Chicken stew: How to cook tasty and fast?

How to cook chicken legs varied and unusual? If you are already tired of frying and baking them, then try stewing them with potatoes. The food will be amazing, it can be served as a first or second course. Universal stewed potatoes with ham will fit for dinner and lunch. She will be liked not only by adults, but also by children.

Simple recipe

This method can be prepared not only with legs, but also with chicken or any other meat. The dish is very tasty, especially if you cook it from new potatoes. Be sure to take the stewed potato recipe with a ham on a note, you will surely like it.

For cooking you will need:

• two chicken legs;
• 10 medium-sized potatoes;
• large carrot;
• bulb;
• salt and seasonings or universal, already salted seasoning from a mixture of dried herbs and vegetables (sold in any supermarket).

Nothing more is needed; this is indeed the easiest recipe imaginable.

Cooking Chicken Stew

1. Remove the meat from the legs. Some recipes prescribe that you can simply cut the chicken leg directly with the bones, so it tastes better, but eating is not very convenient. Do as you like best.
   
2. Carrots need not be grated, but cut into strips or rings, chop the onion, as you prefer.
3. In a pan, heat a little sunflower oil, fry pieces of ham on it until the meat begins to become covered with a blush. Put carrots and onions, fry until vegetables are soft.
4. Pour a glass of water into the pan, add salt and seasonings, simmer for 15 minutes.
5. While preparing the chicken, take care of the potatoes. It needs to be cleaned and diced. Put the potatoes in a deep pan, pour water so that it covers the pieces. Put on fire, bring to a boil.
6. Put chicken and vegetables to the potatoes, mix, bring to a boil.
7. Try it, if salt is not enough, then add more.

Serve potatoes with sour cream or mayonnaise.

Rustic potato

Braised potato with ham, cooked according to this recipe, very tasty, hearty and fragrant. This dish deserves attention, it can be prepared for dinner and lunch. The cooking process is very simple, the dish is no harder to prepare than the simplest soup. The main thing is that the ingredients are all affordable and simple, most likely they are already in your refrigerator.

It will be required:

• two chicken legs;
• 7-10 potatoes;
• large tomato;
• bell pepper;
• large carrot;
• bulb;
• salt and seasoning;
• a lot of fresh herbs (dill, parsley, basil, green onions);
• two cloves of garlic.

Garlic is an optional ingredient. Therefore, if you do not like him, then you can safely delete from the list. Optionally, you can add green beans.

Cooking potatoes in a rustic way

What distinguishes rustic dishes? Of course, large and satisfying pieces. The charm of the proposed recipe lies precisely in large pieces. It is really very tasty, so it’s worth a try:

1. Chop the legs in half. Wash, fry in sunflower oil on both sides, but only slightly, until the skin is only slightly browned.
2. Dice the carrots, onions and peppers into rings. Put all this in a frying pan with legs. Fry for 5-7 minutes, check for soft carrots.
3. Dice the tomato, put into the pan, cook for 5 minutes. Then add a quarter cup of water, cover, reduce heat to a minimum and simmer for 20 minutes.
4. Peel the potato (if the potato is young, then just wash it thoroughly), cut the large and medium quarters into quarters, and the small one into halves. Put in a pot of water, bring to a boil.
   
5. Combine potatoes and chicken with vegetables in one dish, salt and season, stew until potatoes are ready.
6. Cut greens, add to the pan for 3 minutes until cooked.

Serve the stewed potatoes with chicken legs to the table, seasoned with sour cream or mayonnaise.