If you watch your diet and try to lose weight by the onset of the swimming season, then the muffins (in their classic form) will have to be temporarily forgotten, or replaced with this unusual analogue. Chicken muffins consist of chicken minced meat and are supplemented with spices, or vegetables, herbs, bacon, cheese. In the finished product, a minimum of carbohydrates and a maximum protein.
Chicken muffins with cheese - recipe
If you want to diversify the taste of chicken, then besides spices you can use cheese. Different kinds of cheese will give different tastes to the dish.
Ingredients:
- chicken - 380 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- a stalk of celery ;
- dried onions - 1 teaspoon;
- a mixture of seasonings for chicken - 1/2 teaspoon;
- grated cheese - 85 g.
Preparation
Turn the chicken into minced meat and beat the eggs to it. Add spices from the list, and then finely chopped celery stalk. The final touch is grated cheese. Blend the prepared mixture thoroughly with a blender to obtain a paste-like mass. Next, distribute the chicken mince over the six cells of the muffin mold and send everything to bake for half an hour at 180.
Chicken muffins with mushrooms in the oven
Cottage cheese will help to make the protein content in the ready dish even higher. Do not be afraid of a strange, at first glance, combination of chicken meat and cottage cheese, because the result is surprisingly tasty, and, among other things, useful.
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 65 g;
- grated cheese - 35 g;
- a handful of olives;
- champignons - 115 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- Dried garlic and oregano - 1 teaspoon each;
- chicken fillet - 740 g;
- pinch of paprika.
Preparation
Cut the mushrooms, fry them, seasoned with herbs and salt.
To make the mixture more homogeneous, it is better to use a powerful blender. Whisk together cheese, chicken and cottage cheese. Salt everything and mix with the egg. Add mushrooms, pinch of salt and paprika. Mass, in its consistency resembling mousse, spread on six cells of the mold, send to the oven for half an hour at 180. Muffins from chicken can be served hot or re-warmed before meals, this will not affect the consistency of the dish.
Muffins from chicken breast
If you have boiled chicken at your disposal, then it can also be used for muffins, based on this recipe.
Ingredients:
- chicken meat - 190 g;
- cream - 55 ml;
- butter - 35 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- flour - 115 g;
- baking powder - 5 g;
- parsley greens.
Preparation
Chicken cut into fibers and put them into the cells of the mold for muffins. Whisk the melted butter with the egg and cream, and then add the flour mixture with the baking powder. With a ready test, pour the chicken and send everything to bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees. Sprinkle with parsley in the final.