The purpose of sauces in cooking is to emphasize the taste of a dish, to give it an appetizing appearance. Poultry sauces are no exception. For example, chicken can be served with white and red, spicy and creamy, spicy and sweet and sour and other sauces. Some of them are simple, others take time and ingenious ingredients. But all of them are designed to make chicken dishes even tastier and more aromatic.
White sauce
Ingredients:
- cream 10% - 400 ml;
- butter - 50 g;
- premium flour - 50 g;
- salt - ¼ tsp
Dissolve butter in a frying pan, add flour and fry it for one to one and a half minutes (flour should not turn yellow or brown). Boil the cream and pour it into the flour in a thin stream with constant stirring. Salt and keep on low heat for 1-2 minutes, remembering to stir so that lumps do not form (if they do appear, strain the sauce through a strainer).
White sauce can be served with a ready-made dish in this form, or you can use it as a base for other sauces, adding spices and spices, herbs, crushed nuts, chopped fresh or fried vegetables to it. You can show your imagination.
Sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
- sour cream 15% fat - 1/2 cup;
- greens - a set and quantity to taste;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Rinse greens (dill, parsley, green onions, basil, etc.) thoroughly and chop finely. Mix with sour cream and beat with a whisk or blender. Serve the prepared sauce to the finished dish, or use it as a filling when baking chicken. Instead of sour cream, you can use light natural yogurt without additives, kefir or fermented baked milk, the original taste and texture of this sauce will be noted by all eaters.
Special sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
- sour cream - 400 g;
- canned horseradish (ready-made) - 2 tablespoons;
- chopped walnuts - 2 tbsp.
Mix sour cream, horseradish and nuts, previously chopped in a mortar or blender, into a homogeneous mass. Whisk. Serve the sauce along with the cooked chicken. It is not worth preparing it in advance, because the horseradish will fizzle out, and the sauce will lose its aroma and pungency.
Creamy Avocado Sauce
Ingredients:
- heavy cream - 1 glass;
- avocado puree - 1 glass;
- salt to taste.
Peel the avocado and grate on a fine grater or, which is preferable, because the sauce will turn out to be more tender, grind with a blender. With constant stirring, add the cream to the mass. Season with salt to taste and whisk in the sauce. Serve with fried or steamed chicken.
Cheese sauce with garlic and bell pepper
Ingredients:
- sour cream 25% - 100 g;
- processed cheese - 100 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 100 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- ground red pepper - to taste.
Peel the onion and chop finely. Free the bell pepper from partitions and seeds, cut into thin strips. Lightly sauté the onions and peppers in vegetable oil. Grate the cheese on a fine grater, combine with sour cream and grind into a homogeneous mass. Pass the garlic through a press. Then mix all the ingredients and whisk, it is better to do it with a blender, in the absence of it - with a fork or whisk. To enhance the taste, you can add a little ground red pepper.
