Jelly from chickens turns out to be very satisfying and tasty, and when properly designed, it is also quite beautiful. It should be noted that such a dish can be prepared using chicken paws and using ordinary gelatin. Today we will consider the second option, since it is made much faster and easier.
How to cook jellied chicken: a detailed recipe
Required Components:
- medium-sized carrots - 1 pc. (for decoration);
- bitter white onion - 2 heads (for taste);
- large chicken carcass - 1 pc.;
- table salt, peppercorns, bay leaves, as well as fresh cloves of garlic - add at your own discretion;
- small chicken eggs - a few pcs. (for decoration);
- gelatin - 20 g.
Poultry processing
Before you start cooking jellied chicken, you should carefully process all acquired birds. It must be washed inside and out, and then cut off all excess elements and pull off the skin.
Vegetable processing
To make jellied chicken beautiful and fragrant, you must use ingredients such as onions, eggs and carrots to cook it. They need to be washed and, if necessary, cleaned. It is advisable to boil chicken eggs separately to a steep state.
Heat treatment
After all the above ingredients have been prepared, you should immediately begin the process of cooking meat. To do this, the processed chicken, without cutting into parts, must be laid out in a deep pan with thick walls and a bottom, pour water and boil, periodically removing the foam with a slotted spoon. In this state, the meat must be cooked for three hours. It is recommended to salt it, as well as add spices and bay leaf at the very end, since over a long period of heat treatment the water in the dishes will significantly decrease.
An hour before the end of the preparation of the base for the jellied meat, put the whole head of onion in the broth . The added vegetable will make the dish more flavorful and delicious. Also, chicken jelly (photo can be seen in the presented article) will turn out to be more beautiful if you add boiled carrots to it, which must be placed in the broth at the same time as the onion head.
Hearty meal formation
After the above time, it is necessary to remove the chicken from the pan, and cool the broth a little, strain, season with salt, grated garlic and dilute the instant gelatin in it. Next, the meat should be freed from bones and divided into small fibers. After that, you need to take deep dishes, lay in them chicken pieces, beautifully chopped carrots, fresh herbs, half eggs, and then pour all the products with rich and aromatic broth. In this composition, the chicken jelly must be placed in the refrigerator and kept for at least five hours.
How to serve a meat dish to the table
Frozen jellied meat should be laid out on a flat plate, sharply overturning the dishes, and then cut into portions and serve with mustard and wheat bread. Believe me, absolutely all invited guests will be happy with this hearty and delicious appetizer of chicken meat.