Baked juicy chicken with a crispy crust is every housewife's dream. But how tired of washing the oven from fat every time! There is a way out: cook the whole chicken in a slow cooker. A minimum of work, a minimum of dirt, and how much fun!
Cooking chicken in a multicooker does not take much time and effort, and the result will pleasantly surprise you. The finished dish tastes like grilled chicken. So, you will need directly a chicken carcass of about 1.5 kg., Sunflower oil, salt, garlic, your favorite spices and seasonings.
Carcass preparation
Here the hostess can show her imagination and apply all her culinary knowledge and skills. Or maybe you already have your favorite proven recipe? If not, you can simply try rubbing the chicken with salt and black pepper and letting it sit for about half an hour. In this case, you will get chicken in its own juice. The traditional and popular way to prepare the carcass for baking is garlic stuffing. To do this, pieces of garlic are inserted into small cuts made in different parts of the carcass: thighs, breast, wings.
Also, the chicken can be pre-marinated in spices and mayonnaise. The mustard marinade with honey is very tasty. To prepare such a marinade, you will need 2 tbsp. spoons of honey, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of mustard, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice and 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil. Honey also acts as a natural coloring agent, imparting a pleasant golden hue to the finished dish. Soy sauce performs the same function, but keep in mind that it does not require the addition of salt, but lemon juice, on the contrary, will perfectly set off its salty taste. As for the vinegar-based marinade, which they like to use with kebabs, in this case it is not the best choice, because vinegar will hold the fibers of muscle tissue together, and the chicken will turn out tough.
Check the chicken as it cooks. For small carcasses, the cooking time should be shortened, while large chicken for a holiday dinner can take about an hour and a half to roast.
Roasting chicken
Before preparing the dish, you need to grease the bowl of the cartoon with vegetable oil. You will need very little oil - about one teaspoon, because during the frying process, the chicken will release juice, which can then be used as a gravy or base for making sauce for chicken. The carcass must be placed in the bowl, breast side down, wings and legs tightly packed. The shins can be loosely tied with threads. Select the appropriate cooking mode. For example, for multicooker Panasonic and Redmond this is the "Bake" mode. The main thing is that the baking temperature should not be lower than 180-200 ° C. We turn on the multicooker for 1 hour. After 30-40 minutes, the chicken must be turned over and left for another half hour.
Chicken can also be cooked in foil, but in this case, it is unlikely that you will be able to achieve a brown crust. Use a silicone net or mat to avoid damaging the bowl cover.
Ready-made chicken can be served with boiled potatoes, buckwheat, rice or a vegetable side dish. If desired, before baking the chicken, you can put quarters of green apples, rice with fried carrots and onions, or any other side dish inside the carcass. Then you will have a two-in-one dish.
