An inexpensive dish can also be tasty and appetizing, worthy to decorate a festive table. An example is a chicken baked in the oven. This dish has many variations, but most recipes do not have expensive products. The main ingredients are chicken, sauce, and spices. The taste of the finished culinary masterpiece depends on them. A dish is also being prepared without much effort, so any hostess can handle it.
Subtleties
If you follow all the instructions given in a particular recipe, the chicken, baked in the oven as a whole, will almost certainly get delicious. But for reliability it doesn’t hurt to explore the subtleties of cooking this dish, which do not depend on the recipe.
- For roasting, you can take a chicken of a different size, but it is better that it is not too large. Focus on the weight of one and a half kilograms. Cooking such a chicken will take exactly one hour. If the chicken is slightly larger or, conversely, less, the cooking time must be adjusted in the appropriate direction.
- Not all chicken is suitable for baking. If the chicken was grown to carry eggs, it is not suitable for baking. This must be taken into account when choosing domestic chickens on the market. Buying chicken in the store, where they come from special factories for the production of poultry meat, you do not risk to be mistaken.
- Frozen chickens can be taken for soup, but not for preparing delicious dishes in the oven. Chilled or steam carcasses are more suitable for baking: their meat remains juicy.
- Bake the whole chicken in foil, in the sleeve, in the form or on a baking sheet. Each option has its own characteristics. If the foil is chosen, then the chicken must be wrapped in it very carefully, in several layers, so that the juice does not flow out of it when cooking. Otherwise, the meat will be dry. Fifteen minutes before the readiness, it is better to break the foil so that the chicken can be baked open. Because of this, she reddens. The sleeve immediately before being placed in the oven should be pierced in several places so that it does not sulk and burst. It is desirable to use a form that is heated uniformly, that is, cast iron or ceramic. The baking sheet must be covered with foil or parchment, so that it is easier to wash it later. In this method, the chicken periodically needs to be watered with drowned juice so that it is juicy.
- The degree of readiness of the chicken is checked by puncturing the toothpick with the thigh. It is undesirable to check around the breasts, as it prepares a little faster. If the juice pours through the hole through the clear, the chicken is baked, it can be removed.
- In order for the chicken to occupy less space (this is true when the baking dish is compact) and does not break through the foil, if it is baked, the legs need to be tied in the carcass and the wings hidden in the slot, made with a sharp knife near the breast.
Bake the whole chicken without filling or stuffed. Often it is stuffed with apples or other fruits, as they shade the taste of poultry meat well.
Chicken in mustard, baked in the oven
Composition:
- chicken - 1, 4-1, 6 kg;
- mustard (in the form of sauce) - 20 ml;
- mayonnaise - 60 ml;
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the chicken well, wipe the carcass with a towel. If this is not done, the crust does not form when baking or will not be sufficiently appetizing.
- Crush the garlic with a special press.
- Mix mayonnaise with mustard, garlic, pepper and salt. Leave the chicken in this sauce for a couple of hours in a cool place.
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
- Take the chicken out of the fridge and wrap it in foil. So that it does not break through, do not forget to tie the legs of the carcass and hide the wings.
- Lay parchment on a baking sheet and place a chicken wrapped in foil.
- Put the chicken in the oven. After 45 minutes, remove, remove the foil and return to the oven for 10-15 minutes.
It is difficult to convey in words how fragrant the smell of a chicken cooked according to this simple recipe is. Yes, and it looks very appetizing.
Chicken with apples, baked in the oven
Composition:
- chicken - 1, 0-1, 2 kg;
- sweet apples - 0, 5 kg;
- honey - 50 g;
- cognac - 40 ml;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- thyme - a pinch;
- rosemary - a pinch;
- lemon peel - 30-40 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash apples, cut a core out of them. Cut the apples into medium-sized slices, half put in a bowl.
- Melt the honey, mix it with brandy, pour this mixture into the apples in a bowl. Cut the garlic into small pieces and also put it to the apples, stir and let stand 5 minutes.
- Mix thyme, rosemary, salt, pepper and lemon zest.
- After washing and drying the chicken meat, rub it with a mixture of herbs and lemon zest.
- Stuff apples in a cognac-honey sauce.
- Grease the form.
- Put the chicken in shape and overlay the remaining slices of apples.
- Put the form in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, and bake the chicken at this temperature for 45 minutes.
If the form is glass, then ready-made chicken can be served directly in the table. Otherwise, you will have to carefully lay out the chicken on the dish, put apples next to them (it will be a bit more difficult to remove them). You can serve the chicken is not entirely, but cut into portions. Apples and baked potatoes are suitable as a side dish.
Chicken baked with lemon in the oven
Composition:
- chicken - 1, 0-1, 2 kg;
- lemon - 1 pc .;
- lemon peel - 20 g;
- thyme - 2-3 g;
- ground black pepper, salt - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Mix the zest with pepper, salt, thyme and lemon zest.
- Rub the chicken carcass washed and towel-dried with the resulting mixture.
- Wash lemon, make a few deep cuts in it with a sharp knife.
- Put the lemon inside the carcass.
- Put the chicken in a special baking sleeve, fix its ends, make several punctures with a fork.
- Put the sleeve on a baking sheet and send it to the oven heated to 200 degrees. Bake the chicken in it for 45 minutes.
Serve cooked chicken according to this recipe, preferably with a sweet and sour sauce. If you do not want the citrus aroma to be strongly pronounced, you can not put the rind into the mixture for rubbing chicken.
Whole baked chicken with vegetables
Composition:
- chicken - 1, 5-1, 8 kg;
- onions - 0, 3 kg;
- garlic - 5 cloves;
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 0, 5 kg;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- salt, pepper, herbs - to taste;
- lemon - 0, 5 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- Peel the bulbs, cut each into 4-6 pieces.
- Mix the salt, herbs and pepper, and rub the prepared chicken carcass from the inside and outside. Lubricate it with oil.
- Place inside 4 pieces of onion and half of lemon cut into 4 pieces.
- Peel the pepper and cut each into 4 pieces.
- Cut the peeled potatoes into large slices.
- Peel the garlic cloves and cut each in half.
- Butter the mold and place the chicken in the center.
- Spread the vegetables around and sprinkle with oil. From above you can put a few bay leaves and sprigs of rosemary.
- Put the form in a preheated oven and bake at 200 degrees 1, 5-2 hours.
Serve the chicken, dividing it into portions. Serve the vegetables with which she baked as a side dish.
Chicken baked in the oven can be called a banquet dish. Despite this, she is preparing so simply that you can eat it every day.
