For a reason, the recipe for making chicken on a bottle is very popular not only among beginners, but also among experienced housewives: the method is simple in execution, the availability of ingredients, and the result is able to please any gourmet. Chicken baked in the oven in such an exotic way turns out to be very tender, juicy, with a fragrant crispy crust.
It is necessary
- - gutted chicken carcass;
- - salt;
- - garlic;
- - honey;
- - spices to taste;
- - sour cream or vegetable oil;
- - empty bottle.
Instructions
Step 1
Cooking chicken on a bottle has one feature: the marinating time has a significant effect on the taste of the finished dish. The taste of meat that has been in the marinade for at least 10-12 hours turns out to be the most successful, but if you do not have the opportunity or desire to wait so long, then you can limit yourself to an hour's exposure of the chicken carcass in a mixture of spices.
The easiest way to pre-prepare the chicken is to grease the poultry carcass, thoroughly washed and dried with a paper towel, with vegetable oil or sour cream, mix salt and spices chosen according to your taste, and then rub the chicken inside and out with the resulting mixture.
Step 2
Gourmets are advised to spend a little time preparing a more refined marinade: add a head of finely chopped garlic to a liter of warm water, 100 g of tart honey - best of all buckwheat or lime, a little cilantro or parsley, salt to taste, 1 tsp each. paprika, coriander and rosemary. The chicken is immersed in the marinade, pressing down with a load, or occasionally turning it over by hand to better absorb the spices.
Step 3
After the meat is well marinated, the honey-spice mixture is poured into a clean glass bottle, filling the container by two-thirds. The bottle must be sized to fit comfortably in the oven - beer containers or old milk bottles work well. The chicken carcass is placed on a bottle, placed in a pan or baking dish. To prevent dripping chicken fat from burning and fuming, it is recommended to pour a small amount of water into the mold.
Step 4
Chicken on a bottle is placed in a cold oven and then baked at 180-200 degrees until cooked. Readiness is determined by making several punctures with the tip of a knife or a wooden skewer - if the juice that stands out is transparent, then the meat can be removed from the oven. For lovers of a crispy brown crust, increase the oven temperature slightly and hold the chicken for another 10-12 minutes.
Step 5
If you wish, you can cook not just chicken on a bottle, but also a delicious side dish at the same time, if you put lentils, peas, rice or buckwheat in a mold with water. During the cooking process, it is necessary to ensure that all the water does not boil away in the form and the garnish does not start to burn.
