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Creamy chicken legs in the oven: a cooking recipe with a photo

There are a lot of ways to cook chicken drumsticks. They are especially suitable for baking in the oven. Creamy chicken legs are the topic of this article.

This dish turns out to be very soft and tender, it can be served with side dishes and without them. Taste characteristics will depend on seasonings and other additional ingredients. Chicken meat in cream sauce goes well with mustard, garlic, curry, lemon, mushrooms.

The chicken legs in cream are very simple and fast to cook in the oven. Recipes and photos of dishes are presented below.

Seasoned curry

For such a dish you need a minimum of ingredients:

  • 2 kg of chicken drumsticks;
  • ground black pepper;
  • a glass of cream 10%;
  • curry;
  • salt.
Creamy chicken legs in the oven

The order of preparation of the dish:

  1. Rub the legs with salt and ground pepper, put in a deep baking sheet or other heat-resistant dishes.
  2. Sprinkle plenty of curry.
  3. Pour in the cream.
  4. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees.
  5. Put the mold in the oven and cook for 50 minutes.

Tip: if desired, you can put granulated garlic in the dish.

In cream and mustard sauce

First you need to prepare all the ingredients:

  • six chicken legs;
  • 200 ml cream;
  • white wine (approximately 150 ml);
  • a tablespoon of dry seasoning to taste (oregano, basil, curry, rosemary, paprika, etc.).
  • a tablespoon of finished mustard;
  • four tablespoons of vegetable oil;
  • three cloves of garlic;
  • pepper;
  • salt to taste.
Marinade chicken legs

The order of cooking in the oven chicken legs with cream and mustard:

  1. Wash the legs, dry them with a towel. Salt, toss spices to taste and pepper, pour in vegetable oil, mix well. Marinate for about 15 minutes.
  2. In a pan, quickly fry the legs until a crust appears, then put them in a baking dish.
  3. Pour the crushed garlic into the pan, add mustard, pour wine and cream, add a little salt and pepper, bring to a boil.
  4. Pour the resulting sauce into the legs and put the mold in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. Cook for half an hour.

Serve the hot dish immediately.

With mushrooms

Oven-baked chicken legs in cream with mushrooms turn out to be very satisfying, while not taking up much time.

The ingredients required are:

  • 250 g of mushrooms (champignons);
  • six chicken legs;
  • 4 cloves of garlic;
  • 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
  • ½ tablespoon flour;
  • 350 ml cream;
  • a tablespoon of chicken seasoning;
  • a tablespoon of mustard;
  • ground pepper;
  • thyme leaves;
  • salt.
Creamy chicken legs in the oven cooking recipe

Cooking chicken legs in the oven with cream and mushrooms:

  1. Wash the legs, dry thoroughly, laying on paper towels.
  2. Fold the legs in a suitable dish, add the seasoning for the chicken, ground pepper, add a little salt.
  3. Pour two tablespoons of sunflower oil, mix thoroughly, rubbing seasonings in the chicken. Leave to marinate for about 10 minutes or longer.
  4. Wash the mushrooms with water from the tap, cut into slices.
  5. Finely chop the garlic with a knife.
  6. Heat a frying pan with butter, put chicken drumsticks, fry until golden brown. Put it out on a plate.
  7. Fry the champignons in the same pan until a golden hue appears.
  8. Put the garlic, thyme leaves in the mushrooms and keep the mushrooms on fire with thyme and garlic for about 40 seconds.
  9. Put mustard and flour in a pan with mushrooms, mix. Then add cream and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
  10. Pour the mushroom sauce into the baking dish; place the chicken drumsticks tightly in it.
  11. Put in the oven for about 35 minutes. The cooking temperature is 180 degrees.

Serve the finished dish hot with buckwheat, mashed potatoes, rice, pasta, and a vegetable side dish.

With potatoes and cheese

To bake chicken legs in the oven in cream with potatoes, you will need the following products:

  • eight legs;
  • 1 kg of potatoes;
  • one onion;
  • 200 g mayonnaise;
  • 100 g cream;
  • 200 g of cheese;
  • seasoning for chicken;
  • dill or parsley;
  • pepper;
  • salt.
Creamy chicken legs in the oven with potatoes

The order of cooking in the oven chicken legs in cream with potatoes:

  1. In a suitable dish, mix mayonnaise, chicken seasoning, a little black pepper and salt to taste.
  2. Rinse and dry chicken legs.
  3. Grate the drumsticks with mayonnaise and pickle for about 25 minutes.
  4. Peel potatoes, cut into circles.
  5. Cut onions into half rings.
  6. Mix the drumsticks with potatoes and onions.
  7. Cut the cheese into small plates, insert under the skin of the chicken legs, grate the remaining cheese.
  8. Put drumsticks with potatoes and onions on a baking sheet. At 180 o bake for 45 minutes.
  9. Take out a baking sheet, pour cream, sprinkle with grated cheese and chopped herbs and put back in the oven for another 10 minutes.

In cream sauce with garlic and lemon

For this recipe you need to prepare the following products:

  • eight legs;
  • 2 tablespoons of lemon juice;
  • 350 ml of chicken stock;
  • three cloves of garlic;
  • a tablespoon of olive oil;
  • 2 tablespoons oils;
  • 100-150 ml cream;
  • a third of a cup of finely chopped red onion;
  • red and black pepper;
  • parsley;
  • basil;
  • salt.
Creamy chicken legs in an oven recipe

Cooking:

  1. Wash legs, do not remove skin. Dry sprinkle with black pepper, salt, grate on all sides.
  2. Pour the chicken stock into a bowl, add lemon juice, chopped garlic, red pepper.
  3. Quickly fry the drumsticks on each side in preheated vegetable oil in a deep frying pan over high heat. Put the chicken on a plate.
  4. Reduce the fire, put the chopped red onion in the pan and fry for two minutes, stirring constantly. Pour the garlic-lemon mixture, bring to a boil, then continue to cook until thickened for 10-15 minutes. After evaporation of the liquid, about 200 g of sauce should be obtained. Reduce heat to low, put butter, melt, pour cream and warm for half an hour. Salt if necessary.
  5. Turn on the oven by setting 190 degrees.
  6. Put the chicken meat in a pan, pour the sauce, then put in the oven. Bake until cooked - about 25 minutes.

Sprinkle with chopped parsley, garnish with basil leaves, pour the creamy chicken legs in the oven with lemon-garlic sauce.

Cauliflower Recipe

The following ingredients will be required:

  • eight small chicken legs;
  • a glass of cream;
  • 800 fresh cauliflower;
  • about 100 g of cheese;
  • pepper;
  • clove of garlic;
  • 2 tablespoons grows. oils;
  • salt.
Chicken Legs with Cauliflower

Order of preparation:

  1. Disassemble the cauliflower into inflorescences, boil them in boiling water for three minutes (no more).
  2. Rinse, dry, salt and pepper.
  3. Pour the cream into a small saucepan and put on fire. Grate cheese and pour into cream, immediately add grated garlic. Keep on fire until the cheese melts, and immediately remove from the stove.
  4. Grease the baking dish, put the shins and cauliflower inflorescences in it. Pour in cream sauce, put in the oven for 45 minutes. The temperature is 180 degrees.

Conclusion

Now you know some recipes for cooking chicken legs in cream in the oven with the addition of different ingredients. All of them are easily reproducible in the conditions of home cooking. They will require affordable products, and cooking will not take much time.

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