Chicken meat goes well with a variety of ingredients. Its delicate, delicate taste is also suitable for spicy minced meat, generously seasoned with spices, and for sweetish fillings.
Simple chicken fillings
There are many simple toppings for chicken. Some of them make the dish more satisfying, others - fragrant. The former include numerous types of minced meat based on cereals or rusks, the latter - fillings of herbs, lemon and garlic. Try to prepare a filling that combines the merits of both groups at the same time. For a small chicken with a total weight of about 2-3 kilograms, you will need:
- ½ cup chopped onions;
- ¼ cups of butter;
- ½ tsp. dried thyme leaves;
- 2 tbsp. l. chopped parsley;
- 2 hours bread crumbs;
- 1 chicken egg;
- ½ tbsp. milk;
- salt and pepper.
Melt the butter in a saucepan and saute the onion over low heat until transparent. Remove from heat. Add thyme and parsley, add bread crumbs, stir well and pour in milk while stirring. Beat the egg lightly and stir in the minced meat, season with salt and pepper. Put the prepared mixture with a spoon into the cavity of the poultry, rubbed with oil from the inside and outside, tamp and bake the chicken in an oven preheated to 170 ° C for 60-90 minutes.
Delicious and juicy fillings are obtained from cereals with onions and poultry giblets or mushrooms. As a basis, you can take boiled rice, millet, buckwheat. You can also try a more exotic option by making a filling with couscous and flavoring it with lemon juice and basil. Take:
- 2 cups of couscous;
- 1 tsp salt;
- 2 tbsp. l. olive oil;
2 cups chopped basil leaves
- 4 tbsp. l. lemon juice.
Pour 1 to 2 boiling water over the couscous, cover and let stand for 7-10 minutes. Whisk lightly with a fork, adding lemon juice, olive oil, pepper and salt. Add aromatic herbs. The filling is ready.
Unusual minced chicken
Chicken goes well with sweet fillings such as apples, cherries, apricots. Chicken stuffed with dried fruits turns out to be tasty and juicy. Try to cook unusual minced meat from apples, celery, currants and caraway seeds. You will need:
- 2 Granny Smith apples;
- 3 tbsp. l. butter;
- 2 tsp cumin;
- 1 head of onion, cut into small cubes;
- 1 ½ cups chopped stalk celery
- ½ cup rye crumbs;
- ½ cup chopped parsley;
- 3 tbsp. l. dried currants;
- salt and pepper.
Peel the apples and cut them into small cubes. Melt the butter in a heavy, high-sided skillet. Fry the cumin seeds until they have a characteristic flavor, add the onion and cook until translucent. Add apples, celery and cook, stirring occasionally, for another 7-10 minutes. Mix with the rest of the ingredients and stuff the chicken.
