Chicken meat baked with pumpkin and potatoes in the oven is a delicious, hearty dish for a family dinner.
For cooking, you can take any part of the chicken. Only the fat content of the meat used should be taken into account. For example, with a lean breast, the roast will turn out a bit dry. In this case, it is better to take a little more oil than recommended in the recipe. But the thighs, on the contrary, are high in fat. Here you can reduce the amount of vegetable oil.
As for seasonings, here you can completely rely on your taste. Thyme, ground black pepper, curry, allspice, suneli hops - this is only the smallest list of spices that will perfectly fit into the composition of vegetables and meat. The main thing is not to overdo it with herbs, otherwise you can hopelessly spoil the taste of the dish.

TIME: 1 hour 30 min.

Light

Servings: 4

Ingredients

• Potatoes (large) - 6 pcs.;
• Pumpkin - 400 g;
• Chicken wings - 600 g;
• Onion - 1 pc.;
• Garlic - 2 cloves;
• Sour cream - 70 g;
• Vegetable oil;
• Salt;
• Spices.

Cooking

First, prepare the chicken marinade by combining sour cream with minced garlic, salt and seasonings. Wash the wings thoroughly under cold running water, remove the feathers, if any. Lubricate the chicken with the resulting sour cream mixture and leave in a cold place for 30-40 minutes to marinate.


Prepare potatoes. Cut the peeled potatoes into cubes about 2 cm.


Remove the skin from the pumpkin, and cut the flesh into slices, like a potato.


Next, lay out the ingredients on a baking sheet. First, 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable oil, then potatoes.


Sprinkle the potato layer with spices and salt. Lay out the pumpkin.

Now it's the turn of the onion, cut into rings.


Put the pickled wings on top of the "vegetable pillow".


To prevent moisture from evaporating, and the dish remains juicy and fragrant, cover the baking sheet with the ingredients with food foil. Send the chicken with vegetables to an oven preheated to 200 degrees.


Bake the dish for 35 - 40 minutes. After the specified time, remove the foil and leave the dish in the oven for another 15-20 minutes to brown the meat.


Sprinkle the chicken baked with pumpkin and potatoes with chopped herbs and serve.

In autumn, the main vegetable is a pumpkin, you can cook desserts and main dishes from it. Chicken with pumpkin in the oven is a hearty, healthy and dietary dish that is perfect for dinner.

The pumpkin turns out tender, fragrant and spicy, because garlic gives sharpness, lemon juice gives an incredible aroma and sourness. The chicken is very tender and cuddly. You can use any part of the chicken: drumstick, wings, chicken breasts. It is prepared quite quickly and simply.

You will be surprised, but salted pumpkin is even tastier than sweet, the main thing is to fill it with spices correctly. Such spices go well with pumpkin: hot pepper, paprika, nutmeg, garlic, ginger. Be sure to pour over the finished dish with the gravy, which will turn out from the juice of chicken and vegetables, it will add a bright shade. This dish can be served even to small children, because it turns out to be light and dietary.

Pumpkin is very useful and low-calorie, it consists of 90% of water. It is very useful for digestion, non-allergenic, so it can be eaten by children and people on a diet.

Chicken with pumpkin in the oven recipe with photo

Ingredients

• Pumpkin - 300 g.
• Chicken fillet - 300 g.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 2 tooth.
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp
• Water - 1 glass
• Salt - 0.5 tsp
• Spices - to taste

How to cook pumpkin with chicken

Rinse the pumpkin under running water, peel, cut into small cubes. Onion cut into thin slices. Do not chop the onion large, it should have time to bake.

We cut the chicken breast into pieces 1-1.5 cm wide, do not cut it very thinly, because the pumpkin is cooked for a long time. Season it with spices: salt, ground black pepper, turmeric. Put the chicken fillet in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil and fry for about 1 minute on each side. If you want more dietary meat, you can not fry the meat.

Pour water into a bowl, add salt and crushed garlic. It is advisable to pour warm water so that the salt dissolves quickly and the vegetables cook quickly.

Pour the fat from the pan, which remains from the chicken, into the baking dish, then put all the vegetables on the bottom of the dish, and then the meat. Be sure to salt a little and mix so that the salt is evenly distributed. Fill with spicy water, it should cover all the vegetables, then they will quickly cook. Put in the oven for 30 minutes at 180C.

We take out the chicken with pumpkin and serve it hot. This is an excellent dish for children and adults, especially for those who adhere to proper nutrition. Bon Appetit!

And if you want to make a pumpkin dessert, then it is

Advice

1. To make the side dish delicious. You must buy a ripe pumpkin. The vegetable should be without damage, the peel is thin and light orange in color. The color of the pulp should be bright.
2. Cut the pumpkin into small pieces so that it cooks quickly, it does not take long to cook, usually 30 minutes is enough. Check with a knife for doneness, if it breaks easily, it is ready.
3. Garlic gives the dish a taste and aroma, if you do not like it, you can add sour cream or tomato paste to the filling, then it will not be bland.
4. Salt is added to water and vegetables, so be careful not to over-salt.
5. Water is added so that the vegetables cook quickly, at the end of cooking it turns into a delicious gravy, which can be poured over the meat.
6. Fresh greens refresh the dish, I did not add it, since not all family members like it. But you can sprinkle with parsley, dill, cilantro.
7. In addition to pumpkin, you can add the following vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, bell pepper, green peas, zucchini, eggplant. Then you get a super vitamin dish.