A slow cooker is a good purchase for the home, allowing you to cook with less time and, of course, effort. Cooking a bird in a slow cooker is as simple as pilaf, scrambled eggs or charlotte. A steamed chicken cooked in a slow cooker turns out to be tasty and aromatic. The chicken can be cooked in whole or in pieces.
Let's start cooking. In order for us to get a delicious steamed chicken in a slow cooker, you will need:
- chicken carcass (or 4 breasts);
- garlic - cloves 4-5;
- bay leaf;
- salt, black pepper, turmeric, white pepper, oregano (however, spices can be replaced with others, for example, Italian Herbs seasonings).
Cooking process
Steamed chicken in a slow cooker is very simple to prepare, in addition, this dish is low-calorie and very tasty. First you need to prepare the chicken carcass: rinse it, dry it. Cut into large pieces (one piece is one serving), wipe each with spices, herbs and pressed garlic. Now we lay the pieces of chicken on the wire rack for steaming, distribute in an even layer. Pour about five multi-glasses of water into the multicooker bowl, put the prepared bay leaf there. Set the chicken on top of the grill and close the lid. The mode that we need to choose is "Steam cooking". Our dish will be prepared in one hour. So our chicken is ready for a couple in a slow cooker. After the allotted time has passed, take out the chicken. You can serve it with any side dish.
How else is steamed chicken cooked? The recipe that we just reviewed is one of the simplest. Here we prepared separately a chicken, separately we would prepare a side dish for it. However, we can prepare another option. Want to know how to cook chicken
stew with
potatoes? The slow cooker will make an excellent dish.
No special skills are required for cooking. Only the ability to handle a slow cooker and a knife is enough.
To prepare this dish we need:
- chicken (weight about one and a half kg);
- potatoes - 0.8 - 1 kg;
- hard cheese - 0.15 - 0.2 kg;
- garlic - 4-5 cloves;
- mayonnaise, ketchup, salt, pepper, paprika.
First, prepare the chicken. If you take chilled, then there are fewer problems with it, it does not need to be defrosted. You can remove the skin so that the chicken looks more elegant, but there are those who really like the skin. The chicken needs to be divided into several pieces, preferably small, to remove some bones. Now it’s worth making the sauce so that our chicken is juicy: we grate the cheese, add ketchup, mayonnaise, salt, garlic and other spices to your taste. After mixing this mass, we dip into it the pieces of our chicken. Carefully lay them in a slow cooker, evenly distributing them on the bottom.
Now let's take care of potatoes: wash, peel and cut it into medium-sized cubes. We put potatoes in a slow cooker on a wire rack for cooking for a couple, put directly above the chicken and close the lid. Cooking mode - "Baking", time - one hour. After the allotted time has passed, the slow cooker will inform us that our dish is ready.
Enjoy your meal and don’t forget to learn new recipes for working with multivarka.