The fact that the chicken today is the most inexpensive andaffordable meat, hardly anyone will contest. And the fact that the dishes from the chicken are tasty and easy to prepare, inspires culinary feats of even not very experienced housewives: the result is always worthy. We will share with you simple recipes, how to cook a chicken deliciously, quickly, and most importantly, with a twist. Since chicken meat is present in our diet constantly, a set of on-duty dishes from it quickly becomes boring. The question what to cook from a chicken, every housewife is asked from time to time, who wants to feed her family not only tasty, but also diverse. We hope that our advice and recipes will help to 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)
Cooking method: Prepared chicken carcass rubbed with a mixture of peppers, salt, curry and garlic and leave for an hour or two to make it missed. Put the bird in a suitable dish with a tight-fitting lid and put in the oven, heated to 220 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove the lid and bring the chicken to the ready, from time to time watering it with the formed juice. 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
Cooking method: Prepared the bird rubbed with a mixture of salt, pepper, spices and leave for a while. Mix sour cream with mustard and well lubricate chicken inside and out. Hold the lemon in hot water for about five minutes and put it inside the chicken. Sheet the foil, put the chicken and put in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. After half an hour turn over to the other side and bring to readiness. If the hen is gaining too much color, you should lower the temperature a little and cover it with foil. Before serving, remove the lemon. 
Dietary chicken on salt
Ingredients:
- well-fed chicken
- kilogram of salt
- 2 cloves of garlic
Cooking method: Wash and dry the chicken, put garlic inside. In heavy dishes with a thick bottom to pour out a pack of salt, on it to lay belly up chicken (the legs must be tied beforehand so as not to part) and put in the oven. Cook from an hour to one and a half (depends on the weight of the chicken) at 180 degrees. You do not need to salt, as you know. And now we'll tell you how delicious to cook chicken in sauce. Sauces can be very different, respectively, 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
Cooking method: Wash chicken, dry, salt, pepper and cut into portions. Fry the chicken pieces in oil and put them in a fire-fighting pot. In the same frying pan fry the paprika, spices, chopped onions and carrots, add sour cream, broth and put it all together for five minutes. Pour the chicken with the sauce and put into the oven. Cook for about an hour at a temperature of 180-190 degrees. As a side dish, rice, boiled potatoes, rice or wheat noodles are suitable.
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)
Cooking method: Water bring to a boil, put onions, bay leaves, cloves and chicken whole. The bird should be soft, but not overcooked. Cook the chicken and put it in the oven so that it blushes (you can grill it). Cool chicken to cut into portions. Peel the nuts in a blender. Add spices, ground garlic, salt and pepper to it, mix everything and dilute it with strained broth, the sauce should be of medium density. Put the saucepan on the minimum fire and warm it well, not letting it boil. Put chicken pieces in hot sauce and leave for a few 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 sauce satsivi, you can be sure that you will get a lot of different recipes of this dish. Unites their mandatory presence of purely Georgian spices and walnuts, but the principles of cooking (cook sauce, do not cook, add eggs and flour to it, or not, use chicken or turkey) in each region of the country. I must say that the classic recipe assumes a turkey, but now everyone cooks mainly chicken: it's easier, cheaper and faster, but it's also delicious. And, of course, the canonical sauce recipe is much more difficult to prepare than the one we offer to your attention. However, despite the relative simplicity of cooking, the dish turns out to be remarkably delicious, especially if the chicken should be soaked properly. By the way, the sauce the next day can slightly thicken, 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
Cooking method: Chicken should be washed, dried and chopped into small portions. If you use thighs, it is better to cut the meat from the bones. Pieces of chicken salt, pepper, fry and spread on ceramic pots (the dish is prepared portionwise). Add brushed and chopped potatoes to the meat. Spice the onions, carrots and roots together with the spices, add the sour cream, broth, chili sauce and lightly put out. Pour the meat and potatoes with the resulting sauce, cover the pots with lids or foil and send to the oven. Cook for about an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. Note: We want to introduce you to small culinary tricks. This dish can help out if you expect a lot of guests. The process is simplified as follows: everything is prepared exactly as described above, but in one large bowl and on the eve of the celebration. On the day of the reception, you will simply have to put everything in portions and put them in the oven to warm up. Guests will definitely appreciate your culinary skills, and as for the details, it's not necessary for them to know. Another very simple and affordable recipe is a 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
Cooking method: Kefir mixed with curry, salt and pepper, pour the resulting mixture of slices of chicken (or chicken) and put marinated in the refrigerator. The next day you will just have to put all this beauty in the oven and bake until ready at a temperature of 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
Cooking method: Prepared chicken chop for portioned pieces. Salt, pepper and fry in olive oil, along with garlic and chopped onions until crispy. Put in a bowl for baking. In the same frying pan, put out the tomatoes along with the Italian herbs. Then add the wine and bring to a boil. Pour the chicken with the sauce and put in a preheated oven. Cook at a temperature of 190-200 degrees 45 minutes. Serve with ciabatta and fresh basil. We hope, now you know how to cook chicken for a modest home dinner and for the reception of guests. The important thing is that it's always simple and invariably delicious. Cook with pleasure. Bon Appetit! We advise you to read:
