A few days ago I explained to you how to cook a frozen salmon loin to make it a movie and since you found it interesting, today I have prepared a similar post. Continuing with the series, today we have another installment: how to cook a chicken breast without defrosting it first.
Normally we all have this type of food in the freezer ready for when it suits us to use it. The bad thing is that sometimes we haven’t had time or we haven’t remembered take out the frozen brisket in time for it to thaw for cooking.
The objective is to teach you the technique so that you can serve this dish turned into something delicious, juicy inside and crispy on the outside, without having to defrost the breasts beforehand. These are the keys to achieve it.
Previous work. How to freeze chicken breasts
In order to use this technique, the chicken breasts must have been frozen one at a time or several in a bag but laying them flatand separated from each other so that when frozen they do not stick to each other forming a chicken block.
It is convenient to buy whole breasts (without filleting) and that they are of a similar size and shape so that later, when they are baked, they fit well, cooked evenly. It is also convenient, -before freezing the breasts- clean them of grease and lint they may have.
How to cook chicken breasts without defrosting them
We take the breasts out of the freezer and put the oven to preheat with heat up and down to 220º. In about five or ten minutes, the oven will be ready to do its job. In that time, we are going to prepare the breasts so that they are at their point. The first thing, we place them in the source or iron where we are going to bake them, like this, frozen, directly from the bag.
so that they remain juicy inside and a nice spicy crunch on the outside, we are going to prepare a mixture of breadcrumbs, Parmesan cheese, crispy onion and paprika, which will protect them from baking and at the same time leave them perfectly seasoned. To make it come together well, add a little olive oil to the mixture and stir well. You can use aromatic herbs or any ingredient of your choice.
Brush the breasts a little with olive oil and sprinkle with our seasoning mix and bread mix. You can also choose to give that layer of “varnished” with mustard instead of with oilif you like a more powerful flavor.
Then, we cover the breasts with the mixture of bread, cheese and spices and squeeze a little with your hands so that it sticks well. We put the breasts in the oven when they are ready to bake and let them cook until the bread covering is browned. Normally frozen breasts need 50% more time than if they were fresh.
In this case, I had them in the oven for 35 minutes. You already know that each house is a world and each oven has its times but it serves as an orientation. In any case you have to see it in your oven. To be sure that the interior is okay, we check with a probe that the internal temperature in the thickest part of the chicken reaches 72º.
After letting rest the breasts for about 5 minutes, so that their juices are well distributed inside, we can proceed to cut them into slices, removing four or five from each breast. You will see how both its juicy texture and its crunchy exterior surprise you. And all in just over half an hour, from the time we take them out of the freezer until we take them to the table.
As you can see, the process is very simple. now that you know how to cook a chicken breast without defrosting it firstremember it when you make the purchase to be able to freeze them properly and thus get the most out of them.
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