Chicken goes well with any cereals, vegetables, pasta and other products, so you can make a variety of delicious dishes from this meat. For example, chicken with rice. So hot it turns out nourishing and very tasty, it is ideal for both lunch and dinner.
Step-by-step recipe for chicken with rice - general principles
Preparation of any dish begins with the preparation of ingredients. The chicken or its parts should be defrosted, washed, dried, cut. Rice, if necessary, sort out and rinse thoroughly. If other products are included: they are cleaned, washed, thawed, cut, rubbed. In fact, it is very convenient to start cooking when everything is ready and waiting for your minute, than to climb for something new and necessary in the refrigerator or cabinet every time.
Now that all the components are in front of your eyes, you can safely proceed directly to cooking, frying or baking. Depending on the desired result, chicken with rice can be cooked in different ways.
Usually, the meat is lightly fried first, and then mixed with grits, so everything will be cooked at the same time. But you can chicken and marinate, then the time for heat treatment is reduced. If you have to bake the grits and chicken, the ingredients should be put on the baking sheet at a time, but you should follow the amount of liquid, otherwise the rice will remain harsh.
The additional components used give a distinctive taste to the hot: in themselves, both rice and chicken have a rather bland taste, but they perfectly absorb the tastes of other products. Therefore, feel free to use a variety of spices, vegetables, spices, sauces and other ingredients.
Chicken & Rice Recipe: Step by Step
Ingredients:
• chicken drumsticks - 8 pcs .;
• steamed rice - 250 g; • butter - 50 g;
• 2 medium bulbs.
For milk sauce:
• high fat milk - half a liter;
• 1 cup of mayonnaise;
• garlic - 5 cloves.
In addition to all the ingredients, take a floor of a bunch of fresh parsley, about four large spoons of sunflower oil for roasting, a small amount of salt if desired, and black allspice powder.
Cooking Method:
1. While you are cooking foods for baking, set the oven to warm up to 220 degrees.
2. Peel the onions, chop them into small pieces, put them into the frying pan in the warmed butter, fry until golden brown.
3. Wash steamed rice in several waters. If you still have some kind of rice cereal at home, you can mix them, so the dish will turn out even tastier and more interesting. Stir in the rice cereal with the fried onions and place in a deep, large form, sprinkle with salt, pepper, pour in the purified water through the filter so that the water does not cover the cereal, but only slightly showed from under it.
4. Thaw chicken legs well, rub with a mixture of salt and black pepper, put them in a small bowl, leave for half an hour to soak.
5. Put the marinated chicken legs in the form of rice with onions, put in a hot oven and bake for less than one hour at a temperature of about 170-180 degrees. Just do not turn on the high temperature, because the chicken legs can not bake, but on the contrary, strongly burn, and besides, juice will flow out of them and they will not be so juicy.
6. While the rice with onions and chicken legs is baked, prepare the milk sauce according to the following recipe: put the mayonnaise into the milk warmed to room temperature and squeeze the garlic cloves through the garlic box. If you do not like the taste of baked garlic, you can pour a little granulated product for flavor. Stir the milk thoroughly with garlic and mayonnaise until smooth. 7. When rice with chicken legs and onions becomes soft, open the oven door, fill the dish with milk sauce, adjust the oven temperature to 220 degrees and bake until the milk boils.
8. Rinse parsley and chop finely.
9. After boiling milk sauce, open the oven, take out the form with all the contents, cover with a clean cloth and let it cool a little and soak in milk.
10. Arrange the ready and slightly cooled baked chicken drumsticks with rice in portions, sprinkle with parsley. Next to baked chicken legs and rice, you can put sliced fresh vegetables.
Chicken with rice recipe: step by step with adding vegetables
Ingredients:
• any rice - 1.5 cups;
• 1 onion;
• green onions - 5 stalks;
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
• large tomato - 1 pc .;
• 2 handfuls of frozen green beans;
• small chicken carcass;
• 250 ml of tomato sauce;
• sour cream - half a glass.
For tomato sauce:
• onion head;
• 1 carrot;
• tomato paste - 20 mg;
• black pepper powder, salt - 10 grams;
• vegetable oil - 30 ml;
• flour - 30 g.
Also, take 130 ml of sunflower oil for roasting vegetables, paprika seasoning with about half a pack, a pinch of granulated sugar to make the dish sweet, salt to taste, and three or four cloves of garlic to add flavor and a slightly sticky taste. Garlic is better to take home, because it is the most pungent and has a more pronounced flavor. And also you will need to prepare a half glass of purified water through the filter, plus one glass for tomato sauce.
Cooking Method:
1. Carrots, peel onions, wash, chop the onions into small pieces, chop the carrot on a grater with large teeth. At the Bulgarian pepper cut the stalk, remove the seeds, wash, cut into small cubes. Pour the tomato for a few minutes with hot water, remove the skin, chop the flesh with a knife, peel the garlic and squeeze it through the garlic. Bulgarian pepper, take not red and not orange, since such colors already have tomato and carrot, but rather take green so that it stands out in the finished dish, it will be appetizing and look beautiful in a portion plate. 2. Wash the rice cereal in a strainer, pouring water several times, put it on paper towels and dry it a little (you can dry it in a warm, dry frying pan for 1-2 minutes, but just not to burn it). Mix lightly dried rice with prepared vegetables, add salt, black pepper, mix everything thoroughly and leave them in a bowl for a few minutes, so that the rice is soaked with vegetable juice.
3. While the rice is being soaked, prepare the chicken carcass: chop it into small pieces with a special culinary hatchet, rinse with running water. If you do not want to mess around with a chicken, you can take parts of the chicken, for example, legs, wings, breasts. Chicken pieces thoroughly rub with salt, sprinkle with any seasonings.
4. First, put a small amount of a mixture of vegetables and rice cereal in a deep frying pan, then spread the chicken pieces, top with a mixture of rice and vegetables, level well with a spoon, pour in a glass cup of filtered water, sprinkle with paprika on top.
5. Put the pan with all its contents into a hot oven and bake for a few minutes at a moderate temperature of about 200-220 degrees. After some time, open the oven door, cover the dish with foil, reduce the heat to 160 degrees and bake until the cereal and vegetables are completely softened and the liquid evaporates. If the liquid has already evaporated, and the grits are still hard, then pour in a small amount of hot water, remove the foil and bake until the grits soften and form a beautiful light brown crust.
6. Prepare the tomato sauce as follows: peel the onions and carrots, chop the onions into small pieces, the carrots - on the fine-topped grater, pass in a pan with sunflower oil until golden brown. Add a tomato to the fried vegetables, fry a little, add flour (before adding flour, pre-fry it a little in a dry frying pan). Heat vegetables and flour a little and pour in one glass of purified water, add salt, you can put laurel leaf, add black pepper, boil for a few minutes. 7. Mix the cooked cooled tomato sauce with sour cream, add salt to taste, add a pinch of sugar, add chopped garlic and pour into the pan with vegetables, rice and chicken, and heat in the oven for a bit.
8. Cool the prepared dish a little and place on a la carte plates, put a piece of chicken on each, put slices of any fresh vegetables next to it.
Step-by-step recipe for chicken with rice - tips and helpful tips
• You can use any kind of rice grain for cooking: brown, white, long grain, round grain. It all depends on your individual preferences, just keep in mind that the time allowed for cooking may differ from those listed in the recipes listed.
• To prevent the dish from burning, be sure to use a thick-walled pan, cast-iron frying pans, cauldrons, or a good heat-resistant form to cook it. Rice is capricious and often sticks to the bottom and sides of the container during heat treatment - take this fact into account.
• Do not be afraid to experiment, feel free to add your ingredients to the basic recipes, giving the dish special tastes, juiciness and brightness. These can be vegetables: pepper and carrots are especially good. This may be greens, cheeses, dairy or tomato sauces. Chicken with rice is very tasty if you add some fried mushrooms to the dish, and for the aroma you can use ground dried mushrooms. Enjoy your meal.
