How to cook delicious, but at the same time, diet chicken cutlets with zucchini

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

If you want to cook something tasty and at the same time dietary, low-fat, be sure to try making chicken cutlets with zucchini. This dish contains a minimum of calories, but at the same time a large amount of protein, it is juicy, satisfying and looks beautiful. Serve the cutlets with boiled vegetables or a green salad for a wonderful light lunch.

Chicken cutlets with zucchini recipe

To prepare a large portion of a delicious dish, take:

• half a kilo of skinless and boneless chicken fillet;
• 200g zucchini pulp;
• 100 g boiled rice;
• 1 each carrot and onion;
• 1 bunch of any greens (parsley, dill, cilantro) for stuffing;
• 1 chicken egg;
• s alt, black pepper, flour or breadcrumbs.

Rinse the chicken fillet thoroughly, peel the onion and carrots. Afterscroll the meat and vegetables through a meat grinder, if you want your chicken cutlets with zucchini to become more tender, you can turn the minced meat 2-3 times. Coarsely grate the zucchini, s alt, let them stand for a while, and then squeeze out the released juice. Combine them with minced meat, add boiled rice, finely chopped greens, an egg, s alt and pepper. Form small cutlets from the resulting meat mass, roll them in flour or breadcrumbs, and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Usually each serving takes 10-15 minutes. After the chicken cutlets with zucchini are ready, you can serve them hot to the table, for example, with sour cream. And as a side dish, you can use boiled vegetables or a green salad. By the way, to make the dish less high-calorie, these cutlets can also be cooked in a double boiler, in which case they do not need to be breaded, just fashion a mold and send it to cook for 20 minutes. Of course, they will turn out without a crispy crust, but this way you can avoid eating sunflower oil fats and simple carbohydrates that crackers or flour give us. By the way, the calorie content of the dish is 87 kcal per 100 g of the product, of which fat is 3 g, protein is as much as 7.5 g, and this fits well into the diet.

Sliced Chicken Cutlets with Zucchini: Recipe with Cheese

To prepare a juicy meat and vegetable dish you will need:

• 600 gr. chicken fillet;
• zucchini and 1 medium bell pepper each;
• 100 g of any grated cheese;
• 1 chicken egg;
• flouror breadcrumbs, vegetable oil and spices.

Chop white meat and pepper finely, grate zucchini and cheese on a coarse grater. The vegetable needs to be s alted and left for a while, it will give the juice that needs to be squeezed out. Combine the ingredients obtained, add a chicken egg, spices and a couple of tablespoons of flour if the mass is too liquid. Mix well the resulting minced meat, from which you need to form small cutlets. Roll them in breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable oil. After the dish is ready, serve hot to the table. Chicken cutlets with zucchini and cheese are especially loved by children for their delicate taste and crispy crust, and since this dish is prepared very quickly, even the busiest mother can make it.