With the help of a sleeve you can bake not only small portions of meat or vegetables, you can cook whole chicken in the sleeve, taking as a basis a favorite recipe and a combination of ingredients. Due to the fact that the sleeve is capable of retaining moisture, everything that will be placed in it will automatically come out much more succulent. At the same time, there is also a loss of the risk of drying the meat, having lost in time.
Chicken in the oven in the sleeve entirely - recipe
If you want to cook chicken in the glaze, the sleeve can also help in this. Thanks to the sleeve itself, the glaze on the bird's surface will not burn during the cooking process, and therefore the skin will not excessively darken.
Ingredients:
- carcass of chicken - 1,7 kg;
- turmeric, paprika - 1 tsp each;
- Dried thyme - 1 1/2 tsp.
- orange juice - 115 ml;
- honey - 15 g;
- pinch of ginger.
Preparation
After rinsing the chicken carcass, dry it well. Careful drying will help the glaze on the surface to be more caramelized. Mix the turmeric with the paprika and a pinch of thyme, and then rub this mixture of the bird outside. Next, season the skin with salt and do not forget to add a good pinch of salt to the bird's cavity.
Prepare a mixture of citrus juice, ginger and honey, put it on the fire and cook until thick. Hardly cool glaze, distribute it on the surface of the carcass and put it in the sleeve. Leave the bird in the oven at 200 degrees per hour.
Homemade chicken with potatoes in the sleeve in the oven
Ingredients:
- chicken - 2.3 kg;
- butter - 95 g;
- garlic - 3 teeth;
- potatoes - 440 g;
- red onion - 110 g.
Preparation
Pound the garlic in a paste with a generous pinch of salt, then add the garlic paste to the soft oil and mix. Spread the oil mixture over the entire surface of the bird and inside it. Wash the potatoes straight in the peel into pieces of arbitrary shape. Cut the onions into slices and mix with slices of tubers. Put the vegetables in a sleeve, do not forget to pre-season, and from above place the chicken carcass.
How to cook chicken with rice in the sleeve?
Garnish can be placed not only next door to the chicken, but also fill it with the cavity in the carcass. We will use boiled wild rice, which will not soften into porridge even after a second cooking in the oven.
Ingredients:
- chicken - 2.3 kg;
- peel 2 oranges;
- a branch of thyme;
- garlic teeth - 3 pieces;
- butter - 35 g;
- boiled brown rice - 115 g.
Preparation
Melt the butter and quickly fry the garlic teeth with thyme leaves cut on the petals. Mix the fragrant oil with rice and orange peel. Carcase the bird and season the cavity with rice. Fix the shins together so that the rice filling does not spill out. Place chicken in a sleeve and, fixing both its edges, send to the oven at 180 degrees per hour.
Chicken with vegetables in the oven sleeve
Seasonal vegetables can become not only a side dish to the bird, but also a flavoring additive, adding to the bird a rich flavor. As part of this recipe, chicken will be filled with a mixture of onions, celery and carrots.
Ingredients:
- chicken - 2.8 kg;
- onion - 135 g;
- carrots - 115 g;
- stalks of celery - 2 pcs .;
- garlic - 4 teeth.
Preparation
After rinsing the chicken carcass, dry it, generously season with a mixture of salt and pepper inside and out. Prepare vegetables by chopping onions together with carrots and celery. Try to keep all pieces of vegetables of the same shape and size. Place the prepared vegetables in the poultry cavity along with the crushed garlic teeth. Put the chicken in a sleeve and send it to bake at 170 degrees for 2 hours. After baking, take out the vegetables and discard them, and divide the birds into portions.