Achieving juicy chicken breasts is essential so that, regardless of the preparation, the result is satisfactory. To do this, there are key elements such as having a good quality piece of meat and finding the perfect cooking point. But the cut of the chicken breast is also relevant to make it tender and tasty. Especially if you are going to prepare them with a sauce.
Professional chef Sonny Hurrell has shared on his profile on the social network Instagram (@thatdude_cancook, with 375 thousand followers), a video where he shows how he cuts the breasts to accompany them with a sauce and the reason is precisely so that the distribution of that sauce be the correct one.
Chicken provides a lot of versatility in the kitchen and we can prepare it in a wide variety of recipes. Among them, chicken breasts in sauce, to add juiciness, creaminess and flavor. But the secret for the sauce to integrate well with the meat lies in the cut of the piece itself.
The chef teaches on Instagram that the best thing to do is to make some deep cuts on one side of the chicken breast. First vertically and then horizontally, creating a kind of squares on the surface of the meat. Once this cut is made, it gives way to preparing the breasts with a succulent sauce.
First, season the meat with salt and pepper. Next, the chef coats the breasts in flour and fries them in a pan with a mixture of two tablespoons of olive oil and two tablespoons of butter, for exactly three minutes on each side.
After this time, with the breasts in the pan, leaving the cuts facing up, add the chopped garlic, along with the sherry vinegar, soy sauce and maple syrup, as well as one more tablespoon of butter. Then, cook the breasts for another five minutes, basting them constantly with the sauce.
Finally, when you serve them, add chopped chives on top. Chef Sonny Hurrell explains that those cuts he made at the beginning become the perfect container for the sauce, thus achieving “the juiciest bite.”
