Chicken with tangerines is a dish that can be prepared for any occasion. Believe me, it will become a real table decoration. Cooking poultry is not limited only to baking it in the oven, there are also salads. But is it really possible to refuse a completely amazing chicken with tangerines in Chinese, because it just melts in your mouth!
First recipe
Now we will prepare such a dish as chicken baked with tangerines. Chicken drumsticks cooked on tangerine rings with fragrant rosemary and tangerine sauce are very juicy, tasty, piquant and very unusual. Using this method, you can bake whole and sliced chicken or any parts thereof, and as a side dish it is better to serve the most delicate mashed potatoes.
What do you need to cook this dish?
Ingredients : 500 g chicken drumsticks, 2-3 pcs. large tangerines (it is advisable to choose a seedless variety, but carefully remove all), a little ginger (it must be fresh, not pickled and not dried), rosemary (in any form), 1 onion, salt, black pepper (ground), olive oil, paprika, sugar or icing sugar.
Chicken with tangerines: a recipe for cooking
Peel the onion, cut into rings or half rings, line the bottom of the mold with it. Next, lay out a layer of tangerines. They should be washed and finely cut into rings. This is most conveniently done with a knife with a blade of teeth, then the juice will not leak. Sprinkle with rosemary. Washed and dried chicken drumsticks are placed on tangerines. First they need to be coated with a mixture of paprika, salt and pepper. Water a little with olive oil.
The oven should be heated to 200 ° C, and only then put the form in which the chicken with tangerines is located. Bake for about 25 minutes.
Now you can start cooking the sauce. We clean the mandarin from the peel and thin films, using a blender we make mashed potatoes from it. Peel the ginger and peel it finely, finely chopped or grated and mixed with tangerines. Add a little sugar and salt to the mixture to taste.
When the set time has passed, we take out the form with the legs and water each individually with this sauce. Then we send it back to the oven and wait another 15 minutes. Everything! Our dish is ready. Served only hot.
Recipe Two: An Interesting Option for Cooking Chicken
To make a dish like Chinese mandarin chicken and chicken, of course, we need a bird. For this dish, you can take any part of it, even the breasts turn out ruddy and juicy.
What is necessary?
Ingredients : 700 g of chicken drumsticks (take immediately without a stone, so as not to remove it yourself), 4-5 pcs. tangerines, small carrots - 4 pcs., soybean sprouts - 200 g, ginger (finely grated root) - 5 g, a pair of garlic cloves, 1 tbsp. l dark soy sauce, 5 g of brown sugar, 30 g of brandy, 4 medium shallots, sunflower oil - 6 g, half a teaspoon of paprika, salt and black pepper - at your discretion. Here's what you need to make a delicious chicken with tangerines. Her recipe this time is a little more complicated.
We take carrots, thoroughly wash them, peel them. It is very convenient to do this with a special knife. Then we insert into the previously washed and salted chicken legs in place of the bones. In a special frying pan called wok, heat the sunflower oil and fry them on all sides for about three minutes. This is done so that they are fried on top and juice flows less from them. So that they, as they say, melt in your mouth. Spread on a plate and let cool.
Next stage
In parallel with this, we prepare a mixture of all the remaining ingredients. We take out the carrots from the chicken, roll the legs in the resulting piquant mixture.
Now let's deal with tangerines and soybean sprouts. To do this, clean them from the peel, divide into slices and carefully remove the thin peel. We spread the chicken legs with the filling in the pan, pour the soy sauce, mixed with tangerine juice. Cover and cook for another 15 minutes over medium heat.
Final stage
After cooking, the chicken with tangerines can be served with carrots, which we removed from the legs, soy sprouts or any side dish at your discretion. However, crumbly rice will emphasize its taste and aroma most of all , because it is a traditional, classic Chinese side dish. Almost no national dish is complete without it. Moreover, they eat it in the first, second and third. Many joke that they can make compote out of it, but they don’t reveal the secret.
And the last delicious dish was left.
Tasty salad
This salad with tangerines and chicken is perfect for the New Year's table and for any other holiday.
Ingredients : chicken fillet - about 400 g, tangerines - 5 pcs., Peeled walnuts - 100 g, dark raisins - 50 g, onions - 1 medium head, melted butter - 50 g, a pinch of salt.
Boil the chicken fillet until tender in slightly salted water. Tangerines peel and divide into slices. It is advisable to remove the film and remove the bones. Then cut into pieces, as well as chicken. This should be done with a very sharp knife, then the fruit will remain juicy, otherwise all the juice will remain on the cutting board. We clean the onion, pour over boiling water, finely chop. Rinse thoroughly and pour warm water.
To make the chicken with tangerines perfect, the nuts should be chopped into small pieces, but in no case into flour. Squeeze the juice from one tangerine and mix with butter. Cut the hot chicken into small pieces and mix with the rest of the ingredients. In what order to add them - does not matter. The salad is mixed well and served warm to the table so that the oil with tangerine juice does not freeze.
Instead of a conclusion
This salad can be considered a modern classic, because it has such a win-win combination as chicken with nuts. But there is a highlight in it, both in the literal and figurative sense. Juicy tangerines bring originality to this salad. Unusual bright sauce leaves a light creamy finish. Your guests will be absolutely delighted!