There is no such dish as chicken carpaccio in classic Italian cuisine. This appetizer from chicken meat is just a variation on the topic, similar to carpaccio from salmon, or, say, from trout. An authentic carpaccio recipe includes beef meat, cut into thin slices and sprinkled with quality olive oil. For those who are hungry for experiments, we talk about how to cook carpaccio from chicken.
How to make carpaccio from chicken?
Before cooking, make sure that the bird you are using to prepare snacks was absolutely healthy during life, as its meat will not be subjected to any heat treatment.
Ingredients:
- chicken fillet - 1 piece;
- juice of 1 lemon;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt. pepper - to taste.
Preparation
Before preparing chicken carpaccio, the fillet should be thoroughly rinsed, cut off all films and veins, and then dried using a paper towel. Prepared fillet wrapped with food film and leave in the freezer until it freezes. It is worth noting that you should not turn chicken into a block of ice, since freezing is primarily needed to ensure that the meat can easily be cut into thin slices.
Mix the lemon juice with a corolla with olive oil. Solim and pepper refill to taste.
Frozen chicken fillet is cleaned from the film and cut using an acute knife, or a special meat slicer. We give the chicken a little thaw, and afterwards we spread it on a beautiful flat dish and pour it with the ready-made juice.
Decorate carpaccio of chicken can be a classic way, laying in the center of the dish a little arugula, a slice of lemon, and on top of sprinkling meat with thin petals of parmesan.
Chicken carpaccio recipe
For those who are afraid of raw meat, we recommend simply forget about the carpaccio dish, or, in extreme cases, prepare its interpretation with dried meat.
Ingredients:
- mixture of spices for chicken - 1 teaspoon;
- a mixture of Provencal herbs - 1 teaspoon;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- chicken fillet - 2 pcs.
Preparation
Mix all the spices with salt and pepper. Chicken we wash, dry with paper towels and crumble in spices. Cover the meat with foil and put under oppression for 2-3 hours. After the time has elapsed, extra liquid will leave the chicken, and now the fillets can be strung with a needle on the rope, or in a simple way - on skewers. We leave pieces of chicken in limbo for a day, after a while, try the meat and if its rigidity suits you - take it off and cut it with a slicer.
Salad with chicken carpaccio
In fact, carpaccio is always served with herbs and fresh herbs, so in this case "salad" is a relative term. In this recipe you can use for cooking chicken as the first recipe, with raw meat, and the recipe of the second - more familiar to our eater. Such a light snack excites appetite excellently and is suitable for starting a meal with a glass of wine.
Ingredients:
- carpaccio of chicken;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
- mix of salads - 1 handful;
- lemon juice;
- olive oil;
- Parmesan cheese;
- Balsamic glaze.
Preparation
Carpaccio cut into thin slices and lay out on a flat dish.
With the help of a slicer, or a very sharp knife, chop the Bulgarian pepper as thin as possible. Mix the salads with pieces of pepper, sprinkle the salad with oil and lemon juice, add a little salt and pepper, and then carefully mix the salad. We spread the salad with a handful to the center of the plate with carpaccio, and on top of the snacks we arrange the thin petals of parmesan. We pour the dish with balsamic glaze.