The fact that chicken is the most inexpensive food todayand affordable meat, hardly anyone will dispute. And the fact that chicken dishes are tasty and easy to prepare inspires even inexperienced housewives to culinary feats: after all, the result is always worthy. We will share with you simple recipes on how to cook chicken deliciously, quickly, and most importantly, with a twist. Since chicken meat is constantly present in our diet, a set of routine dishes from it quickly becomes boring. The question of what to cook from chicken is asked from time to time by every housewife who wants to feed her family not only tasty, but also varied. We hope that our advice and recipes will help solve this problem.
Chicken in white wine
Ingredients:
- chicken carcass
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 teaspoon curry
- salt, a mixture of peppers
- 150 milliliters of white dry wine (you can use martini bianco or another vermouth)
Method of preparation:Rub the prepared chicken carcass with a mixture of peppers, salt, curry and garlic and leave for an hour or two to marinate. Place the bird in a suitable dish with a tightly closing lid and put it in the oven, preheated to 220 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove the lid and cook the chicken until done, occasionally pouring the resulting juice over it. The temperature can be reduced to 180-200 degrees. Serve with crumbly rice or garlic toast.
Baked chicken
Ingredients:
- chicken carcass
- 100 grams of sour cream
- salt, pepper, spices to taste
- 1 tablespoon of good mustard
- 1 medium lemon
Method of preparation:Rub the prepared bird with a mixture of salt, pepper, spices and leave for a while. Mix sour cream with mustard and grease the chicken well inside and out. Hold the lemon in hot water for about five minutes and put it inside the chicken. Cover the sheet with foil, put the chicken and put it in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. After half an hour, turn it over to the other side and cook until done. If the chicken is gaining color too intensely, you should lower the temperature a little and cover it with foil. Remove the lemon before serving.
Dietary chicken on salt
Ingredients:
- well-fed chicken
- kilogram of salt
- 2 cloves of garlic
Method of preparation:Wash and dry the chicken, put garlic inside. Pour a packet of salt into a heavy bowl with a thick bottom, place the chicken belly up on it (the legs must be tied beforehand so that they do not come apart) and put it in the oven. Cook for an hour to an hour and a half (depending on the weight of the chicken) at 180 degrees. As you understand, there is no need to add salt. And now we will tell you how to cook chicken in sauce deliciously. Sauces can be very different, so each time we get a dish with a different taste.
Chicken in sour cream sauce
Ingredients:
- chicken
- 1 onion
- 1 carrot
- white roots (celery, parsley, parsnip)
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 200 grams of sour cream
- 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil (can be replaced with creamy)
- 150 milliliters of vegetable broth (or hot water)
- salt, pepper, spices to taste
- 1-2 teaspoons of sweet paprika
Method of preparation:Wash the chicken, dry it, add salt, pepper and cut into portions. Fry the chicken pieces in oil and put them in a stewing dish. In the same pan, fry the paprika, spices, chopped onion and carrot, add sour cream, broth and stew everything together for about five minutes. Pour the resulting sauce over the chicken and put it in the oven. Cook for about an hour at 180-190 degrees. Rice, boiled potatoes, rice or wheat noodles are suitable as a side dish.
Chicken in sauce
Ingredients:
- a good plump chicken
- 2 large onions
- 300 grams of peeled walnuts
- 1 teaspoon fenugreek (u'xho-suneli)
- 1 teaspoon ground parsley
- 1 teaspoon of saffron
- pinch of cinnamon
- 2 -3 cloves of garlic
- salt, hot pepper, 2 cloves
- wine vinegar (to taste)
Method of preparation:Bring water to a boil, add onion, bay leaf, cloves and whole chicken. The bird should be soft, but not overcooked. Salt the chicken and put it in the oven to brown (you can grill it). Cut the cooled chicken into portions. Grind the peeled nuts in a blender. Add spices, crushed garlic, salt and pepper, mix everything and dilute with strained broth, the sauce should be of medium thickness. Put the pan with the sauce on low heat and heat it well, without letting it boil. Put the chicken pieces in the hot sauce and leave for several hours. Before serving, add wine vinegar to taste. Serve cold with fresh lavash and spicy Georgian herbs. Note: If you ask in Georgia how to cook chicken in satsivi sauce, you can be sure that you will get many different recipes for this dish. What unites them is the obligatory presence of purely Georgian spices and walnuts, but the principles of preparation (to boil the sauce, not to boil, to add eggs and flour to it or not, to use chicken or turkey) are different in each region of the country. It should be said that the classic recipe suggests turkey, but now everyone cooks mainly chicken: it is simpler, cheaper and faster, but just as tasty. And, of course, the canonical recipe for the sauce is much more difficult to prepare than the one we offer to your attention. However, despite the relative simplicity of preparation, the dish turns out remarkably tasty, especially if you let the chicken soak well. By the way, the sauce may thicken slightly the next day, so leave a little broth to dilute it to the desired consistency.
Chicken in a pot
Ingredients:
- chicken carcass (or kilogram of thighs)
- 2 onions
- 1 carrot
- white roots
- kilo of potatoes
- salt, pepper, bay leaves, spices
- 500 milliliters of vegetable or chicken broth
- 150 grams of sour cream
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 2 tablespoons hot chilli sauce
Method of preparation:Wash the chicken, dry it and chop it into portions (small). If you are using thighs, it is better to cut the meat off the bones. Salt and pepper the chicken pieces, fry them and put them into ceramic pots (the dish is prepared in portions). Add peeled and chopped potatoes to the meat. Sauté the onion, carrots and roots with spices, add sour cream, broth, chili sauce and simmer lightly. Pour the resulting sauce over the meat and potatoes, cover the pots with lids or foil and put them in the oven. Cook for about an hour at 180 degrees. Note: We would like to introduce you to some little culinary tricks. This dish can help out if you are expecting a lot of guests. The process is simplified as follows: everything is prepared exactly as described above, but in one large pot and on the eve of the celebration. On the day of the reception, all you have to do is put everything into portioned pots and put it in the oven to warm up. Guests will definitely appreciate your culinary skills, and as for the details, they don’t need to know at all. Another very simple and accessible recipe is chicken marinated in kefir and curry.
Indian chicken
Ingredients:
- Chicken meat (or chicken legs - about a kilogram)
- 500 milliliters of kefir
- 3 tablespoons curry
- salt pepper
Method of preparation:Mix kefir with curry, salt and pepper, pour the resulting mixture over the pieces of chopped chicken (or drumsticks) and put it in the refrigerator to marinate. The next day, you just have to put all this beauty in the oven and bake until done at 175-180 degrees. Serve with rice and fresh vegetables.
Chicken in Italian
Ingredients:
- chicken carcass (you can also cook thighs or tibia)
- 2 onions
- a bank of tomatoes in its own juice (in the season you can use fresh tomatoes)
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 3 tablespoons of good olive oil
- 150 milliliters of white dry wine (or white vermouth)
- italian herbs
- salt pepper
Method of preparation:Chop the prepared chicken into portions. Salt, pepper and fry in olive oil with garlic and chopped onion until golden brown. Place in a baking dish. In the same pan, simmer the tomatoes with Italian herbs. Then add wine and bring to a boil. Pour the resulting sauce over the chicken and place in a preheated oven. Cook at 190-200 degrees for 45 minutes. Serve with ciabatta and fresh basil. We hope that now you know how to cook chicken for a modest home dinner and for receiving guests. The important thing is that it is always simple and invariably delicious. Cook with pleasure. Enjoy your meal! We recommend reading:
