What could be tastier than oven-dried chicken drumstick with potatoes? A tender chicken with a golden crust and a fragrant ruddy side dish can be an decoration for both everyday and festive table. You can diversify this dish by varying the ingredients and cooking methods, there are many step-by-step recipes for this, thanks to which you can easily cook a terrific dinner or lunch.

Oven baked chicken drumstick

The classic recipe, time-tested. In your culinary treasury you must have the most successful and simple recipes, because they will be the basis of all your experiments. This is just the case.

For cooking you will need:

  • 1 kg of potato, 800 g of chicken drumsticks
  • 300 g sour cream
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • spices to taste
  • 1 tsp vegetable oil to lubricate the mold.

How to cook:

  1. Prepare all products: wash and peel the potatoes (pay special attention to the eyes), wash and dry the chicken legs.
  2. Cut the potatoes into large pieces or circles, add salt, pepper, parsley or any of your favorite herbs to taste. Mix with 150 g of sour cream and leave to marinate for half an hour.
  3. Let's have a chicken. Season the dried legs, sprinkle with chopped herbs, such as Provencal, Italian or ground dried bay leaves. Pass the garlic through a press and mix it with the remaining 150 grams of sour cream. Stir the chicken with the marinade and leave for 30 minutes.
  4. Set the oven temperature to 200 degrees, grease the mold with vegetable oil and lay the potatoes.
  5. Distribute the drumsticks over the potato layer, pour over the remaining marinade. Put the mold in the oven for about 1 hour, determine the readiness yourself.
  6. Serve the dish on a plate. Bon Appetit!

Chicken drumstick with potatoes and cheese

 

The cooking process is almost no different from the previous one. All you have to do is sprinkle the dish with three hundred grams of grated hard cheese before baking. You will get a delicious crisp.

With potatoes and vegetables

An interesting way to give the classic dish new shades of taste is to cook it with vegetables. Try it, you will definitely like it!

Ingredients for the recipe:

  • 1 kg of chicken drumsticks
  • 1 kg of potatoes
  • 3 medium carrots
  • 3 onions
  • head of cauliflower or broccoli
  • two cloves of garlic
  • 2 tbsp. l soy sauce
  • 100 g green peas
  • salt, pepper to taste

For the sauce:

  • 1 tbsp. l flour
  • 200 g sour cream
  • 3 eggs
  • 50 g cheese

Stages of preparation:

  1. Wash and dry the chicken. Skip the garlic through a press, mix with soy sauce and leave the drumsticks for an hour in the marinade.
  2. Peel the potatoes and cut into circles, grate the carrots, chop the onion rings, divide the cabbage into inflorescences.
  3. Prepare the sauce: beat eggs with sour cream, add flour, cheese, spices, mix.
  4. Lay out potatoes, onions, carrots, cabbage in layers, lay chicken drumsticks over the pillow of vegetables, sprinkle with peas, pour over the sauce. Bake for 50 minutes at 200 ° C.

Chicken drumsticks with mayonnaise and garlic

A dish whose spicy taste is familiar to many since childhood. We recommend using this basic recipe.

The most common ingredients:

  • 1 kg of potatoes
  • 8 chicken drumsticks
  • 5-6 cloves of garlic
  • 4 tbsp. l mayonnaise
  • spices to taste

Cooking:

  1. Wash and dry the chicken, season it thoroughly, add chopped garlic, coat with mayonnaise and let it marinate for half an hour.
  2. At this time, peel the potatoes, lightly salt and pepper. We spread all the ingredients in a form, put in the oven. 200 degrees for 45 minutes.

Mayonnaise will make the meat tender, and garlic will give a unique flavor.

In kefir sauce

We need the simplest products:

  • 8 chicken legs
  • 1 kg of potatoes
  • 2 cups kefir
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • pepper, salt, herbs to taste.

How to cook:

  1. First, prepare the marinade: just mix yogurt with spices and chopped garlic. Leave the shins in the marinade for an hour, covering the top with a film.
  2. Peel the potato, cut into slices, add salt.
  3. We spread the potatoes and legs in a mold, pour the marinade on top. Bake for about 50 minutes at 200 ° C.

Chicken legs are always juicy according to this recipe, and it is very easy to cook!

Step by step recipe with mushrooms

Mushrooms diversify the classic dish, make it more satisfying. Those that you build yourself are best suited.

You need:

  • 1 kg of chicken drumsticks
  • 500 g of mushrooms
  • 1 kg of potatoes
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tbsp. l mayonnaise
  • 100 g hard cheese
  • seasoning to taste

Steps:

  1. Peel and chop the mushrooms, boil in salted water for 15 minutes, and discard in a colander.
  2. Wash and dry the legs, peel the onion and cut into rings, mix with mayonnaise, add spices and marinate the legs for 40 minutes.
  3. Peel the potatoes and cut into circles, put in a mold, add a third of a glass of water, salt. Top with mushrooms, onions, chicken drumsticks.
  4. Bake for half an hour in an oven preheated to 200 degrees, then remove the form and sprinkle with cheese, again send to cook for 15 minutes. Serve to the table and enjoy the wonderful combination of mushrooms and chicken.

How to cook in foil or sleeve

You can also cook any of the dishes in the oven in the sleeve or in foil. These kitchen appliances greatly simplify the process, and baked chicken drumstick cannot be tasteless, because it is prepared in its own juice.

Everything is very simple: prepare all the products according to any recipe suggested in the article, then put them in a baking bag so that a small hole remains in it. If you use foil, it is better to wrap the dish in two layers so that the juice does not leak. Then bake in the oven as indicated in the recipe.

Let these few cooking methods migrate into your collection of recipes. Try them all, find your favorite and don't be afraid to experiment!

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