Due to its delicate taste and ease of preparation, chicken meat is very popular.
In addition, dishes with chicken prepare much faster than with pork or beef.
Chicken thighs fit almost with any side dish, but most often they are cooked with potatoes.
Chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven can be cooked for a family dinner or a festive meal. Be sure that this dish will not leave anyone indifferent.
Chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven - the basic principles of cooking
To begin with, chicken thighs are thawed at room temperature, they are washed well and lightly dried with napkins.
To make the meat fragrant and tender, it is recommended to preliminarily pickle. For the marinade use dairy products, soy sauce, mayonnaise or tomato paste. They add spices, herbs and garlic. All mix well and pour them chicken. Marinate need at least half an hour.
Potatoes are cleaned, well washed and cut. It can be crushed with thin plates, cubes or slices. It all depends on the recipe or your preferences.
Potatoes are placed on the bottom of the mold, pre-seasoned with pepper, salt and spices. Onions are peeled, chopped into thin half-rings and spread over potatoes. Onions you can decompose the circles of tomatoes. Top marinated hips lay skin up. From above they are smeared with mayonnaise or poured over with chicken marinade.
Bake chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven for about an hour.
In addition to potatoes, you can add other vegetables to the dish, such as Brussels sprouts or broccoli. The dish will turn out not only tasty, but also beautiful due to the saturated green color.
Recipe 1. Chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven
Ingredients
ten potatoes; ground paprika;
six chicken thighs;
extra salt, dried herbs and ground pepper.
Method of preparation
1. Cover the baking sheet with parchment and grease it with vegetable oil.
2. For this recipe we take not too large tubers. Clean the potatoes, wash them well and cut them into four pieces. Spread it evenly on the bottom of the pan. Sprinkle with salt.
3. Wash chicken thighs. If after cutting there were feathers or scorched skin, remove all unnecessary. Drain meat with a napkin. Mix the salt with the spices and rub this mixture each thigh. Spread chicken over potatoes.
4. Place the baking tray in an oven preheated to 200C. Bake potatoes until done. As a rule, it takes about an hour. Serve the dish, decorating it with greens or slices of bright vegetables.
Recipe 2. Chicken thighs with young potatoes in the oven
Ingredients
five chicken thighs;
extra salt;
900 g of young potatoes;
ground pepper and seasonings;
three cloves of garlic;
10 g spice for potatoes;
bulb;
sunflower oil - 60 ml.
Method of preparation
1. Rinse the young potatoes thoroughly with a brush and remove a thin film from it. Cut large tubers in half or four, and leave small ones.
2. Put the potatoes in a deep bowl. Peel and chop the garlic cloves. Mix spices for potatoes with garlic. Sprinkle the potatoes with sunflower oil and add the garlic-spicy mixture. If you wish, you can add a little fresh rosemary or thyme. Salt and mix everything well. Tighten the top of the dish with plastic and marinate in the fridge for a couple of hours.
3. Cover the refractory form with foil. Grease it with vegetable oil.
4. Rinse the chicken thighs and dip them with paper towels. Mix salt with pepper and seasonings for chicken. Rub each thigh with this mixture.
5. Put the young potatoes in the form, lay the onion sliced in half rings on top. Put the hips on top of the potatoes. Cover the form with a sheet of foil and wrap the edges. Send it to the oven preheated to 220C. After ten minutes, reduce the temperature to 180C and bake for another half hour. A few minutes before readiness, remove the foil and let the dish redden. Sprinkle the prepared dish with finely chopped fresh dill. Serve the chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven with a vegetable salad of fresh cucumbers and tomatoes.
Recipe 3. Honey chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven
Ingredients
three chicken thighs;
iodized salt;
potatoes - 600 g;
50 g of liquid honey;
on a pinch of coriander and basil;
80 g olive oil;
30 ml of drinking water;
25 ml soy sauce.
Method of preparation
1. Hip cut through the joint into two parts. We clean the chicken from fat. Wash the meat and dry with disposable towels.
2. Potatoes are medium sized. With the tubers, remove the peel, wash them and cut them into fairly large slices. We shift the potatoes in a bowl, salt, pepper and sprinkle with oil. Mix and leave for some time.
3. In the meantime, let's prepare the marinade. Mix liquid honey in a bowl with soy sauce, water and olive oil. Season the marinade with coriander and basil and mix until smooth.
4. Using a brush, coat each piece of meat with the marinade and spread it in a bowl. Pour the remains of the marinade and leave the chicken to marinate for two hours.
5. In a deep refractory form lay out potato wedges. Leveling and laying chicken thighs on top. Spread the remaining marinade evenly over the meat. We send the form for 45 minutes in the oven. Bake at 200C. Decorate the finished dish with sprigs of fresh herbs and serve with a salad of vegetables or pickles.
Recipe 4. Chicken thighs in kefir marinade with potatoes in the oven
Ingredients
six chicken thighs;
50 ml of olive oil;
kg of potatoes;
sunflower oil;
three cloves of garlic;
spices for potatoes;
two tomatoes;
spices for chicken;
300 ml of kefir;
extra salt and ground pepper;
15 g Italian herbs.
Method of preparation
1. Well wash the chicken thighs and dry them with a napkin. Spices for chicken mix with salt and pepper. Rub each thigh with a spicy mixture from all sides. We spread the chicken in deep dishes. Add Italian herbs to kefir, mix and pour meat with this sauce. Leave the hips to marinate for half an hour. 2. While the meat is pickled, let's prepare potatoes. Tubers clean, wash and cut into fairly large chunks. We put it in a bowl. Garlic clean and pass through the garlic press. Add garlic, ground black pepper, olive oil and salt to potatoes. Stir so that the spices cover all the pieces of potato.
3. Lubricate the deep heat-resistant form with oil and lay the potatoes on the bottom. Level and sprinkle with spices for potatoes. Rinse the tomatoes, wipe and cut into circles, a centimeter thick. Spread them over potatoes. Then spread chicken thighs and pour kefir marinade.
4. Form is sent to the oven. We bake about an hour at 200 degrees. We decorate the dish finely chopped green onions and herbs. Serve chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven as a separate dish with homemade pickles.
Recipe 5. Chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven in foil
Ingredients
six chicken thighs;
ground black pepper;
kg of potatoes;
finely ground salt;
a tomato;
spices for chicken - 6 g;
large onion;
olive oil - 50 ml;
three cloves of garlic;
100 ml sour cream.
Method of preparation
1. Slices of garlic clean from the husk and finely crumbled with a knife. Clean the onion, rinse and cut into thin feathers.
2. Wash my chicken thighs, clean out of everything superfluous and wipe with paper towels. Spices mix with salt and rub the spicy mixture of each thigh. Put the chicken in a bowl, add sour cream, finely chopped garlic and onion to it. We mix everything with our hands and set aside to marinate.
3. We warm the oven to 220C. Potatoes clean, good wash. Lightly dry and cut into small pieces. Put it in deep form. Salt, pepper, pour olive oil and mix.
4. Remove chicken thighs from marinade and spread on potatoes. Rinse the tomato, wipe and cut into pieces. Put the tomato slices on the chicken. The form is covered with foil. 5. Send the form to the oven for 50 minutes. We bake at 220C. We take out the form, remove the foil and put in the oven for another ten minutes. Decorate the dish and serve with vegetable salad or homemade pickles.
Recipe 6. Chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven in the sleeve
Ingredients
six chicken thighs;
fresh greens;
seven potatoes;
extra salt;
a tomato;
ground black pepper;
a glass of drinking water;
bulb;
half a lemon
Method of preparation
1. Wash chicken thighs, remove skin from them and remove bones. Meat shift in a bowl, salt and pepper and mix. Chicken meat to shift to the sleeve for baking.
2. Peel the potatoes, wash them well and cut them into slices. Rinse the tomatoes, dry with a paper towel and cut into circles. Put potatoes on the meat. On top of it, lay out the tomatoes and onions, chopped with rings.
3. Rinse the lemon and cut into thin slices. Add it to potatoes and meat. Rinse the parsley sprigs and put them whole in the bag. Pour a glass of water and tightly tie the package. Put it on a baking sheet and send it to the oven. Bake at 200C for 45 minutes.
Recipe 7. Chicken thighs with potatoes, broccoli and shrimps in the oven
Ingredients
chicken thighs - kg;
fine salt and black pepper;
potatoes - kg;
soy sauce - 30 ml;
onions - 300 g;
honey - 30 g;
large shrimp - 300 g;
garlic - head;
Broccoli - 300 g;
butter - 50 g;
cheese - 100 g
Method of preparation
1. Disassemble the garlic clove and peel it. Rinse and grate. Add salt, soy sauce, black pepper and honey to it. Mix everything well.
2. Wash chicken thighs and lightly dry. Using a silicone brush, lubricate each thigh profusely with marinade and fold it into a bowl. Marinate for at least half an hour.
3. Grease baking sheet with butter. Put the chicken thighs on it and put in the oven preheated to 200C for a quarter of an hour. 4. Peel the potatoes, wash them and cut them into slices. Peeled onions chop thin feathers. Mix potatoes with onions, put them on a baking sheet with chicken thighs and mix. Put in the oven again. Bake for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
5. Peel the shrimps, rinse the broccoli and disassemble into florets. Dip broccoli in boiling, lightly salted water and boil for a couple of minutes. Drain the water and leave the cabbage in a saucepan, covered with a lid. Ten minutes before the end of cooking, put the shrimp and broccoli over the potatoes. After ten minutes, sprinkle the dish with cheese chips and send for another five minutes in the oven to melt the cheese.
Chicken thighs with potatoes in the oven - tips and tricks from experienced chefs
- The thinner you are to chop the potatoes, the less time you need to prepare this dish.
- To make the dish juicier, you can add cream to the potatoes.
- Spices and salt are best added to potatoes and meat before cooking.
- Chicken thighs pre-pick. It is advisable to do this in the evening. The longer the meat will be in the marinade, the more tender and juicier it will be.
