Any housewife has several recipes that are easy to prepare, and the end result is tasty and satisfying. Among these, there is certainly a recipe for stewing potatoes with chicken in a pan, slow cooker or ducklings. Even a deep frying pan can easily be adapted in order to cook this tasty and simple dish in it.
For home dinner and unexpected guests
Unexpected, but welcome guests are not scared if the house has potatoes and a chicken. From a set of simple products you get a gorgeous meal. Today we recall how to cook potatoes with chicken in a pan. A step-by-step recipe will not let even young, not quite experienced housewives get confused in the cooking steps.
Simple but tasty
Let's start, as usual, with the simplest cooking recipe. However, the simplicity of cooking this dish does not mean that it is tasteless. How many people, so many preferences that relate, including cooking chicken and potatoes in a pan. Ready to start casting in the kitchen? Then get down to business soon.
Simple option
We will verify the availability of products for the recipe for stewed potatoes with chicken in a pan:
- Chicken - meat can be with or without bones - half a kilogram (or a little more).
- Potatoes of medium diameter - six pieces.
- Carrots - four pieces will be more than enough.
- One onion.
- Laurel leaf.
- Salt and pepper - to taste.
- About two to three glasses of water.
- Lean oil.
Potato Chicken Recipe in a Pan
- Prepare the chicken: wash it, dry it with a paper towel and cut it into pieces. Add salt and pepper to the meat and leave for a while, until vegetables are cooked.
- We take out the pan from the cabinet, which has a thick bottom. If there is no such dishes, then you can start cooking a delicious dish in a pan. And then at one of the cooking steps move the dish into the pan.
- Potatoes and carrots need to be thoroughly washed and peeled. Cut the peeled tubers into large pieces. This is necessary so that the potatoes do not digest in the process and do not turn into an unsightly mass. Cut the carrots into slices too. If boiled carrots does not belong to those products that are normally perceived by you (or your home) in boiled form, then use a grater of any fraction to grind this vegetable.
- Onion - chop finely.
- Everything is ready for cooking chicken and potatoes in a pan. So, it's time to pour in a saucepan with a thick bottom of vegetable oil and, warming it, put the chicken meat - let it fry.
- Fry the chicken parts to a delicious crust. Fry over medium heat. Three to five minutes are allocated on each side, depending on the size of the pieces.
- Now add vegetables to the chicken (all at once). In addition, salt and pepper, based on personal taste preferences.
- Pour into a pan three glasses of hot boiled water and throw a leaf of laurel. Water should cover all the elements of the dish.
- Bring our dish to a boil and, reducing the heat, cover the pan with a lid. Stew chicken with vegetables for forty minutes. Sometimes mix the dish with very delicate movements so that the structure remains solid and beautiful.
- Sprinkle the dish with herbs for three to five minutes until cooked.
If there is no pan with a thick bottom
It turned out delicious chicken with potatoes. But what to do for those who did not have such a good saucepan with thick cast walls and a bottom? In this situation, you can use the pan. We prepare a dish in it until the moment when you need to pour water.
At the stage of adding the liquid, you can put the fried products from the pan into any suitable pan and only then pour water. Further, the cooking process takes place according to the recipe.
Braised chicken
This recipe is more suitable for those who follow calories and health. The chicken is not fried here, so the dish is more dietetic. Well suited for those who do not want to eat fried foods.
Prepare the products:
- Chicken thighs or breast, or any other chicken meat, with and without bones - 700-800 grams.
- Potato tubers - 8-10 pieces.
- Onions - 2 pieces.
- Carrots - 1-3 pieces.
- Garlic - 3-7 cloves.
- Laurel leaf - 2-3 pieces.
- Various herbs, salt, pepper and other spices - to taste.
Braised chicken with potatoes in a pan, step by step cooking:
- Prepare the chicken: wash it, if necessary, remove the skin from it, cut into medium pieces.
- My potatoes and carrots, peel the outer peel. Cut the potato into medium slices. We wipe the carrots through a grater.
- Peel and finely chop the bulbs.
- Peel the garlic. We squeeze it through the press. You can chop the garlic with a knife.
- We spread the chicken parts in the pan and fill them with water so that the water hides the meat.
- We put the pan on the stove and cook it after boiling at a moderate temperature for about fifteen minutes. Do not forget about the need for descaling.
- We introduce potatoes, carrots, onions to the chicken and add more water (already hot and boiled). The liquid should cover the cooking dish by about three centimeters.
- Salt, add pepper and bay leaves. Covering, cook chicken with potatoes over low heat for 25 minutes. Three minutes before cooking, add crushed garlic and herbs to the pan to taste.
- Once again, try the salt and pepper. We check the degree of readiness of the chicken meat, and making sure that everything is fine, turn off the stove.
The dish will turn out somewhat mashed, some gourmets adore such a consistency. In general, the chicken with potatoes turns out to be tasty and fragrant, and it’s hard to resist not to ask for supplements. The dish will appeal to all households.