A roasted ruddy chicken is an excellent dish for a festive table and family dinners on weekends.
We'll tell you how to properly bake a chicken in the oven in its entirety, so that it's delicious. Bake can be in shape, in foil or in the sleeve.
Of course, the chicken is better to buy chilled, but not frozen, but options are possible. Petushkov better not bake - they are more suitable for soups and chillies .
Preparation of carcass
Before baking the chicken is better to marinate, then it will turn out juicy and fragrant. Marinades can be very different (for example, just a light beer or on the basis of light table wine, etc.).
Chicken in the oven as a whole
Ingredients:
- chicken (gutted and peeled carcass of medium size without neck) - 1 piece;
For marinade:
- lemon juice;
- a mixture of dry spices;
- mustard - 2 teaspoons;
- fruit brandy or cognac - 30 ml;
- fresh greens (coriander, parsley);
- garlic for lard.
Preparation
Chicken carcass (unfrozen) we wash out from the outside and from the inside, dry with clean napkins.
We will make the basis of the marinade from a mixture of brandy with juice of 1 lemon, add the spices (better than just coarsely ground), the chopped garlic and chopped greens. A little bit and we wait and wait 20 minutes to insist, then strain through a frequent sieve (this is necessary to detain the microparticles of spices and garlic, which can burn under baking).
We add a little salt and mustard to the marinade, mix it.
We pour-smear the carcass with a marinade inside and out. Leave in a bowl for 2-4 hours, periodically turn over.
Before baking we spin the carcass with small pieces of garlic. The remains of marinade are poured into a bowl.
The oven can not be heated in advance.
We spread the chicken into a mold (better thick-walled ceramic), put into the oven and bake at medium temperature. In the course of the process, we pour the marinade 2-4 times.
How much (in time) to bake the chicken in the oven entirely?
Standard chicken weighing 1.2-1.5 kg baked for about 1 hour + 10-30 minutes (depends on the size and design of a particular oven, size, breed and age of the bird).
You can bake a chicken in the oven entirely with potatoes. Choose a form such that potatoes are located below (for us, a medium-sized oblong one will fit, and a serving needs 3-5 pieces). If the potatoes are large - cut each along into 2 or 4 pieces. Grease the baking sheet with fat, lay the potatoes in one layer, on top - the chicken and bake.
You can bake a chicken in the oven entirely in foil, it will turn out very juicy. To do this, the prepared chicken carcass is dried with a napkin and coated with melted butter or chicken fat. We pack in foil twice (for reliability) and bake. To get a ruddy crispy crust in the last 20 minutes of cooking, turn the foil.
We serve whole baked chicken, decorating with branches of fresh greens, with any side dishes or without, with salads from fresh vegetables and fruits, with light table wine, brandy or beer.