Chicken is the most popular product from which soups, cutlets, and aspic, familiar to everyone, are prepared. However, you can also prepare a rather exotic dish, for example, stuffing a chicken with apples.
Products required for cooking
To prepare chicken stuffed with apples, you need the following ingredients: 1 chicken, 3 apples, 150 g of cranberries, 700 g of potatoes, black pepper, salt, vegetable oil.
Better to choose apples of sweet and sour varieties or ranetki. Also, a chilled medium-sized chicken carcass is more suitable for baking.
Chicken stuffed with apples has a delicate, sweet and sour taste. The dish will look great on a festive table.
Apple Stuffed Chicken Recipe
First of all, you need to prepare the chicken. The carcass is washed and dried with paper towels. Inside and outside, the carcass is rubbed with a mixture made from salt and black ground pepper. The skin on the breast is trimmed and the loin is rubbed with pepper, salt and vegetable oil. You can put sprigs of parsley or dill in a kind of "pocket".
Apples are thoroughly washed, peeled. The rough core with seeds is removed from the fruit. Then the apples are cut into small wedges. The potatoes are washed in running water, peeled and cut into circles, no more than 0.5 cm thick.
The prepared potatoes are transferred to a deep bowl, sprinkled with salt and sprinkled with vegetable oil. After that, the potatoes need to be mixed well.
The chicken carcass is stuffed with cranberries and apple slices. The hole is closed by tightening the skin and securing it with toothpicks. The frypot is greased with vegetable oil. A chicken is placed in the center of the brazier. The surface of the carcass should be coated with vegetable oil or sour cream. Then the baked chicken will acquire a pleasant golden hue, and the skin will crunch appetizingly. Potatoes are placed around the chicken. The top of the bird can be decorated with cranberries and apple slices.
The oven is heated to 180 ° C. The roaster with stuffed poultry and potatoes is placed on the middle level. The apple chicken will be ready in about 40 minutes. You can check whether the chicken is baked or not by making a deep cut on the carcass. If the knife passes easily and the juice with an admixture of blood is not released, the chicken can be removed from the oven.
Ready chicken stuffed with apples is served on a beautiful dish. You can cut the carcass into portions in advance. However, the dish looks most advantageous when the chicken is placed on the table without being cut into pieces. The rosy bird surrounded by baked potatoes is painfully good. Before serving, you can garnish the dish with fresh dill or parsley.
