Legs - the most tender and fleshy part of the chicken. They are simple and quick to cook, always tasty and affordable. From the legs you can cook a variety of dishes, but the easiest way to bake in the oven.
Oven-baked chicken legs - general cooking principles
For baking, it is better to use not very large legs with a small amount of fat. The legs are well washed with cold water, dried peel, then pickled or just sprinkled with spices and sent to the oven. If there are feathers, bloody smudges and various mechanical damages on the surface, then all this must be removed.
How to cook chicken legs:
• with cheese;
• with various sauces;
• with vegetables or mushrooms;
• with fresh and dried fruits;
• with a test;
• with cereals.
For cooking, a wide variety of spices are used. You can just take the ready-made chicken seasoning and sprinkle the prepared slices. So that the spices are evenly distributed over the product, you can mix them with sour cream, mayonnaise, any sauce and just grate pieces from all sides.
To bake chicken legs in the oven, you can use the usual form or pan. A good helper is a sleeve that allows you to forget about the dish in the near future and not worry that it will burn or dry. And, of course, do not forget about the foil, which will also guard the juiciness and taste of chicken legs.
Recipe 1: Oven-Baked Chicken Legs
A simple recipe for chicken legs baked in the oven with a crust. The legs require marinating and therefore should be soaked in advance. In addition to a delicious crust, the dish will delight with dense meat, which in taste and appearance resembles ham.
Ingredients
• 6 legs;
• 80 grams of sour cream;
• 1 spoon seasoning for chicken or meat;
• 1 tsp vinegar
• salt.
Cooking
1. Rinse the chicken legs, remove extraneous films, feather residues from the skin. Dry with paper towels.
2. Mix the seasoning for chicken (you can take any mixture for meat) with salt, sprinkle the prepared legs on all sides.
3. Add a spoonful of vinegar to the sour cream, mix and coat the legs.
4. Transfer to a container, close and put in the refrigerator for 10 hours.
5. Lubricate the form in which we plan to cook, spread the chicken legs with the skin up, pour the fill from the container.
6. Sent to the oven. Legs will be prepared from 40 to 60 minutes, depending on size. Temperature 180-190 ° C.
Recipe 2: Oven-roasted chicken legs in garlic mayonnaise
The option of cooking peerless legs baked in the oven with mayonnaise. The recipe is universal and the sauce also goes well with wings, drumsticks and even chicken breast.
Ingredients
• 4 legs;
• 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise!
• 1 spoon of paprika;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Legs need to be washed and cut each into 2 parts on a joint.
2. Grind the garlic, mix with mayonnaise and ground paprika, salt the sauce. It is paprika that will give the dish a beautiful color.
3. Coat prepared pieces, leave for 2 hours, covered with a lid. You can’t clean the refrigerator, they won’t have time to divide.
4. Put in the form, bake until rosy color for about 40 minutes.
Recipe 3: Chicken legs baked in the oven in the sleeve "Juicy"
Roasting in the sleeve prevents the chicken legs from boiling too much and losing weight. The pieces remain juicy, turn out tender. But if you need to make a golden brown crust, then at the end of the preparation of the legs, baked in the oven in the sleeve, you can cut the film and let the chicken fry.
Ingredients
• 4 legs;
• 1 spoon of mustard;
• 3 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• 1 teaspoon chicken seasoning.
Cooking
1. Mix seasoning with mustard and soy sauce. Fans of spicy can add pepper or mustard. Soy sauce and chicken seasoning are usually salted, so salt can be omitted.
2. The legs need to be washed, wiped with a towel. Can be used whole or cut into pieces. It does not matter, only the cooking time will change.
3. Coat the chicken with a prepared mixture of mustard.
4. Put it in a sleeve, tie it at the ends, make a puncture with a needle or a toothpick on top and send it to the oven for 40-50 minutes.
Recipe 4: Oven-roasted chicken legs with crust and cheese
A variant of delicious chicken legs baked in the oven with a crust and stuffed with cheese. It is better to choose small legs for this dish in order to put portionwise in a plate. You can use any cheese. It turns out deliciously even with processed cheeses such as "Friendship", "Orbit". The number of products is arbitrary.
Ingredients
• legs;
• cheese;
• seasoning for chicken;
• parsley;
• sour cream or mayonnaise;
• garlic.
Cooking
1. Immediately prepare the sauce. It needs a little, only to anoint the legs. For the sauce, mix the crushed garlic with mayonnaise or sour cream, put the chicken seasoning, if necessary, add salt and pepper. Mix.
2. Three large cheese. One leg will need from 30 to 60 grams. If you like cream cheese - put more.
3. Add chopped parsley to the cheese, mix.
4. We well wash the legs, remove the defects.
5. Under the skin of the chicken leg, make a hole. You can use a spoon. It is not necessary to move away the skin, we only separate it from the meat.
6. We start the resulting pocket with cheese.
7. Lubricate the pan and lay the prepared legs.
8. Grease previously prepared sauce and in the oven! Bake until golden brown on the surface, but not more than an hour, so as not to dry the chicken.
Recipe 5: Oven-Baked Chicken Legs with Potato Foil
Dishes in foil turn out to be very tasty, juicy, and also it does not allow food to cool quickly. To prepare the legs, baked in the oven with potatoes, take an arbitrary amount of food.
Ingredients
• legs;
• bow;
• potatoes;
• spices;
• mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices. Add chopped onion. Put in a bowl, salt, sprinkle with spices, put a little mayonnaise and mix.
2. Wash the legs, each cut into 4-5 pieces, sprinkle with spices and grease with mayonnaise. To taste in mayonnaise, you can add a little mustard, adjika, soy sauce or just pepper.
3. We spread the foil on the table without tearing it from the roll. We spread the potatoes with onions, chicken legs on top, cover with foil, tighten the edges firmly.
4. Put in the oven and forget about the potatoes with legs for an hour. This dish can simply be laid out in a greased form and covered with a piece of foil. This method is useful if there is little foil left and not enough to completely wrap the products.
Recipe 6: Oven-Baked Chicken Legs in Vegetables Mayonnaise
To prepare the legs, baked in the oven with mayonnaise, you will need fresh vegetables: eggplant, tomatoes, onions.
Ingredients
• 3 legs;
• 2 eggplants;
• 4 tomatoes;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 onions;
• 200 grams of mayonnaise;
• butter;
• spices;
• 150 grams of cheese.
Cooking
1. Chop the legs into pieces, sprinkle with spices, put a spoonful of mayonnaise and leave to marinate.
2. We cut eggplants in large circles of 0.5 cm thick. If the vegetables are bitter, then pre-soak in salt water, then squeeze.
3. Fry the eggplant on both sides in a pan, only to a crust. It is not necessary to bring to readiness.
4. Onion cut into half rings, tomatoes in circles.
5. Mayonnaise mix with garlic cloves, pre-chopped.
6. At the bottom of the mold we lay a layer of eggplant.
7. Sprinkle with onion rings on top.
8. Put the circles of tomatoes. Lubricate everything with mayonnaise sauce.
9. Put the chicken legs and send to the oven for half an hour.
10. We get it, sprinkle with grated cheese and again send it to fry for 20 minutes.
Recipe 7: Oven-Baked Chicken Legs with Potatoes and Mushrooms
For the preparation of these legs, baked in the oven with potatoes, you can take any fresh mushrooms. But if not champignons are used, then it is better to boil them in boiling water for about 20 minutes.
Ingredients
• 400 grams of mushrooms;
• 700 grams of ham;
• 700 grams of potatoes;
• 2 onions;
• 250 grams of sour cream;
• butter;
• dried dill;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Turn on the oven 180 degrees.
2. Potatoes need to be peeled, cut into medium-sized slices.
3. We chop the onion arbitrarily.
4. Cut the mushrooms into slices, fry for 2-3 minutes in a pan with oil. You can skip this step, but it makes the dish more aromatic.
5. Ruby legs into pieces of arbitrary size.
6. Mix the mushrooms with onions, potatoes and chicken legs. Sprinkle with spices, dried dill. Pour with sour cream, mix well again.
7. Put everything in a greased form, level the layer, cover with a piece of foil on top and send to the oven for 40 minutes.
8. We take out, remove the foil, mix with a spoon and set the mold for another 15-20 minutes to fry the dish.
Recipe 8: Oven-roasted chicken legs in a sleeve with rice
This dish immediately combines both chicken and side dish, it can be called a kind of pilaf. A convenient way to cook, helps reduce the time and amount of dirty dishes. For such chicken legs, baked in the oven in the sleeve, it is better to use long rice. With it it turns out more beautiful and tastier.
Ingredients
• 700 grams of ham;
• 2 onions;
• 400 grams of rice;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• spices, seasoning for cooking pilaf.
Cooking
1. Rice washed with ice water 4-5 times. We spread it in the sleeve, distribute it in a uniform layer. For convenience, one edge can be tied immediately.
2. Shred the carrots with straws, put on top of the rice.
3. Peel the onion, cut into half rings, sprinkle a layer of carrots.
4. Sprinkle on top all seasoning for pilaf, salt and pepper. Instead of a ready-made mixture of spices, you can just take a little curry, paprika and other spices.
5. Chop the legs in pieces.
6. We clean the garlic, cut each clove into 4 parts and put it under the skin of the chicken legs. Top the pieces with spices, grease with mayonnaise and lay on a rice pillow.
7. Carefully raise the free edge of the sleeve, trying not to damage the layers, pour 3 cups of water, tie the end.
8. We make a small cut on the sleeve to let the steam out and send it to bake for 50 minutes. At the end, you can cut the sleeve and fry the chicken pieces for another 15 minutes.
Recipe 9: Chicken legs baked in the oven under a fur coat
A delicious recipe for chicken legs under a juicy, fragrant coat of tomato and cheese. Preparing a dish is simple, always successful.
Ingredients
• 5 legs;
• 3-4 tomatoes;
• 300 grams of cheese;
• 200 grams of sour cream;
• any spices;
• 3 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Cut the chicken legs washed and dried with a towel into identical pieces, season with spices, put half the sour cream and 2 chopped garlic cloves. Leave the chicken legs to marinate while doing a fur coat.
2. Rinse the tomatoes, cut into circles.
3. We rub the cheese coarsely.
4. The remaining sour cream is mixed with the last clove of garlic, which also needs to be chopped. Salt, pepper.
5. Ham once again mix and put on the bottom of the form.
6. Top with three 2/3 of the cheese.
7. We spread the tomatoes, grease with sour cream sauce.
8. Sprinkle with the remaining cheese and send the form into the oven. We cook at 180 degrees 40 minutes. But we focus on the capabilities of our stove.
Recipe 10: Hot Baked Chicken Legs
For the preparation of hot legs, you will need real Georgian or Abkhaz adjika, as well as a little tomato sauce or ketchup. The dish is very fragrant, bright, suitable for any side dishes, you can serve just with fresh vegetables.
Ingredients
• 1.5 kg of ham;
• 1 spoon adjika;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tablespoons of ketchup or tomato sauce;
• 0.5 tablespoons of mustard;
• 0.5 tablespoons of chicken spices.
Cooking
1. Grind the garlic, mix with spices for chicken.
2. Add mustard, adjika and tomato ketchup, grind the mass well so that all the ingredients are evenly distributed.
3. Add 100 grams of water to the hot sauce, salt and mix. Instead of salt, you can add soy sauce, it will turn out even tastier.
4. Wash the legs, dry, if necessary, cut into pieces. But you can use whole legs. Or just cut into 2 pieces each leg.
5. Put the chicken into shape.
6. Pour cooked hot sauce.
7. Send to the oven, bake for 50 minutes. Do not set the temperature high, 180 degrees is enough.
Recipe 11: Oven-Baked Chicken Legs
A festive dish of chicken baked in the oven. Despite the unusual combination of products, it turns out very tasty, juicy, flies off the table first. Pineapples are used canned. But if there is a fresh fruit, then you can take it.
Ingredients
• 6 legs;
• 1 can of pineapples;
• 2 tablespoons of curry;
• 0.5 tablespoons chicken seasoning;
• 80 grams of mayonnaise;
• 180 grams of cheese.
Cooking
1. Stir the curry with chicken seasoning and mayonnaise. Set the sauce aside.
2. Cut the legs into pieces, each into 3-4 parts.
3. We get pineapples from the jar, we express the syrup well. Cut into cubes.
4. Put the chicken on the bottom of the mold. Lubricate with sauce, but leave a spoon for the top.
5. Put the chopped pineapples on top.
6. Three cheese and lay out the finish layer. Level with your hands and grease with the remaining sauce.
7. We send to bake until ready. Hold for about 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
Oven-baked chicken legs - useful tips and tricks
• The cheese on the legs began to burn prematurely? You could sprinkle it later, about 15-20 minutes after the start of cooking. But if this happened, then you need to remove the dish from the oven, grease the surface with a layer of mayonnaise (sour cream, cream) and cook further.
• Ketchup, added to the legs during pickling, will give the crust a brighter color and mouth-watering appearance. Similarly, you can add adjika, tomato paste or sauce.
• Is there too much fat on the legs? It can be removed! Cut, fold in a bag and put in the freezer. Just do not forget about it when cooking minced meat. Also, in chicken fat, you can fry potatoes or make a passer for the first dish, if the oil runs out.
• Do feathers and hairs remain on the skin of the chicken legs? Do not try to pull out of just like that. Spend time ruining the integrity of the skin. Better hold the leg over the burning burner of the stove, then simply remove the burnt feathers. And hemp is easy to remove with tweezers. If the stove is electric, then hold a leg over a burning newspaper.
