Oven baked chicken in sour cream: how to make the dish even tastier?

Oven baked chicken with sour cream: is there anyone who has not tried this dish? It is one of the indicators of real home cooking, along with navy pasta and fried potatoes, because it is prepared very simply, and its taste is high. Men are delighted with this dish, especially if the side dish is potatoes baked in the same sauce, as well as pickled cucumbers.

Essential Ingredients

This chicken recipe in sour cream (in the oven) is no different from dozens of others, but a successful combination of spices distinguishes it from this host and takes it far ahead.

To prepare two servings you will need:

• four chicken drumsticks (4-6 wings or two chicken breasts can be replaced);
• 100-140 grams of hard cheese;
• 2/3 cup of homemade sour cream (it should never be replaced with any sour cream products);
• 2 tbsp. l mustard;
• 4-6 cloves of garlic, depending on taste preferences;
• 1/2 tsp salt and as much black pepper.

Primary product preparation

In order to cook delicious chicken in sour cream, baked in the oven, you must first marinate it in a spicy sauce for half an hour or an hour. To prepare it you need:

1. Grind garlic in the press.
2. Mix it with salt, mustard and pepper.
3. Combine the mixture with sour cream, carefully stirring the sauce with a spoon. It is important to use real sour cream, because only it gives a delicious golden crust, while soaking chicken meat. Sour cream baked in the oven, along with mustard, will create an even tan, making the dish not only tasty, but also aesthetically beautiful, which will further contribute to digestion.
4. If it turns out that the sauce is too thick, then you can add 1/3 cup of milk or water, whipping slightly the mass until uniform.
5. Grate the chicken meat with the resulting mass, doing it directly in a bowl, every ten minutes it is necessary to mix its contents so that the sauce is more evenly absorbed into the crumb.
6. Leave the dishes with meat in a cool place with a lid.

It is worth noting that in such a marinade, but the meat can be stored in the refrigerator for a whole day, which is very convenient: pickle the product in the morning before work, send it to the oven in the evening upon arrival and after 40 minutes get the perfect dinner.

What other sauce can I make?

Sour cream for chicken baked in the oven can also be mixed with mayonnaise if it turns out that it is not enough for cooking. It is advisable that the proportions do not exceed the 50% mark (that is, there should not be more mayonnaise), otherwise there is a risk of being left without a crust.

Of course, the dish will also be tasty due to the specific taste of mayonnaise sauce, but the appearance will be slightly different.

In addition to the above, for marinating chicken meat, you can use the following components:

• a glass of sour cream;
• 100 grams of homemade tomato adjika;
• a generous pinch of black pepper and salt;
• one large onion, which is chopped with very thin half rings (until transparent).

All ingredients are mixed in one dish, allowed to stand for 5-8 minutes, and then marinated in the resulting sauce chicken.

In this version of the marinade, the meat should be kept for at least an hour so that it is well saturated with the taste and aroma of the ingredients. The presence of tomatoes will give the meat a more ruddy color with a reddish tinge, and the rich flavor of seasonings will make the dish ideal for lovers of spicy dishes.

Step cooking

When the pickling time comes to an end, continue cooking:

1. Place the meat on a baking sheet, having preliminarily greased it with vegetable oil.
2. Arrange the pieces so that they only slightly touch, then the crust will be denser, and the finished dish will have a presentable appearance, which is important if it is prepared for a gala family dinner on Sunday.
3. Place the pan in an oven heated to 250 ° C and bake the meat for 20 minutes.
4. Next, reduce the heat to 200 ° , use two forks to turn the pieces on the other side and continue the process until the meat is ready, which is checked by piercing with a fork: if pink juice appears at the puncture site when pressing the pulp, it means the chicken is damp, it is necessary to continue baking .

By the way, in the photo the chicken in the sour cream from the oven looks great, so you should definitely make a photo report in order to be considered an expert chef among friends.

Final touch

In order for the chicken in sour cream baked in the oven to have a crisper, denser crust, 15 minutes before the end of cooking, sprinkle each piece with grated cheese, being careful not to stain the baking sheet. During the heat treatment, the cheese will melt, darken a little and form the desired dense yummy.

You can also bake whole potato tubers in a separate baking sheet using the remains of the meat sauce or by preparing an additional portion of it. This is very convenient, because you will not need to worry about the side dish to the main dish, and it’s much more convenient, faster and more economical to cook two dishes in one oven (using its two levels). And who does not want to be considered the ideal hostess?