Few people have appetite chicken legs. Most people prefer to cook their breasts, wings, legs, or hips. Many professional chefs even throw them away as waste. In fact, chicken legs are very useful. Their medicinal properties are especially appreciated in Asian countries. In China and Korea, the legs are pickled in soy sauce, fried in a pan and baked in the oven. But the Russian housewives adapted to cook jellied meat from them. The best recipes are presented in our article.
Chicken legs: joint benefits
This unsightly-looking product contains many vital substances for the human body. Particularly useful are chicken legs for joints. Studies by Asian scientists have shown that they contain a large amount of collagen. This is a protein that is responsible for youthful skin and healthy joints. The more it is in the body, the less wrinkles will be on the body.
Collagen Benefits:
- the skin becomes healthy and beautiful;
- strengthens blood vessels, improving blood supply to the body;
- slows down the development of arthritis;
- accelerates fat metabolism, contributing to weight loss;
- relieves swelling and inflammation.
In addition to the protein described above, chicken paws contain hyaluronic acid, better known as a source of youth, and chondroitin sulfate, which is used in the treatment of osteoarthritis. There are a lot of minerals in this product, such as calcium, magnesium, zinc, phosphorus and copper. Since the paws are non-caloric (215 kcal), in the absence of allergies, you can use them at least every day. At the same time, you can cook a sufficient number of interesting dishes from them.
How to clean the paws quickly and correctly?
People who first decide to cook this product may have difficulty cleaning their chicken legs. To remove the upper yellowed skin layer from the paws, it is enough to follow the following step-by-step instructions:
- Chicken legs are well washed in water.
- Clean feet are rubbed thoroughly with salt. This allows you to remove stains that could not be washed off with water.
- Chicken legs are folded into a deep bowl and poured with boiling water. In hot water, it is enough to leave them for 3 minutes.
- Before removing the dead skin, the legs are allowed to cool. After that, the yellow membranes are easily removed manually from all chicken legs. The photo shows how to do it right.
- Using clippers or a knife, claws are cut from peeled legs.
Chicken leg jelly
This dish will be useful to everyone, and especially to people suffering from joint diseases. Jellied meat is cooked only from chicken legs and breast, without adding gelatin.
A step-by-step dish is prepared in the following sequence:
- Prepare the legs (2 kg) by cleansing the skin from them and removing the claws.
- Fold the chicken legs into a 6 liter pot. In addition, add chicken breast (800 g), cut into small pieces. Pour the ingredients with water and put the pan on the stove.
- As soon as the water boils, remove the foam.
- Add chopped onions and carrots (3 pcs each).
- To add flavor to the dish, spices are used: peas of black and allspice (5 pcs each), mustard seeds (1 teaspoon), salt.
- Reduce the heat to a minimum and, covering the pan with a lid, cook the aspic for 5-6 hours.
- Add bay leaf 10 minutes before cooking.
- Remove pan from heat. Take out the meat, let it cool slightly and sort out, separating it from the bones and cartilage.
- Arrange the meat in tins and fill it with broth, previously filtered through a sieve.
- Allow the aspic to cool on the table, and then rearrange the dishes in the refrigerator and leave for at least 6 hours.
How to cook Chinese paws in a pan?
This dish is very popular in Asian countries. Chicken legs are very tasty and eaten in literally minutes. When cooking, you must follow a certain sequence of actions:
- Paws to peel, cut claws.
- Pour a liter of water into the pan, add rice vinegar (½ teaspoon), sugar (1 teaspoon) and a pinch of salt.
- Bring the water to a boil, lower the legs into it and cook them for 5 minutes.
- Mix cooled chicken legs with soy sauce (2 tbsp. Tablespoons) and leave on the table for 30 minutes.
- Pour enough vegetable oil into the pan as for deep fat. Fry the legs until golden brown.
- Transfer hot legs from the pan to ice water and leave them for 3 hours.
- Make a sauce of finely chopped garlic (1 clove), green onion and chili pepper (2 pcs each), grated ginger root (1 cm), soybean (1 tablespoon) and oyster sauce (½ teaspoon).
- Transfer the cold feet to a pan and pour them with a glass of water. Add the sauce to the chicken legs and continue the cooking process for another 15 minutes.
Garlic beer paws recipe
Such an appetizer will be a great and more useful alternative to the usual crackers and chips from the store. In the process of cooking, the chicken legs are first marinated in a fragrant sauce, and then baked in the oven until golden brown. The result is a very tasty dish that can be served with beer.
First you need to prepare the legs (300 g), removing the skin and cutting off the claws, then they need to be boiled in salted water. From a garlic squeezed through a press, a pinch of salt, mustard, apple cider vinegar, tomato sauce and honey (1 tbsp each), prepare a marinade. Stir it together with the legs and leave them on the table for 30 minutes. Then the chicken legs should be laid out on a baking sheet covered with foil, and sent to the oven preheated to 200 ° for half an hour.
How to cook chicken legs in the oven?
The taste of chicken legs largely depends on how well prepared they are. Therefore, remove the skin and cut the claws should be.
According to the recipe, chicken legs are first boiled in water with salt for 15 minutes, and then marinated. To do this, you need to take 7 cloves of garlic, a slice of ginger root, soy sauce (3 tbsp.), Vinegar 9% (1 tbsp.), A pinch of chili and a teaspoon of brown sugar for 500 g of legs. Marinated paws are first fried in a pan, and then laid out on a baking sheet and then baked in the oven at 200 ° for another 20 minutes.
Gourmet chicken leg with vegetables
Chicken legs are cooked in a fragrant sauce and are so delicious that they can be offered even to guests. A step-by-step dish is prepared in the following sequence:
- Chicken legs are boiled in salted water for 15-20 minutes.
- Shredded garlic (2 slices) and ginger root (4 cm) are fried in vegetable oil. After a minute, chopped carrots and celery root are added. For another 4 minutes, bell pepper and peanuts (70 g) are laid out in the pan.
- The cooled paws are cut into small pieces (3-4 cm). The legs are laid out on another pan with vegetable oil and poured with soy sauce (3-4 tbsp. Tablespoons). Stewed together for 20 minutes.
- Vegetables are shifted to the finished paws. The dish is poured with the juice of half a lemon and sprinkled with sesame seeds.