Chicken is the most affordable meat for the majority of the population. To diversify the daily menu with this bird, prepare an amazingly delicious dish - yahnia. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Yakhnia is a dish that combines the shades of two cuisines at once - Balkan and Eastern. A meal can look like the first and the second dish at the same time. Introduces first fried and then stewed chicken with vegetables. The list of spices and spices may differ, from which it is almost never possible to cook a yacht with the same taste twice. In addition, any vegetables can be used in this dish, and the meat can be different. Therefore, by changing the type of meat, types of vegetables and spices, yagna can always be obtained with a new taste and aroma. Therefore, each eater will find for himself a suitable yachny recipe and will be able to include this healthy and tasty dish in his diet.
It is worth noting that it is prepared very easily and quickly, and the cooking method will be familiar to many housewives, so more than one chef will not have difficulties with cooking yachny. Chicken is used for this recipe. Due to its cheapness and availability, it has long become a popular product. The poultry is easy and quick to cook, it does not require complex techniques and a special way of processing. For a recipe, you can take a whole carcass or any of its parts: wings, breasts, thighs, drumsticks. If you take a whole carcass, then chop it into portions into several pieces along with the bones. Let your neck, head and so on, too.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 121 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Chicken meat (any parts of poultry) - 700 g
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Basil - 5 branches
- Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Cilantro - 4-5 branches
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
Step-by-step cooking of chicken yahnia, recipe with photo:
1. Wash and dry the chicken or its parts with a paper towel. If you have a whole carcass, then chop it into pieces. If feathers are present, cut them off. If you wish, you can remove the skin from the pieces, so the dish will be more dietary, because it is the peel that contains the most fat and cholesterol.
2. In a skillet, heat the vegetable oil and put the meat to fry. Fry it over medium heat until golden brown. Season it with salt and black pepper.
3. While the chicken is cooking, turn to the vegetables. Wash the tomatoes and cut into cubes. Peel the onions and cut them into small cubes. Finely chop the cilantro and basil greens.
4. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and send onions to sauté.
5. Bring it to transparency, stirring occasionally.
6. Add the tomatoes, cilantro and basil to the onion.
7. Pour in some drinking water, put bay leaf, salt and pepper. Simmer the vegetables for 7 minutes to soften the tomatoes.
8. Send the chicken pieces to the vegetable frying pan, placing them on the vegetable pillow.
9. Place a lid on the saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the temperature to the lowest setting and simmer the chicken yacht for half an hour until the poultry is tender. Serve the finished meal with any side dish. And if you want to cook yagna as the first dish, then put the vegetables and the poultry in a saucepan, cover with water and cook for half an hour.
See also a video recipe on how to cook chicken yahnya.
