Everyone eats chicken with great pleasure - whether it be a whole baked chicken in the oven, chicken legs , drumsticks or wings cooked in a sleeve, chicken rolls, boiled chicken - you can’t count the whole variety of dishes, since chicken is a favorite dish of almost all peoples.
But often the question arises: what is the best way to combine chicken, or, in other words, what is the side dish for chicken?
Let us recall that sour or soaked apples are well suited as a side dish to fried or baked in foil poultry . A goose in apples (or a duck) is what is called a classic of the genre, but I doubt that many have tried to serve apples to chicken.
And to prepare such a light (literally and figuratively) side dish, you just need to take apples of an acidic variety and, cutting them into slices, fry in the same fat that was melted from the chicken during frying. Just add apples 10 minutes before the chicken is cooked in the same pan or on a baking sheet - and the side dish is ready! I think everyone will like it, especially the ladies!
Another that comes to mind is mashed potatoes or boiled rice. You can also apply a complex side dish by adding green canned peas. But this will be a bit standard. Although you can boil the same rice in different ways and not everyone can get it tasty - but at home you want, so to speak, not the “table” option.
I suggest you cook rice according to my recipe for a side dish with chicken, and believe me, it turns out very tasty.
So, the rice recipe for a side dish, write down:
Take a cauldron or pan with a thick bottom (but in a cauldron it is always better) and put there 2 (two) glasses of well-washed rice, pour 3 (three) glasses of cold water, put on a large fire and do not go anywhere. As soon as the water begins to boil, and this will happen very quickly, you need to cover the cauldron or pot with a lid and then strictly by the minute (this is important!) - if there is a timer, then be sure to use it, if not, just pin it on the clock:
3 minutes - strong fire, 7 minutes - moderate fire, 2 minutes - weak fire. After that, turn off the gas and hold our rice for 12 minutes without fire, without opening the lid of the cauldron or pan.
If you count all the cooking time from the moment of boiling, then 24 minutes are left. Say for a long time? Yes, not so - because you stand at the stove only the first 12 minutes, and the last 12 minutes, the rice comes by itself. Then we open the lid and add salt to taste and any oil to the finished rice (I like to add butter, but vegetable is also good) and mix everything. That's it - a delicious side dish is ready for chicken! I would be glad if you like it too!
And if you decide to cook chicken in a special sleeve, then a win-win option would be to bake potatoes with onions together with chicken (if the potatoes are relatively large, then you need to cut them into quarters) and you will immediately get the dish ready, with the least effort and very tasty, since your the side dish is saturated with all those seasonings that you add to the chicken marinade during the preparation process, and the onion will give its juice when baked. And as soon as the chicken and potatoes are ready, you just have to nicely put everything on a plate and sprinkle with dill and other herbs. And make a salad of fresh tomatoes, bell peppers, or other vegetables, which can also optionally garnish your main dish.
Fried fresh tomatoes, zucchini or eggplant can be a wonderful and very elegant side dish on the festive table. And if the season of fresh vegetables has not yet come up, then stewed sauerkraut is well suited for chicken.
It is also good to serve fried chicken on a dish on the festive table, overlaying it with slices of chopped oranges - it not only looks elegant, but also perfectly matches your taste!
In general, there would be a chicken, and already on the side dish we always figure something out!
Bon appetit to all!