From chicken you can cook a lot of interesting and delicious dishes. Easily digestible meat of this bird is boiled, fried and baked. It makes delicious soups, salads and meatballs. And this is not a complete list of what can be made from this product. After reading today's publication, you will learn more than one original recipe for chicken legs in honey mustard sauce.
Option in the oven
To prepare this tasty and fragrant dish, you can use all parts of the chicken carcass. But it is better to purchase just the legs. Moreover, they should not be frozen, but chilled. Honey mustard sauce, the recipe of which will be presented below, will make the meat more juicy and tender. Before you start the process, be sure to see if your refrigerator has all the necessary components. At your fingertips should be:
- Ten chicken legs.
- Four tablespoons of honey, mustard and butter.
So that the chicken legs you cooked in honey mustard sauce do not turn out to be fresh and tasteless, the above list needs to be slightly expanded. Additionally, freshly ground black pepper is added to it. As for salt, soy sauce will be used instead.
Process description
To the melted and slightly cooled butter add honey, mustard, pepper and soy sauce. All is thoroughly mixed, coated with the pre-washed and dried parts of the poultry, and sent to the refrigerator for about an hour. This time should be enough so that the meat is completely saturated with the aroma of seasonings. To make your chicken legs cooked in honey mustard sauce more juicy and soft, you need to leave them in the refrigerator all night.
Pickled meat is spread on a baking sheet and sent to the oven, preheated to two hundred degrees. After about forty minutes, he is taken out of the oven and served. As a side dish, they usually use salads from fresh vegetables, boiled rice or mashed potatoes.
Option in a slow cooker
Using this technology, you can quickly and without much hassle prepare tender and incredibly aromatic meat. Honey mustard sauce, the recipe of which can be found in today's article, gives the meat a pleasant sweet taste. Before you start cooking, check the contents of your own refrigerator for all the required products. This time in your kitchen should be present:
- A pair of tablespoons of naturally liquid honey.
- Eight chicken legs.
- A tablespoon of mustard, vegetable oil and vinegar.
Salt and freshly ground black pepper will be used as spices.
Sequencing
It should be noted that chicken legs made with this recipe in honey mustard sauce are eaten much faster than baked. So that your family can appreciate the taste of this dish, you must strictly observe the recommended ratio of ingredients.
At the initial stage, you need to do the sauce. For its preparation, vegetable oil, vinegar, mustard, liquid honey, salt and pepper are combined in one dish. If desired, dried herbs are added to it. All mix well. After that, parts of the chicken are sent to the bowl with the finished marinade. But before that, the bird is washed under running water, cleaned of the remaining feathers and yellow skin.
After about half an hour, the pickled chicken legs in honey mustard sauce are laid out in a multicooker bowl and the “Baking” mode is activated. Cook them at one hundred and sixty degrees for forty-five minutes.
Another option
By analogy with all previous cases, before you start cooking, be sure to inspect the contents of your own kitchen cabinets. To pamper your family with soft juicy meat with a slightly sweet taste, you will need:
- A tablespoon of natural honey.
- Six chicken legs.
- Two tablespoons of dry mustard and vegetable oil.
Additionally, you should have a small amount of salt, pepper and spices on hand. Pre-washed and divided into two parts, chicken legs are spread in a bowl with marinade, consisting of honey, mustard, butter and seasoning. All is well mixed and sent to the refrigerator. After about two hours, the legs in honey mustard sauce are laid out in a baking dish and put in the oven, preheated to two hundred degrees. Fifty minutes later, they are taken out of the oven and served.