Chicken enjoys a well-deserved love among eaters in different countries. Many housewives have their favorite recipe for cooking chicken meat. After all, there are many dishes from this bird. Try homemade chicken baked in sour cream.
It is necessary
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- chicken weighing 1, 2 kg (for 8-10 servings);
- 500 g of fatty sour cream;
- 1 tablespoon flour;
- two cloves of garlic;
- 1 teaspoon thyme (thyme)
- basil leaves;
- a bunch of dill greens;
- salt
- ground black pepper to taste;
- lettuce leaves.
Instructions
Step 1
Wash the chicken carcass, put it in a saucepan, pour two liters of cold water, add salt and cook for one hour. Throw the cooked chicken in a colander, and then divide into portions. Collect the broth, it will be useful for the sauce.
Step 2
To prepare the sauce, add salt and pepper to the sour cream, bring to a boil over low heat. Dissolve the flour in two tablespoons of chicken broth, add another 100 ml of broth and mix well. Pour the resulting mixture in a thin stream into boiling sour cream, add basil leaves, thyme (thyme). Simmer the sauce over low heat for another five minutes. Peel the garlic, pass through a press or finely chop. Add it to the sour cream sauce at the very end of cooking.
Step 3
Place the chicken pieces in a large heat-resistant container, top with the sauce and bake in the oven for ten minutes at 180 degrees. You can do it differently, for example, put portions of chicken in ceramic pots, pour the prepared sauce and send them to the oven for the same ten minutes.
Step 4
Sort out the dill, rinse thoroughly and chop. On a large platter, spread the washed and dried lettuce leaves, top with the chicken pieces with the sauce. Sprinkle everything with chopped dill. Chicken cooked in sour cream is good both hot and cold.
Step 5
Oven-baked vegetables are suitable for a side dish with such a dish: carrots, zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes, onions. Cut them into large slices, circles, after washing and cleaning. Salt vegetables, sprinkle with vegetable oil if desired, stir, place on the grill rack and bake in the oven for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.
