This method of cooking chicken, delicious, ruddy on all sides, with a crispy, brittle crust all over the carcass, has been known since the "Soviet" times.
Nowadays, with the arrival of a lot of new technology assistants in our homes in the form of steamers, microwave ovens, electric BBQ grills, etc., this method has begun to be forgotten, although it is very simple and affordable. He will help out not only young and still inexperienced hostesses, but also mature, brutal men who want to have a hearty dinner without harmful "fast foods" and with minimal expenditure of money and time, and may even surprise their chosen one with the ability to cook hot dishes, serving table an appetizing chicken cooked with your own hands.
All we need is:
Broiler chicken carcass weighing 500-700 g - 1pc.
Salt and pepper, depending on your own preference.
Glass bottle with a capacity of 0.5 liters.
Bay leaves - 4-6 pcs.
We thoroughly rinse the bottle to eliminate extraneous odors, wash off not only the sticker, but also the glue itself, fill it with water along the "shoulders" and throw the lavrushka inside.
We wash the carcass of our chicken, dry it, rub it with salt and pepper, not forgetting to rub it from the inside, and “put” the carcass on the glass neck of the bottle so that it (the neck) comes out through the top of the carcass.
If the chicken turned out to be too long-legged for the height of the bottle, we will fit the legs for it and tie them together behind the back of the carcass.
We wrap the wings clockwise so that they lie against the carcass and do not stick out like the sleeves of a garden scarecrow. If this “painful hold” is not successful, just press the wings tightly against the chicken and tie it with a thick thread through the whole carcass. If they stick around, they will quickly turn into tasteless "crackers" from the heat of the oven.
We will put this whole construction of a chicken and a bottle while standing (!) On a deep plate or on any other heat-resistant container that suits our plan and place it in a cold oven. We light the gas and wait for the chicken to start baking.
A cold oven is needed to avoid trouble with the bottle - if you put it in a hot one right away, the bottle can burst, and our plans include a “chicken on a bottle”, not a “chicken stuffed with broken glass”.
Now, when the oven has warmed up to 200 *, and our chicken has begun to "squirt" and brown, we will reduce the gas to half and start a garnish suitable for our ruddy beauty "chicken". It can be boiled potatoes or pasta, but the best side dish for such a chick is still a fresh salad of tomatoes and cucumbers, but with green onions, dill and parsley! How to season the salad, butter or sour cream, decide on your own, taste and color, as you know …
40 minutes it is quite enough for preparing a side dish and for cooking a chicken.
Time is over? We make gas for full heating for 5 minutes. and turn off the oven!
It remains to carefully get the ruddy "spike", remove it from the bottle and cut into portions. Brutal men are allowed to break the chicken body with strong, male hands.
