vegetables portionally on the battered fillet.
Put sour cream on the roasted vegetables. Grate mozzarella on a coarse grater and form a cheese cap on the sour cream layer.
Tie the opposite ends of the parchment so that the whole portion of chicken French-style is as if in a bag.
Put the bags on a baking tray and bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
Peel the cucumbers and cut into circles
.
In a bowl mix the cucumbers with 100 grams of sour cream, feta cheese and chopped dill. Chop also green onions and add to the cucumber salad, salt and pepper.
You get excellent flavorful French-style meat from chicken.
Together with cucumber salad this dish will look good on the festive table.
