Chicken has long been the most popular and favorite dish in our country. No table can do without this or that chicken dish. Of all the variety of options for cooking chicken, one of the most common - chicken drumsticks, baked in the oven.
Preparation of chicken legs in the oven does not take a lot of time and energy, and in return you get an appetizing dish that can be a perfect addition to any side dish or a full-fledged hot dinner.
There are many recipes for chicken drumsticks in the oven: they can be baked in a sleeve, with vegetables, you can stuff them, or you can bake them by simply blushing mayonnaise.
Chicken drumstick recipe in the oven
This recipe will appeal to those who do not want to spend much time in the kitchen, but at the same time wants to enjoy delicious and crunchy meat.
Ingredients:
- chicken drumsticks - 9 pcs .;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- semolina semen 1 st .;
- salt pepper.
Preparation
Wash the chicken drumsticks well. Mix the semolina with salt and pepper. If you want, you can add any spices. Eggs beat in a bowl until smooth. Then dip the shanks in the egg and roll them in breading. If you want your crust to be thicker, repeat this action again.
Trace a vegetable oil, spread the breaded chicken drumsticks and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for about 40 minutes. During this time, the meat will have time to bake well, and the breading will become crispy.
Chicken drumstick in oven - recipe No. 2
Fans of a more unusual taste and roasted crust, will not remain indifferent to the recipe for juicy chicken legs in the oven under the mustard-lemon sauce.
Ingredients:
- chicken legs - 1 kg;
- mustard - 6 teaspoons;
- lemon;
- garlic;
- pepper, salt, spices;
- greens (dill or parsley);
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
First, dress yourself in sauce. Grind the garlic in the garlic, squeeze out the lemon juice. Then mix garlic, lemon juice, mustard, salt, pepper and spices. Wash and dry the chicken legs. Put them in a bowl, pour sauce and marinate for several hours.
After that, place the shin on the baking sheet, pre-lubricated with oil, and send it to the oven, heated to 200 degrees. Bake shanks 40-50 minutes, and before you put on the table sprinkle with herbs.
Stuffed chicken legs in the oven
Bake chicken legs in the oven can be not only separately, but also stuffing them with vegetables, and thus, having received an original and very tasty dish.
Ingredients:
- chicken legs - 6 pcs .;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- Dried mushrooms - 1 item;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil;
- spices for chicken, salt, pepper.
Preparation
To cook in the oven chicken legs stuffed with vegetables, you must first soak dry mushrooms for an hour, and then cook for 40 minutes in salted water. Then it is necessary to cut onions and fry it, grate the carrots and fry them, and then combine with onion.
Cook boiled mushrooms through a meat grinder, mix with onions and carrots, and fry, seasoning with salt and pepper. Now go to the chicken legs: remove the skin from them, pulling it down, but not cutting off, and with a sharp knife we separate the meat from the bone. We cut the bone at the base, leaving only the edge.
After that, a teaspoon begins to add the prepared stuffing to the middle of the meat (where the bone was), pre-salt it. The amount of minced meat depends on the size of the legs themselves. When the meat is full, pull back the skin, spread the stuffed legs on a baking tray and bake at 200 degrees until cooked. This will take approximately 30-40 minutes.