You are planning some kind of holiday, an important date, or you just decided to arrange a dinner for two with your loved one. And now you are already standing in the center of the kitchen, among the numerous plates, pots, pans and racking your brains to cook such interesting and tasty things to please your loved ones and loved ones.
The chicken will come to your aid. Yes, that's her. What could be better than tasting a delicious, appetizing-ruddy chicken exuding delicate fragrance greens and garlic. It only takes a little time to understand the wisdom on how to cook chicken in the oven tasty and fast.
Chicken meat is by far the most affordable and widespread protein. diet food. The most useful is chicken cooked in the oven - since the use of fats in the cooking process is reduced to a minimum. And cooking in the oven itself does not require great experience and special culinary knowledge. Everything is very simple - you just need to know a few secrets about how to cook chicken in the oven, and of course I will share them with you. Soon you will be able to delight your loved ones with delicious and healthy meals from chicken meat.
Choosing a chicken for cooking in the oven
You came to the store with the firm intention of buying the best chicken for the most amazing dinner, but the assortment displayed in the window is so large that your eyes run wide. How to choose exactly the one that is the best, suitable for cooking in the oven?
For baking chicken in the oven, it is best to choose carcasses of medium fatness, it is better to give preference to chilled meat - this meat is very tender and, since it avoided the fate of freezing, it retained the whole complex useful properties. You can distinguish fresh meat from old meat by color and smell. It has a light, pinkish color with a barely perceptible smell. The meat belonging to the chicken - "pensioner" or old has a pungent smell and bluish color.
If you nevertheless bought old meat and decided to bake it in the oven, then pre-boil it until tender, and put it in the oven so that it acquires a ruddy appetizing crust.
Crispy crust - how to get?
Crispness can be achieved in several ways:
1. The easiest way is to use the grill function if your oven has one. Put the baking sheet with the chicken in the oven as close as possible to the grill and turn it on.
2. You can use honey, it will give the carcass a golden hue and amazing taste.
3. The third method creates a crisp with salt. We take 1 kilogram of salt, evenly distribute it over a baking sheet, put the chicken slices on top of it with the skin down, then send the baking sheet to the oven and bake until tender. If you choose this method, then remember that the chicken cannot be salted - it will take as much salt as it needs and not a gram more.
It takes only 10 minutes to create a crispy crust with honey and grill, so you need to first bring the meat to readiness, and only then deal with the crust.
Determine the readiness of chicken meat in the oven
You have chosen a recipe, meat, prepared it and now it is already in the oven and baked. But how do you know when the carcass is ready?
Use a fork with long tines to determine the doneness of the meat. Having opened the oven, make a puncture on the carcass in the area of the breast and in the thigh. If at the puncture site you see a transparent juice flowing out without cloudy and reddish inclusions, then the chicken is ready, and if you see reddish, cloudy juice, then it needs more time to bake.
Recipes how to cook chicken in the oven
There are several dozen different recipes on the topic of cooking chicken meat, and they are very popular among housewives who delight their families on weekdays and holidays. delicious meals. Let's look at some of them, and you will choose for yourself what you like.
1. Chicken, rubbed with salt
Considered one of the most simple recipes. We wash the chicken cold water and rub with a mixture of salt and spices, if desired, it can be stuffed with garlic, after which we place it in a preheated oven. When the chicken starts to brown - lower the temperature and grease the carcass with vegetable or butter.
2. Chicken in a bottle
In my opinion, chicken cooked in this way is the most delicious, as the meat turns out to be soft, juicy and at the same time covered with a delicious crispy crust on top - straight the perfect dish.
A feature of this recipe is that the chicken “sits” on the bottle during baking. In order for the meat to acquire a more appetizing taste, pour milk or a mixture of broth with spices into the bottle.
Ingredients:
Chicken - 1 pc.
Salt, ground black pepper
Garlic - a couple of cloves
Spices to taste
Bay leaf
Recipe:
Wash the carcass, and rub it inside and out with a mixture of salt, pepper, garlic and various seasonings. We leave the chicken to marinate from 2 hours to 2 days.
After the pickling is over, pour water (or milk, or a mixture of broth with spices) into a jar or bottle of milk to the top.
We put our chicken on the bottle, and put it on a baking sheet, into which, prudently, we poured water. After that, we send the whole structure to the oven - fry at the highest temperature for 20 minutes, after which we reduce the heat to medium and leave to bake for another 40 minutes.
Ready chicken, taking it out of the oven, let it rest for 10 minutes, and proceed to cutting into small pieces.
3. Chicken baked in the oven halves recipe for a delicious dinner
Young chicken meat is taken, from which the insides are previously removed, and divided into two halves along the ridge.
Salt and pepper the carcasses and put them on a greased baking sheet. vegetable oil.
Then the chicken is sent for an hour to an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
After 50 minutes from the start of baking - rub the carcass with a couple of cloves of garlic, prudently passed through the garlic press - it will give the dish a unique taste and aroma.
4. Chicken baked in foilrecipe
The recipe is good because after cooking there is no need to wash the oven, unlike other methods.
Ingredients:
Chicken carcasses
Garlic
Apple - 3 pcs.
Foil for wrapping the carcass
Recipe:
Thoroughly rub the chicken with spices, after washing it in cold water. Then, stuff the chicken with minced garlic and apples, cut into slices. On stuffed chicken tightly pack in foil and put on a baking sheet in a preheated oven for an hour and a half.
5. Whole oven baked chicken with potatoes and mayonnaise
Ingredients:
Several hams or chicken carcass
Carrot
Potato
Mayonnaise
Pepper and salt to taste
Chicken Recipe:
First, we prepare the products - rub on coarse grater carrots, cut onions into neat rings, potatoes into strips, cut the chicken into pieces. In 2x or 3x liter jar lay out in layers - chicken, a little salt and pepper, a layer of potatoes, followed by onions, carrots and season everything with mayonnaise. We repeat the layers in this sequence until the jar is completely filled to the top. We put a piece of ham on top - we will use it to determine the degree of readiness of the dish.
We put the filled jar in a cold oven, set the temperature to 150 degrees and leave to stew until cooked. Delicious, juicy and tender dish ready! Please come to the table.
6. Chicken baked in the oven with potatoes and spices
Ingredients for Roast Chicken:
Gutted chicken - 1 pc.
Lemon - 2 pcs.
Pepper, salt and garlic
Potato - 1 kg
Chicken broth - 1 tbsp.
Spices - salt and sage
tomato for garnish
Recipe for whole chicken in the oven:
To begin with, we prepare the products for cooking. We cook chicken broth or, using the "cubes" we make it. We rub the washed carcass with a mixture of salt and pepper.
We place the chicken on a baking sheet breast down, fill it with 0.5 tbsp. chicken broth, prepared in advance, and put lemon slices on top.
We put the baking sheet in the oven for half an hour, from time to time watering the chicken with juice and broth, which is created during the frying process.
While the carcass is being prepared, we, in vain, without wasting time, are engaged in potatoes - we cut well-washed and peeled tubers into 3 parts.
After half an hour, we take the chicken out of the oven, and surround it on all sides with potatoes, and sprinkle with finely chopped garlic and spices on top. Pour the rest of the broth onto the bottom of the baking sheet, and send it back to the oven for an hour, after which you can start eating.
My family loves chicken, so I cook it quite often. I always try to find new recipes tested by people. A neighbor taught me how to cook stuffed chicken, now I cook it, both on holidays and on weekdays.
We take a medium-sized chicken. It must be washed well and prepared for stuffing. We make cuts in the area of \u200b\u200bthe thighs and wings of the carcass, so that it is convenient to remove the skin from it. Gently slide your hand under the skin of the chicken and remove it, being careful not to tear it. After separating the skin from the carcass, rinse the skin well and set aside.
We separate the meat from the bones, and chop the resulting fillet in a combine or scroll through a meat grinder. Pour vegetable oil into a preheated frying pan and fry the resulting minced chicken, pepper and salt it, stir constantly. While the minced meat is fried, twist the liver and chicken heart in a meat grinder, mix them with minced chicken and put it all out until it's ready.
Then add to mince green pea, mix well. We stuff the mixture into the chicken skin, carefully distributing it along the entire length. After that, sew the incisions with white threads and bake in the oven for about twenty minutes. Brush the chicken before baking
Fried chicken is one of our most popular and deservedly loved dishes.
To fry a chicken deliciously, it is enough to know a few secrets, but to cook it correctly, according to the laws healthy eating, - will require some skill.
You can fry chicken in the oven, in a pan, in a slow cooker, with potatoes. You can fry a whole chicken, or you can fillet, pieces, thighs, wings. And this must be done without fail tasty, so that it turns out with a real crust and a minimum of calories and cholesterol. How to achieve this?
* Suggested fried chicken recipe also includes chicken sauce and marinade.
How to fry chicken in the oven with a crust
What you need: 1 chicken, butter, onion, celery, carrot, salt and pepper. Cooking twine, baking sheet, oven wire, foil, paper towels.
The required cooking time for fried chicken in the oven is up to 1 ½ hours (depending on size), the baking temperature is 210 degrees Celsius.
Cooking order:
1 If you bought whole chicken from the market, start by removing the neck and giblets (heart, stomach, liver). Then thoroughly wash it inside and out and pat dry with paper towels.
2 Brush the chicken inside and out with butter, then season with salt and freshly ground black pepper, inside and out.
3 For good health! Prepare cooking twine. The main secret Proper frying chicken in the oven is to use twine. It would seem that it is not necessary to do this, but it is the tying of the bird that allows it to bake evenly, and makes it possible internal fat turn into a healthy “your own juice”, which has less bad cholesterol.
4 Coarsely chop about half an onion, one stalk of celery and one carrot. Place a baking sheet with a mesh (or just a mesh) in the oven. Arrange the chopped vegetables on the oven rack and lay the chicken breast-side up on them.
5 Roast chicken 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes (depending on size), or until a thermometer placed in chicken thigh, will not show 75°C. (But don't poke too many holes with the thermometer if you don't want the juice to leak out of the bird).
6 Remove the wire rack from the oven and transfer the roasted chicken to a clean cutting board. Cover it with foil and leave for 10 minutes.
7 Remove excess fat paper towels. You will see that the crust turned out very beautiful and ruddy. It can be discarded by simply carefully cutting it with a knife.
9 Cut a couple of lemons or oranges into slices, mix them with dill and stuff them with chicken (or fry it on them). But remember that no matter how you do with them, you do not need to eat them, they are only good for adding flavor.
10 For extra juicy chicken, rub some butter under the skin before placing it in the oven.
11 V vegetable mix(carrot-celery-onion) you can add a few peeled garlic cloves.
12 Don't worry about hydrating the chicken. Some housewives are sure that they should spray the chicken with water from time to time, and for this they open the oven periodically. On the contrary, in this way you will achieve the opposite effect - drying out the chicken. Better leave your roast alone.
13 Another idea is to put slices of bread on the bottom shelf - they will drip fat from the bird, and this way you get delicious toasted slices - chicken bread.
14 For health! If you want to make diet fried chicken, try marinating it for at least an hour before placing it in the oven. Marinades will minimize the carcinogens that are inevitable when frying.
Oven fried chicken with mustard
Original delicious recipe fried chicken under mustard crust- win-win option New Year's table. It can be served as an independent dish, or in combination with any side dish.
Ingredients:
- chicken carcass weighing about 1.5 kg
- mustard - 3 tbsp. l.
- mayonnaise with a fat content of 67% - 2 tbsp. l.
- cumin - 0.5 tsp
- vegetable oil
- ground black pepper, salt
Cooking method:
Preheat the oven to 180° C. Wash and dry the chicken carcass. In a deep bowl, mix mustard, mayonnaise, ground black pepper and cumin. Rub the chicken with salt and coat the outside and inside with the mustard mixture. Grease a baking sheet with sunflower oil, put the chicken on it. sprinkle on top a small amount vegetable oil.
Bake the chicken in the oven for about 2 hours until golden brown.
Easy marinade for fried chicken
This is a brine without vinegar. You will need salt, sugar and a couple of simple spices. And a pot that will fit your chicken.
For a small chicken 1.5 - 1.8 kg, 1 liter is enough cold water, 3-4 tbsp. l. salt and half a glass of sugar. Mix everything until dissolved, then add a tablespoon of allspice (whole) and a tablespoon of black peppercorns.
Bring liquid to a boil, remove from heat and let cool completely. When the brine has cooled, pour four cups of ice cubes into it to completely cool the liquid.
Now you can add meat. You may need to use something heavy to press down on the bird to keep it under the marinade all the time. Cover the pot and refrigerate for 8-24 hours.
Before frying the chicken, rinse it of brine under cold water and wipe it dry with a paper towel. Do not use brine.
Here are some more marinade recipes:
To make fried chicken even tastier, you can pour chicken sauce over it, already cooked.
Learn more about how to cook chicken sauce, + several branded recipes - read.
Another Chicken Sauce Recipe
Cook it in a deep skillet over medium heat. Drain any remaining fat from the chicken, add two cups of chicken broth and simmer until its amount is reduced by about a third. To thicken the sauce, dissolve 2 tablespoons cornstarch in 2 tbsp. l. cold water (you just made the so-called sludge) and send to the pan. Bring the mixture to a boil, lower the heat and simmer for a minute until it thickens. Then strain it through cheesecloth, salt and pepper. The sauce is ready.
How to fry chicken with potatoes
It's delicious to make in the oven. There is only one principle, there are a lot of recipes, here is a magnificent Greek one.
Cooking fried chicken with potatoes: Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Cut the chicken into pieces (if roasting the drumsticks, you can whole) and rub with salt and pepper to taste. Place them on a baking sheet. Arrange coarsely chopped potatoes around. Pour everything lemon juice And olive oil, but a little (only for greasing the baking sheet), as your fat will be enough. Sprinkle with dry oregano, basil and garlic. Roast the chicken and potatoes in the oven for 1.2 hours: 40 minutes on each side. Potatoes also need to be turned over.
How to fry chicken in a pan
The frying time for chicken in a pan is shorter than in the oven. It can also be marinated ahead of time. In general, the principles are the same as for roasting in the oven. The peculiarity is that:- No need! close the lid of the pan
Cooking in a skillet is perfect - chicken pieces in an appetizing crust (pieces fall out in various mixtures).
But at the same time, we must remember that even very tasty fried chicken meat in a pan will never be as juicy and crispy as cooked in the oven.
And here's another one for the sake of completeness.
To fried chicken didn't come out dry
Experienced housewives recommend dipping chicken pieces in a mixture of eggs and milk, and then roll in breadcrumbs. Another way is to bake in the oven in a sleeve or foil, the fire is strong (but you don’t need to open the oven door). Then the chicken will be hydrated own juice who will have nowhere to go. Agree, the latter is especially true if you fry the whole chicken. For other recommendations, see Secrets and Tricks on how to fry chicken deliciously above.
Whole chicken baked in the oven is an indispensable dish for many. holiday table. And this is not surprising - great taste, delicious aroma and presentable appearance of this dish create a solemn atmosphere, effectively complementing the culinary composition of the feast.
Today we will tell you how to make baked chicken in the oven with a crispy appetizing crust. Available recommendations will allow you to get an amazingly ruddy and attractive-looking dish at the end.
How to Roast a Whole Chicken in the Crispy Oven - Recipe on the Grill
Ingredients:
- whole chicken carcass;
- refined vegetable oil - 15-20 ml;
- garlic - 5-6 teeth;
- a mixture of aromatic herbs and;
- ground mixture of five peppers;
- salt.
Cooking
Pre-marinating the chicken carcass will provide a rich and juicy taste of the dish. To do this, we get rid of the remnants of feathers, if necessary, singe over the fire, rinse thoroughly and dry thoroughly. Rub the carcass with a mixture of salt, ground peppers and fragrant herbs and spices for chicken. We clean the garlic cloves, cut them into halves or quarters and insert them under the skin, trying not to violate its integrity, and also put a couple of cloves into the bird's abdomen. Lubricate the entire surface of the carcass with refined vegetable oil and leave for several hours to soak with aromas.
In order for the chicken to turn out with a crispy crust on all sides, it is necessary to exclude as much as possible the contact of the carcass with the baking sheet, form or other containers. A great way to cook poultry for this is to roast it on a wire rack. We lay the marinated bird in the center of the grate and set it at the middle level of the oven heated to 230 degrees. Place a baking sheet one level lower with a small amount of water. We keep the chicken at this temperature regime fifteen minutes, and then lower it to 200 degrees and bake for about another hour. If you have a bird weighing more than two kilograms, then its cooking time must be increased by about thirty minutes.
Whole grilled chicken in the oven with a crispy crust
If your oven is equipped with a spit, then, of course, you need to bake a whole chicken with it. Thus, the bird will be evenly baked and browned, and we will tell you how to get the most crispy crust in this recipe.
Ingredients:
- whole chicken carcass;
- filtered water - 60 ml;
- granulated sugar - 45 g;
- a mixture of aromatic herbs and spices for chicken;
- ground mixture of five peppers;
- salt.
Cooking
We prepare the bird, taking into account the recommendations given in the previous recipe, namely, we pluck, singe, rinse and dry thoroughly. After that, marinate the carcass in a mixture of your favorite aromatic herbs and spices, or use ready collection spices for the bird and leave for the exchange of aromas and soaking 
carcasses for several hours or ideally overnight, wrapping it in foil or film.
When starting to bake, turn on the warm-up, setting it first to the “Spit” and “Grill” modes. At this time, we dissolve granulated sugar in some water, grease the chicken carcass with the resulting syrup from all sides and string it on a skewer. At the same time, we tie the legs and wings with twine or just a white cotton thread. We install the skewer with chicken in special grooves in the oven and cook the bird for an hour and a half.
When ready, fragrant chicken with a crispy crust is served immediately hot, without covering it with anything, in order to avoid losing the desired crispy properties.
In order to feed a company of 3-5 people, a one and a half kilogram carcass is enough. Of course, choose chilled. By the way, it should always be in the refrigerator in reserve. You can put the chicken in the oven right on the baking sheet, but keep in mind that it will bake much better in a cast iron or ceramic dish, and you will get crispy chicken. In a dish made of glass or metal, there is a greater chance that the chicken will burn, and the crust will turn out more black than golden.
The standard baking temperature is 180 degrees. An hour is enough: during this time, you will tell each other about new items in cosmetics stores, show off a new handbag from a sale, and tease guests with an appetizing aroma from the kitchen.
How to cook crispy chicken
There are several recipes, but speed and the exact result are important to you: guests (and maybe future mother-in-law) who are in love with your culinary skills. The simplest is to cut chicken carcass cut in half lengthwise along the sternum and generously rub it inside and out with black pepper. Put salt on the bottom of the baking dish - ordinary or sea, and to get a thick uniform layer. Thanks to salt, the meat is perfectly cooked, and you get what you want - a golden glossy sheen and amazing taste of chicken! Then put the grated carcass back on the salt layer. Chicken is ready in an hour! If you have a "grill" function, then turn it on 10 minutes before the chicken is ready: this way the crust will turn out perfect.
Grilled Crispy Chicken Recipe
For the crust to be truly crisp, there is one secret: the chicken should not come into contact with the fat flowing from it. The best way to avoid this is to put it in the oven on a grill rack. Wipe the washed carcass lightly with a paper towel, also cut the breast in half and grease with salt and pepper inside and out. Now lubricate the top with vegetable oil and - on the grate in a preheated cabinet!
Let the chicken sweat there at a temperature of 240 degrees for 20 minutes, and then reduce the heat to 180 degrees and leave for another hour.
Secret marinade ingredients
To give the chicken a special piquancy, you can rub it with sour cream or honey. These are the simplest and quick ways. But if you have the time, you can make a complete chicken marinade with a crispy crust. Melt 30 g of butter on fire, mix it with half a spoon of salt, red and black pepper to taste, crush two cloves of garlic there. Spread this mixture on the chicken and send it to the oven for half an hour, turning the lever 170 degrees. Then take out the chicken and pour it with a mixture of melted honey (4 tablespoons are enough) with lemon juice (2 tablespoons), and let it cook for another 45 minutes. You can water it with this mixture several times during baking. Always test readiness by piercing the chicken with a fork. If liquid appears, then you need to wait another 10 minutes, and then you will definitely get chicken with a crispy crust! And while she bakes, take care of the side dish: vegetable stew or vitamin salad- that's it!
Chicken in the oven can cook in a variety of ways. Let's try to list the main dishes: chicken with potatoes in the oven, chicken with mushrooms in the oven, chicken with rice in the oven, buckwheat with chicken in the oven, chicken with cheese in the oven, chicken with oranges in the oven, chicken with pineapple in the oven, chicken with garlic in the oven, chicken with apples in the oven, chicken with vegetables in the oven, chicken with tomatoes in the oven, chicken with prunes in the oven, chicken with mustard in the oven and others.
Chicken dishes in the oven are so diverse that it is impossible to list them all. A great variety also arises depending on how the chicken is cooked. According to this principle, they distinguish: chicken in a sleeve in the oven, chicken in foil in the oven, chicken in a jar in the oven, chicken in a pot in the oven, grilled chicken in the oven, chicken in a bag in the oven, chicken on salt in the oven, chicken on a bottle in oven, chicken on a spit in the oven, chicken in the dough in the oven and others. If we try to cook chicken meat in different types and with different cuts of the carcass, you get a number of new dishes: whole chicken in the oven, chicken fillet in the oven, chicken pieces in the oven, chicken drumstick in the oven.
Chicken meat is so tasty and pleasant to cook and eat that it responds to any experiments with it. Culinary Masters learned how to cook real masterpieces from chicken: chicken casserole in the oven, chicken pie in the oven, julienne with chicken in the oven, French chicken in the oven, chicken barbecue in the oven, stuffed chicken in the oven. Piquancy gives chicken meat a variety of sauces and seasonings with which it goes well. So there were independent meals: chicken in mayonnaise in the oven, honey chicken in the oven, chicken in soy sauce in the oven, chicken in kefir in the oven, chicken in sour cream in the oven. You can try any marinade for chicken in the oven to your taste, for this there is a large selection of spices and seasonings. It is better to marinate chicken for the oven in advance, a few hours before cooking. But even here there is room for experimentation.
And that is not all. Craftsmen are trying to combine some chicken recipes, and they get wonderful dishes worthy of our attention. These are grilled chicken in the oven on a spit, chicken with potatoes in the oven with mayonnaise, potatoes with chicken and mushrooms in the oven, chicken with potatoes in a pot, chicken in a sleeve with potatoes.
If you want to surprise your guests with something original, take a look at some of our recipes and study them. For example, a whole chicken recipe in the oven, a chicken recipe in the sleeve in the oven, a chicken recipe with mushrooms in the oven, a recipe for chicken with rice in the oven, a recipe for baked chicken in the oven. In general, roasting chicken in the oven is a process that results in the most delicious chicken in the oven, chicken in the oven with a crust, crispy chicken in the oven, or chicken with a crisp in the oven. Cooking chicken in the oven in this case becomes a real test for others, because. indifference to inhale the aromas of fried chicken is impossible.
Oven chicken recipes continue to expand and improve. New dishes with chicken in the oven are appearing in world culinary. Recipes for these innovations are posted on our website. People love chicken in the oven. Recipes with photos - to your attention on our website. If you decide to cook, for example, stuffed chicken in the oven, the photo will tell you how it will look in the final version. Or - chicken in pots with potatoes in the oven, a recipe with a photo - looks more appetizing. It is convenient and informative for readers.
Many people are interested in questions: how to cook chicken in the oven, how to bake chicken in the oven, how to cook chicken with potatoes in the oven? The answers are in recipes and photos. Moreover, if you succeed original dish according to your own recipe, for example, “chicken with mushrooms in the oven”, send us a photo with the recipe, we will rejoice together, share it with other gourmets. A chicken in the oven - step by step recipe especially interesting. The chicken recipe in the oven is not one, there are a lot of them, the possibilities for creating something of your own, exclusive are huge. So study and try.
Here are a few general advice in the preparation of chicken meat:
The old bird is used mainly for boiling and stewing, the young one is used for frying.
From the liquid left after cooking the chicken in the container, meat juice is prepared, which is used to water the poultry when serving the dish.
Before cooking, chickens and lean chickens are smeared with sour cream to form a more golden crust. Readiness is determined by a puncture with a chef's needle in the thick part of the pulp, clear juice flows from the finished bird.
Ready-made chicken dish goes well with fried potatoes. Poultry Dish Watered meat sauce or butter. Additionally, you can serve green salad, red or red salad as a side dish. white cabbage, soaked apples.
