Chicken is very popular in our country.
After all, this is quite a budget product, opening up large spaces for culinary creativity.
Even from ordinary chicken drumsticks in the oven you can cook a lot of interesting and tasty dishes.
Chicken drumsticks in the oven - the general principles of cooking
Chicken drumsticks are cooked as easily as other chicken "elements". Usually they are bought separately and prepared on their own or with various vegetable, mushroom, fruit additives.
Most often, the legs are marinated for some time. It is advisable not to skip this item recipe. Although without marinating the shins, dry and hard will not work, yet after an hour in the marinade they will become tastier, more fragrant and more tender.
The chicken goes well with spices, especially curry, oregano, mint, parsley. She loves garlic.
There is no need to pickle chicken in vinegar. Usually other acidic liquids are used as marinade. We give a few examples of marinade for chicken drumstick in the oven.
1. Kefir with garlic.
2. Sour cream with garlic and curry.
3. Mayonnaise.
4. Mayonnaise with ketchup.
5. Mustard French (granular).
6. Mustard ordinary (Russian) by itself or with shredded capers.
7. Mayonnaise mixed with horseradish.
8. Lemon juice with honey.
9. Cucumber pickle.
10. Pineapple juice.
Actually, the imagination is limitless and listing all the options for marinades for chicken drumsticks in the oven is absolutely impossible. The main condition - the marinade must contain acid and be fragrant.
To check the readiness of the legs, it is necessary to pierce one of them in the thickest place. If the extracted juice is clear, and pierced easily, then the dish is ready. If not, we still need to take care.
Recipe number 1. Quick Chicken Oven Chicken Drumsticks
Cooking these chicken drumsticks in the oven does not take much time or food.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Lemon - 1 piece
Honey - 2-3 tablespoons
Dense apples - 5-6 pieces
Salt, garlic, dried spicy greens - to taste
Cooking method
Rinse chicken drumsticks in cold water and pat dry.
Cut off the lemon zest and squeeze the juice out of it. Marc can be put in compote or pour boiling water to get a lemon drink.
Add honey to the juice, salt, garlic passed through the press and mix well. Coat the shin with marinade and cover with a film, leave for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
Cut the apples into quarters (if they are very large, then cut each quarter again in half), remove the middle. If there is any doubt about the naturalness of a beautiful luster on the skin, cut off all this splendor and do not risk the health of the family.
Put apples in one layer in a baking dish, pour lightly with water and honey and sprinkle with chopped zest. Put the shanks on top, sprinkle them with your favorite spicy herbs, rubbing them with your fingers.
Bake in the oven at 170 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Recipe number 2. Chicken drumsticks in the oven with vegetables
Cooking such chicken drumsticks in the oven is possible both for a feast and for a regular lunch. Ideally, if there is an opportunity to use portioned molds, but you can cook in a large form.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Potatoes - 5-6 tubers
Carrots - 1 piece
Onion - 1 onion
String beans - 200 g
1-2 peppers sweet pepper
Cauliflower or broccoli - 200 g
Sour cream - 200 g
Mayonnaise - 2-3 tablespoons
Curry, black pepper, oregano to taste
Cooking method
Prepare the marinade by mixing sour cream with mayonnaise and spices. Marinate in it the prepared shins for about an hour or two.
Peel potatoes and carrots, cut into slices. Sweet pepper cut into small cubes, onions - half rings, cauliflower disassemble into small inflorescences. Beans, if the pods are very long, also cut into pieces.
To get the chicken from the marinade, mix the marinade with vegetables.
Put the vegetables on the bottom of the mold (or molds) and deepen the drumsticks in them with the bone up.
Bake in the oven at 170 degrees. If the chicken is already ready, but neither it nor the vegetables are lightly browned, then increase the temperature in the oven to 220 degrees and wait for the appearance of a beautiful crust.
Recipe number 3. Chicken drumsticks in the oven "Sweet Life"
Of course, this recipe for chicken drumsticks in the oven is an amateur, but the very originality of taste and appearance hints at the possibility of using such a dish for a “guest” dinner.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Pineapple - ½ large, not quite ripe.
Apples, pears - 2 fruits, very hard.
Raisin - half a cup
Oranges - 2, better sour
Mayonnaise
Garlic - 5-6 cloves
Cooking method
Prepare a marinade of mayonnaise, juice and zest of one orange, passed through a garlic press. Salting it is not necessary!
Marinate cooked drumsticks for a couple of hours, putting them in the fridge.
Wash the raisins, soak for 10 minutes in cool water if necessary.
Cut apples and pears into slices, peel if necessary. Cut the second orange into rather thin semicircles. Separate several thin slices from the pineapple, chop the rest to pieces.
Take the legs from the marinade. Make a deep longitudinal incision on each and insert a slice of pineapple there.
After mixing the fruits and raisins, put into the form and lightly pour the marinade. Spread the drumsticks with slices of pineapple on top.
Bake at first 30 minutes at 160 degrees, and then increase the temperature to 190.
Recipe number 4. Oven stuffed chicken in the oven
This recipe for chicken drumsticks in the oven can not be called quick and easy, but the dish looks very impressive and is eaten with pleasure.
Ingredients
Large chicken drumsticks - 1.5 kg
Champignons - 400 g
Cheese - 200 g
Eggs - 2 pieces
Baking oil
Sour cream or butter for lubrication
Garlic, spicy herbs - to taste, but you can without them.
Cooking method
Make an incision in the shins in the part of the bone, which is usually taken by hand. Carefully remove the skin, being careful not to damage it. Cut off the meat from the bone and chop it with a knife rather finely.
Wash and clean the champignons, also grind them with a knife. Cheese grate. Combine meat, cheese, mushrooms in a bowl, drive two eggs in the same bowl, mix everything thoroughly, salt. If you really like spices, you can add garlic, oregano, coriander.
Stuff the skin removed from the lower legs with the stuffing, shape the legs by inserting the bone inside. Carefully put the “legs” in an oiled form, grease with sour cream or butter and bake at 170 degrees, if necessary, increase the temperature at the end of cooking to 200 (if the legs are not browned in any way).
Recipe number 5. Chicken drumsticks in the oven in the dough
This recipe for chicken drumsticks in the oven is suitable for a festive dinner, as well as for a family dinner, tasty and unusual.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Sour cream - 150 g
Garlic - 3-4 cloves
Cheese - 100 g
Cooked smoked ham - a few slices by the number of shins
Puff pastry - 1 pack purchased
Cooking method
Marinate the drumsticks in sour cream, into which garlic is squeezed, for a couple of hours.
Make a cut on each leg along, reveal the meat and remove the bone. Fight off the meat slightly, revealing it with a “flat cake”.
Cheese rub. Pour cheese into each flat cake, put a thin slice of ham, then a bone with which the meat and skin are peeled. Wrap the leg so that it looks like a whole. Screw a strip of foil onto the free end of the bone.
Thaw the puff pastry, cut into strips. Screw the strip on the legs. Put the legs on a baking sheet, lightly smeared with butter and bake in the oven first (about 20 minutes) at a temperature of 160 degrees, and then increase the temperature to 180.
Vegetables will be a good side dish for such legs, and if we are talking about a festive dinner, then it makes sense to serve pickled plums or pears to them.
Recipe number 6. Oven spicy chicken drumsticks with capers
This option of cooking chicken drumsticks in the oven also involves getting ready meals, already with a side dish.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Champignons - 500 g
String beans - 400 g
Pickled cucumbers - 4-5 pieces
Capers - 2 tablespoons
Parmesan grated - 3-4 tablespoons
Breadcrumbs - 2-3 tablespoons
Mayonnaise
Baking oil
Cooking method
Rinse the chicken drumsticks and marinate for a couple of hours in a small amount of mayonnaise. You can add lemon juice.
Put the shins in a frying pan with hot oil, fry on all sides, then cover with a lid, reduce the heat and stew until half cooked.
Remove the drumsticks on a plate, and put the string beans in a pan and simmer it. Also remove it on a plate, and put champignon, cut into quarters, in a pan.
Grind pickled cucumbers with a knife, capers, if large, too.
In a pan, fry the breadcrumbs, mix them with mushrooms, beans, cucumber and capers and put everything in a baking dish. Insert the lower leg into the side dish with the bone up.
Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Sprinkle another hot dish with grated Parmesan.
Recipe number 7 Chicken drumsticks in the oven with bacon
A simple but tasty way to cook chicken drumsticks in the oven. Perfect as a snack for beer fans.
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Smoked bacon - 200 g
Hard cheese - 200 g
Any mustard, granular, 4 tablespoons
Mayonnaise - 4 tablespoons
Spicy dried greens to taste
Cooking method
Mix mustard with mayonnaise and pickle chicken drumsticks in this mixture, preferably overnight.
Cut the cheese into cubes, bacon strips.
Remove the drumsticks from the marinade, make a longitudinal incision to the bone and put inside the cheese blocks. Wrap the drumsticks in a strip of bacon and, if necessary, secure the strip with a wooden skewer soaked in water for several hours.
Put the drumsticks on a baking sheet, grease with the remaining marinade, cover with spicy herbs and bake at 160 degrees. If the legs do not redden, increase the temperature to 200 and bake for another 7 minutes.
Recipe number 8. Chicken drumsticks in the oven with cabbage
Ingredients
Chicken drumsticks - 1 kg
Fresh cabbage - 0.5 kg
Sauerkraut - 0.5 kg
Smoked bacon or similar meat with fat - 200 g
Tomatoes - 4-5 pieces
Onion - 1 onion
Tomato paste if necessary - 2-3 spoons
Cooking method
Peel tomatoes and finely chop with a knife. Marinate the shanks in tomatoes.
Chop fresh cabbage, mix it with sauerkraut.
Cut the brisket into small pieces and fry it in a saucepan, dipping the fat.
Remove the pieces of meat, and stew the cabbage on the melted fat until half ready.
Remove the lower legs from the tomato gruel, put on another pan and fry until half cooked.
Put the stewed cabbage into the baking dish, in which the fried bacon and tomato gruel are mixed. If you do not like the cabbage color, stir in 3 tablespoons of tomato paste. Top shin out.
Bake at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
Oven Chicken Drumsticks - Tips and Tricks
- Drumsticks are a great appetizer for beer or vodka. But they are not always combined with wine. Perhaps if you are planning a gala dinner with wine, you should cook something else.
- The drumstick meat is quite juicy in itself, so you should not get carried away with fatty additives. It’s better to give them something sharp.
- In principle, the shins can not be pickled if you do not have the time, but only rubbed with salt, herbs or garlic.
- You can make cuts on the skin and insert pieces of garlic there so that part sticks out. It will turn out funny - like a hedgehog.
- To make it easier to take in the hand shin, the end of the bone can be wrapped with foil in advance.
- If you want to cook the drumsticks in the dough, but you could not buy puff pastry, you can cook the usual dough on sour cream or kefir. To do this, a glass of liquid sour cream or kefir must be mixed with egg and flour to make a soft dough, which can wrap the leg. In such a "bag" of dough, sometimes even pieces of cheese, ham, pickled cucumber are put.
