Chicken and apples are a well-known combination.
With fruit, the bird turns out to be especially tender, aromatic and unusually tasty.
A huge number of cooking options.
Roast a chicken with apples in the oven?
Oven Chicken with Apples - General Cooking Principles
When choosing chicken carcass for cooking in the oven, we pay attention to the integrity of the skin. After all, it is she who will become the face of the dish and will delight the eyes with an appetizing look. Well, of course, we choose a fresh carcass without extraneous odors and traces of spoilage.
Chicken can be baked whole or sliced. Before this, it is customary to rub it with spices or pickle.
What is usually used for this:
• ready-made seasonings for poultry;
• ready-made sauces (soy, mayonnaise, ketchup);
• salt pepper;
• sour cream;
• homemade sauces and marinades;
• vegetable mixes.
If the bird is baked whole, then apples are used to fill the abdomen or are laid next to each other on a baking sheet. In the first case, they need to be cut, sometimes it is necessary to remove the skin. In the second case, they can be decomposed whole, fruits do not need seasonings.
If the chicken is cooked in pieces, then simply mix with pieces of fruit. Sometimes the ingredients are laid out in layers. Often they are supplemented with various vegetables, cheese, dried fruits.
Recipe 1: Whole Apple Chicken with Apples
Whole fried chicken is an honored guest on any table. It looks impressive and elegant. But, it is important to make chicken with apples in the oven also tasty. Will we cook?
Ingredients
• 1 carcass;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 5 green apples;
• salt;
• black pepper;
• 100 grams of sour cream.
Cooking
1. We wash the chicken carcass, pluck the remnants of the feathers and remove all unnecessary. Do not forget to rinse and clean the internal cavity.
2. Squeeze the garlic cloves into sour cream, add salt and pepper and rub the carcass on all sides. We leave to marinate for an hour, the remaining sauce is not going anywhere.
3. Peel the apples, cut into slices.
4. We take out the chicken, rub it again on all sides with sour cream sauce.
5. Put apples inside.
6. We connect the chicken legs and tie them with a thread.
7. We shift the bird into the form and send it to the oven.
8. Poultry baking time depends on the size of the carcass. For a small carcass of 1.5 kg, an hour is enough at 180-190 ° C.
Recipe 2: Chicken with Apples and Potatoes in the Oven
Recipe for chicken with apples in the oven with potatoes. The dish is simple, quick, and you can immediately get a side dish. You can use any parts of the carcass: wings, hips, legs, fillets.
Ingredients
• 0.7 kg of chicken;
• 0.7 kg of potatoes;
• 0.5 kg of apple;
• 2 onions;
• 0.18 kg of cheese;
• 0.12 kg of sour cream;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Cut the chicken in portions, sprinkle with spices and add a spoonful of sour cream, mix and leave to marinate.
2. Onion cut into half rings, potatoes into small slices. We simply rub the cheese, but large.
3. Peel the apples, then cut in the same slices as the potatoes.
4. We collect the dish. To do this, well lubricate the form and spread the chicken.
5. Sprinkle with apple slices.
6. Now comes a layer of onions. You can put it less.
7. Add the remaining sour cream to the potatoes, put the spices, stir with your hands and spread on top of the onion.
8. We send the chicken with apples to the oven, bake for about fifty minutes. We set the temperature to 190-200. If you need to get a juicier dish, then you can bake the first half hour under the foil, and then fry well until crust.
Recipe 3: Honey Chicken with Apples in the Oven
A feature of honey chicken with apples in the oven is a very beautiful, mouth-watering and fried crust. And this is a merit not only of honey.
Ingredients
• 20 grams of mustard;
• 20 grams of honey;
• 30 ml of soy sauce;
• 1 chicken up to 2 kg;
• 3 apples;
• 0.5 tablespoons of lemon peel;
• salt and pepper;
• 1 tablespoon of oil;
• 2 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Chop the garlic, mix with mustard and honey, add soy sauce, pepper to them, put a pinch of salt and rub the sauce thoroughly. Add a spoonful of oil.
2. Rub the washed and dried carcass with the resulting sauce, you can treat the breast under the skin, carefully separating it with your hand.
3. Let the bird lie down for half an hour.
4. In the meantime, prepare the apples. We clean, cut into four parts, cut out the middle with seeds. Add the chopped zest to them and mix.
5. We get the bird. Again, rub well with your hands to better distribute the spices.
6. Fill the abdomen with apples with lemon zest.
7. We take a needle with a thread, we sew.
8. We shift the bird to a greased form and set to bake.
9. Every 15 minutes you need to get it and water it with the juice that stands out. Only about four times. The bird will be ready in 70-80 minutes.
Recipe 4: Oven Chicken with Apples and Prunes in the Sleeve
A method of cooking a very fragrant chicken with apples in the oven. You need prune without a stone. If it is too hard and too dry, then you can pre-soak it in water. Otherwise, the fruit will draw moisture from the chicken.
Ingredients
• 1 chicken per 1.5 kg;
• 1 tsp seasonings for chicken;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 100 ml sour cream;
• 4 apples;
• 0.18 kg of prunes;
• some oil.
Cooking
1. Stir the chicken seasoning with sour cream, add a little salt and crushed garlic.
2. Wash the carcass, rub it with the resulting mixture, transfer to a deep bowl or pan, cover and draw for two hours.
3. Prune cut in half. Cut apples into slices. Can not clean.
4. We get the chicken and stuff it with fruit.
5. Sew the abdomen with thread or just connect the lower legs and tie it together.
6. Open the sleeve, insert the bird. If there is sour cream sauce, then grease the breast again.
7. Tie the edges of the sleeve, pierce the film on top in two places with a needle.
8. Put in the oven and bake for forty minutes.
9. Take out, cut the sleeve. We take a spoon and water the bird with the allocated juice. We put on another 15 minutes.
10. We get out and water again. Fry until a beautiful crust.
Recipe 5: Chicken with Apples in the Foreigner Oven
Recipe for a fragrant chicken with apples in the oven. You will also need juicy oranges for cooking. The dish is prepared in pieces, it is better to use the hips or lower legs, you can chop just a chicken leg and make it from mixed parts. Preparing a dish in the sleeve.
Ingredients
• 3 sour apples;
• 1 kg of chicken;
• 1 large orange or 2 small;
• salt and pepper;
• some oil.
Cooking
1. Rub the washed chicken pieces with salt, pepper and sprinkle with vegetable oil. We shift to the open sleeve.
2. Rinse the apples, cut the slices and lay on top of the chicken.
3. Wash the orange, cut into half rings together with the skin, discard the bones.
4. Put the orange slices on top of the apples.
5. Tie the edges of the sleeve.
6. Put in the oven and bake for about forty minutes. Temperature 190 ° C.
Recipe 6: Chicken with Apples in the Oven Rolls
The recipe for the original apple rolls made from chicken. The dish is very delicate and aromatic. Each roll is designed for one serving.
Ingredients
• 2 large chicken breast fillets;
• 1 apple;
• 80 ml sour cream;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 0.5 tsp seasonings for chicken;
• a little dill.
Cooking
1. Wash the fillet and cut each in half. Cover with cling film or just a piece of cellophane. We beat off with a kitchen hammer. Sprinkle with spices, chopped dill and leave for a while.
2. Peel the apple from the skin, cut into small cubes or rub with large chips. Mix with chopped garlic.
3. Take a piece of fillet in spices, put the apple filling and form a roll. Using a toothpick, fix the free tip.
4. Put the roulettes in the form.
5. Mix sour cream with a pinch of salt or again use seasoning for chicken, usually it already has salt.
6. Fill the rolls and send to the oven. Bake for about 30 minutes at 200 degrees. If desired, at the end you can sprinkle with grated cheese and fry until crusted.
Recipe 7: Chicken with Apples and Buckwheat in the Oven
To stuff such chicken, you will need already cooked buckwheat porridge, boiled in water. Similarly, you can use pearl barley, rice, lentils.
Ingredients
• 1.5 cups of buckwheat porridge;
• 1 chicken;
• 1 onion head;
• 2 apples;
• 3 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
• spices;
• some oil.
Cooking
1. We combine mayonnaise with salt, any seasonings can be used. We rub the chicken carcass and for the time being we leave the filling for the time being.
2. Shred the onion in half rings, fry for a minute in a pan. You can take any oil.
3. Mix the buckwheat with the fried onions, add the sliced apples, add a little salt.
4. Fill the chicken with the resulting minced meat and sew up the abdomen.
5. We shift to the form. Can in the sleeve for cooking in the oven.
6. We bake at 180 for about thirty minutes. Then we add the temperature to 200 and cook the same amount.
Recipe 8: Chicken with Apples and Mushrooms in the Oven
This dish is made from portioned slices. To fill such a chicken with apples in the oven, you need low-fat cream.
Ingredients
• 0.2 kg of champignons;
• 0.7 kg of chicken;
• 0.25 ml cream;
• 2 apples;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 spoon of flour;
• 30 ml of oil;
• seasonings.
Cooking
1. Wash and dry the chicken pieces, rub with spices, chopped garlic and let it rest a little.
2. Heat half the oil in a pan and lightly fry the mushrooms. If the champignons are small, then you can simply cut them in half. We cut large mushrooms into four or more parts.
3. We send the mushrooms to the chicken, pour in the pan the remaining oil and fry the flour. Add cream and warm.
4. Cut the apples into slices, the skin can be left.
5. Mix the mushrooms with chicken and apples by hand, send to the mold.
6. Top with cream sauce and bake until cooked for about 45 minutes.
Chicken with apples in the oven - useful tips and tricks
• If the stuffed belly of a bird is sewn with thread, then large stitches should be sewn. Otherwise, the thread will be difficult to remove, not all small pieces will be noticeable after cutting.
• For the preparation of poultry, it is advisable to use sour or sweet and sour apples. If they are simply sweet, then the dish will not get a piquant taste, for which it is appreciated.
• To make the chicken breast tender and juicy after cooking in the oven, put pieces of butter under the skin. You can use its mixture with garlic, spices, herbs. It will be even tastier.
• To check if the chicken is ready, just make a toothpick puncture in the thickest places. The wand should be easy to enter, and transparent juice should appear from the hole. If the uterine stands out, then the bird needs to be kept in the oven again.
• No matter how beautiful the large chicken looks, it can be easily dried in the oven and the meat will become tasteless. For whole cooking, it is advisable to choose carcasses weighing up to 2.5 kg. If the bird is the largest, it is advisable to marinate in advance.
