Baked chicken is a favorite dish of many. There are several ways to prepare this dish, one of which is like cooking bottle baked chicken, a delicious, juicy and appetizing looking diet food.
It is necessary
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- 1 chicken weighing 800-1000 g;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- 1 teaspoon cooking oil or butter
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon of adjika;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- seasonings to taste;
- Glass bottle.
Instructions
Step 1
Prepare the chicken for roasting. To do this, the carcass should be freed from possible remnants of feathers and entrails, thoroughly washed under water at room temperature, but by no means hot - the chefs are of the opinion that hot water negatively affects the delicate chicken skin and it becomes harder.
Step 2
Salt the outside and inside of the chicken. If you want to get a golden crust, then grease the chicken skin with fat or butter. Some housewives, in order to obtain the same result, use a method such as greasing the carcass with mayonnaise or a mixture of mayonnaise and adjika. And, although mayonnaise is stratified when baked, they claim that it is he who gives the chicken the color and special taste so beloved by many. Try replacing mayonnaise with a spoonful of honey and you will see that the crust is even more crisp and golden, and the aroma of the dish is divine.
Step 3
Look for a glass bottle or tall ketchup jar that fits the diameter of the hole through which the entrails were removed from the chicken (usually Baltimore packs its ketchups and sauces in these matching glass bottles).
Step 4
Fill the bottle half or slightly more with regular tap water and spread the legs apart and place the chicken deep on the neck of the bottle. The chicken should sit firmly on the bottle, not stagger, the whole structure should be stable.
In no case should you close the bottle with a lid. You can throw 2-3 cloves of garlic or other seasonings into the water poured into a bottle - then the chicken will be saturated with their aroma from the inside.
Step 5
Using ordinary threads, tie up the chicken legs, crossing them and securing them so that when cooking under the influence of hot air, they do not take on an unaesthetic appearance of the legs spread in different directions. The same can be done with the wings, although this is not necessary.
Step 6
Heat the oven to 240 degrees and carefully place the bottle and chicken design you created on the wire rack (just put a sheet under the wire rack to drain the fat), or on a sheet (by the way, you can put potatoes cut into pieces on it). Cook for about 10-15 minutes at this temperature, and then you can lower it to 190-200 and continue baking for another 30-35 minutes (large chicken is cooked a little longer).
Step 7
Remove the chicken from the oven and remove it from the bottle carefully, being careful not to damage the delicate crisp.
