If the hostess needs to quickly and tasty feed the guests, then do not bother with some complicated outlandish dishes. For this case, chicken in a cauldron with potatoes is ideal . Moreover, you can cook it in different ways.
Hearty Dinner Option
The easiest way to cook a bird is to extinguish it using fragrant herbs for flavor. For work, it is better to take dishes with a thick bottom. And if you donβt want to spend time on the side dish, then you can combine everything in one dish. It will turn out a wonderful chicken in a cauldron with potatoes.
First you need to stock up on the following products:
1 chicken carcass, kilogram of potatoes, carrots, salt, onion, pepper, 3 tablespoons of sour cream, 2 cloves of garlic, bay leaf, a little seasoning and herbs (parsley with dill).
Preparing chicken in a cauldron with potatoes as follows:
- First of all, you need to cut the bird into portions. They can be quite large.
- Peel the vegetables, and then cut the carrots into strips, and dice the potatoes and onions.
- Put a cauldron on a fire and heat oil in it.
- Fry onions and carrots in boiling fat.
- Add chicken and mix everything.
- As soon as a characteristic crust begins to appear, put sour cream.
- At the same time add potatoes and pour water so that it completely covers the products.
- After boiling the liquid, pour all the spices and simmer on low heat for half an hour.
- 2-3 minutes before cooking, add chopped garlic and herbs.
Fragrant chicken in a cauldron with potatoes is done very simply, quickly and does not require any special skills and dexterity from the hostess.
Uzbek chicken
Many experts say that the dish becomes tastier if a man takes up the matter. A vivid confirmation of this is one of the dishes of Uzbek cuisine called βKabobβ. In fact, this is a chicken with potatoes in a cauldron. A recipe whose photo is in front of your eyes is always easier to repeat.
And it all starts with the preparation of products. For work you will need:
whole chicken (1.5 kilograms), 3 large tomatoes, 2 kilograms of potatoes, salt, 50 grams of mutton fat, a glass of vegetable oil and 3 tablespoons of spices (coriander, red pepper, zira and basil).
The whole process consists of several steps:
- Cut the chicken into pieces.
- Grind zira with coriander using a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle. Set aside part of the mixture, and mix the rest with salt.
- Gently cut the tomatoes into rings.
- Grate the meat with spices. Place the pieces in a pan, cover them with tomatoes, close and refrigerate for 3 hours. After that they need to be taken out and dried with a towel.
- Peel and chop the potato coarsely.
- Heat the cauldron over a fire and melt the lamb fat in it to cracklings, which are then better removed using a slotted spoon.
- Fry the chicken in boiling fat for 20 minutes.
- Get the meat, and put potatoes sprinkled with spices in its place. Stir occasionally, wait until a golden crust appears on it.
- Lay the meat on top and leave the food to stew under the lid for 15 minutes.
It turns out a very tasty chicken with potatoes in a cauldron. Recipe, photos and recommendations for the preparation of such a dish is best to always have at hand. This will certainly help in the work.
Picnic idea
Those who like to go outdoors should like chicken in a cauldron with vegetables and potatoes. This dish is great for preparing it at the stake.
You only need to pre-select the right products:
300 grams of pork fat and the same amount of fresh cabbage, chicken (1 kilogram), 4 eggplants, 1 kilogram of potatoes and tomatoes, 0.5 kilograms of onions and carrots, 60 grams of salt, 5 bell peppers, 1 bunch of dill and parsley, a tablespoon of zira, a quarter of a teaspoon of red pepper, and also 3 tablespoons of black pepper and dried herbs.
The dish is prepared in stages:
- Cut fat into thin plates and place it on the bottom of the cauldron. Lay the chicken cut into pieces on top. Add cumin, salt, herbs and both types of pepper.
- Cut peeled potatoes into slices and cover them with meat. Sprinkle the same spices on top.
- Now you need to chop the vegetables. To do this, chop the cabbage, cut the tomatoes into halves, sweet pepper into slices, and eggplant, onions and carrots into rings. You can not chop greens.
- Put vegetables on top of the meat in the following order: carrots - eggplant - onions - peppers - cabbage - tomatoes. Sprinkle each layer with spices, and pour prepared greens on top.
- Cover the structure with a plate and install a press on top. As cargo, you can use a brick wrapped in a napkin.
After an hour and a half, the fragrant dish will be ready. The main thing is that the fire should not be very large.
Simplest option
In order to make the dish tasty, it is not necessary to use many components. You can take only the most important of them. For example, it is very easy to make chicken slices in a cauldron with potatoes in the presence of a minimal set of products.
You will need:
12 potatoes, a head of garlic, 1 chicken carcass, 5 onions, 2 carrots, bay leaf, salt, 100 grams of vegetable oil, black pepper and spices.
To prepare such a dish you need:
- Cut the chicken into small pieces and put them in a deep bowl. Add salt, spices, pepper and 20 grams of vegetable oil. In this mixture, the meat should be slightly marinated.
- During this time, you can peel vegetables.
- Heat oil in a cauldron, and then fry the meat in it from all sides. It will take about 10 minutes.
- Pour onion, chopped in half rings, and fry it with chicken until transparent.
- Add carrots, chopped into thin bobs, in a boiling mass.
- After 5 minutes, fill everything with water so that it covers the food.
- After boiling, pour potatoes, crushed in large cubes.
- After a quarter of an hour, add the garlic and wait another 20 minutes.
After this, the dish should be allowed to brew. To do this, it can be held on smoldering coals for 20-25 minutes.