Poultry meat, due to its high nutritional and excellent taste, is popular in many families. Especially chicken and turkey, because it contains a minimum number of calories. Among the huge number of different ways of cooking poultry, both whole and in pieces, the chicken baked in the sleeve is especially tasty . The recipes of this dish are so diverse that you can choose a low-calorie option (for those on a diet), and with an additional side dish (to feed a large family), and with spicy spices (for lovers of hot).
Sour Cream Chicken
The bird cooked according to this recipe turns out to be surprisingly tender and juicy, although it is difficult to call a dietary dish, but it is difficult to surpass in taste. For a small (about 1.5 kg) carcass, you will need a head of garlic, salt, pepper and herbs to taste (you can use a prepared mixture of spices and salt), 3 tablespoons of sour cream and mayonnaise (you can do with one sour cream, but then take it twice more). Before baking chicken in the sleeve, it should be washed inside and out and dried with a towel. Then the carcass should be coated with sour cream sauce on all sides (and inside too). And they cook it like this: mix sour cream with mayonnaise, add salt, spices, garlic, passed through a press there and mix.
Then the chicken is placed in the sleeve, fastened on both sides and sent to the slightly preheated oven for 40 minutes. After this time, the bird can be removed, but if you need a fried crust, you should open the sleeve and put the pan in the oven again for another 10 minutes. This dish is served with vegetable salad or mashed potatoes.
Shin in a sleeve
The chicken legs baked in this way are pretty good, but you can take other parts (thighs, chicken legs). Thinking how to bake a chicken in a sleeve so that it is enough for the maximum number of servings, you can use this recipe, since the drumsticks baked with potatoes will be especially nutritious and nutritious. A kilogram of legs will require the same amount of potatoes, a couple of onions, garlic to taste, chicken seasoning, 150 gr. mayonnaise and baking sleeve.
First you need to make a marinade. Garlic is crushed for it, mixed with spices and mayonnaise. Then marinate the chicken, coating it with mayonnaise mixture and leaving at least 20 minutes (if possible, better for an hour). Potatoes are cut randomly, and onions - in half rings. Then it can be salted and sprinkled with your favorite spices. At the bottom of the sleeve lay potatoes, onions, legs, fix the ends and send to the oven. How much to bake a chicken in a sleeve depends on what it is cooked with and in what form. If it is sliced, as in this recipe, then 40 minutes is quite enough, but it is better to navigate by the readiness of the potatoes and, if necessary, hold a little more. Serve with greens and vegetables.
How to bake chicken in a sleeve with slices
This recipe contains a minimum of ingredients, but the dish does not suffer from it at all, on the contrary - you can fully enjoy the taste of the bird and the aroma of spices. A whole chicken carcass will need only garlic, salt and spices. They can be used in any combination, for example, paprika, basil and turmeric are suitable. Before baking a chicken in a sleeve, it is washed, cut into pieces at the joints (so that there are no small bones), salted, sprinkled with spices and rubbed with finely chopped garlic. Bake by placing in a bag in a moderately hot oven for an hour. Served with salads, potatoes or another side dish.