Chicken legs with potatoes cooked in the oven are a delicious dish that is ideal for preparing a hearty and tasty dinner on weekends and holidays.
Cloturing in the oven, the chicken emits juice, which flows into the vegetables, soaks them, and gives the dish a unique aroma, as well as a delicate taste.
In general, the combination of two components, namely, chicken legs with baked ruddy crust and crumbly potatoes, makes this dish a difficult savory dish, but also food that benefits the human body.
General principles and basic rules for cooking chicken legs with potatoes in the oven
Each housewife always has a pair of three original recipes for preparing the most delicious and delicious dishes, which will be a real decoration of any holiday table and a worthy dish of any feast.
This also applies to the manufacture of chicken legs in the oven with potatoes, dishes that you do not need to spend a lot of time on cooking.
To prepare such food, you must follow certain rules and know the general principles for the production of this dish:
• It is necessary to use only fresh chicken legs in cooking, without any stains.
• Marinate chicken legs need for 12 hours, and you can cook chicken legs immediately.
• You can not feel sorry for the spices for cooking this dish, since they give the legs with potatoes a certain aroma and taste.
• With chicken legs and potatoes, you can use almost any kind of vegetables and fruits in cooking, which will enable the chef to experiment and fantasize.
• A variety of sauces are ideal for the dish, as well as sour cream, mayonnaise, mustard, and more.
• You can decorate the dish with greens, lemon, vegetables and other ingredients.
Recipe 1. Ham with potatoes in the oven (with sour cream and garlic)
Ingredients:
• Chicken thighs - 4 pcs.
• Potatoes - 1 kg.
• Sour cream - 150 gr.
• Salt, pepper (red and black).
• Oil - 200 ml.
• Garlic - 1 head.
• Greens (fresh).
Cooking Method:
Potatoes need to be cleaned, washed and cut into quarters and put in a cup. Sour cream, salt, black and red pepper, as well as garlic, peeled and passed through a press, should be poured into a separate vessel. You can add dry basil to the sour cream seasoned in this way and mix everything up. Next to the potatoes, you need to add sour cream with spices and put the components aside.
Then the legs need to be well washed, dividing each in half and rub on both sides with salt. After it is necessary to fry the chicken legs in oil until a golden crust is formed on them.
Next on the baking sheet you need to lay out the potatoes, and after the fried chicken legs. After adding some water to these ingredients, a baking sheet should be sent to an oven heated to 200 degrees for half an hour.
Before serving, the finished dish can be decorated with chopped greens.
Recipe 2. Ham with potatoes under a layer of cheese in the oven
Ingredients:
• Cheese (hard consistency) - 100 gr.
• Ham - 4 legs.
• Onions - 2 tubers.
• Potatoes 12 pcs.
• Salt.
• Spices and seasonings.
Cooking Method:
The chicken legs need to be washed, dried and grated on both sides with salt and spices. Spices for this dish can be selected to suit your own taste, or you can purchase packaging of ready-made seasoning in the store.
Next, the legs need to put on a baking sheet. Peel the potatoes, coarsely chop, salt and spread between the legs.
Cover the thighs with potatoes with onions, chopped rings, and sprinkle the top with grated cheese. Then the baking sheet with the ingredients must be sent to the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. In an hour, the finished and delicious dish will be ready to eat.
Recipe 3. Chicken with potatoes and other vegetables baked in the oven
Ingredients:
• Ham - 4 legs.
• Potatoes (preferably fresh) 8-10 pcs.
• Lemon - half.
• Butter.
• Mayonnaise.
• Garlic - 1 head.
• Turmeric.
• Cheese (hard consistency) - 100 gr.
• Vegetables - tomato, cucumber, Bulgarian pepper.
• Salt, pepper - at its own discretion.
• Greens, including lettuce.
Cooking Method:
It is necessary to wash the chicken legs, put them in a cup and salt them plentifully, as well as pepper. Next, add to the chicken legs surviving juice from half a lemon, turmeric and butter (you can sunflower). All ingredients are mixed and set aside for half an hour.
Thus, the prepared components are laid out on a baking sheet or better in a special mold and are moved to the oven, preheated to 150 degrees for 40 minutes. Further, cheese rubs, garlic is added to it, passed through a press, mayonnaise and all these components are mixed.
After these actions, you need to get the chicken legs out of the oven, smear them with cheese and cover with potatoes that have been cleaned beforehand, which you also need to sprinkle with greens, garlic and slightly mayonnaise.
Next, all the ingredients again for 50 minutes must be sent to the oven. After this time, an appetizing dish will be ready for use.
Recipe 4. Ham with potatoes and carrots in the oven
Ingredients:
• Ham - 2 pcs.
• Potato - 0.5 kg.
• Carrot - 200 gr.
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• Oil (vegetable) - 50 ml.
• Salt, pepper, spices - on the fan.
• Greenery.
Cooking Method:
All vegetables need to be washed and peeled. Next, you need to cut the potatoes and carrots into circles. Chop the onion in small pieces.
Put the chicken legs on a greased baking sheet and lay them with mixed vegetables.
Then all the ingredients must be sprinkled with spices, salt and pepper, pour the whole with a glass of water and send the dish to the oven to bake for 60 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Recipe 5. Ham with potatoes in the oven and the sleeve
Ingredients:
• Ham - 1 kg.
• Onions - 2 pcs.
• Potatoes (small size) - 10 pcs.
• Soy sauce.
• Cardamom, curry.
• Mustard, pepper, salt.
Cooking Method:
Chicken legs should be divided into halves, report on them chopped onion, honey, a little mustard, soy sauce, cardamom, curry, salt and pepper.
All folded in the dishes above ingredients mix with your hands.
Then you need to peel the potatoes and cut it into cubes to add to the legs. Next you need to cut off part of the sleeve and fasten it with one side of the existing strap. Then all the components need to lay in the sleeve, tying it on the other side.
It is recommended to shake the sleeve several times, for better mixing of the components inside.
Next on the baking sheet you need to pour 100 ml of water, pierce the sleeve in several places and put it on the baking sheet to send it to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.
After the desired time has passed, the baking sheet must be removed from the oven, cut it over and try the potatoes for readiness. If there is a need to prepare potatoes with a golden crust, you need to keep the torn sleeve in the oven for another 10 minutes.
Recipe 6. Ham with potatoes and other vegetables - a dish cooked in the sleeve and oven
Ingredients:
• Ham - 1.5 kg.
• Potatoes - 6 pcs.
• Onion.
• Carrot.
• Pepper (Bulgarian) - 2 pcs.
• Sour cream - 400 ml.
• Tavern.
• Salt, pepper, seasonings.
• Garlic.
Cooking Method:
First you need to prepare the sauce, adding spices, salt, pepper and garlic to the sour cream. Then clean and cut all the necessary vegetables, in the form of thin slices. Then add the cream sauce to the vegetables and mix all the ingredients.
Next, the chicken legs should be cut in half and pack them in a sleeve, aligning them with vegetables prepared in advance and the sauce, as well as small-sized diced potatoes.
The sleeve must be shaken several times and sent to a preheated oven at 200 degrees for an hour. After 30 minutes, the sleeve should be hollowed out so that the juice does not leak out.
To decorate and make the dish more spicy, you can sprinkle it with grated cheese and greens.
Recipe 7. Ham or chicken legs, pickled in a sauce with potatoes cooked in the oven
Ingredients:
• Ham - 4 pcs.
• Potatoes - 1 kg.
• Bulbs - 3 pcs.
• Garlic - 2 teeth.
• Mayonnaise - 200 gr.
• Ketchup - 60 ml.
• Mustard - 15 gr.
• Cheese - 150 gr.
• Greenery.
• Salt, pepper.
• Oil (vegetable based).
Cooking Method:
The chicken legs need to be washed and marinated in a specially prepared sauce. To make such a sauce, you need to mix mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard with each other. And adding a little pepper roll in chicken legs.
In order that chicken legs are well soaked you need to leave them in the sauce for an hour.
Then you need to peel the potatoes and wash them. Chop the potatoes into strips, put in a bowl, salt and season with the remaining mayonnaise.
Then onions need to chop the rings, lightly fry in vegetable oil and put it on the bottom of the pan. Next on the onion you need to put the potatoes with mayonnaise, and pickled chicken legs on top of it.
After preheated to 180 degrees oven, you need to send an existing baking sheet with food, after adding water to prevent the potatoes from drying out. Important! In order for the juice from the legs to drain on the potatoes for its greater juiciness, you need to pierce the chicken legs in some places.
10 minutes before the end of the manufacturing process, the dish must be pulled out of the oven and checked for readiness.
If the potatoes are soft, then it must be sprinkled with garlic and cheese.
Sprinkle with chopped greens before serving.
Chicken legs with potatoes in the oven - small tricks and useful tips
• In order to get rid of possible feathers on the legs, they need to be smoked over the burner with an open fire.
• Even more subtle, as well as exquisite taste and aroma, will become a dish such as chicken legs with potatoes in the oven, if they are prepared using such tricky devices as a sleeve, foil or special dishes made of heat-resistant glass.
• In order for the cheese on the legs not to be burnt, but only to browned, sprinkle the dish with them should be shortly before the end of cooking.
• In order for the chicken legs to acquire a golden color and an immaculate ruddy crust, they must be supplemented with turmeric or ketchup.
• If, while cooking a dish, the potatoes are baked to the bottom of the pan, it can easily be moved with a spatula.
• If a lot of fat has formed on the baking sheet, then it should be drained, as it will prevent the appearance of a tender and ruddy crust on the legs.
• In order for the dish to turn out not only fragrant, tasty, but also beautiful, it is necessary to decorate it, for example, with sprigs of some greens and lemon, and then serve it to the table.
