Fricassee

Fricassee is a classic that came to us from France. Literally translated, this word means “white meat,” however, at the moment this dish is prepared from a wide variety of meats, from chicken to rabbit.

Meat stewed in sauce is a win-win option for a hot dish that goes well with a variety of side dishes.

Classic chicken fricassee recipe

We are preparing a French cuisine dish - chicken fricassee with a side dish of potatoes. An excellent option for hot food, which you can easily please your household without spending a lot of time and effort.

1. 
   To prepare fricassee, we prepare all the necessary products.
2. 
   We clean the fillet from white films and cut into thin strips, cut the champignons into quarters, boiled potatoes into rings, and chop the onion.
3. 
   Season the meat with salt and ground pepper, and then bread it in a small amount of flour.
4. 
   In a frying pan, fry the bird until half cooked, add mushrooms and chopped onions and simmer until the meat is completely cooked.
5. 
   Then, add 3 tablespoons of heavy cream and Worcestershire sauce to the same frying pan - cook until thickened with constant stirring and remove from heat.
6. 
   In a separate frying pan, fry the potato slices until golden brown.
7. 
   After the potatoes have formed a golden crust, add the remaining cream, salt and ground black pepper.
8. 
   Bring the cream to a boil and evaporate until the mass thickens.
9. 
   Place the potatoes in a cast iron frying pan or baking dish, sprinkle with grated cheese and place in the oven for 15 minutes at 180 degrees. Prepare the side dish until the cheese is baked.
10. 
    Carefully remove the finished potatoes from the oven and place the stewed fillet with mushrooms and onions on the side.
11. 
    Before serving, add pickled cucumbers and tomatoes, fresh herbs directly into the pan and enjoy. Bon appetit!

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Fricassee with mushrooms in cream sauce

We prepare a fragrant, tender chicken breast fricassee with such additions as champignons, sweet bell peppers and heavy cream. This dish is perfect for both a festive table and a quiet family dinner.

Cooking time – 1 hour 40 minutes

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Portions – 4.

Ingredients:

• Champignons – 300 gr.
• Sweet red pepper – 1 pc.
• Sour cream – 4 tbsp.
• Cream 20% - 300 ml.
• Garlic – 2 teeth.
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
• Ground black pepper – 1/5 tsp.
• Salt – 1/5 tsp.
• Parsley - ½ bunch.
• Chicken fillet – 500 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the meat under running water, dry it with paper towels and cut into thin strips. Marinate together with garlic passed through a press and finely chopped parsley.

2. Add sour cream, mix and leave to soak in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

3. Wash the mushrooms and cut into arbitrary pieces.

4. Cut sweet red pepper into medium-sized cubes.

5. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the chopped pepper for 5 minutes.

6. The next step is to add the poultry and mushrooms to the same frying pan.

7. Fry over medium heat for about 10-12 minutes.

8. Fill the contents of the frying pan with cream and continue to simmer.

9. Cook for another 5-7 minutes until the cream thickens.

10. Place the hot fricassee on plates and serve with any side dish you like. Bon appetit!

How to cook chicken fricassee in sour cream sauce?

A tender stew of chicken meat that melts in your mouth is very simple, quick and tasty. Cook this recipe once, you will repeat it again and again, because this dish differs from all others with its distinct creamy aftertaste.

Cooking time - 30 min.

Cooking time - 15 minutes.

Portions – 6.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast – 1 pc.
• Mushrooms (oyster mushrooms) – 300 gr.
• Sour cream – 1 tbsp.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Dry white wine – ½ tbsp.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Dill - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. We prepare all the products we need.

2.Separate the fillet from the bone, clean it of white films and flecks of fat, and cut it into thin strips. Afterwards, fry in butter until golden brown.

3. Transfer the chicken to a baking dish and cover the top with foil.

4. In the same frying pan, fry mushrooms and chopped onions until half cooked, about 10 minutes.

5. Then, pour in white wine and sour cream, add salt and pepper - mix well.

6. When the sauce in the pan begins to thicken, combine the mushrooms with the chicken, stir and simmer for another 10 minutes. Serve with boiled new potatoes and fresh herbs. Bon appetit!

Tender chicken fricassee with bell pepper

Having on hand such simple ingredients as chicken fillet, sweet bell peppers and heavy cream, we prepare a stunningly tender dish that goes perfectly with both cereals and vegetables.

Cooking time – 40 min.

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Portions – 4.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast – 1 pc.
• Chicken thighs – 3 pcs.
• Onions (large) – 2 pcs.
• Bell pepper – 2 pcs.
• Tomatoes – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 5 teeth.
• Dry white wine – 200 ml.
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
• Dill - to taste.
• Parsley - to taste.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare the products according to the list: rinse meat and vegetables under running water, dry with paper towels. Peel the onions.

2. Cut sweet bell peppers, tomatoes and onions into small cubes.

3. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the onion until transparent. Afterwards, immediately add chopped tomatoes and peppers and fry until the vegetables are soft.

4. The next step is to add the chicken, cut into small pieces, into the frying pan.Fry over high heat for about 5 minutes.

5. Periodically stirring the fricassee components, pour in almost a whole glass of dry wine and evaporate all the liquid over medium heat, this will take about 20 minutes.

6. A few minutes before readiness, add the garlic cloves, passed through a press, the herbs and mix well. After a few minutes, remove from the heat. Serve with boiled rice or buckwheat. Bon appetit!

Step-by-step recipe for making turkey fricassee

It is very easy to dry out tender turkey meat, and in order to minimize this, we cook the fillet simmered in a white sauce, namely cream. This hot dish is a complete and nutritious lunch or dinner that can feed the whole family.

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Cooking time - 10 min.

Portions – 4.

Ingredients:

• Turkey fillet – 450 gr.
• Cream 10-15% - 150 ml.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Water – 50 ml.
• Vegetable oil – 30 ml.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Salt – ½ tsp.
• Ground black pepper – ¼ tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Rinse the turkey flesh under running water, dry it with paper towels and cut into medium strips.

2. Peel the onion and cut into quarters.

3. Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the meat along with onions for about 7-10 minutes until golden brown. At the same stage, season the future fricassee with salt and ground black pepper.

4. After the time has passed, pour in the required amount of cream and add flour - mix well.

5. After, pour in 50 milliliters of clean water and simmer over low heat until the sauce thickens. Bon appetit!

A simple and delicious rabbit fricassee recipe

We are preparing a low-calorie dish based on rabbit meat and potatoes.The recipe is slightly different from the classic one and does not contain onions and many spices, and the ingredients are not simmered in heavy cream.

Cooking time – 1 hour 30 minutes

Cooking time - 15 minutes.

Portions – 5.

Ingredients:

• Rabbit meat – 500 gr.
• Potatoes – 5 pcs.
• Carrots – 2 pcs.
• Cream – 150 ml.
• Parsley – 20 gr.
• Dill – 20 gr.
• Leaf lettuce – 50 gr.
• Salt – 1 pinch.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the tender meat with water, dry it and cut into medium-sized cubes. If you use frozen rabbit meat, defrosting should be done at room temperature, and not in water, so as not to destroy the fiber structure.

2. We don’t throw away the bones; we will use them later to make broth.

3. Transfer the bones to the multicooker bowl and fill with water.

4. Cook for 20 minutes.

5. Pour the hot broth into a container, and in the bowl melt the inclusions of rabbit fat and fry the meat in it until the pieces change color.

6. The next step is to add finely chopped carrots and potatoes, fill everything with cream and broth, add salt and cook in the “Stew” mode for 20 minutes.

7. After the time has passed, open the lid.

8. Add chopped parsley and dill, mix well and leave to steep for another 10 minutes with the lid closed.

9. Fricassee of rabbit meat with vegetables is ready.

10. Serve the dish with juicy green salad leaves.

11. And on top we lay out a fragrant and incredibly tender hot dish. Bon appetit!

Juicy pork fricassee at home

Original fricassee recipe based on pork.The meat is simmered together with mushrooms in sour cream sauce, due to which all components are completely saturated with each other’s juice and aroma and form a unique taste.

Cooking time – 50 min.

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Portions – 2.

Ingredients:

• Pork – 300 gr.
• Champignons – 100 gr.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Garlic – 1 tooth.
• Sour cream – ½ tbsp.
• Ground nutmeg – 1-2 pinches.
• Salt - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare the pork. Rinse the meat thoroughly under running water, dry it with kitchen towels and transfer it to a cutting board.

2. Clean the piece of meat from white films (throw them away) and inclusions of fat (put them aside).

3. Cut the pork into medium-sized pieces and at the same time melt the fat trimmings in a frying pan.

4. Fry the meat pieces until golden brown.

5. Let's move on to other components of fricassee. Wash the champignons thoroughly and place in a colander, allowing excess water to drain.

6. Cut the dry mushrooms into fairly thin slices and send them to the meat.

7. As soon as the champignon plates are browned, add 100 milliliters of sour cream of any fat content and a little filtered water to the pan.

8. Close the pan with a lid, reduce the heat and simmer for about 40 minutes.

9. While the fricassee arrives, peel the onions and finely chop them.

10. Pass a clove of aromatic garlic through a press. When the pork is ready, add chopped onion and garlic, salt and nutmeg, add a little more water and simmer for 10 minutes.

11. Place the hot, delicious fricassee on portioned plates and serve in combination with tender mashed potatoes and fresh vegetable salad. Bon appetit!

Homemade fricassee cooked in a slow cooker

Fricassee is meat stewed in a white sauce, often in sour cream or cream and complemented with onions, various spices and favorite herbs. This dish seems to be intended for cooking in a slow cooker, because it is there that the ingredients are maximally saturated with each other’s juice and aroma.

Cooking time – 1 hour 10 minutes

Cooking time - 10 min.

Portions – 4.

Ingredients:

• Chicken breast – 600 gr.
• Champignons – 600 gr.
• Green peas – 250 gr.
• Cream – 100 ml.
• Dry white wine – 200 ml.
• Broth – 200 ml.
• Butter – 20 gr.
• Flour – 4 tbsp.
• Lemon zest – 2 tsp.
• Parsley (dried) – 1 tbsp.
• Bay leaf – 1 pc.
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Thyme - 1 tsp.
• Garlic – 1 tooth.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Let's take care of the meat. Cut the chicken breast into fairly large pieces and roll in a mixture of 3 tablespoons of flour, ground pepper and salt.

2. In a multicooker bowl, melt a piece of butter and fry the chicken on all sides until golden brown.

3. When the bird is browned, add chopped onion and garlic, parsley and thyme, wine and broth, as well as lemon zest and one spoon of flour into the bowl. Mix all the ingredients and cook in the “Stew” mode for 60 minutes.

4. After 40 minutes, add small mushrooms cut into quarters to all ingredients and continue to simmer.

5. 10 minutes before it’s ready, add green peas to the meat with vegetables and mushrooms and pour in cream (the percentage of fat content is not important, but the higher the fat content, the tastier). Bon appetit!

How to deliciously bake chicken fricassee in the oven?

There's nothing easier than cooking in the oven; you don't even need to turn the food over! And fricassee, simmered in sauce, cooked not in a frying pan, but in the oven, turns out to be as tender, low-fat and aromatic as possible.

Cooking time – 1 hour 35 minutes

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Portions – 4.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet – 4 pcs.
• Mayonnaise – 2 tbsp.
• Cream – 400 ml.
• Onions – 2 pcs.
• Vegetable oil – 3 tbsp.
• Cheese – 100 gr.
• Bell pepper – 1 pc.
• Salt - to taste.
• Spices - to taste.
• Ground paprika – ½ tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Cut the fillet into large strips and marinate in a mixture of your favorite spices, salt and a small amount of oil - mix well and leave to soak for 10 minutes. At this time, place chopped onions on the bottom of the baking dish, and the next layer is marinated chicken.

2. Prepare the dressing. In a separate container, combine cream, ground red paprika and mayonnaise.

3. Generously pour the resulting mixture over the meat and onions, and place bell peppers, pre-cut into thin strips, on the sides of the pan. It is this component that will give the finished dish a unique aroma.

4. Cook in the oven for one hour at 180 degrees.

5. After 60 minutes, sprinkle the fricassee with grated cheese and bake for another 10-15 minutes, but at a temperature of 200 degrees, so that the cheese melts faster. Bon appetit!

Delicious rabbit fricassee in wine sauce

When you want something exquisite, as if cooked in a restaurant, we prepare a tasty, light and incredibly aromatic dish - rabbit fricassee simmered in wine sauce. To “create” this masterpiece, you only need meat, wine and properly selected spices and herbs.

Cooking time – 1 hour15 minutes.

Cooking time - 20 minutes.

Portions – 4.

Ingredients:

• Rabbit meat – 1 kg.
• Dry red wine – 1.5 tbsp.
• Olive oil – 1 tbsp.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tsp.
• Anise – ½ tsp.
• Thyme – 1 tsp.
• Oranges – 3 pcs.
• Cranberries – 150 gr.
• Rosemary – 1 sprig.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Let's take care of the meat. Rinse the carcass thoroughly under running water, dry it with paper towels and cut it into pieces.

2. Place the rabbit meat in a deep container and prepare the sauce. Pour one glass of red wine into the bowl, it is important to use dry wine, it perfectly emphasizes the taste of the meat.

3. Pour ground anise, thyme, salt, ground black pepper, olive oil into a container with wine and mix.

4. Pour the aromatic dressing over the rabbit and set it aside to soak in wine and spices.

5. At this time, remove the thick skin and white films from two oranges and cut them into slices.

6. After 30 minutes, heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the meat for 2 minutes on each side.

7. Place the lightly fried meat on a baking sheet, the bottom of which is previously strewn with cranberries.

8. Place orange slices on top of the rabbit and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for about an hour.

9. While the fricassee is simmering, prepare the sauce. In a saucepan, combine half a glass of wine and the juice of one orange - put on fire.

10. Also add granulated sugar, orange zest and a sprig of rosemary. With constant stirring, cook for several minutes after boiling.

11. After an hour, carefully remove the delicious rabbit and place it on plates.

12. Pour rich sauce over the meat stewed in wine and enjoy. Bon appetit!