Chicken leg is the word most often used when referring to chicken legs with a thigh. Boiled chicken legs are tasty, healthy dietary meat that is suitable for both adults and children’s menus.
Instructions
Step 1
To make a boiled leg tasty, you need to buy it chilled, not frozen, since frozen meat contains much less nutrients, and it is not known how many times it has been re-frozen. A good leg should have thin and delicate skin, the color of the meat should be pale pink or beige. When you click on it, it should quickly restore its original shape. Such fresh meat will be tasty and tender when cooked.
Step 2
Before boiling the leg, you need to defrost it (if it has been frozen) and rinse thoroughly. Then wipe with a napkin, put in a saucepan and fill with water with a margin of 2-3 cm. Put the pan over medium heat.
Step 3
If you want to get not only boiled chicken meat, but also a nutritious broth, then salt water at the beginning of cooking - 1 tsp. salt per liter of water. If your goal is to cook only the leg itself, then salt the water 15 minutes after boiling the water in a saucepan.
Step 4
To add a pleasant flavor to the chicken leg, add coarsely chopped onions and carrots to the pot after boiling water. You can add garlic to taste, spices: pepper, basil, Provencal herbs, marjoram, bay leaf (of your choice).
Step 5
Chicken leg is cooked for about 30-50 minutes. Pierce the meat with a fork to check the doneness. If it is soft and no juice is released from it, then it is ready. Finished meat is easily separated from the bones.
Step 6
The leg leg will turn out to be even more tasty and healthy if you cook it in a slow cooker. To do this, rinse it and fill it with water. In this case, spices and vegetables should be placed in the multicooker bowl along with the meat. You need to cook the chicken leg on the "Stew" mode for 30-40 minutes.
Step 7
Boiled chicken leg can be served as a main course with various side dishes (rice, buckwheat, potatoes, etc.). You can decorate the leg with herbs or pour over the sauce.
