Chicken in the oven is a truly versatile dish that is perfect for a festive feast, as well as for a home lunch or dinner. There are a lot of recipes for chicken. How many housewives - so many recipes. After all, every woman adds something of her own and her chicken in the oven becomes special. Various versions of a special composition for rubbing chicken before baking, give it a special taste and aroma. Consider a few chicken recipes .
Recipe
Take the chicken carcass. It can be either chilled or frozen (pre-thawed). Rinse the chicken thoroughly under a stream of cold water, remove the remaining feathers and dry with a towel. Depending on which skin we will rub with spices, dry or wet, the taste shades of the final dish will depend.
Rub the carcass with a mixture of salt and black pepper. Spices are best grinded before cooking or taken from a new bag. Rub with salt, as carefully as possible and be sure to add at least two pinches into the chicken. We connect the chicken legs with a thick thread so that during baking, they do not go apart.
After our chicken lay for 10-15 minutes, we rub it on all sides with cooked mustard. For a chicken weighing about 2 kilograms, 3-4 tablespoons of mustard are needed. Leave the carcass to marinate for 40 minutes.
We lay the prepared carcass with the legs up in a special baking dish and put in the oven, which is already heated to 190 degrees. Our chicken in the oven will cook for at least an hour. After an hour, the carcass should be removed, turned over and greased with chicken fat, which was formed during cooking, and put in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
We get the prepared browned chicken, cool it a bit and cut into portions. You can use boiled vegetables, buckwheat or rice for a side dish. The whole baked chicken in the oven has a special taste and aroma that is not similar to that obtained by baking chicken legs or drumsticks.
Chicken meat has an excellent taste if the raw carcass is coated with a mixture of seasoning and mayonnaise or rubbed with cinnamon inside and coated with honey on top. In this case, tender and juicy meat is obtained inside, covered with a golden and even crust on the outside. This method does not require additional time for pickling and allows you not to thaw chicken to the end, but to start cooking with partial defrosting. Honey must be heated in the microwave, then coating the carcass will be much easier.
An interesting cooking option for the recipe is “Chicken in the oven with cheese”. It will require not only grated hard cheese for sprinkling, but also chopped walnuts, and black pepper for rubbing. This combination will give chicken meat an oriental touch.
To get more juicy meat, you can stuff chicken with chopped lemon or orange with spices and salt. In this case, the meat will not only acquire a special juiciness, but will also absorb the aroma and citrus juice, which will only improve its taste.
If you decide to bake chicken with a whole carcass, but do not want to stuff it, then you should use a special baking stand. This method allows you to evenly bake meat and get a golden crust on all sides. With this method, dietary meat is obtained, because all the fat flows onto a baking sheet on which a chicken stand is installed, which makes it possible for people suffering from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract to enjoy the amazing taste of baked chicken meat and even during an lean diet.
Cook with pleasure, and any of your dishes will become a real masterpiece!