How to cook chicken legs

A delicious dish for all occasions - a chicken leg. Unlike the chicken breast, it has a more pronounced taste and better retains juiciness during cooking. Before frying, the leg should be divided into a thigh and a shin - then it is more convenient to eat it. 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 a lot of recipes . For example, they can be stuck in onion sauce.

Chicken legs in onion sauce

We take ten chicken drumsticks, wash it and put it in a saucepan. We will cut 800 grams of onion rings and fold it over the chicken legs. Throw a few peas of black pepper, a half teaspoons of sea salt, if you like - add the seasoning of hops-suneli (1 tablespoon). If you do not like the flavor of this seasoning - you can not add it, but throw it into the pan ten minutes before the dish is ready for a couple of bay leaves. Fill the hot water, so that it completely covers the chicken legs with onions. We turn on a strong fire and wait for the water to boil. After the fire, we reduce it to a small one (you can use a dissector), close the pan with a lid and leave to stew for an hour and a half. The dish turns out very fragrant, suitable for use in hot and cold. Very well combined with boiled rice, mashed potatoes. Not only the flesh, but also the bones will become tender, and the sauce, cooling down, will acquire a jelly-like consistency.

Chicken legs in the sleeve

This dish is very easy to cook. Some producers of spices (for example, "Torchin") pre-care about their customers and produce a ready-made set of seasonings, a sleeve for baking and instructions for cooking. How to cook chicken legs in this case? Elementary. Turn on the oven. Chicken legs are washed in cold water and let dry. From one part of the package we take out the sleeve for baking, add the chicken drumsticks to it. Open the second part of the package and add the spices. Special clips (they come complete with a sleeve) fix the edge. Shake to make the spicy mixture evenly distributed. We send the sleeve into the oven, 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 refined, there are still many recipes, how to prepare chicken legs - they can be baked in the oven, pre-marinated.

Chicken legs in marinade

Usually this meat is marinated: in lemon, orange, grapefruit, apple juice; In honey; In beer; In the wine; In a mixture of sugar syrup and salt; In balsamic vinegar; In a vegetable coat. Therefore, the answer to the question "How delicious to cook chicken legs?" Completely depends on your preferences. Very simple marinade is obtained from a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup.

We suggest taking three cloves of garlic, chop and mix with a teaspoon of salt. Ten chicken drumsticks should be coated with a prepared mixture and put them into a deep frying pan. Sprinkle with chopped parsley, grease with a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup. Put in the refrigerator for the night. In a preheated oven to 200 degrees, send a lid covered with a lid with pickled meat. An hour later the dish is ready.

And how to cook chicken legs, so that they are not only tender, but also ruddy?

We take prepared chicken drumsticks (8-10 pieces), we grease with vegetable oil and garlic, we roll them in wheaten breadcrumbs and we will put on a frying pan with warmed up sunflower oil. Fry to a ruddy crust over high heat. Then we subtract the fire, cover the onions (2 pieces) cut into half rings and grate the large carrot (1 piece). Fry over medium heat until the oil turns into a slightly orange carrots. Solim, add a spoonful of tomato paste and pour hot water to cover the chicken legs completely. We give to boil. Fire diminish, cover with a lid and languish in a small fire for 30-40 minutes.