Cooking is a grandiose art, capable of creating even a most elementary ingredient a real masterpiece. It would seem that chicken and rice are primitive components that are only suitable for satisfying hunger. Boring, albeit edible. Nevertheless, rice baked with chicken in the oven can be a real decoration of the festive table - if you approach the cooking creatively. However, for everyday life, the dish is also suitable. And it will not necessarily be just satisfying. Chicken baked with rice in the oven may well become your family's favorite recipe. Especially when you consider that you can cook it in a variety of different ways.
A simple recipe for baked chicken with rice in the oven
This option is suitable at a time when you do not have time for long chef manipulations. It will take two glasses of broth (you can use a cube, although the taste will lose from it). A glass of rice is mixed with two tablespoons of melted butter, broth and chopped onion. The mixture is distributed along the bottom of the baking dish. On top of the croup is laid chicken. It can be carcass, wings or chicken legs cut into large pieces. The meat is salted and peppered, you can chop it with your favorite seasonings. The form is placed in the oven, after half an hour of baking, the chicken is turned over, and the rice is mixed. The total aging time depends on the size of the chicken, from 45 minutes to an hour.
Tasty and varied
Baked in the oven is fragrant, appetizing and healthy chicken with rice and vegetables. The broiler is divided into relatively small pieces. In a frying pan, the plates of the head of garlic slightly lighten; then chicken is quickly fried in the same place. All this is shifted to form. Above are fried mugs of three tomatoes, one medium eggplant and a large carrot (it is laid raw). Two or three glasses of rice and chopped onion-feather with parsley are sprinkled on them. Then come pepper, salt, ground ginger, water to cover the food, everything is mixed - and into the oven. Rice baked with chicken in the oven will spend an hour and a quarter. You need to eat hot, any sauce is approved. Even with sour cream it will be delicious.
Stuffed carcass
When guests are scheduled to come, the best idea would be to bake a whole chicken with rice in the oven. It’s easy to cook, the dish looks appetizing, the taste is excellent.
The carcass is washed, dried with napkins, rubbed with pepper and salt. A glass of rice is boiled until half cooked and mixed with carrot and onion fry (cut vegetables quite large) and half a glass of raisins. The filling is not very tight inside the chicken; the abdomen is fixed with toothpicks. The pan is put into the oven and left until a blush forms. Periodically, the bird needs to be watered with the allocated juice.
Sleeve method
The eternal headache of every housewife is washing the oven after using it. To avoid these unpleasant jobs, we suggest that you bake the chicken and rice in the oven entirely in the culinary sleeve. Moreover, this way the bird will be more useful without losing either in taste or in juiciness.
The carcass should be grated with a mixture of several peppers, salt and four tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce. After that, it is cleaned in a bag and in the refrigerator for a day - pickled. One and a half cups of rice are slightly boiled. It can be mixed with fry and cubes of tomatoes. The mixture begins with a carcass, hides in a sleeve; it will be even tastier if you overlay it with sliced eggplant and rings of bell pepper. 50 minutes at a temperature of 200 Celsius - and the chicken baked with rice in the oven is ready to serve. It can be covered with cherry tomatoes, olives, radishes, pickles - depending on what the current season is rich in.
Chicken pilaf
When cooking chicken with rice in the oven, simple recipes give simply great results. Pilaf cooked traditionally is a rather fatty dish. Not every stomach will accept it favorably. But the chicken version is suitable even for children.
Any meat is taken, and fillet, and removed from the legs, is suitable. It should be marinated overnight, for which chicken is mixed with a spoon of fresh lemon juice, the same amount of soy sauce, salt, pepper and chopped onions.
An incomplete glass of rice is distributed in three pots. Chicken is laid out on top, the containers are filled with broth, and on top the contents are covered with carrot-onion frying. Pots are put in a cold oven. The temperature is gradually brought to 200 degrees, after which they are detected for half an hour.
The dish is served right in the pot.
Unusual recipe
Spicy and aromatic rice is obtained, baked with chicken in the oven, if the meat is previously marinated in a special composition. It is prepared from three tablespoons of soy sauce, two - vegetable oil, a spoonful of natural honey and ginger, taken at its discretion. You need to marinate at least a couple of hours. Better, of course, do it in the evening. The next step in the preparation will be quick frying of chicken. Then a glass of rice and a can of canned corn are poured into the pan (based on a quarter kilogram of meat), all products are mixed, and the dish is placed in a hot oven until the cereal is ready. If you have steamed rice, 15 minutes will be enough.
Casserole
This rice, baked with chicken in the oven, is suitable for breakfast and dinner: the dish turns out quite easy, and is prepared without any difficulties. Grams of four hundred fillets are cut, the onion is chopped, two glasses of rice are boiled. Salt, spices - as you like. The form is oiled, preferably creamy. A workpiece is distributed along it and poured with two eggs, whipped with foam and a half glass of fat milk or cream. Fifty minutes of baking will give you a delicious dish that pleases the eye. For aroma and usefulness, the casserole cut into portions is sprinkled with fresh chopped herbs.
Cheese Splendor
If you are too lazy to cook rice separately, use a different casserole option. Two cups of rice are scattered on the bottom of the mold and poured into one and a half glasses of chicken broth. No broth - use salted water. Half a kilo of chicken is washed, cut into small cubes and spread over the rice layer. Between pieces of meat is placed frozen spinach, grams 100-150. The mold is put into the oven for half an hour; during this time, the liquid will evaporate, the rice will become friable, and the chicken will be almost ready. The casserole is filled with grated hard cheese. Alternatively, topped with cheese sauce. You can also put cream cheese slices if you like it. Another ten minutes of waiting until the cheese forms a crust in the oven, and you can start dinner.
Beer luxury
Beer is not only suitable for drinking inside with roach or crayfish. It allows you to cook just wonderful rice, baked with chicken in the oven. This is the best way to get a whole carcass, but according to the recipe you can cook individual "spare parts". The bird is soaked for three to four hours in a glass of dark beer, where spices and salt are added. Light varieties of the drink are not suitable: rice will begin to noticeably bitter. Two glasses of steamed rice are washed. This will contribute to its faster cooking. In a baking dish, a wok pan or a ducklings, vegetable oil is poured (about one and a half spoons). Rice is poured into it and poured with the liquid in which the chicken was aged, a glass of beer and two - boiling water. After seasoning with spices and salt, the cereal is mixed; a chicken is placed on it. The container is closed by a lid and placed for forty minutes in a well-heated oven.
This dish can also be offered to children: all the “degrees” in the oven evaporate, and the dish is completely non-alcoholic.
Some tips
If you bake a chicken with a whole carcass, the wings and legs must either be wrapped in foil or greased with oil. Otherwise, they may burn, and the meat and the skin next to the tips will become dry.
Rice of round varieties is not very suitable for the listed recipes: it is too sticky. It is not necessary to buy steamed cereal; the main thing is that rice is with long grains.
A little trick not known to everyone: so that the chicken turns rosy, and the oven is not dirty, the baking sheet should be covered with gauze soaked in vegetable oil. Of course, when using a gas stove, you need to make sure that fire does not reach the ends of the fabric. Extinguishing a fire is not exactly what we strive for when cooking.
The most delicious crust of excellent goldenness is obtained if the carcass is coated with honey. True, the bird may turn out to be a bit sweet.