Chicken in sour cream
One of the simplest and most traditional recipes for chicken in sour cream. Ingredients:
- Chicken - 1-1.5 kilograms;
- Sour cream - 1 cup;
- Curry - 2 teaspoons;
- Fresh basil;
- Fresh parsley;
- Salt;
- Black pepper;
- Vegetable oil.
Preparation:We gut the bird, wash it well and dry it, patting it with a clean towel. Turn on the oven and leave it to heat up to 180-200 degrees. Grease the baking sheet on which we will bake the bird with vegetable oil. Now mix sour cream with salt, curry and ground black pepper. Grease the bird generously (from the heart!) with this mixture outside and inside and put the carcass on the baking sheet. Put the chicken in the oven and leave it there for an hour and a half to two hours. During this time, the carcass should not only bake, but also become covered with a crust. We check the readiness of the chicken by piercing the carcass with a toothpick or skewer. If clear juice comes out from the puncture site, then the dish is ready. You can serve it on the table, seasoned with fresh herbs.
Chicken breast baked with sour cream and cheese
This dish is suitable for both everyday meals and holidays. The chicken is not only aromatic, juicy and tasty, but also beautiful! Ingredients:
- 2 chicken breasts;
- Incomplete glass of sour cream;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- 3 tablespoons water;
- 2 tablespoons mustard;
- Salt;
- Vegetable oil.
Preparation:Remove the fillet from the breasts, beat it lightly and cut into cubes. Turn on the oven and leave it to heat up to 180-200 degrees. Grease the baking dish with vegetable oil, put the pieces of meat on its bottom and salt them. Mix sour cream with mustard and water and pour this mixture over the chicken. Put the dish in the oven and leave for about twenty minutes. In the meantime, prepare any side dish to your taste (mashed potatoes, rice, pasta, vegetable salad). After twenty minutes, take the dish out of the oven and sprinkle the chicken with grated cheese. Put the baking dish back in the oven and wait until the cheese melts and browns slightly. This will take about ten minutes. Serve the chicken baked with sour cream and cheese, divided into portions. By the way, this oven-baked chicken will also be a great stand-alone dish (without a side dish).
Chicken in sour cream with potatoes
What's remarkable about this recipe is that the meat is cooked immediately with the side dish. Ingredients:
- 1 chicken;
- 1 cup of sour cream;
- 5-6 potatoes;
- 1 teaspoon of red pepper;
- 2 teaspoons of salt;
- Fresh greenery.
Preparation:Cut the chicken carcass lengthwise along the breast, unfold and wash it thoroughly. Then dry it and rub with half a teaspoon of salt. Add red pepper and the remaining salt to the sour cream and mix everything thoroughly. Turn on the oven and let it heat up to 200-220 degrees. Cover the baking sheet with foil. Peel, wash and cut the potatoes in half. Now coat the chicken and potatoes with sour cream and place them on the foil: the chicken in the middle, and the potatoes around it. Sprinkle everything with chopped herbs and put in the oven. In about an hour, our chicken in sour cream will be ready. Check the readiness by the softness of the potatoes. If it is easily pierced with a toothpick, you can take the baking sheet out of the oven and serve the chicken to the table.
Chicken in sour cream with garlic
This recipe is more suitable for a festive table. Chicken in sour cream with garlic turns out very soft and juicy and acquires a piquant spicy taste. Ingredients:
- 1 chicken;
- 1 head of garlic;
- 100 g of sour cream;
- 100 g of Adzhika;
- 100 g of butter;
- Salt;
- Green parsley.
Preparation:Wash and dry the chicken thoroughly. Pass two or three cloves of garlic through a garlic press and grind with salt. Then rub the outside of the chicken with this mixture and leave for about fifteen minutes. In the meantime, make the filling. Wash the parsley, let it dry and chop finely. Put the butter in a bowl and wait until it becomes soft. Pass the remaining garlic through a garlic press and add to the butter. Put the chopped parsley there, and then mix everything well. Stuff the chicken from the inside with this mixture and pinch off a hole in the carcass with toothpicks. Cross the bird's legs and tie with cotton thread. Mix sour cream with adjika and generously coat the entire chicken with this mixture. Place the bird on a baking tray or in a baking dish and put it in the oven, which we preheat to 180 degrees. Bake the chicken in the oven for about an hour. Check the readiness by piercing the carcass with a toothpick. If clear juice appears at the puncture site, then our chicken in sour cream is ready. You can take the bird out of the oven and serve.
Helpful Tips
For chicken baked with sour cream, it is desirabletake the spices that are indicated in the recipe. However, there are also such seasonings that go well with both chicken and sour cream. And if you can't spoil porridge with butter, then you can't spoil chicken with garlic, curry, coriander, ground black pepper. There are also certain requirements for the sour cream itself. Firstly, the sour cream must be real and fatty enough. It is advisable not to use a sour cream product. Secondly, you can only grease and pour cold sour cream over cold meat. If the chicken is hot, the sour cream may separate. Sour cream can be mixed with mayonnaise. However, there should still be more sour cream. After all, it is sour cream that is "responsible" for a crispy and crispy crust. Here are different ways to cook chicken in sour cream, baked in the oven. If you coat it with sour cream, then a crispy crust will form on the bird. If you pour sour cream sauce over the chicken, you will get a very soft and tender dish. What do you like more? Choose and cook! But most importantly, cook with pleasure. Bon appetit and success in the culinary field!
