This dish is a kind of calling card - both festive and everyday, for all occasions. Today we’ll try to cook with you a dish from the Caucasian cuisine - Gedlibje (chicken in sour cream in Kabardian style). Well, the truth is, if we did not know what it was, we would have thought: this is an ordinary chicken, which is cooked in a wonderful sour cream sauce. Well, are you ready to start?
Hedliber recipe (Kabardian style chicken in sour cream): essential products
Now let's see what you need to take as ingredients. You will need chicken drumsticks (or a whole carcass chopped into portioned parts - someone like it) - about a kilogram, maybe more, depending on the pan in which the cooking will take place. A glass of low-fat sour cream, a couple of onions. Of the spices - paprika and hot cayenne pepper, a little garlic, a little flour, butter for frying.
Recipe with photo: gedlibje (chicken in sour cream in Kabardian style)
Let's start cooking in stages. First, we fry these wonderful shanks - fresh, not frozen - in a well-heated skillet in vegetable oil. We put the chicken legs in parallel with one another so that they do not touch each other - this will turn out a golden crust. Turn evenly on all sides. Let it take well and the excess liquid evaporates. We need fried, not stewed bird. And one more thing: you don’t need to salt right away - add salt in the sauce. By the way, if the chicken is bazaar, homemade, then it happens that it is too stiff. Then the cooking time (mainly subsequent stewing it in the sauce) must be increased by another 10-15 minutes. Thus, delicate softness is achieved. If the chicken (or drumsticks) is broiler, then the cooking time will not be required.
It's all about the sauce!
- Separately, fry the onion in oil in another skillet. Thus, in the second container we prepare the sauce - this is its basis. The onion should be finely chopped, you need to throw it on the pan and make sure that it does not burn, reaching a ruddy color. The sauce, by the way, should have such a uniform consistency. And for this dish you will need a cup of chicken broth - again for the sauce.
- When the onion is browned, we introduce a few spoons (per eye) of wheat flour. She will give a certain density. Pour all the chicken broth. The whole mass should be put out on low heat for a while. Add broth as needed so that the consistency is not too thick.
- The time for sour cream has come. Gradually introduce it into the total mass and mix so that there are no lumps. When the stew is still a little, we introduce salt, pepper, paprika - all to taste.
The final
The chicken has already been sufficiently fried, it can be transferred to the prepared sauce - from one pan to another. It is advisable to “lower the legs” so that they almost completely drown in the sauce. Cover and simmer another ten minutes. Then, a few moments before readiness, we cut a fresh dill and sprinkle on the dish. Now it can be considered ready and served. Now you know how to cook gedlibzhe - chicken in sour cream in Kabardian style. We hope that this recipe did not seem too complicated for you, but rather very simple to prepare. Moreover, the ingredients for the recipe can be found today in any supermarket or in the market.
Some tips
Here's a not-so-complicated recipe for chicken in sour cream in Kabardian style - gedlib. Now you have learned how to cook it, but this is far from all the chips. It is much more difficult for a novice housewife to properly serve this dish. Several options are possible here.
- If you have dinner with your close family, then gedlibzhe (chicken in sour cream in Kabardian style) put on the table right in the pan. It may not look very aesthetically pleasing, but the hostess will demonstrate that all members of the family are equally loved, and everyone has the opportunity to try a piece they like.
- If guests are supposed to be in the house, then the pieces are immediately laid out on plates, abundantly poured with sauce and brought to the table.
- Keep in mind that initially it was supposed to be gedlib (Kabardian-style chicken in sour cream) by hand, dipping pieces of bread or pita bread in sauce. So do not feed the plugs to the dish - this is normal. But if guests are not accustomed to this method of consumption, then you need to equip them with the appropriate cutlery. Yes, and enjoy your meal!