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These dreamy chicken kotleti or patties are so soft and tasty. Yes, chicken can be dreamy. Our son loved them too. He called them “big chicken nuggets” 🙂 We learned how to make these from Olga of Olga’s flavor factory and I’m so pleased to share the recipe with you. We love her food and family blogs!
We share the same taste and we are both nurses. Awesome! I hope to meet her in person one day. Olga this one’s a keeper; thank you!!
Ingredients for Chicken Kotleti:
1 lb ground chicken
1 cup Panko bread crumbs
1/2 cup milk
2 Tbsp sour cream
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 egg
1 small onion (grated)
1/2 cup flour for dredging
Olive oil or canola oil to sautee
How to make Chicken Katleti:
1.Place Panko bread crumbs in a large bowl. Add milk and let the mixture stand for 5 min.
2. Add ground chicken, 2 Tbsp sour cream, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1 egg and 1 small grated onion to the bread mix. and Stir together. The meat mixture will be very soft; much softer than a regular kotleti mixture.
3. Wet your hands and make oval patties. Dredge both sides of the patties in flour. This step can be a little tricky since the meat mix is so soft, but it’s ok if they aren’t perfect.
4. Heat 2-3 Tbsp of oil in a nonstick skillet, add the kotleti. Cover and cook until golden on both sides. Cook about 5 minutes on the first side and 3 minutes on the next. Wipe your skillet with a paper towel between batches and add more oil as needed.
Enjoy 🙂 Yum Yum
Chicken Kotleti Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground chicken
- 1 cup Panko bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 Tbsp sour cream
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1 egg
- 1 small onion, grated
- 1/2 cup flour for dredging
- Olive oil or canola oil to sautee
Instructions
- Combine 1 cup of breadcrumbs with 1/2 cup of milk, let them stand for 5 minutes.
- Add chicken, 2 tbsp sour cream, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper, 1 egg and 1 onion to the bread mix & stir together.
- Using wet hands make oval patties than dredge both sides in flour.
- Place patties in the preheated nonstick skillet with 2-3 Tbsp of oil. Cover and cook until golden on both sides, 5 minutes on the first side and 3 minutes on the next. Add more oil as needed.
Natasha Kravchuk
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How to freeze and to make healthier kotlety?
First and first, I want to thank Natasha for all recipes . They always work like a magic. This time the only thing I modified is that I skipped dredging in the end. Also I cooked on the skilled only 1-2 min each side with little to no oil – just to get crust. I doubled the recipe, so half of patties I put into the Instant pot,added 1 cup of water and set manual for 10 min. Kotlety are very juicy and delicious! Second batch I cooled to the room temperature,them in the fridge for 1-2h and then transfered to the freezer. When I need them, just cook still frozen patties with water under the pressure using instant pot 🙂
Absolutely delicious! Served these with a side of your Buckwheats with Mushroom which was also quite yummy, and our first time ever trying them.
I’m glad that you enjoyed them!
How long can they stay in the fridge after cooked? Please respond asap
Hi Marla, these will last for several days in the fridge. We like to enjoy them fresh, they do get soft in the fridge, but you can always reheat on a pan as well.
Hi Natasha! Thank you for sharing this recipe! Can it be frozen? If yes, uncooked, cooked or both?
Thank you!
I haven’t tried and they are so soft that I’m not sure how it would work out to freeze them. I’m just not sure; sorry I don’t have a clear answer for ya.
Do you think you could cook these in an air fryer?
I love your recipes – they’re always a hit.
Hi Elaine, I haven’t tried cooking this in an air fryer so I can’t speak to that or the outcome of using an air fryer.
Very good recipe. I subbed bread crumbs with an almond flour slurry because my pregnant wife and I are eating low carb. And I dredged them in more almond flour. The dredging is really tricky but it was worth it. Tastes just like how baba used to make.
Nice to know that the substitutions you used were great too! Thank you for sharing that with us.
I made these for dinner tonight. So yummy! I added a bit of cayenne and smoked paprika. I fried them in butter and chicken fat (schmaltz). Definitely making these again!
Sounds great! Thanks for sharing that with us and for giving this recipe a great review, Stacey!
I make kotletki all the time but often they come out either too dry or too oniony. This recipe was perfect. They came out looking all nice and even and taste delicious. My little one approved and has been taking them to school two days in a row.
I’m so happy to hear that. Thank you for trying out this recipe, so good to know that you and your little one both loved it!
These are super delicious and my go-to katleti!!! But does anyone know approximately how many calories are in these? Would appreciate it
Hi Lena, we are slowly working through all of our recipes to add nutrition info but it is a time-consuming process as they have to be added one at a time. Most of our recipes do have that information on the printable recipe card. Thank you for being patient!
What if I do 3lbs?? Do I triple everything??? 🙂
HHi Natalie, yes you would triple it all. Here is what one of our reader that tripled it wrote “Wow, they were one of the best kotleti I have ever tried. I tripled the recipe and they were still gone. Thank you very much Natasha… you are amazing” I hope that helps!