You can cook a lot of different dishes from chicken or chicken meat, and each will be very different from the other! Today we want to talk about how to cook delicious chicken in pomegranate sauce. Incredibly tasty, delicate and aromatic dish will surely appeal to all eaters. The taste is quite interesting, the meat just melts in your mouth!
Oven Chicken in Pomegranate Sauce
Pomegranate juice has a strong taste, it impregnates chicken meat, filling it with a wide variety of notes: sweet, spicy, bitter, sour. Therefore, we do not recommend using many different seasonings, because among them it will then be difficult to catch the chicken taste at all! We use a minimum of ingredients to prepare such chicken in pomegranate sauce:
- the chicken itself;
- a tablespoon of pomegranate sauce;
- a tablespoon of maple syrup;
- sunflower oil - half a tablespoon;
- salt.
You can use red lettuce or a pinch of ground black pepper.
For baking, you need a glass bottle of beer, or a can.
Cooking in the oven
despite the fact that baking according to this recipe does not require absolutely any culinary skills (even a novice in the kitchen can cope with cooking), the dish is a real masterpiece! The meat is very tender, juicy, the taste is delicate, it seems that the chef of the most expensive restaurant was engaged in cooking!
The chicken needs to be washed, dried. Rub it with salt on all sides - inside and out. If you use pepper, then pepper.
Mix pomegranate juice and maple syrup, sunflower oil. If you use onions, then you need to chop half in a blender to a state of gruel, add to the sauce.
Set the chicken on a bottle or jar that has been pre-filled a third with water.
Using a culinary brush, spread chicken with sauce, using only half!
Put the carcass to bake at 200 degrees for 30 minutes. Next, smear the carcass with the rest of the sauce, bake for another half hour.
There are absolutely no cooking difficulties! The only thing is to check the bottle for chips and cracks. If there are any, then in no case do not use it, because it can burst during baking, and there will be fragments in the meat that can be injured!
Serve baked chicken in pomegranate sauce with your favorite side dish - just boiled potatoes or mashed potatoes, cereals, pasta, fresh vegetable salads! Remove from the bottle and serve into slices before serving.
Chicken in pomegranate sauce in a pan
Cooking such a chicken is even easier than the previous recipe. If you want to treat your family with something tasty, but new and elegant, then pay attention to this recipe. The dish will turn out not only very tasty, but also beautiful, it will attract the attention of consumers and will cause appetite even for children who are difficult to sit at the table.
Ingredients;
- chicken carcass, it is better to use chicken;
- Garnet;
- a glass of pomegranate juice;
- salt;
- a mixture of ground allspice;
- two tea spoons of sugar;
- three tablespoons of sunflower oil;
- wheat flour - for breading.
If you prefer to use crackers as a breading, then take them instead of flour.
Sugar can not be used, but thanks to it, a beautiful crust is obtained on the chicken.
Frying pan
Divide the pomegranate into two halves. Grains from one go to the sauce, and from the other to the decoration of the dish.
Mix pomegranate juice with sugar, salt, sunflower oil. Grind the grains from one half of the pomegranate in a blender, add to the sauce.
Chicken can be fried in pieces, or it can be whole. if you chose the second option, then cut the carcass along the breast, open. Soak the chicken in the marinade for several hours - the longer, the better. You can dunk for a day if you cook for dinner, or you can soak for night if you need to cook for dinner. But enough for a couple of hours.
Roll the chicken marinated in pomegranate sauce in flour, fry in sunflower oil under a lid on both sides. When serving, sprinkle the chicken with pomegranate seeds. Enjoy your meal!