You are planning some kind of holiday, an important date, or you just decided to arrange a dinner for two with your loved one. And now you are already standing in the center of the kitchen, among the numerous plates, pots, pans and racking your brains to cook such an interesting and tasty dish to please your loved ones and loved ones.
The chicken will come to your aid. Yes, that's her. What could be better than tasting a delicious, appetizing-ruddy chicken exuding a delicate aroma of herbs and garlic. It only takes a little time to understand the wisdom on how to cook chicken in the oven tasty and fast.
Chicken meat is by far the most affordable and common protein dietary food. The most useful is chicken cooked in the oven - since the use of fats in the cooking process is reduced to a minimum. And cooking in the oven itself does not require great experience and special culinary knowledge. Everything is very simple - you just need to know a few secrets about how to cook chicken in the oven, and of course I will share them with you. Soon you will be able to delight your loved ones with delicious and healthy chicken dishes.
Choosing a chicken for cooking in the oven
You came to the store with the firm intention of buying the best chicken for the most amazing dinner, but the assortment displayed in the window is so large that your eyes run wide. How to choose exactly the one that is the best, suitable for cooking in the oven?
For baking chicken in the oven, it is best to choose carcasses of medium fatness, it is better to give preference to chilled meat - this meat is very tender and, since it has avoided the fate of freezing, it has retained the whole range of useful properties. You can distinguish fresh meat from old meat by color and smell. It has a light, pinkish color with a barely perceptible smell. The meat belonging to the chicken - "pensioner" or old has a pungent smell and bluish color.
If you nevertheless bought old meat and decided to bake it in the oven, then pre-boil it until tender, and put it in the oven so that it acquires a ruddy appetizing crust.
Crispy crust - how to get?
Crispness can be achieved in several ways:
1. The easiest way is to use the grill function if your oven has one. Put the baking sheet with the chicken in the oven as close as possible to the grill and turn it on.
2. You can use honey, it will give the carcass a golden hue and amazing taste.
3. The third method creates a crisp with salt. We take 1 kilogram of salt, evenly distribute it over the baking sheet, put the chicken slices on top of it with the skin down, then send the baking sheet to the oven and bake until tender. If you choose this method, then remember that the chicken cannot be salted - it will take as much salt as it needs and not a gram more.
It takes only 10 minutes to create a crispy crust with honey and grill, so you need to first bring the meat to readiness, and only then deal with the crust.
Determine the readiness of chicken meat in the oven
You have chosen a recipe, meat, prepared it and now it is already in the oven and baked. But how do you know when the carcass is ready?
Use a fork with long tines to determine the doneness of the meat. Having opened the oven, make a puncture on the carcass in the area of the breast and in the thigh. If at the puncture site you see transparent juice flowing out without cloudy and reddish inclusions, then the chicken is ready, and if you see reddish, cloudy juice, then it needs more time to bake.
Recipes how to cook chicken in the oven
There are several dozen different recipes on the topic of cooking chicken meat, and they are very popular among housewives who delight their families with delicious dishes on weekdays and holidays. Let's look at some of them, and you will choose for yourself what you like.
1. Chicken, rubbed with salt
It is considered one of the easiest recipes. We wash the chicken with cold water and rub it with a mixture of salt and spices, if desired, it can be stuffed with garlic, after which we place it in a preheated oven. When the chicken begins to brown, reduce the temperature and grease the carcass with vegetable or butter.
2. Chicken in a bottle
In my opinion, chicken cooked in this way is the most delicious, since the meat turns out to be soft, juicy and at the same time covered with a delicious crispy crust - just the perfect dish.
A feature of this recipe is that the chicken “sits” on the bottle during baking. In order for the meat to acquire a more appetizing taste, pour milk or a mixture of broth with spices into the bottle.
Ingredients:
Chicken - 1 pc.
Salt, ground black pepper
Garlic - a couple of cloves
Spices to taste
Bay leaf
Recipe:
Wash the carcass, and rub it inside and out with a mixture of salt, pepper, garlic and various seasonings. We leave the chicken to marinate from 2 hours to 2 days.
After the pickling is over, pour water (or milk, or a mixture of broth with spices) into a jar or bottle of milk to the top.
We put our chicken on the bottle, and put it on a baking sheet, into which, prudently, we poured water. After that, we send the whole structure to the oven - fry at the highest temperature for 20 minutes, after which we reduce the heat to medium and leave to bake for another 40 minutes.
Ready chicken, taking it out of the oven, let it rest for 10 minutes, and proceed to cutting into small pieces.
3. Chicken baked in the oven halves recipe for a delicious dinner
Young chicken meat is taken, from which the insides are previously removed, and divided into two halves along the ridge.
Salt, pepper the carcasses and put them on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil.
Then the chicken is sent for an hour to an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
After 50 minutes from the start of baking - rub the carcass with a couple of cloves of garlic, prudently passed through the garlic press - it will give the dish a unique taste and aroma.
4. Chicken baked in foilrecipe
The recipe is good because after cooking there is no need to wash the oven, unlike other methods.
Ingredients:
Chicken carcasses
Garlic
Apple - 3 pcs.
Foil for wrapping the carcass
Recipe:
Thoroughly rub the chicken with spices, after washing it in cold water. Then, stuff the chicken with minced garlic and apples, cut into slices. We pack the stuffed chicken tightly in foil and put it on a baking sheet in a preheated oven for an hour and a half.
5. Whole oven baked chicken with potatoes and mayonnaise
Ingredients:
Several hams or chicken carcass
Carrot
Potato
Mayonnaise
Pepper and salt to taste
Chicken Recipe:
First, we prepare the products - we rub the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion into neat rings, cut the potatoes into strips, cut the chicken into pieces. In a 2 or 3 liter jar, lay out layers - chicken, a little salt and pepper, a layer of potatoes, followed by onions, carrots and season everything with mayonnaise. We repeat the layers in this sequence until the jar is completely filled to the top. We put a piece of ham on top - we will use it to determine the degree of readiness of the dish.
We put the filled jar in a cold oven, set the temperature to 150 degrees and leave to stew until cooked. Delicious, juicy and tender dish is ready! Please come to the table.
Ingredients for Roast Chicken:
Gutted chicken - 1 pc.
Lemon - 2 pcs.
Pepper, salt and garlic
Potato - 1 kg
Chicken broth - 1 tbsp.
Spices - salt and sage
tomato for garnish
Recipe for whole chicken in the oven:
To begin with, we prepare the products for cooking. We cook chicken broth or, using the "cubes" we make it. We rub the washed carcass with a mixture of salt and pepper.
We place the chicken on a baking sheet breast down, fill it with 0.5 tbsp. chicken broth, prepared in advance, and put lemon slices on top.
We put the baking sheet in the oven for half an hour, from time to time watering the chicken with juice and broth, which is created during the frying process.
While the carcass is being prepared, we, in vain, without wasting time, are engaged in potatoes - we cut well-washed and peeled tubers into 3 parts.
After half an hour, we take the chicken out of the oven, and surround it on all sides with potatoes, and sprinkle with finely chopped garlic and spices on top. Pour the rest of the broth onto the bottom of the baking sheet, and send it back to the oven for an hour, after which you can start eating.
My family loves chicken, so I cook it quite often. I always try to find new recipes tested by people. A neighbor taught me how to cook stuffed chicken, now I cook it, both on holidays and on weekdays.
We take a medium-sized chicken. It must be washed well and prepared for stuffing. We make cuts in the area of \u200b\u200bthe thighs and wings of the carcass, so that it is convenient to remove the skin from it. Gently slide your hand under the skin of the chicken and remove it, being careful not to tear it. After separating the skin from the carcass, rinse the skin well and set aside.
We separate the meat from the bones, and chop the resulting fillet in a combine or scroll through a meat grinder. Pour vegetable oil into a preheated frying pan and fry the resulting minced chicken, pepper and salt it, stir constantly. While the minced meat is fried, twist the liver and heart from the chicken in a meat grinder, mix them with minced chicken and stew everything until cooked.
Then add green peas to the minced meat, mix everything well. We stuff the mixture into the chicken skin, carefully distributing it along the entire length. After that, sew the incisions with white threads and bake in the oven for about twenty minutes. Brush the chicken before baking
How to cook chicken in the oven, with a crispy crust yes with potatoes? There are many ways. All you need is a little imagination!
Chicken meat , all in all, is a dietary type of meat .
Chicken fillet- a favorite dish of athletes because of its obvious advantages: high protein content, low fat content, low calorie content, ease of absorption by the body, ease of preparation, low price.
Chicken breast- easy to prepare and affordable meat. There is no need to get a culinary education to cook chicken fillet too 🙂
The recipe of the dish for the most part depends on what event it is dedicated to. If it's just a family dinner, you can cook the chicken in the oven. If guests are about to drop in on you, there is an option to make julienne. Very popular, lately, chicken barbecue or shish kebab. The main thing here is to properly marinate the meat.
Organizing a romantic dinner, you can make tender chicken fillet in a creamy sauce. Such a dish will saturate the stomach, but will not pull "as if you ate a brick." Which is very important, especially if a romantic date implies a smooth transition into very close communication 🙂
And all these chicken dishes, properly prepared, will be very tasty, and if served correctly, they will also be beautiful!
To the above, about the merits of this type of meat, we can add that chicken meat contains vitamins of group B, vitamins PP and A, various minerals, as well as magnesium, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, zinc.
Best of all, boiled, steamed and baked meat retains its properties.
The best thing chicken meat combined with vegetables . One of the best options for a quick and tasty dinner can be chicken with potatoes, baked in the oven, in a crispy ruddy crust! I don’t know about you, but I, only from these words salivated.
This dish is quite easy to prepare.. In addition, it is quite economical in terms of the use of ingredients. As mentioned above, chicken is one of the most affordable products, and everyone can afford vegetables.
During cooking chicken in the oven, show your imagination, try using different combinations of spices while preparing chicken for baking. Your chicken will always have different shades of flavor, which will surprise your loved ones time after time. Make different sauces, but know when to stop! As in any business, the main thing here is not to overdo it.
You can use any spices with chicken and potatoes, the main thing is not to drown out the natural taste of chicken meat and potatoes.
You can add almost anything your heart desires to this dish: basil, curry, black pepper, rosemary, thyme, tarragon, cilantro, cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf, paprika, saffron, marjoram, parsley, ginger, honey, coconut milk and etc. You can also add dry wine.
1)Prepared chicken rub the inside with mustard, then rub with salt, dry spices, pepper and leave to brew for a while.
2) At this time, cut the peeled potatoes into strips and, lightly salting, mix. Turn on the oven to heat up.
3) Grease a deep baking sheet with sunflower oil, put the chicken on it breast side up.
4) Spread evenly around the chicken, prepared potatoes, sprinkle with dried herbs on top.
5) Put the baking sheet in the preheated oven, leave it for 20 minutes, and then remove and stir the potatoes for even frying.
6) Return the baking sheet to the oven and let the chicken roast until crusty, about 20 more minutes. Then take it out of the oven and transfer the finished chicken to a dish, spreading the potatoes around.
This cooking option is more difficult.
1) Cut chicken carcass along the chest, incise the knee joints, flatten out.
2) Make a brine (water, sugar, salt), and soak the chicken in it for 1.5 hours.
3) Peel carrots and potatoes and chop coarsely. Stir and simmer until semi cooked, about 10 minutes.
4) Coarsely chop the onion and fry in olive oil. Peel the garlic, crush it and add to the onion. After a couple of minutes, sprinkle the resulting mixture with sugar, and after a couple of minutes add wine. Next, make sure to turn it off by the time the wine has completely evaporated.
5) Lubricate a baking sheet with oil and put the potato-mark mixture on it, sprinkle with spices, put the onion on top.
6) Remove chicken from brine, rinse and pat dry with paper towels. Pour the spices inside, put on a baking sheet with the back up, rub with oil and sprinkle with spices on top.
7) Bake for 1.5 hours in the oven at 200 degrees.
- hen;
- potatoes: 5 pieces;
- carrots: 1 piece;
- onion: 1 head;
- garlic: 4 cloves;
- olive oil: 4 tablespoons;
- sugar: 1 tablespoon;
- dry white wine: 125 ml;
- dill (or marjoram);
- curry: 3 teaspoons;
- ground black pepper;
- turmeric: 1 teaspoon;
- coriander: 1 teaspoon;
- for brine: water (liter), salt (about 70 g) and sugar (140 g).
Difficult to cook a large chicken in the oven, she may not be fried, or learn to be “overdried”. A good solution to this problem is bake chicken in the sleeve . In this case, it is guaranteed to turn out juicy and steamed, and the potatoes will be saturated with meat juice. The recipe is good because in the sleeve everything is baked evenly and the oven remains clean.
1) Cut the chicken carcass along the breast, incise the knee joints, flatten.
2) Make a few cuts in the meat and insert the pieces of garlic there.
3) Coat chicken with mayonnaise and leave for 40 minutes.
4) Peel and coarsely chop potatoes and onions. Cut carrots into circles. Mix all the vegetables, sprinkle with spices, then put in the sleeve.
5) Sprinkle chicken with spices and place over vegetables.
6) Tie the ends of the sleeve. Make, with a toothpick, several holes in the upper part of the sleeve so that it does not burst from pressure.
7) Bake for approximately 1-1.5 hours.
- hen;
- potatoes: 1 kg;
- carrots: 1 piece;
- onion: 1 head;
- garlic: 2 cloves;
- hops-suneli: 1 tbsp. the spoon;
- dill or marjoram: 1 tbsp. the spoon;
- mayonnaise: 2-3 tbsp. spoons;
- black ground pepper and salt.
Baking chicken in foil , you will get very juicy meat, and at the same time it will be covered with an appetizing, crispy crust!
1) Clean and coarsely chop the potatoes.
2) Grate cheese.
3) Peel and cut the onion into circles, without dividing it into rings. Peel the garlic, cut into strips.
4) Lay a double layer of foil on a baking sheet. Lay onion discs on it, filling the entire surface.
5) Mix the potatoes with spices and put on top of the onion.
6) Make slits in the chicken pieces and put the garlic in. Coat the pieces with mayonnaise and sprinkle with spices. Place on top of potatoes, sprinkle with grated cheese.
7) Drizzle everything with vegetable oil so that the foil does not stick. Cover everything with a sheet of foil, carefully fastening with the bottom sheet.
8) Bake at 200 degrees for about 1 hour.
Usually, before baking the chicken in the oven, the carcass is pre-cut into portions. But as practice shows, it is absolutely not necessary to do this. No less tasty is the whole chicken in the oven - with a crispy crust and tender meat, it can become a real decoration of the table. By the way, you can cook a bird in this way in different ways. To achieve the desired result, special bags, sleeves, food foil and even ordinary bottles are often used for baking. Each of these options is worth considering in more detail.
To get a really tasty whole chicken in the oven with a crispy crust, you can try baking it in a special bag. Today it is easy to buy in any store. Such bags are made of special materials, which even at very high temperatures do not interact with the products inside.
To make the bird's crust ruddy and crispy, 15 minutes before the end of the package, you need to break it.
Even in Soviet times, housewives loved to bake chicken in the oven on a bottle.
Preparing for the holiday can unsettle even the most stress-resistant people. For some hostesses, the lack of time makes them nervous and frantically google the number of the pizza delivery service. Others, wiser by experience, begin preparations for the feast a few days before the scheduled date. It's no joke, cut a whole bowl of "Olivier", get all the bones from the herring for the "Fur Coat", peel a bucket of potatoes, decorate the cake with cream roses and have time to remove the curlers! But after such forced marches there is no strength left even for a friendly smile for the guests. And wash the dishes too! Therefore, I decided to completely abandon the bad habit of preparing a huge number of complex multi-component dishes for any reason. Now I choose only simple and proven ones. Here is a whole roasted chicken. It is prepared simply, it does not require constant “watching” at the stove, it turns out very tasty and looks spectacular and very appetizing. But if you don’t have enough “raisins”, you can stuff the carcass with an original side dish - rice or buckwheat with various additives, or bake a bird with potatoes. In general, I’m telling you how your guests can be conquered by a single dish - whole chicken cooked in the oven. A recipe with a photo and useful “bonuses” in the form of additional marinade options for crispy crust and stuffing for stuffing.
I do not recommend baking frozen poultry. It will not turn out as juicy as I would like. Yes, and sellers often "chemo" with the date of production of the product, so you can run into low-quality and stale chicken. Take chilled meat. And even better - farm (home). Yes, such a chicken will be a little drier than a broiler grown in a poultry farm. But antibiotics and growth hormones are absent in it, most likely. But for now, let's leave the main ingredient alone and prepare the marinade. To make the chicken brown on top, it is better to make it on the basis of vegetable oil, mayonnaise (homemade) or fatty sour cream. I prefer the first option. You can change the list and proportions of spices at your discretion. I described several ways to prepare successful marinades. My flavored chicken roast mixture included garlic. Peel it and chop it with a knife or pass it through a special press. |
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If you are going to put the chicken in the oven right away, without marinating, add salt. If you plan to give her a “rest” for a couple of hours, then it is better to salt just before baking. Salt can make chicken meat tougher as it draws moisture out of the food. Therefore, your chicken will most likely turn out to be rather dry, although you will bake it whole. |
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Add dry seasonings. I took a pinch of rosemary, some ground pepper mixture, paprika and mustard seeds. The latter can be replaced with powder (in a small amount) or ready-made seasoning. |
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Add vegetable oil. Love olive - pour it. Deodorized refined sunflower is fine too. You can mix spices with sour cream or mayonnaise. But only homemade, store-bought chicken or other products are not suitable. |
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Stir, crushing the garlic pieces to release the juice. |
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Wash the chicken inside and out. If the carcass is not gutted, then be sure to remove the insides. You can cut off the first phalanges of the wings. They still don’t go to food, and they are unappetizingly charred in the oven, if you don’t wrap them in foil. A too long neck can also be shortened with a kitchen hatchet or a large knife. Look carefully to make sure there are no remnants of plumage on the chicken. Visible body fat is also desirable to remove and discard. Drain the prepared chicken from the water. The legs can be tied together with kitchen string so that the carcass takes a more accurate "pose". Since the chicken is baked whole, it can be stuffed with some delicious stuffing. Then you don't even have to cook the side dish. How to stuff chicken or chicken, read on. I didn’t stuff the bird with anything, because it was planned for the side dish. By the way, potatoes can be laid out in shape or on a baking sheet next to the chicken. Pieces of vegetables will be saturated with juice, which will be released during cooking, and will turn out ruddy and fragrant. You don't even need to season them, just lightly salt them. |
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Rub the prepared chicken with the marinade. Transfer to a baking sheet. Place in preheated oven. The whole chicken is baked at the average temperature of the oven (180-190 degrees). On average, the preparation of a dish takes 1.5 hours. If you cook a small carcass, check it for readiness in an hour or ten hours. If the chicken is large, slightly increase the roasting time. |
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To test the chicken for readiness, pierce it in the area of \u200b\u200bthe chicken leg or breast with a wooden stick. If the juice is clear, without a hint of ichor or blood, the chicken is ready. During baking, it is advisable to get it several times and pour it with melted fat. Then you get a delicious crispy crust on the surface. Serve the oven-roasted chicken hot, whole or pre-cut into pieces. |
Enjoy your meal!
How to cook crispy chicken in the oven? It would seem, well, what could be difficult in this? But when the carcass turns out to be faded white or burns in places, there is a feeling that you need to know some secrets here. We will tell you about them!
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So that the dish does not upset once again, use our tips.You should not worry that the carcass will turn out to be oversalted: the salt pillow will ensure completely uniform baking and the perfect delicate taste of meat. And the crust will turn out richly golden, crispy.