Chicken, especially its loin, is a delicious dietary meat.
In the summer I want to cook a light full-fledged dish with vegetables, and zucchini for this is the best fit.
In a slow cooker, this dish always turns out to be tasty and rich.
Chicken with zucchini in a slow cooker - the basic principles of cooking
In summer, a wide variety of vegetables. We suggest you cook chicken with zucchini in a slow cooker. With minimal time and effort, you get a delicious, full-fledged dish.
Zucchini goes well with chicken and any vegetables. In addition to zucchini and chicken, you will need onions, spices and carrots.
The chicken is washed under the tap, cut into portions and fried in a slow cooker in the "Frying" mode until light brown. You can use any parts. Then add onion chopped quarter rings to the meat and continue to fry until the onions are transparent. Carrots are rubbed and added to other products.
Zucchini cut into bars or small pieces. If the skin is tough, it is recommended to clean it.
Zucchini is added to the rest of the ingredients, mixed and cooked in the "Stew" mode. To prevent the dish from getting dry, add a little chicken stock, sour cream or tomato to it.
For variety, you can add other vegetables or rice. Serve chicken with zucchini in a slow cooker with a salad of fresh vegetables.
Recipe 1. Chicken with zucchini in a slow cooker
Ingredients
800 g of chicken;
spices;
bulb;
50 g of sour cream;
carrot;
two medium squash.
Cooking method
1. Peel the onion. Finely chop it. Pour a small amount of oil into the multicooker pan and put chopped onion.
2. Select on the panel the program "Frying" for a quarter of an hour, and fry the onions for four minutes, until lightly browned.
3. Cut the peeled carrots lengthwise into four parts and chop it into thin quarters. Add to the onion, mix and fry, stirring, the same amount of time.
4. Rinse chicken fillet, if there is skin, cut it off. Dip the meat with napkins and cut into slices. Put chicken to vegetables and fry, stirring occasionally, until the end of the program.
5. Wash the zucchini, wipe with a napkin, finely chop and add to the chicken with vegetables. Turn the Extinguish function on for 25 minutes. Close the lid tightly and cook until a beep is heard. Then add sour cream, mix and cook in the same mode for another five minutes. Put the finished dish on a plate and sprinkle with fresh herbs.
Recipe 2. Chicken with zucchini in a slow cooker with sour cream
Ingredients
half a kilogram of chicken legs;
200 ml of sour cream;
100 g of onions;
30 ml of vegetable oil;
100 g of carrots;
fresh parsley and dill;
800 g of zucchini;
5 g of dry spices.
Cooking method
1. Wash chicken thighs, dry with napkins and rub meat with spices and salt. Leave the chicken to marinate for at least half an hour.
2. Turn on the slow cooker in the "Frying" mode. Pour oil into a container and warm it slightly. Put the hips into the multicooker with the skin down, close the lid and fry the meat for ten minutes.
3. Peel the onion and chop it not too finely. Wash the peeled carrots and cut into thin circles.
4. Turn the hips over and cook in the same mode for another ten minutes.
5. Move the hips to the side. Put vegetables on the vacant place, mix and close the lid. Cook another quarter hour.
6. Wash the zucchini, wipe with a towel and cut into large enough bars.
7. Put the zucchini to the chicken, salt and add sour cream. Rinse and finely chop the greens. Add it to the crock pot and close the lid. Activate the "Extinguishing" function and cook for an hour.
Recipe 3. Chicken with zucchini in a slow cooker with soy sauce
Ingredients
spices;
zucchini;
10 ml of soy sauce;
carrot;
10 ml of olive oil;
bulb;
5 g of salt;
three tomatoes;
green onions;
bell pepper;
a bunch of fresh dill;
one chicken fillet.
Cooking method
1. Wash the zucchini, wipe with a towel and cut into large pieces so that it does not lose shape during the process of stewing. If the peel is hard, peel it. Peel and grate the carrots. Chop the peeled onion with thin half rings. Scale tomatoes with boiling water and peel thin skin from them. Cut the flesh into thick slices. Free peppers from ponytails and seeds. Cut it into thin strips. You can take two halves of pepper of different colors.
2. Rinse the chicken fillet under a tap, soak it with napkins and cut it like a goulash. Put the chicken and vegetables in the multicooker bowl. Salt and season everything. Drizzle with olive oil and soy sauce.
3. Place the bowl in the appliance, turn on the "Extinguishing" program for half an hour. Rinse the greens of parsley, onion and dill, dry slightly and chop finely. Add to bowl. If you wish, you can put finely chopped garlic. Serve chicken with zucchini and fresh vegetable salad.
Recipe 4. Roast chicken with zucchini in a slow cooker
Ingredients
two chicken breasts;
100 ml of vegetable oil;
three zucchini;
spice;
carrot;
salt;
bulb;
four tomatoes.
Cooking method
1. Separate the chicken breast from the bone, cut off the skin and rinse under running water. Dip with napkins and cut the fillet into small slices.
2. Peel and chop onions and carrots with a thin straw. Remove the peel from the zucchini and cut them into circles. Put in a plate and lightly sprinkle with salt.
3. Pour oil into the pan of the appliance and lightly heat it in the "Frying" mode. Lay out the carrots and sauté them for a couple of minutes, then add the onions and continue to fry, stirring constantly, until soft. Put the vegetable frying on a plate.
4. Put the chicken breast slices in the multicooker bowl, salt and fry, stirring, until appetizing crust.
5. Arrange the zucchini mugs on the meat. Season with spices and mix. Pour in half a glass of boiled water. Put the vegetable fry on top.
6. Scald tomatoes with boiling water, remove a thin skin, cut the flesh into slices. Put the tomatoes on top of the vegetables. Close the lid tightly and turn on the Pilaf program for forty minutes.
Recipe 6. Chicken with zucchini and mushrooms in a slow cooker
Ingredients
half a kilogram of chicken;
sea salt;
400 g of potatoes;
125 ml of meat broth;
300 g squash;
200 g of champignons;
carrot;
ground pepper;
two pods of bell pepper;
bulb.
Cooking method
1. My chicken breast under the tap, slightly dry it with napkins and cut into oblong slices. We clean onions and carrots. Large three carrots. Chop the onion quarter rings. Pepper free from tails and seeds. Cut it into strips, a centimeter thick. Remove the peel from the mushroom caps and cut the legs. We clean and wash the potatoes. Mushrooms and potatoes are cut into large cubes.
2. Pour oil into the bowl of the appliance and activate the “Baking” program. Lightly warm it up. Then spread the chicken breast slices and fry, stirring constantly, for a quarter of an hour.
3. Add all the vegetables and mushrooms to the meat, mix and pour the broth. Switch the slow cooker to the "Stew" mode and cook the chicken with zucchini in the slow cooker for 25 minutes. At the end of the program, pepper and salt. Stir and activate the “Baking” function for ten minutes.
Recipe 6. Chicken with zucchini and rice in a slow cooker
Ingredients
a pound of chicken thighs;
salt;
300 g squash;
bulb;
a glass of rice;
spices for chicken;
one and a half glasses of purified water;
sprig of dried basil;
250 g carrots;
50 ml of refined sunflower oil.
Cooking method
1. We wash the chicken thighs under the tap, slightly dry them with napkins and cut them along the joint.
2. Pour oil into the container and lay the chicken. We activate the function "Frying" for about 20 minutes. We fry the meat for ten minutes, without closing the lid, to an appetizing crust.
3. Zucchini wash and wipe with a towel. We cut on both sides, and cut along in half. Now we chop the zucchini in half rings, three centimeters thick.
4. We clean the carrots, wash them and cut them into circles, two centimeters thick. We chop the peeled onion in half rings.
5. Put the fried chicken on a plate, and put the zucchini in the bowl and fry, stirring occasionally, for about five minutes.
6. Then add the remaining vegetables to the zucchini and continue cooking, without changing the regime, for another seven minutes.
7. On top of vegetables, spread the fried chicken meat. We wash the rice to clear water and add it to the bowl with vegetables and meat. Pour in water, salt and season with spices. Mix, tightly close the lid and activate the "Pilaf" or "Rice" function. Cooking until the sound signal. We set the time based on recommendations for cooking on the packaging of rice.
Chicken with zucchini in a slow cooker - tips and tricks
Mature zucchini must be peeled, as it can give the dish a bitter taste.
To cook chicken with zucchini, it is better to take fillets, hips or drumsticks.
Instead of water or broth, you can add tomatoes to the dish.
Cut the zucchini large enough so that they retain their shape during cooking.
