The chicken can be cooked in different ways, each time adding new flavors and aromas to the meat. One of the most unusual and successful combinations in dishes is chicken with oranges.
Surprisingly, this is really very tasty! The chicken is soaked with the pleasant aroma of citrus fruits and is endowed with a completely new “interesting” taste - a little spicy and sweet-spicy. Oranges give chicken meat juiciness, some extravagance and bright color. It turns out that chicken dishes with oranges are not only tasty and healthy (thanks to protein, as well as vitamins contained in citrus fruits), but also colorful in appearance, which makes them very valuable. After all, the bright color of the dish can ignite even the most "lazy" appetite!
So, what dishes can be cooked from chicken with oranges? Unimaginable amount: from light salads to roasting in the oven. Moreover, these two ingredients are perfectly combined with a huge variety of products, including vegetables, legumes, some fruits, cheese, eggs and spicy herbs.
Chicken with oranges - food preparation
For cooking any dish of chicken and oranges, we, first of all, need these 2 ingredients. It is better to take a bird young (up to 1 year old and weighing no more than 1.4-1.5 kg) with a round and even breast, without gray and brown spots on the skin. When buying meat, give preference to chilled carcasses that have not been frozen.
When choosing oranges, be sure to look at them, evaluate their quality. Juicy fruits are always resilient, have a heavier weight, but light oranges can be dry and tasteless. In addition, fresh and good oranges always have a pronounced and pleasant aroma. The faint aroma or lack of it indicates that the fruit did not ripen - of these citrus fruits, we are unlikely to be able to cook a delicious lunch. Recipes for chicken with oranges
Recipe 1: Chicken with oranges in the oven
A versatile and fairly simple recipe for cooking chicken with oranges in the oven. The dish does not require any frills, but despite its apparent simplicity, it looks very nice and appetizing on a plate. And what a fragrance it smells!
Ingredients Required:
- chicken weighing up to 1.5 kg.
- two oranges
- seasoning for baked chicken 1 pack.
- spices
- sour cream 200 gr. (or cream)
- sleeve for baking
Preparation:
1. Rinse the gutted chicken, remove excess liquid from the carcass with a paper towel. Thoroughly coat the chicken with spices and spices. Put aside for now.
2. Cut the oranges into circles and fill the chicken with the peel. Top grease the carcass with cream or sour cream. Put the chicken in the sleeve, tying and clipping its ends, and send it to the oven.
3. Bake for 80 minutes. at 180 ° C, piercing the sleeve on top with a toothpick to release steam. 15 minutes before readiness, the top of the sleeve can be opened so that the chicken can cover with an appetizing crust.
Recipe 2: Chicken with oranges and apples in the oven
Delicate, fragrant, with a golden crust, chicken with oranges and apples, baked in the oven, will give a few minutes of true enjoyment. If you don't try, you will lose a lot!
Ingredients Required:
- chicken (whole carcass)
- apple green (large) 1 pc.
- orange large 1 pc.
- one glass of Crimean white wine
- spices for chicken in the oven 1 pack
- if necessary, salt and pepper (if they are not in the spices)
- sunflower oil + 1h. l honey
Preparation:
1. Rinse the chicken, squeeze out excess liquid. Rub the carcass with a mixture of vegetable oil, honey, seasoning, dried herbs, salt and pepper (optional). Remove it for half an hour in the cold, so that a little soaked. 2. Peel an orange from the peel, divide it into slices. Apples cut into sticks, clearing it from seeds. Mix the apple with the orange. Fill the chicken with apple-orange filling and nail the hole with toothpicks.
3. Tie up the sleeve tightly on one side, pour wine into it, place the chicken there and clamp the other end of the bag. Send the chicken to the oven, bake for about an hour and a half at 180C.
4. We take out the finished dish, open the bag, decorate with rosemary sprigs and spread it on a large dish, removing the toothpicks from the abdomen.
Recipe 3: Chicken Stew with Oranges and Ginger
A very original dish - for those who are not afraid to experiment. The combination of orange, chicken and ginger in a dish gives out simply amazing results!
Ingredients Required:
- seven chicken thighs
- oranges 2 pcs.
- juice 1/2 orange
- ginger root 3 centimeters
- 4 cloves of garlic
- two medium bulbs
- celery stalk
- half a teaspoon of dried rosemary
- a pinch of nutmeg
- salt pepper
Preparation:
1. Rinse thighs, dry and rub with spices and salt. Slice peeled onions and oranges into rings. At the bottom of a wide saucepan (or pan), place a layer of onion and a layer of oranges (take half). Sprinkle ginger into thin strips on top.
2. Next, spread out the chicken thighs evenly and pour them with orange juice. Sprinkle with rosemary on top and place the rest of the oranges in the pan. Add chopped celery and garlic.
3. Close the pan (pan) tightly with a lid and put on medium heat until boiling. After boiling, reduce the heat to minimum and simmer the dish on the stove under the lid for 45 minutes.
You can also stew this dish in the oven (keep at a temperature of 220C for about 40 minutes) or a slow cooker (use the “Baking” mode).
Recipe 4: Chicken Salad with Oranges
"Orange Paradise" - mostly festive salad, but due to the fact that it is done quite simply, it can be prepared very, very often. There will be no harm from him, but you will get great pleasure.
Ingredients Required:
- 300 gr. chicken fillet (with leg)
- three sweet oranges
- 150 gr. Korean carrots (sold ready-made)
- 150 gr. hard cheese
- 3-4 boiled eggs
- grows. butter
- salt
- mayonnaise and sour cream
Cooking methods:
1. Fry chicken fillet in vegetable oil with salt (chicken can be boiled). Cool and cut into strips.
2. Peel oranges and skin, cut into small cubes. Boiled eggs finely chop or grate on a coarse grater.
3. Lay the dish in layers: the bottom layer is chicken, the 2nd layer is Korean carrots, the 3rd layer is oranges, the 4th layer is eggs and the top layer is cheese grated on a coarse grater.
Grease each layer with mayonnaise and sour cream sauce mixed in a 2: 1 ratio. Put the salad in a refrigerator for a couple of hours to soak. Before serving, decorate the salad with boiled egg, parsley leaves and boiled carrots.
Chicken with oranges - recommendations by experienced chefs
- When baking dishes based on chicken and oranges in the oven, use special sleeves made of heat-resistant polyethylene or foil so that the chicken does not dry out during the cooking process, but remains juicy and is better impregnated with the flavor of orange filling;
- When peeling oranges, as far as possible, remove a white film from them that envelops the flesh (especially if you are preparing the salad or subjecting the fruit to long cooking), since it can give the dish a slight bitterness.
