How to bake chicken in the oven so that the meat does not turn out dry and hard? Follow our recipes and you will get a tender, tasty and fragrant dish.

How to bake whole chicken in the oven?

A delicious dish with a golden crisp in a spicy sauce will become the central figure of any festive table.

Ingredients:

  • chicken carcass - 1.5 kg;
  • olive oil - 35 ml;
  • four cloves of garlic;
  • dried basil - 8 g;
  • black pepper - 5 gr;
  • salt - 20 gr.

Step by step cooking:

  1. The chicken must be processed by washing it under running water and drying it with napkins.
  2. Combine the garlic sold under the press in a common cup with pepper, salt and basil. Add olive oil to the mixture.
  3. A portion of the cooked marinade will go inside the chicken carcass.
  4. Put the meat on a baking sheet and coat on both sides with the remaining sauce.
  5. Do not forget to grease the baking dish with butter.
  6. Leave the raw dish as it is for 60 minutes to marinate.
  7. Heat the oven to 180 degrees.
  8. Cook 1.2 hours. You will understand that the dish is ready for a crispy golden crust.

With lemon and garlic

Lemon will not allow the meat inside the chicken to be dry and give juiciness. And garlic will add spice to the taste.

You will need:

  • one lemon;
  • olive oil - 85 ml;
  • one whole chicken;
  • ground pepper - 6 g;
  • ten garlic cloves;
  • five sprigs of rosemary;
  • salt to taste.

How to cook:

  1. Grind the peeled garlic in a mortar.
  2. Chop the rosemary very finely.
  3. Put the two products together.
  4. Separate the crust from the lemon, grate it and add to the garlic mixture.
  5. Squeeze lemon juice there, pour oil and pour salt and pepper.
  6. Lubricate the meat with the sauce on all sides, do not forget to coat the inside.
  7. Sprinkle the baking dish with the remaining oil and set the carcass up.
  8. Cooking is recommended for about an hour. The oven should have a temperature of 180 degrees.
  9. After the chicken has cooked, let it simmer for another 15 minutes and serve.

With potatoes

The easiest and most delicious option.

Grocery list:

  • three cloves of garlic;
  • four chicken legs;
  • potatoes - 1 kg;
  • salt and pepper to taste;
  • low-fat mayonnaise - 60 gr.

Bake chicken in the oven with potatoes:

  1. Whatever part of the bird you take, divide it into portions.
  2. Cut each peeled clove into three slices.
  3. Insert the pieces of garlic into the pulp.
  4. Rub salt and ground pepper into the stuffed chicken. Do not miss a single piece.
  5. Bake the carcass on a baking sheet in an oven heated to 180 degrees for half an hour.
  6. We remove the potatoes from the peel and cut into slices.
  7. We remove the dish from the oven, spread the potatoes around it. Try to mix it with the fat that has formed on the baking sheet and salt it.
  8. Continue to bake another 40 minutes. Bon Appetit!

Sleeve Chicken

Another way to make meat soft, tender and juicy.

Base Products:

  • chicken - 1.5 kg;
  • two bell peppers;
  • salt - 15 g;
  • sour cream - 400 gr;
  • seasoning to taste;
  • five potatoes;
  • garlic.

Cooking method.

  1. In a bowl with sour cream, chop the chopped garlic.
  2. Peel and chop all vegetables with thin plates.
  3. Combine 200 grams of marinade with chopped vegetables.
  4. Cover the remaining half of the sauce with pieces of poultry.
  5. Put the chicken in a baking bag. Its edges need to be tightly clogged.
  6. Put the dish in a baking dish, cover with vegetables.
  7. Baking time - 60 minutes. The oven temperature is 200 degrees.
  8. In the middle of cooking, pierce the bag in several places so that it does not explode.

Fried crust recipe

To get a delicious chicken with a crispy golden skin and delicate meat melting in your mouth, follow all the rules of our recipe.

List of ingredients:

  • one chicken;
  • ground black pepper - 20 gr;
  • salt to taste.

Secrets of cooking:

  1. Open the washed bird carcass with a knife across exactly in the middle.
  2. Sprinkle the chicken over generously with pepper.
  3. Pour salt in a thick layer on the bottom of the pan.
  4. Place a prepared bird on it.
  5. Bake in the preheated oven for about an hour.
  6. To diversify the recipe, add your favorite spices and vegetables to the meat.

Under mayonnaise

You will need:

  • bird carcass;
  • salt - 10 g;
  • mayonnaise - 60 gr;
  • a pinch of ground pepper;
  • vegetable oil - 17 ml;
  • other seasonings to taste.

How to cook:

  1. Washed bird carcass first thing you need to cut into slices and put in a bowl.
  2. Add to them pepper, salt and any other spices.
  3. Pour mayonnaise and mix.
  4. Put the meat in mayonnaise in a baking dish.
  5. Cook at 190 degrees 35 minutes.
  6. Once the meat is baked, place the dish on the table and crumble the greens on top.

French with cheese

A very delicate, tasty and soft dish with an amazing aroma.

You will need:

  • four tomatoes;
  • one chicken;
  • two onions;
  • hard cheese - 150 gr;
  • salt and spices to taste;
  • mayonnaise - 40 gr.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Beat portion chicken with a wooden hammer.
  2. Roll them in salt and spices.
  3. Remove the onion from the husk and cut into rings.
  4. Cut off the caps from the tomato, and chop the vegetables themselves in circles.
  5. Grind the cheese.
  6. Grease a baking tray with oil.
  7. Put bird cubes on the bottom and evenly distribute over the entire surface of the mold.
  8. Put onion rings on top and pour them with mayonnaise.
  9. The third layer will go tomatoes sprinkled with cheese.
  10. Now you can start cooking at an oven temperature of 180 degrees. The baking time is 45 minutes.

Bake in foil

Another way to prepare a delicate dish in your own juice.

Ingredients:

  • chicken carcass;
  • granulated garlic;
  • black pepper to taste;
  • sour cream - 210 gr;
  • ground paprika;
  • curry seasoning to taste;
  • salt - 10 gr.

How and how much to bake chicken:

  1. We process the chicken according to the standard procedure.
  2. Rub the carcass inside and out with a mixture of salt and pepper.
  3. Combine in a separate bowl paprika, sour cream, garlic and curry.
  4. You can additionally take cloves of garlic and lay them in cuts on the meat.
  5. Coat the whole carcass with the cooked marinade.
  6. Pour the remaining sauce inside the bird.
  7. Wrap it in foil and close it tightly.
  8. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius and put the carcass on the middle shelf on the baking sheet.
  9. Bake for two hours.
  10. Remove the bird from the oven, remove the foil and pierce the meat with a knife or toothpick. If juice is released at the same time, then the dish is ready.

In soy - honey marinade

This sauce gives the meat a unique aroma and taste.

Grocery list:

  • butter - 100 gr;
  • bird carcass;
  • three garlic cloves;
  • soy sauce - 50 ml;
  • salt to taste;
  • ginger - 10 gr;
  • honey - 60 g;
  • vegetable oil - 18 ml;
  • dry spices.

Step-by-step preparation:

  1. Chicken in a mixture of salt and pepper.
  2. Ginger root through a grater.
  3. Process the peeled garlic cloves under pressure.
  4. Pour soy sauce into a separate cup.
  5. Transfer honey, ginger, butter, garlic and other loose seasonings to it.
  6. Stir and process the bird with this mass.
  7. Refrigerate for 60 minutes.
  8. Start baking in the oven for an hour.
  9. Leave a small amount of sauce in advance and pour several times over the baked dish during cooking.

How to make grilled chicken in the oven?

Some oven models do not have a grill function. But you can do without it and cook a delicious, juicy chicken.

Grocery list:

  • olive oil - 45 ml;
  • ground pepper - 6 g;
  • paprika - 5 gr;
  • whole chicken;
  • oregano - 4 gr;
  • salt - 8 gr.

Cooking method.

  1. Rub the washed and dried carcass with pepper and salt so that there is not a single clean place.
  2. It is recommended to do this by already putting the bird in a baking dish.
  3. Combine the oil and all of the above spices.
  4. Pour the carcass with this sauce.
  5. Heat the oven to 230 degrees.
  6. Bake exactly 20 minutes at this temperature.
  7. Then cool the stove to 200 degrees.
  8. Cook for about 40 minutes.
  9. Once the dish is baked, leave it for another 15 minutes.

In pots

The pottery dish, according to old recipes, turns out to be so tasty that it cannot be cooked in the oven on a baking sheet.

Ingredients:

  • chicken wings - 0.2 kg;
  • low-fat sour cream - 30 gr;
  • two cloves of garlic;
  • salt, pepper and other spices to taste;
  • four potatoes;
  • mayonnaise - 20 gr;
  • greenery;
  • one carrot.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. We chop the wings into smaller pieces.
  2. Cut the peeled potatoes into slices.
  3. Pass carrots and garlic through a grater.
  4. Mix spices, mayonnaise and sour cream.
  5. Stir while adding salt.
  6. Combine the sour cream sauce with the grated vegetables.
  7. Divide the cubes of the bird into two halves.
  8. The first half goes to the bottom of the pots, then lay the potatoes, and then again the chicken.
  9. Between the layers should be sauce.
  10. Sprinkle this splendor with herbs and pour a little water.
  11. Cook in the oven at 220 degrees for an hour.

Baked Chicken with Vegetables

Grocery list:

  • bird carcass;
  • three eggplants;
  • mayonnaise - 60 gr;
  • five potatoes;
  • five tomatoes;
  • two onions;
  • three bell peppers;
  • salt, chicken spices and pepper to taste;
  • vegetable oil - 40 ml;
  • greenery.

How to cook a meal:

  1. We chop the chicken into cubes.
  2. All vegetables are peeled and washed.
  3. We chop the onion in half rings.
  4. Eggplants are cut in squares.
  5. The remaining vegetables are in small slices.
  6. Put the pieces of the bird in a deep bowl, sprinkle with seasoning and salt and coat with mayonnaise sauce.
  7. Combine the vegetables in another bowl with butter and pepper.
  8. Put all the ingredients on a deep baking sheet.
  9. Cook for an hour.
  10. To prevent anything from burning, occasionally mix the contents of the baking dish.
  11. At the end, you can sprinkle the dish with fresh parsley. Bon Appetit!

 

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