Oven-baked chicken is an easy-to-prepare and delicious dish. And to make it even more satisfying and interesting, you can stuff the chicken with any kind of filling. The latter can be meat, mushrooms, legumes and even fruits.
Fruit filling
The original filling for chicken will be fruits - oranges and apples. They will give the dish an amazing flavor and make the meat a little sweet and very juicy. To prepare such a filling, it is necessary to peel and divide the orange into slices, and remove the seeds with a stalk from the apple, and then also cut it into slices. Then these fruits should be put into the pre-salted belly of the bird and the edges should be sewn up with coarse threads.
Buckwheat and mushroom filling
A more satisfying dish can be obtained by stuffing the chicken with mushrooms, onions and buckwheat. This filling, by the way, is perfect as a side dish. To prepare it, it is necessary to boil buckwheat almost until cooked in salted water, and fry the mushrooms and onions in a pan. Then you need to mix all the ingredients and put them in the belly of the chicken. You can also use boiled rice instead of buckwheat.
Rice filling with giblets and prunes
Another interesting filling for baked chicken is rice with giblets and prunes. To prepare it, you need to wash the offal, chop them and fry in butter with onions. When they are ready, they need to be mixed with washed rice, covered with water and put on fire. When the water boils, add the prunes cut into the noodles, season with salt and cook until the rice is cooked and the liquid has completely evaporated. Stuff the chicken with this mixture.
Suluguni and pomegranate filling
An interesting dish can also be prepared by mixing finely chopped suluguni, parsley and pomegranate seeds. You need to stuff the bird with this mixture, and then connect the edges of the abdomen with a toothpick or harsh threads. During the cooking process, the cheese will melt, and the pomegranate seeds will release a fragrant and tasty juice, which will make the chicken unusually tasty.
Lemon filling
A chicken cooked in the oven will turn out to be spicy if you fill it with lemon and honey. A couple of such fruits should be thoroughly washed, cut into four parts, poured with a couple of tablespoons of liquid honey and put into the belly of the bird. Just before that, the carcass must be soaked for about an hour in soy sauce.
Vegetable filling
It will go well with baked chicken and vegetable filling. To prepare it, you need to cut the multi-colored bell peppers and carrots into strips, and cut the zucchini and onions into cubes. Then you should fry them separately, mix with fresh tomato, herbs and garlic. Eggplant and celery can also be used as additional ingredients.
