Chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil is a good opportunity to cook both meat and a side dish at the same time.
Despite its seeming simplicity, this dish can be served as a main dish on a festive table.
Chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil - the basic principles of cooking
Chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil is cooked both whole and sliced into a carcass. If you add dried fruits, oranges or apples, you get an original dish that will decorate the festive table. Chicken with potatoes can be varied by preparing a dish with vegetables or mushrooms.
The chicken is washed, wiped with napkins, marinated or rubbed with a mixture of spices and salt. Meat is left for at least half an hour to marinate.
Potatoes are peeled, washed and cut into slices or slices.
In the form, covered with foil, spread the potatoes, on top of which put the pieces of chicken, brushing it with mayonnaise or sour cream on top. Cover the dish with a second layer of foil and bake in the oven for about an hour.
If the chicken is baked whole, the potatoes are seasoned with spices, add the rest of the ingredients and mix. This mixture is spread inside or around the chicken. Wrap everything in foil and send in the oven.
Recipe 1. Chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil
Ingredients
two halves of chicken breast;
paprika, thyme and salt;
large potatoes - three pcs .;
butter - 50 g
Method of preparation
1. Peel the potatoes, wash the tubers under the tap and cut into thin plates.
2. Cut the foil into rectangles. On each piece of foil lay out an even layer of slices of potatoes. Season them with spices and salt.
3. Wash chicken breasts, dip them with a napkin and cut them into chunks along the fibers. Put the chicken slices on the potatoes and salt again and season with spices. 4. Wrap the edges of the foil to the center and fasten them for tightness. Put envelopes on baking sheet.
5. Put the baking sheet for 35 minutes in the oven, preheated to 220C. Then open the envelopes and put in the oven for another ten minutes so that the chicken browns. Wrap the edges of the foil inside and serve without removing it from the foil.
Recipe 2. Chicken with potatoes and cheese in the oven in foil
Ingredients
four chicken thighs;
50 ml of sunflower oil;
four onions;
freshly ground pepper and salt;
four cloves of garlic;
two pinches of ground coriander;
eight potatoes;
100 g Dutch cheese.
Method of preparation
1. Wash and dry chicken thighs with a napkin. Mix sunflower oil with salt, coriander and black pepper. Spread butter on each thigh and put the meat in a plate. Send the chicken for an hour in the fridge so that it should be marinated.
2. Peel onions and potatoes, rinse and chop with not too thick circles. Peeled slices of garlic crumbled into strips. Cheese rubbed into small chips.
3. Take a piece of foil. In the middle lay out a layer of onion rings, spread potato slices on top of it. Salt and sprinkle with finely chopped garlic cloves. All abundantly shred grated cheese.
4. Connect the edges of the foil in the center so that it does not touch the cheese. There should be four such bags. Put them on a baking sheet.
5. Bake chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil for an hour. The oven temperature should be 200C. Ten minutes before the readiness to open the foil so that the cheese is covered with a ruddy crust. Serve directly in the foil, putting the bags on separate plates.
Recipe 3. Chicken with potatoes and prunes in the oven in foil
Ingredients
chicken leg;
ground black pepper;
bunch of parsley;
four potatoes;
salt;
bulb;
walnuts - 50 g;
large tomato;
garlic clove;
300 grams of prunes. Method of preparation
1. Rinse the chicken leg under the tap and dry with a napkin. Peel and chop the garlic cloves with a garlic press. Mix crushed garlic with salt and rub the chicken leg with this mixture. Leave it to marinate for half an hour.
2. Peel the potatoes, wash and dry them. Cut it into thin slices. Cover the form with foil and lay potato slices on it evenly.
3. Peel the onion and chop the rings and place them on top of the potatoes.
4. Chop the chicken leg into small pieces and place the meat on top of the onion.
5. Pour the prunes with warm boiled water, after a quarter of an hour drain the water and dry the dried fruits. Cut the prunes into small pieces. Chop the nuts with a rolling pin.
6. Dish sprinkle with nuts and chopped prunes. Top with tomato circles and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. Salt and pepper.
7. Wrap everything in foil and send the form into an oven preheated to 200 ° C for forty minutes. Then twist the temperature to 180C and continue to simmer for the same amount of time. Put the finished chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil on the dish and garnish with green onions.
Recipe 4. Spicy chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil
Ingredients
one and a half kilogram chicken carcass;
dried herbs;
vegetable oil - 150 ml;
freshly ground black pepper;
flour - 65 g;
butter - 100 g;
new potatoes - kg;
bulb;
a small pod of chili;
spicy tomato sauce - 100 ml;
iodized salt
Method of preparation
1. Carefully clean the peeled tubers of young potatoes and rinse them under the tap. We spread on a napkin so that they dry out.
2. Wash my chicken, towel dry and chop into large pieces. Mix flour and salt in a plate. Roll the chicken pieces in the mixture and transfer them to a deep bowl. Cover it with foil and put in the fridge.
3. Clean the onion from the husk and chop into thin half-rings. Heat the vegetable oil in the pan, add a piece of butter to it and wait for it to melt. 4. We clean the seeds from chili and crumble it into small pieces. Put it in the pan, fry for three minutes, then add the onion. Salt, lightly pepper and fry, stirring occasionally, until the onions are transparent. Pour tomato sauce to it and simmer another five minutes.
5. From the foil we make something like a bowl, lay the chicken in it, put the sliced potatoes on top and pour all over with hot tomato sauce. Wrap the foil and fasten the edges.
6. Remove the pan to the oven preheated to 180C. Bake chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil for about an hour. We shift the finished dish to a large dish, pour spicy sauce and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Recipe 5. Chicken with potatoes, broccoli and mushrooms in the oven in foil
Ingredients
five chicken legs;
5 g of spices for chicken;
four tubers of new potatoes;
half a liter of cream;
400 g frozen broccoli;
200 g Dutch cheese;
half a kilo of champignons.
Method of preparation
1. Clean the champignons, wash them, dry and cut into four pieces. Heat the oil in a pan, put mushrooms in it and fry until golden. Put the fried mushrooms in a plate.
2. Wash the chicken legs, dip them with a towel, remove the skin and separate the meat from the bones. Transfer the chicken to the pan, where the mushrooms were fried, add salt and season with spices for chicken and pepper. Fry, stirring constantly, until half ready.
3. Cut the peeled potatoes into small cubes. Just finely crumble broccoli.
4. Cover the form with foil and sprinkle with oil. All ingredients are layered in this order:
- potato;
- hen;
- fried mushrooms;
- broccoli.
Dish salt, pepper and pour all the cream. Dust all finely grated cheese, cover with foil and seal the edges. Put the form in the oven for half an hour. Then remove the top layer of foil and leave in the oven for another ten minutes so that the cheese is covered with a golden brown crust.
Recipe 6. Chicken with potatoes, lemon and rosemary in the oven in foil
Ingredients
chicken carcass weighing two kg;
smoked bacon - eight strips;
potatoes - two kg;
freshly ground pepper;
large lemon;
olive oil;
garlic - head;
salt;
a handful of fresh thyme and rosemary.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the chicken carcass under a tap and dry it with a towel. Salt mix with freshly ground pepper. Generously rub the chicken carcass with this mixture inside and out. Leave the chicken for a few hours.
2. Turn on the oven at 200C.
3. Put a large pot of water on the stove, salt it and bring to a boil. Put the peeled potatoes in boiling water, here we send the whole lemon and garlic cloves. Cook a quarter of an hour. Then take out the potatoes and let drain. Lemon and garlic are also taken out. Potatoes are sent to boiling water to keep it hot.
4. Make ten punctures with a knife in a hot lemon. Remove the chicken carcass from the fridge, wipe it with a napkin and rub it with olive oil. Inside the chicken we put garlic cloves, thyme and lemon whole. We place the carcass in the form, covered with foil, wrap the chicken in it and send it to the oven for 45 minutes.
5. Then unfold the foil, we place the chicken on a plate. Sprinkle potatoes with rosemary and mix well. Put it in the form, release the middle and put the chicken in the center. Spread bacon slices on the breast, cover with foil and send to the oven for another half hour. Then take out the form, remove the top layer of foil and continue to bake until the potato is covered with a ruddy crust.
5. Remove the bacon from the chicken, finely crumble it and spread it on the potatoes. From the carcass take out the garlic and lemon. Garlic is passed through the press and rub the chicken with this mixture. Thyme and lemon throw away.
Recipe 7. Chicken with potatoes, apples and prunes in the oven in foil
Ingredients
1.5 kg chilled chicken; 150 g sour cream;
250 g of prunes;
spices;
kg of potatoes;
half a kilo of apples.
Method of preparation
1. Wash the chicken and dry them with a paper towel. Mayonnaise mixed with pepper and salt. Grate the chicken with the mixture. Put her pickle for two hours in the fridge.
2. Peel the potatoes and apples and chop them into small pieces. Put in a deep bowl, add washed prunes, spices and two spoons of mayonnaise. Mix.
3. Remove the chicken from the fridge and stuff it with a mixture of potatoes, apples and prunes. The remaining mixture is put on the bottom of the form with high sides, covered with foil. Put stuffed chicken on top. Cover with still one sheet of foil and seal the edges tightly.
4. Put the form in the oven for an hour and a half. Bake at 200C. Then open the chicken with the potatoes in the oven in foil and send it to the oven for another quarter of an hour.
Chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil - tips and tricks from the chef
- When baking the whole chicken, cut the potatoes large enough so that they are baked evenly with the meat.
- To keep the dish dry, pour it in cream before baking.
- Be sure to rub the chicken with a mixture of spices and salt. Leave it in this form for several hours, so that the meat is soaked in the aromas of spices.
- Before the end of cooking, turn the chicken and potatoes around so that the dish is on top browned.
