Chicken legs in the oven - 9 recipes

The times when Bush’s legs reigned are over. But even now, baked chicken legs in the oven remain a favorite dish of thousands of families. And how not to love them, if they are prepared surprisingly fast! And there are hundreds of cooking options: just replace the marinade, add a little more spices and you can always enjoy a fresh mouth-watering dinner.

How to fry delicious chicken legs in the oven?

Chicken legs are tender, but at the same time satisfying. They go well with any side dishes; adults and children love them. At the same time, the cost of meat remains affordable, and you can afford to cook them at least every day. It’s easy to master the basic recipe for the legs: each housewife will cope with the task, and, if desired, even the child. To prepare the dish you will need only two components: legs and spices. And then it all depends on your capabilities and imagination. So, we cook the most delicious legs in the oven!

To prepare, prepare:

• chicken legs (you can just shin) - 1 kg;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• mayonnaise (quality!). - 100 ml;
• salt, pepper to taste.

Squeeze the garlic in mayonnaise, add salt, pepper to taste, rub the main component with the sauce. Leave to marinate for one to two hours. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. We spread the legs on a baking sheet or in a baking dish. Bake until golden brown for 40-45 minutes. The aroma during the cooking process is magnificent! The dish is ready if the meat is soft and literally “peels” from the seeds. The dish is served with mashed potatoes, herbs, warmed white bread and tomato sauce.

Do not turn on the oven at 220-250 degrees.Let the meat bake well and let the process last a little longer than you are used to. Otherwise, the dish runs the risk of burning on top, and inside it remains damp.

In soy-honey sauce

In the oven, chicken legs are fragrant, and a pleasant caramel crust forms on the skin if you pickle them in a mixture of soy sauce and a spoonful of honey. If you like sweet meat, take a ratio of 1: 1, for spicier meats it is better if soy sauce will have about twice as much honey.

 

We do everything exactly the same as in the previous recipe, but pickle the product in soy-honey marinade. The more the meat is kept in the sauce, the more tender the finished dish will be. Bake for 40 minutes at 200 degrees and serve with rice. The ideal side dish is wild brown or black rice.

How to understand whether the meat was baked properly? This is very simple: just pierce the meat with a toothpick, skewer or a sharp knife in the thickest edge. If the meat juice is transparent - you can serve the dish to the table.

In the oven with potatoes

Chicken legs in the oven with potatoes - a favorite dish of Russians for birthdays and New Year's holidays. But on weekdays you can always please yourself with a tasty and “nutritious” dish: potatoes are saturated with marinade, meat juices, it turns out not only juicy, but also very satisfying.

More materials:oven-roasted chicken legs

Potatoes can be laid out on a baking sheet or in a mold directly with the legs, previously marinated in mayonnaise or sour cream sauce. True, it is better to boil it slightly to the state of "aldente" (inside it should remain raw). You can still constantly pour potatoes with meat broth: then it is baked perfectly, it becomes soft, does not fall apart. The food is best combined with fresh vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, Beijing cabbage and herbs.

Subtleties of technology! There is another option: cover the chicken with potatoes and cook it until the meat and root crop are almost ready. 10 minutes before being ready, it is important to remove the lid, turn on the grill mode, and fry the food until golden brown.

With vegetables in sour cream sauce

Supporters of a healthy lifestyle reproach mayonnaise for excessive calorie content, and legs - for the excessive content of animal fats. Well - we will offer them an alternative that can safely be called dietary.

1. First, remove the skin from the legs, and at the same time cut off all the visible fat.
2. Pickle meat in sour cream 10% fat.
3. We cut tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, zucchini or eggplant in half rings.
4. Put vegetables and meat on a baking sheet.
5. Bake until cooked chicken at 200 degrees 30 minutes.

In the process of frying, vegetables should be saturated with sour cream sauce, and at the same time become juicy due to the broth. The dish can be eaten without a side dish, sprinkled with fresh herbs. If you wish, you can make the recipe even more useful if you replace the salt with lemon or lime juice.

The original recipe for baking chicken legs in a bag

Do you know how they like to serve legs in the best restaurants in the country? In puff pastry bags. The dough soaked in meat juice is used instead of bread, and is eaten without residue. In addition to chicken legs and two layers of puff pastry (preferably yeast-free), we need several potatoes, mushrooms, cheese and cream for sauce.

How to cook a culinary masterpiece:

1. My potatoes, peel, prepare mashed potatoes from it.
2. Chicken legs in a frying pan until golden brown.
3. Finely chop the mushrooms, onions. Fry them until the liquid evaporates, add cream and simmer a little, until the sauce slightly thickens.
4. Roll out the dough a little in one direction.
5. We cut out squares measuring 20X20 cm.
6. Mix the mashed potatoes with onions and mushrooms, spread on the squares of the dough.
7. We put a leg on the filling, so that the longest bone sticks up.
8. And now we deftly wrap the leg with dough, fixing the bones at the base.
9. We tie the top with culinary thread.
10. We put the bags on a baking sheet, oiled.
11. Bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes until the dough is ready.

Important! It’s not worth borsch with the filling: otherwise the dough will break.Legs should be small - large ones are not suitable. And choose the right baking sheet: with high sides (bags can fall during cooking under the weight of the filling and legs).

The recipe for chicken legs in bags in general is easy to master. Moreover, the result surprises and delights all consumers, without exception.

Bake in bacon - a step by step recipe

Bacon-wrapped chicken legs in the oven also require certain cooking skills. But they can always be pampered on festive days, and not a little to surprise guests with an original approach to cooking. The main advantage of the food is its affordable cost: after all, besides the bacon and the legs themselves, the hostess needs practically nothing.

How to cook legs in bacon?

1. First you need to try to cut off the round bone at the legs, located on the tip.
2. Then unscrew the leg so that the skin forms an empty pocket.
3. Now it’s important to fill the pocket with any filling, for example, a mixture of cheese, herbs, mayonnaise, garlic, or just flavor with spices.
4. We wrap each leg with a strip of bacon (two or three strips can go if the leg is large).
5. We fix it with toothpicks or culinary thread.
6. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
7. We spread the legs on a baking sheet covered with parchment.
8. Bake for 40 minutes, periodically turning over (otherwise the bacon will be fried on only one side).

Legs will be good as a hot appetizer, or main course. The meat is soaked in the light smoked taste of bacon, absorbs its juice and becomes simply deliciously fragrant. In addition to the dish, you can serve crispy toasts or a bruschetta with tomatoes.

Mayonnaise recipe

You can change the chicken legs in the oven with potatoes if you bake them under a net of mayonnaise and then sprinkle with grated cheese. To do this, take a basic recipe with potatoes for the benchmark, and cut the root vegetables in neat round circles. We lay them out on a baking sheet, then - pieces of legs cut into 3 - 4 parts. Pour the mayonnaise on top with a very thin mesh, so that it evenly covers the dish.

Bake everything until the meat is cooked for 30-40 minutes. In 5 minutes, sprinkle with grated Parmesan and let the cheese melt. The dish is very tasty with pickles, home-made marinades. Small gherkins, arranged in portions in each plate, look beautiful.

With sour cream and cheese

Mayonnaise can be replaced with sour cream: the dish will not lose in juiciness, but it will become more dietary. For cooking, we take the previous recipe as the basis, but, instead of the mayonnaise net, cover the dish with sour cream, trying to distribute it over the meat with a culinary brush. As soon as the crust appeared, sprinkle the dish with cheese and turn off the oven, allowing the cheese to melt.

What types of cheese are best used for combination with sour cream?

• gouda;
• tilsiter;
• Dutch.

Varieties, like Russian or mozzarella, it is better not to use: otherwise the dish will turn out to be a bit fresh.

Stuffed Chicken Legs in Foil

Some housewives achieve true cooking skills by stuffing the component in question with cheese, mushrooms, meat and other goodies. To do this, you need to learn how to carefully chop the chicken legs: separate the meat from the skin, cut off the large bone, and then carefully cut all the meat from it. Grind the meat portion finely, mix with the fried mushrooms, ham, cheese, eggs or bread (at your discretion), and then put it back into the pocket.

It remains to pack each leg separately in a foil wrapper and bake until cooked at a temperature of 200 degrees for 30 minutes. Served with fresh vegetables, rustic potatoes.

Due to the variety of cooking methods, chicken legs are practically not able to bore. They are good in hot and even cold form, with and without side dishes, seasoned with sauces or seasonings. Do not be afraid of complicated recipes, try it, and then your piggy bank will be replenished with interesting options for delicious family dishes.