Delicious chicken dishes can be prepared in various ways: fry, stew, cook or bake. But sometimes I want to try something new or even unusual. The following recipe for cooking chicken will help you with this.
The chicken in wine is worthy of special attention. It turns out very juicy, soft and unusually tasty.
Chicken in wine with quince
To prepare this dish we need the following ingredients:
- chicken or rooster carcass;
- three large quinces;
- half a cinnamon stick;
- one hot pepper;
- butter (ghee);
- smoked bacon, about 100 g;
- onion;
- half a bottle of red wine or one glass of semisweet sherry;
- bay leaf, salt, thyme, black pepper.
Chicken in wine with quince: recipe
Grind cinnamon in a mortar and add hot dried pepper there. You can also use
cayenne pepper or a pinch of very hot paprika. Grind everything until a powder is obtained.
One large quince is cut into eight parts, then each slice is cut again across. In a deep frying pan, fry quince until golden brown on hot ghee. During the frying of quince, add the mixture of cinnamon and pepper prepared by us in advance. Put the quince on a plate and leave it to cool.
We wash the chicken and fill it with quince that has cooled, we dress the bird so that the wings and legs do not hang.
Cut the smoked bacon into strips. Dry the pan with a paper towel, then fry the bacon on it. The resulting cracklings are transferred to dishes with a ceramic surface in which chicken will be baked.
In the fat, which is obtained from bacon, fry the chicken until golden brown. Each time we turn the carcass, sprinkle it with salt.
In the baking dish add bay leaf, a few peas of black pepper and fill it all up with thinly cut red onion rings.
Next, we lay the chicken sideways in the form and spread the thinly sliced circles of the remaining quince around. This must be done so that there is no free space in the form.
Then sprinkle the chicken with salt, pour red wine.
Put the form in the oven and bake at 180 degrees. After about 20 minutes, when all the alcohol comes out of the wine, we remove the chicken from the oven, add a few branches of thyme to it, add the required amount of water and bake for another 40 minutes. Then we take it out again, turn it on the other side, salt a little, cover with a lid and bake for another half hour.
Next, we take the chicken out of the form, put it on a hot plate and cover with a towel.
Then we filter the liquid from the mold and evaporate it in a saucepan until the volume is halved. When the juice has evaporated, add a little flour for density. As a result, we get a very fragrant sauce.
Chicken in red wine with quince goes well with baked pumpkin or potatoes. Before serving, the chicken must be cut in half, then get the quince and put it on a plate.
The dish can be decorated with fresh apples or hawthorn (these berries taste good both in baked and in fresh form). The sauce must be served separately.
Chicken in wine with quince is ready! Enjoy your meal!