Chicken is very popular in our country.
After all, this is quite a budget product, opening up large spaces for culinary creativity.
Even from ordinary chicken drumsticks in the oven you can cook a lot of interesting and tasty dishes.
Chicken drumsticks in the oven - general principles of cooking
Chicken drumsticks are cooked as easily as other chicken “elements”. Usually they are bought separately and prepared by themselves or with various vegetable, mushroom, and fruit additives.
Most often, the legs are marinated for some time. It is advisable not to skip this item recipe. Although without marinating the legs, dry and hard will not work, yet after an hour in the marinade they will become tastier, more fragrant and more tender.
Chicken goes well with spices, especially curry, oregano, mint, parsley. She loves garlic.
Marinate chicken in vinegar there is no need. Usually, other acidic liquids are used as marinade. Here are some examples of chicken drumstick marinade in the oven.
1. Kefir with garlic.
2. Sour cream with garlic and curry.
3. Mayonnaise.
4. Mayonnaise with ketchup.
5. Mustard French (granular).
6. Mustard ordinary (Russian) by itself or with shredded capers.
7. Mayonnaise mixed with horseradish.
8. Lemon juice with honey.
9. Cucumber pickle.
10. Pineapple juice.
Actually, the fantasy is limitless and it’s absolutely impossible to list all the marinade options for chicken drumsticks in the oven. The main condition - the marinade must contain acid and be fragrant.
To check the readiness of the legs, it is necessary to pierce one of them in the thickest place. If the extracted juice is clear, and pierced easily, then the dish is ready. If not, we still need to take care.
Recipe number 1. Chicken drumsticks in the oven "In a hurry"
Cooking these chicken drumsticks in the oven does not take much time or food.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Lemon - 1 piece
Honey - 2-3 tablespoons
Dense apples - 5-6 pieces
Salt, garlic, dried spicy greens - to taste Method of preparation
Rinse chicken drumsticks in cold water and pat dry.
Cut the zest from the lemon and squeeze the juice out of it. Marc can be put in compote or pour boiling water to get a lemon drink.
Add honey, salt, press garlic through a press and mix well. Spread the marinade on the shins and, covered with foil, leave for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
Cut apples into quarters (if they are very large, then each quarter again in half), remove the middle. If there is any doubt about the naturalness of a beautiful luster on the skin, cut off all this splendor and do not risk the health of the family.
Put the apples in a single layer in a baking dish, sprinkle with honey and lightly and sprinkle with chopped zest. Top out the shins, sprinkle them with your favorite herbs, rubbing them with your fingers.
Bake in the oven at 170 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Recipe number 2. Chicken drumsticks in the oven with vegetables
Cooking such chicken drumsticks in the oven is possible both for a feast and for a regular lunch. Ideally, if there is an opportunity to use portioned molds, but you can cook in a large form.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Potato - 5-6 tubers
Carrots - 1 piece
Onion - 1 onion
String beans - 200 g
1-2 peppers sweet pepper
Cauliflower or broccoli - 200 g
Sour cream - 200 g
Mayonnaise - 2-3 tablespoons
Curry, black pepper, oregano - to taste
Method of preparation
Prepare the marinade by mixing sour cream with mayonnaise and spices. Marinate in it the prepared shins for about an hour or two.
Peel potatoes and carrots, cut into slices. Cut the sweet pepper into small cubes, cut the onion into half rings, cut the cauliflower into small florets. Beans, if the pods are very long, also cut into pieces.
To get the chicken from the marinade, mix the marinade with vegetables.
Put the vegetables on the bottom of the form (or molds) and deepen the calf bone in them.
Bake in the oven at 170 degrees. If the chicken is already ready, but neither it nor the vegetables are lightly browned, then increase the temperature in the oven to 220 degrees and wait for the appearance of a beautiful crust.
Recipe number 3. Chicken drumsticks in the oven “Sweet Life”
Of course, this recipe for chicken drumsticks in the oven is an amateur, but the very originality of taste and appearance hints at the possibility of using such a dish for a “guest” dinner.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Pineapple - 1/2 large, you can not quite ripe.
Apples, pears - 2 fruits each, very hard.
Raisin - half a cup
Oranges - 2, better sour
Mayonnaise
Garlic - 5-6 cloves
Method of preparation
Prepare a marinade of mayonnaise, juice and zest of one orange, passed through a garlic press. Salt it is not necessary!
Marinate cooked drumsticks for a couple of hours, putting them in the fridge.
Rinse the raisins and soak for 10 minutes in cool water if necessary.
Cut apples and pears into slices, peel if necessary. Cut the second orange into rather thin semicircles. Separate several thin slices from the pineapple, chop the rest to pieces.
Get your legs from the marinade. Make a deep longitudinal incision on each and insert a slice of pineapple there.
Fruits and raisins, mix, put in a form and lightly pour marinade. Top with drumsticks and pineapple slices.
Bake at first 30 minutes at 160 degrees, and then increase the temperature to 190.
Recipe №4. Chicken drumsticks in the oven, stuffed with mushrooms
This recipe for chicken drumsticks in the oven cannot be called quick and easy, but the dish looks very impressive and is eaten with pleasure.
Ingredients
Large chicken drumsticks - 1.5 kg
Champignons - 400 g
Cheese - 200 g
Eggs - 2 pieces
Baking oil
Sour cream or butter for lubrication
Garlic, spicy herbs - to taste, but you can without them.
Method of preparation
Make an incision on the shins in that part of the bone, which is usually taken by hand. Carefully remove the skin, trying not to damage it. Cut off the meat from the bone and chop it with a knife rather finely.
Wash and clean the champignons, also grind them with a knife. Cheese grate. Combine meat, cheese, champignons in a bowl, add two eggs there, mix everything thoroughly, add salt. If you really like spices, you can add garlic, oregano, coriander. Stuff the skin, removed from the legs, to shape the legs, inserting a bone inside. Carefully place the “legs” in the oiled form, brush with sour cream or butter and bake at 170 degrees, if necessary, increase the temperature at the end of cooking to 200 (if the legs do not brown).
Recipe number 5. Chicken drumsticks in the oven in the dough
This recipe for chicken drumsticks in the oven is suitable for a festive dinner, as well as for a family dinner, tasty and unusual.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Sour cream - 150 g
Garlic - 3-4 cloves
Cheese - 100 g
Cooked smoked ham - a few slices by the number of shins
Puff pastry - 1 pack purchased
Method of preparation
Marinate the legs in sour cream, which is squeezed garlic, for a couple of hours.
Make a cut on each leg along, reveal the meat and remove the bone. Beat off slightly the meat, revealing it "cake".
Cheese rub. Pour cheese into each “flat cake”, put a thin slice of ham, then a bone with which the meat and skin are peeled. Wrap the leg so that it looks like a whole. Screw a strip of foil on the free end of the bone.
Thaw puff pastry, cut into strips. Screw the strip on the legs. Put the legs on a baking sheet, lightly smeared with butter and bake in the oven first (about 20 minutes) at a temperature of 160 degrees, and then increase the temperature to 180.
Vegetables will be a good side dish for such legs, and if we are talking about a festive dinner, then it makes sense to serve pickled plums or pears to them.
Recipe number 6. Spicy chicken drumsticks in the oven with capers
This option of cooking chicken drumsticks in the oven also involves getting ready meals, already with a side dish.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Champignons - 500 g
String beans - 400 g
Pickled cucumbers - 4-5 pieces
Capers - 2 tablespoons
Parmesan grated - 3-4 tablespoons
Breadcrumbs - 2-3 tablespoons
Mayonnaise
Baking oil
Method of preparation
Wash chicken drumsticks and marinate for a couple of hours in a small amount of mayonnaise. You can add lemon juice.
Put the legs in the pan with hot oil, fry on all sides, then cover with a lid, reduce the heat and simmer until half cooked. Remove the drumsticks on a plate, and put the green beans in the pan and simmer them. Also remove it on a plate, and place the champignon in the pan, cut into quarters.
Chop pickled cucumbers with a knife, capers, if they are large, too.
In a pan, fry the breadcrumbs, mix them with mushrooms, beans, cucumber and capers and put everything in a baking dish. Put bone up in the side dish.
Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Even hot dish sprinkle with grated parmesan.
Recipe # 7 Chicken drumsticks in the oven with bacon
A simple but tasty way to cook chicken drumsticks in the oven. Perfect as a snack for beer fans.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Smoked bacon - 200 g
Hard cheese - 200 g
Any mustard, can be grainy - 4 tablespoons
Mayonnaise - 4 tablespoons
Spicy greens to taste
Method of preparation
Mix mustard with mayonnaise and marinate chicken drumsticks in this mixture, preferably overnight.
Cut the cheese into cubes, bacon strips.
Remove the shins from the marinade, make a longitudinal cut to the bone and put inside the cheese wedges. Wrap bacon in a strip of bacon and, if necessary, fasten the strip with a wooden skirt soaked in water for several hours.
Put the shins on a baking sheet, brush with the remaining marinade, cover with spicy greens and bake at 160 degrees. If the legs do not redden, increase the temperature to 200 and bake for another 7 minutes.
Recipe number 8. Chicken drumsticks in the oven with cabbage
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Fresh cabbage - 0.5 kg
Sauerkraut - 0.5 kg
Smoked bacon or similar meat with fat - 200 g
Tomatoes - 4-5 pieces
Onion - 1 onion
Tomato paste if necessary - 2-3 spoons
Method of preparation
Peel tomatoes and finely chop with a knife. Marinate in the tomato drumstick.
Chop fresh cabbage, mix it with sauerkraut.
Cut the brisket into small pieces and fry it in a skillet, melting the fat.
Remove the pieces of meat, and on the melted fat put out the cabbage until half cooked. Remove the drumsticks from the tomato gruel, put it on another frying pan and fry until half cooked.
Put the stewed cabbage into the baking dish, in which the fried bacon and tomato gruel are mixed. If you do not like the cabbage color, stir in 3 tablespoons of tomato paste. Top shank out.
Bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Chicken drumsticks in the oven - subtleties and useful tips
- Drumsticks - a great snack to beer or vodka. But they are not always combined with wine. Perhaps if you are planning a gala dinner with wine, you should cook something else.
- The leg meat is rather juicy in itself, so you should not get carried away with fatty additives. It is better to give them something sharp.
- In principle, shins may not be marinated, if you do not have time, but only rub it with salt, herbs, or garlic.
- You can make cuts on the skin and put garlic pieces in there so that a part sticks out. It turns out funny - like a hedgehog.
- To make it easier to take a shin in hand, the end of the bone can be wrapped in foil in advance.
- If you want to cook the crus in the dough, but you cannot buy the puff pastry, you can make the usual dough on sour cream or kefir. To do this, a glass of liquid sour cream or kefir must be mixed with egg and flour to make a soft dough, which can wrap the leg. Sometimes even pieces of cheese, ham, pickled cucumber are put in such a “bag” of dough.
