Tasty cooked chicken is always a welcome dish on the table, regardless of occasion: New Year, birthday, romantic dinner or Sunday family dinner.
The meat of this bird is distinguished by special tenderness, dietary and gustatory qualities, and good digestibility by the body.
Especially if it’s delicious to marinate the whole baked chicken. Some interesting marinade recipes are in this article.
Some tips
In fact, baking chicken in the oven is simple enough for a good housewife. You just need to know some culinary features that will make the dish as tasty as possible. Namely:
- For baking a whole carcass, a meaty chicken is suitable than a thin soup;
- Before pickling it must be washed and thoroughly dried with a paper towel;
- Grate with salt on all sides and in the inside;
- So that the carcass is marinated especially carefully, it is recommended to pierce its surface with a bamboo stick;
- Make marinade;
- Meat can be soaked both in the refrigerator and at room temperature;
- To get a tasty and juicy chicken during baking, you can put a container of water in the oven. And only at the end of the process to remove (who loves a golden brown). You can still put a whole peeled onion in the inside (instead of water).
Well, and how deliciously marinate chicken for the whole oven? And what marinades can be prepared for this - more on this later.
Original version
A delicious meat marinade, which includes many different ingredients: seasonings, sour cream, vegetable oil, garlic. Each ingredient brings its own specialty to the recipe.
And, most importantly, the finished dish - the whole baked chicken in the oven - is simply excellent.
Such products will be required:
- ground curry - 8 grams;
- ground turmeric - 4 grams;
- ground white pepper - 4 grams;
- fresh ginger root - 30 grams;
- nutmeg - 4 grams;
- garlic - 5 grams;
- refined vegetable oil - 80 milliliters;
- salt - 12 grams;
- sour cream - 60 milliliters.
Marinade preparation:
- chop the garlic (through the garlic or finely chopped) and ginger (grater);
- put the resulting components in a container;
- add white pepper, turmeric, curry, nutmeg, sour cream and oil;
- mix the components;
- carefully rub the already prepared carcass with a mixture - from all sides, as well as from the inside;
- put chicken on a dish and cover with cling film;
- leave to marinate - 6-8 hours.
Sour cream and vegetable oil will give the finished product softness and delicate taste. And the spices will make the color of the crust and the meat itself soft yellow and pleasantly spicy in taste.
Honey option
This is also a well-known option for marinating chicken for baking in the oven.
Of the products required:
- natural honey - 60 milliliters;
- mustard "French" - 30 g;
- orange juice - 300 milliliters;
- garlic - 5 g.
Cooking is very simple and quick: squeeze the juice from oranges, add honey and mustard. Grind garlic through the garlic and add the puree to the mixture. To mix everything.
After that, already cooked (dried and grated with salt) chicken marinate for frying in the oven for 7-8 hours.
The resulting dish will taste delicious with a characteristic sweet and sour flavor. And outwardly - very appetizing.
Tomato option
A simple and inexpensive marinade is obtained from tomato juice or sauce. You can use homemade juice or store-bought. The same is the case if you give preference to tomato sauce - buy ready-made or cook from tomato paste and spices.
Prepared chicken (dried and grated on all sides with salt) must be put in a deep bowl (bowl, pan) and pour over the juice (or grate the sauce). Cover with foil or lid and for 2-4 hours.
"Shish kebab" option
Many people are well aware of the marinade recipe for barbecue - pork, beef, lamb - from vinegar, black pepper and salt.
The same components can be used to bake whole chicken.
How to cook marinade?
The following ingredients are needed:
- onions - 150 g;
- salt - 25 g;
- sugar - 12 g;
- ground pepper - 4 g;
- vinegar 9% - 20 g;
- water - 250 milliliters.
Cooking:
- mix vinegar with water;
- add salt, pepper, sugar, mix;
- chop the onion with a grater, add to the mixture.
Grate the washed and dried carcass with the resulting marinade - from all sides. Leave in the container for 10 minutes. Then refrigerate for 10 hours.
Sharp option
For lovers of an unusually piquant taste of the finished chicken, there is a marinade recipe in which there are a lot of spicy ingredients:
- Provencal herbs - 2 g;
- adjika - 15 g;
- mayonnaise - 200 g;
- garlic - 5 g;
- ground red pepper - 2 g;
- ground black pepper - 2 g;
- table mustard - 20 g;
- salt - 25 g.
The cooking process is extremely simple: mix adjika and mayonnaise, add spices, salt, mustard and garlic (squeezed through the garlic). Mix.
Then spread with the mixture the previously washed and dried carcass - evenly and from all sides. Leave to soak for 6-8 hours.
According to this recipe for pickling chicken for the oven, an acute-tender spicy dish is obtained in the end.
Beer option
An excellent result can be obtained by preparing the following seasoning for a whole broiler carcass. Beer will be the basis of the marinade, but other components have their own special purpose.
Ingredients:
- beer - 200 milliliters;
- garlic - 3 g;
- soy sauce - 200 milliliters;
- honey - 150 g;
- rosemary - 1 g;
- fresh red pepper - 10 g.
Mix beer and soy sauce, add honey, rosemary, chopped red pepper and garlic.
Lower the pre-prepared chicken in a deep container and pour the marinade. Put soaked meat for 6-8 hours.
Onion and garlic option
It has long been known that onion and garlic juice has a special aroma, usefulness and may well become the basis of spicy marinade for meat.
How to marinate the whole chicken for the oven using these vegetable properties?
It is necessary to prepare a mixture of the following ingredients:
- onions - 100 g;
- garlic - 20 g;
- lemon juice - 30 milliliters;
- salt - 15 g;
- ground red pepper - 3 g.
Finely chop the onion and garlic, it is recommended to pass through a grater and garlic - respectively.
Add spices to the mixture and mix. Pour lemon juice. Grate the prepared carcass with the resulting marinade. Leave the chicken in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours.
Option with garlic and spices
And how to pickle chicken for the oven? Recipes, as we see, are enough, now take for example the one in which there is vegetable oil, and garlic, and seasonings.
Ingredients:
- dry ground basil - 25 grams;
- turmeric - 15 grams;
- garlic - 5 grams;
- ground paprika - 5 grams;
- refined vegetable oil (olive or sunflower, can be combined) - 50 milliliters.
Combine all the ingredients, let the garlic pass through the garlic. Let the marinade infuse for 40 minutes.
Prepare the chicken: wash, dry, grate with salt.
Apply the marinade to the carcass with a brush, carefully distributing the whole mixture - both outside and inside.
Leave to marinate for 8 hours.
Sweet and Sour Option
A wonderful marinade can be prepared for whole oven-baked chicken using sweet and sour ingredients:
- garlic - 20 g;
- tomato ketchup - 100 g;
- BBQ sauce - 100 g;
- brown sugar - 16 g;
- soy sauce - 40 milliliters;
- salt - 20 g;
- ground black pepper - 2 g;
- dried ginger - 2 g;
- lemon juice - 40 milliliters.
Pour ketchup, sauces into the container, add spices, garlic, brown sugar and salt squeezed through the garlic gutter. To mix everything. Squeeze the juice from the lemon.
Pre-wash, dry, pierce a bamboo stick or fork to marinade soak the inside of the carcass as much as possible. Apply the mixture with a brush and leave the meat for 6-8 hours.
It is recommended that when baking, place a whole, peeled onion in the inside of the chicken, then the finished dish will be juicy and tender.
Wine option
Widely used for coarser meat (pork, beef, lamb), the method of marinating meat for roasting chicken as a whole will be very useful. Moreover, thanks to wine, the carcass soaking time is up to 4 hours at room temperature.
Ingredients:
- dry red wine - 400 milliliters;
- olive oil - 150 milliliters;
- rosemary - 5 grams;
- salt - 20 grams;
- ground black pepper - 3 grams;
- thyme - 1 gram.
Combine wine and olive oil, add spices, salt. Pour the pre-prepared carcass with the resulting marinade and leave to soak (under food polyethylene or a lid).
Chili and Bay Leaf Option
The meat will be sharp enough if you pre-marinate the chicken for baking in the oven in the following mixture.
Ingredients:
- onions - 150 g;
- olive oil - 60 milliliters;
- chili pepper - 3 g;
- ground paprika - 3 g;
- salt - 20 g;
- ground bay leaf - 2 g.
Grind onions, add spices and salt to the mixture. Grate the chicken - carefully and from all sides with this marinade. Leave the meat to soak for 6 hours.
Then bake in the oven - with potatoes, vegetables or porridge.
Traditional mayonnaise
But the easiest, easiest and fastest way to marinate the chicken for the oven is to make a mixture of mayonnaise and spices. For softness, it is recommended to add a little vegetable oil (20 grams). It is not in the recipe.
Ingredients:
- mayonnaise - 50 grams;
- seasoning for poultry - 15 g;
- dry rosemary - 5 g;
- red pepper and black peas - 6 g;
- basil - 4 g;
- sage - 5 g;
- oregano - 3 g;
- salt - 6 g.
Grind all spices with a coffee grinder. Put mayonnaise in a bowl, add spices for poultry, ground spices, salt. Stir and brush the previously prepared chicken.
Marinate - 4-6 hours.
Summary
There are many options for pickling chicken for the oven. And everyone chooses to his liking. But sometimes you can experiment and try another way, suddenly it turns out to be even better!