Tender Chicken Breast Cutlets With Egg And Cilantro. Step-by-step Recipe With Photo

Chicken breast cutlets with egg and cilantro are tender and aromatic. Hot with mashed potatoes is the perfect lunch or dinner, and cold cutlets are a great sandwich solution! By the way, a homemade cheeseburger with such a cutlet is simply delicious! Chicken breast cutlets with an egg and a piece of butter inside will not leave anyone indifferent. Don't forget about the side dish: tender mashed potatoes, crumbly rice or fresh vegetable salad are what you need!

• Cooking time: 45 minutes
• Servings: 6-8

Ingredients for chicken breast cutlets

• 700 g chicken breast;
• 120 g onions;
• 3 slices of white bread;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 50 g cilantro;
• 2 eggs;
• 40 g butter;
• 50 g bread crumbs;
• salt, black and white pepper, vegetable oil.

Method for preparing tender chicken breast cutlets

Let's prepare products for a recipe for chicken breast cutlets. Remove the skin from the chicken breast, make a deep longitudinal incision along the keel bone and cut the fillets on both sides. Cut the fillets into large cubes. Peel the onion, also chop it coarsely.

Soak several slices of white bread in cold milk, knead to make small crumbs.

Put chopped fillet, pieces of onion, bread soaked in milk into the bowl of a food processor. We take a bunch of cilantro, cut off the roots and a few centimeters of the stem at the root, cut the rest of the greens and add to the bowl. By the way, I advise you to put chicken bones and cilantro stalks in a bag and freeze, gradually you can accumulate a good set for making broth.

Season - salt, add half a teaspoon of ground black and white pepper.

Grind the ingredients of chicken breast cutlets with several impulse inclusions to get a homogeneous minced meat, like for boiled sausage.

We divide the minced meat into equal parts, one cutlet will need from 90-120 g of minced meat, depending on the appetite of the eaters.

Boil the eggs hard-boiled, rub the white and yolk separately on a fine grater. Flatten the minced meat to make an oval cake, put a piece of frozen butter, a little grated egg white and yolk in the center.

We also flatten the rest of the minced meat, put a piece of butter, protein and yolk on top.

We moisten palms in cold water, sculpt cutlets with filling in the middle. Pour bread crumbs or ground crackers on a plate, roll the cutlets in crumbs.

Pour some vegetable oil into the pan and heat it. Put the cutlets into the heated oil, fry until golden brown over medium heat, first on one side, then on the other.

When all the cutlets are fried, close the pan with a lid and bring to readiness over low heat for 7 minutes. In the event that the whole batch does not fit in the pan, you will have to fry in turn, then put it together and close the lid. You can also send the fried patties to an oven heated to 180 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes.

Put lettuce leaves on a plate, juicy chicken breast cutlets with egg and cilantro on top and serve the dish on the table!

Bon Appetit!