Despite the fact that all the housewives at least once in their life tried to master the preparation of chicken in the oven, they often remain dissatisfied with the result.
Here, the question of choosing a chicken roasting recipe comes first . And we will definitely tell you how to cook this delicious, traditional dish that everyone will like. The main secret of cooking is to choose a suitable poultry carcass, which should have enough subcutaneous fat (they are usually yellow), if, on the contrary, you take a small individual, it will be excessively dry. When buying chicken, do not forget to immediately buy a set of seasonings for it.
So, cooking chicken in the oven
This recipe is addressed to those who are in a creative search and strive to achieve excellence in cooking chicken in the oven, however, do not have sufficient skills. For cooking you need - chicken, a set of spices, a glass bottle and salt. Mix the salt with spices and grate the chicken carcass (cleaned from the insides) with this mixture. Then we pour into the bottle until the middle of the beer (or water), after that we “put” the chicken on it.
To get a well-fried chicken, the temperature in the oven at the time of laying the carcass should be about 180-200 degrees. After 40 minutes, reduce the temperature to one hundred and thirty degrees and cook over moderate heat. Cooking time is an hour and a half. To prevent fat from spreading throughout the oven while you cook, put the bottle on a pallet. You can get a beautiful crisp if you drip chicken from time to time with dripping fat.
Cooking chicken in the oven under beer fumes will make it juicy and soft. The main problem is that the carcass should be baked entirely evenly, therefore, if you do not follow it, then the top may burn up, and the bottom, on the contrary, remains moist. To avoid this, put a bowl of water at the bottom of the oven. Water will produce steam and thereby “soften” the temperature in the oven.
Cooking chicken in the oven
We take a plastic bag, so that our chicken completely fits. The package must be durable and airtight. You can buy a special sleeve or ready-made baking bags in the store. To cook chicken in the oven, you need to cook marinade. Mix in a bowl: kefir, chopped onion (raw), crushed garlic, a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, juice from half a lemon, ground black pepper, a couple of tablespoons of chicken seasoning and salt. After mixing everything, pour this mixture into a baking bag. Then we carefully place the washed and gutted chicken there. If small feather hairs remain on the chicken, singe them over the fire by removing the lid from the burner. Having tied the bag with the chicken tightly, we begin to shake it well so that this marinade saturates the chicken from the outside and from the inside. Then we leave our chicken alone for an hour or two, so that it is properly marinated. When this time passes, you need to take out the chicken and place it in the oven to bake until crisp, periodically turning over and pouring over the flowing marinade.
Microwave cooking
Do not believe it when you are told that the grilled chicken in the microwave will not work. The opinion that cooking chicken in the oven is the only option is erroneous. People who think so do not know that there is a very simple and elegant way to cook chicken in the microwave. To do this, take the gutted and washed bird carcass weighing 1-1.2 kg, rub it on the outside and inside with a mixture of spices and salt. Spices should be taken special for chicken.
You can make the marinade yourself by simply adding juice from ½ lemon, a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and a couple of crushed garlic cloves to the spices. And then coat with spices and a layer of mayonnaise (so that the skin does not burn).
Before laying the chicken in the microwave, the tips of the wings and legs are very tight so that they do not fly off, wrap with pieces of foil.
Pickled chicken, lay on a wire rack, under which we put a flat container for draining fat. Be sure to flip the chicken. If your microwave oven is equipped with a grill function, the carcass inside will turn over by itself.
Then click on the desired program and wait. Cooking time depends not only on the weight of the bird, but also on the model of your microwave.