Chicken meat has long been a regular in our menu. Inexpensive meat, which can be cooked from time to time in a new way - a real find for any mistress. Universality of the chicken is once again going to prove the answers to the question about what can be cooked from chicken legs. The variety of recipes is really surprising.
Chicken legs in a bag of dough
Despite its intricate appearance, the chicken legs in the dough are prepared surprisingly simply. Especially the recipe simplifies the use of the finished puff pastry.
Ingredients:
- chicken legs - 480 g;
- puff pastry - 480 g;
- milk - 540 ml;
- lemon juice - 15 ml;
- Ground coriander, paprika, cumin - 1 teaspoon;
- egg - 1 pc.
Preparation
Combine the milk and lemon juice, and then dip the chicken into the mixture. Put the bird in the refrigerator for an hour, and after a while, dry each of the legs and sprinkle with ground spices. Roll out the layer of puff pastry and cut it into strips. Each strip is wrapped around the chicken leg and greased with an egg before placing it in the oven. A delicious dish of chicken legs in the dough should be baked for about half an hour at 180 degrees.
Chicken Leg Soup
We should not forget about the chicken and as an excellent soup base, giving on the way a rich and fragrant broth. Soup by the recipe below is a direct proof: saturated, warming, nourishing and full of taste.
Ingredients:
- onion - 140 g;
- garlic teeth - 5 pcs .;
- carrots - 110 g;
- Ground turmeric, cumin - 1 teaspoon;
- smoked paprika - 2 tsp.
- lentils - 1 item;
- tomato paste - 45 g;
- water - 1,2 l;
- chicken legs - 3-4 pcs.
Preparation
Grind the vegetables and save them in a thick-walled saucepan or brazier, in which the cooking will take place. Add the roasted garlic with garlic and spices, put the chicken and allow the bird to brown. Add the tomato paste and dilute it with a little water. Pour in the remaining water and leave broth with vegetables to boil for half an hour. After a lapse of time, put in the washed lentils and continue cooking until the beans soften. Our dish of chicken legs is almost ready, it remains only to extract the chicken itself and disassemble it on the fibers before putting it back in the soup.
The recipe for this dish from chicken legs can also be repeated in a multivark: fry vegetables and poultry in the "Baking" mode, and after adding the liquid, switch to "Soup". In the middle of the preparation, pour the lentils.