A delicious dish for all occasions - chicken legs. Unlike chicken breast, it has a more pronounced taste and better maintains juiciness during cooking. Before frying, the leg should be divided into the thigh and drumstick - then it is more convenient to eat. And in order not to bother, you can immediately purchase in the store the required number of chicken drumsticks: two pieces per serving.
How to cook chicken legs? There are many recipes . For example, they can be stewed in onion sauce.
Chicken Legs in Onion Sauce
Take ten chicken legs, wash and put in a saucepan. We chop 800 grams of onion into rings and stack it on top of the chicken legs. Throw a few peas of black pepper, one and a half teaspoons of sea salt, if you like, add the seasoning of hops-suneli (1 tablespoon). If you do not like the taste of this seasoning - you can not add it, but throw a couple of bay leaves into the pan ten minutes before the dish is ready. Pour hot water so that it completely covers the chicken legs with onions. Turn on a strong fire and wait for the water to boil. After the fire is reduced to small (you can use the divider), close the pan with a lid and leave to simmer for an hour and a half. The dish is very fragrant, suitable for use in hot and cold form. It goes well with boiled rice, mashed potatoes. Not only the flesh, but also the bones will become tender, and the sauce, cooling, will acquire a jelly-like consistency.
Chicken legs in the sleeve
This dish is very easy to prepare. Some manufacturers of spices (for example, Torchin) take care of their customers in advance and produce a mixture of seasonings, a baking sleeve and cooking instructions in a ready-made kit . How to cook chicken legs in this case? Elementary. Turn on the oven. We wash the chicken legs in cold water and let dry. From one part of the bag we take out the baking sleeve, put the chicken drumsticks into it. We open the second part of the package and add spices. With special clips (they are included with the sleeve) we fix the edge. Shake so that the spicy mixture is evenly distributed. We send the sleeve to the oven by piercing it with a toothpick. At a temperature of 200 degrees, the legs will be ready in 50-60 minutes.
If you want something more sophisticated, there are many more recipes for how to cook chicken legs - you can bake them in the oven, after pickling.
Marinade chicken legs
Usually this meat is pickled: in lemon, orange, grapefruit, apple juice; in honey; in beer; in wine; in a mixture of sugar syrup and salt; in balsamic vinegar; in a vegetable coat. Therefore, the answer to the question "How to cook chicken legs deliciously?" completely depends on your preferences. A very simple marinade is obtained from a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup.
We suggest you take three cloves of garlic, chop and mix with a teaspoon of salt. Spread ten chicken drumsticks with the prepared mixture and put them in a deep pan. Sprinkle with chopped parsley, grease with a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup. Put in the refrigerator overnight. In a preheated oven to 200 degrees, send a frying pan with pickled meat covered with a lid. An hour later, the dish is ready.
And how to cook chicken legs so that they are not only tender, but also rosy?
We take prepared chicken drumsticks (8-10 pcs.), Grease it with vegetable oil and garlic, roll them in wheat breadcrumbs and put them in a frying pan with warmed sunflower oil. Fry until golden brown over high heat. Then we reduce the fire, fall asleep onion (2 pcs.), Chopped in half rings and grated large carrots (1 pc.) On a coarse grater. Fry over medium heat until the oil turns carrot slightly orange. Salt, add a spoonful of tomato paste and pour hot water so that it covers the chicken legs completely. Let’s boil. We reduce the fire, cover with a lid and simmer on low heat for 30-40 minutes.