Many housewives do not like to bake chicken, believing that its meat in the oven becomes dry. This is not entirely true. The main thing is to be able to soak chicken with marinade. And also cover it from overdrying with some sauce. Then the dish will come out tender, and the meat - juicy and aromatic. They say that everything ingenious is simple. This maxim also refers to the recipe "Chicken in kefir in the oven." A minimum of products, simple - even a child can do it - is a culinary process, and the result is food, from which you swallow your tongue from one smell.
However, this dish cannot be classified as “guests on the doorstep”, because it needs to be cooked for a long time.
First, we must marinate the chicken in kefir. How it's done? You can take a whole broiler, but if you do not want to mess around with carcasses, buy a kilogram of individual parts - drumsticks, wings, breasts or thighs. So the pieces of meat will be the same thickness and evenly baked. We rinse our tsipu, rub it with salt, generously sprinkle with spices. To this dish go provence herbs, garlic, green onions, black pepper and oregano. And if your fantasy runs out, just take the Chicken Seasoning. Then put the pieces of meat in a deep bowl. Sprinkle with onion rings and pour half a liter or a little more kefir. The main thing is that the chicken is completely drowned in liquid. We cover the container with a lid and put it in a cool place for at least 2-3 hours, and even better - for eight hours.
After this time, turn on the oven at 180 ° C. Lubricate the refractory form with vegetable oil. We transfer pieces of meat along with the marinade there. Put the form in the oven. Kefir chicken in the oven is cooked for about an hour.
Do not let things go by themselves! If the liquid will evaporate strongly and expose the meat, you need to pour kefir from time to time or just turn the pieces over.
Kefir chicken in the oven cooks faster if you heat the oven 220 degrees. Then the dish will be baked in thirty minutes. Kefir sauce thickens. After half an hour, we take out the form, grease the top of the dish with mayonnaise, sprinkle with crushed garlic and return to the oven for another ten minutes to brown.
By connecting imagination, you can infinitely vary the recipe "Chicken in kefir in the oven." And here we are talking not only about bold experiments with spices in the marinade. For example, you can cook a main course with a side dish. So, first pickle the chicken thighs for a few hours. Kefir can be slightly beaten with mint, basil, oregano, rosemary, crushed garlic and onions.
While the chicken thighs "take a sour milk bath", peel the potatoes, cut into oblong slices or circles. We put it in a form greased with olive oil. Pepper potatoes, sprinkle with herbs, seasonings. Do not forget to chop the garlic. Grind the cherry tomatoes, put them on top of the potatoes. Place the hips on top and fill in the form with the marinade. A dish is prepared for about forty minutes at 200 ° C. Well, that’s it. Now you know how to cook chicken in kefir in various ways.