Oven-baked chicken is a delicious and satisfying dish that goes well with any side dish. However, in order for the food to bake well, but at the same time remain juicy and tender, it is important to choose the right temperature in the oven for baking this delicacy and decide on the cooking time.
It would seem that it is difficult to bake chicken: smeared the carcass with spices and salt, put it on a baking sheet and bake it. However, in reality, everything is not so simple, because if you choose the wrong temperature for cooking, or overexpose the chicken in the oven, as a result, the food will turn out to be either half-baked or baked and dry. How to find a middle ground so that the finished dish does not disappoint the household?
So, if you are cooking whole chicken, then first of all pay attention to the size of the carcass. Small chickens, whose weight does not reach a kilogram, do not cook for a long time - on average, 50-60 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees. More carcasses need a longer cooking time - from 60 to 120 minutes. To calculate how long it takes to bake a particular chicken, you need to know that 500 grams of chicken meat needs 30 minutes of cooking, and based on this, you should roughly navigate.
If you often cook whole chicken, then it will be useful for you to purchase a special meat thermometer and use it. For example, to check the readiness of a chicken, you need to place the device in the thigh of the poultry being cooked (the thermometer should not touch the bone) and see the result. If the device shows more than 80 degrees, then the chicken is ready.
Below are the approximate times for cooking whole chicken in the oven:
It is worth noting that the table shows the dates for baking chilled chicken. Frozen chicken must first be defrosted.
How long does it take to bake chicken legs and chicken breast in the oven in foil and in a bag
To make the chicken meat more tender and juicy, it is better to use foil or a special baking sleeve for baking. For example, a chicken breast cooked without the above tools is likely to be dry and impossible to eat. The meat from the "sleeve" will simply melt in your mouth, especially if it is pre-marinated for about 20 minutes, then cooked in a special mayonnaise or lemon sauce.
As for the baking time of the legs and breasts in foil, a bag, it is calculated according to the same principle as for the whole chicken. If you are baking breasts without cutting them apart, consider the weight of one largest breast. Let me remind you that 500 grams of chicken must be baked for at least 30 minutes.
Breast, cut in portions, as well as chicken legs (drumstick) are completely ready for use already 40 minutes after placing them in the oven preheated to 180-190 degrees.
