How to cook delicious chicken legs in the microwave

The guests are about to knock on the door. There is no time left to prepare a complex and sophisticated dish. Surely every housewife is familiar with this situation. How to be? If the kitchen has a microwave, and there are several chicken legs in the refrigerator, then the problem will be solved easily and simply.

Here is a small and quick recipe on how to cook chicken legs in the microwave, in a baking bag.

Product pretreatment

1. The chicken should be completely thawed. It is advisable to thaw the product at room temperature. It is not recommended to immerse the legs in hot water to achieve a quick defrost (in this case, the bird will lose its taste).
2. Check the bird for metal objects. All paper clips and pieces of foil should be removed.
3. Rinse the legs thoroughly under running water, and then gently pat them with a paper towel. Make sure that no pieces of paper are left on the chicken.

List of ingredients

You will need:

• 300 grams of chicken (3-4 legs);
• mayonnaise or sour cream;
• clove of garlic;
• spices for poultry (to taste);
• Bay leaf;
• salt (to taste).

Also useful:

• baking bag;
• toothpick.

Cooking process

• Mix spices, salt, mayonnaise or sour cream in a small container. The latter is used for cooking if you want the finished dish to contain fewer calories. It should be borne in mind that mayonnaise contains salt, but sour cream does not. Therefore, if the chicken is cooked in mayonnaise, salt should be added a little less than when cooking a feathered beauty in sour cream. It is also necessary to study the composition of spices. There are seasonings that already contain salt. In this case, additionally salt the dish is not recommended.

• The resulting mixture must be generously greased with chicken legs. If time permits, then it is better to leave them in this form to marinate for about an hour. So the taste of the chicken will be brighter and more saturated. It is advisable to pickle in a cool place, you can in the refrigerator.
• Put the prepared chicken legs, bay leaf and garlic in a bag designed specifically for baking. In the bag you need to make a few small holes with a toothpick. This is to ensure that the bag does not burst in the microwave. Then send the chicken legs in the microwave on a dish suitable for use in a microwave oven.
• Cooking time depends on the number of legs. It is calculated at the rate of 5-6 minutes per 100 grams of product. The microwave oven should be turned on at full power.
• The chicken legs in the microwave will be ready when the blood does not ooze when pierced.

The dish should be served immediately. A chicken in the form of rice, vegetables or potatoes is suitable for chicken.

Some tips

Take the following tips into account and the chicken will be delicious, as in the best restaurants:

• the readiness of chicken legs should be checked by piercing them with a sharp object: a toothpick or a fork. No need to cut the bird, so it will lose juice;
• Do not rip the baking bag immediately. Leave for another 10 minutes. So the legs will become more juicy and will be able to reach due to their temperature;
• if you pour chicken legs with vegetable oil, they will be more juicy and mouth-watering;
• Do not ignore an ingredient like garlic. It not only adds a pleasant aroma to the dish, but also absorbs all the fats;
• in a bag to the bird you can put a couple of potatoes, cut into circles or slices;
• Kukurma or honey, added to the marinade, will give the chicken a golden hue and crisp. And curry will add lightness to the dish.

It’s easy to cook chicken legs in the microwave. The resulting dish will be beyond praise. Everyone who tries these mouth-watering legs will ask you to rewrite the recipe for him.