A chicken on a bottle in the oven is the easiest way to cook it. Even the most inexperienced housewife can master such a method of roasting a bird. The main thing is to choose the right marinade so that the meat is not only juicy, but also very tasty and aromatic.

Oven Chicken on a Bottle of Water

For decades, fried bird remains one of the main dishes of a family or a solemn feast. Each housewife has her own secrets of preparing a delicious chicken dish - someone pickles meat, someone bakes for salt, and someone uses an ordinary bottle of water for cooking. In the latter case, the bird is very tasty! The main thing is to take a small carcass.

Ingredients:

  • bird carcass;
  • glass of water;
  • two tablespoons of oil;
  • bay leaf, peppercorns.

Cooking method:

  1. Rub the carcass of the bird with a mixture of peppers with salt and grease with sunflower oil.
  2. Half pour water into the jar, throw peppercorns and bay leaf.
  3. We sit the chicken on a bottle and bake for 45 minutes (temperature 190 ° C).

Cooking with beer

One of the most interesting recipes for cooking poultry involves the use of light beer. If desired, it can be replaced with white wine. The meat is soaked in bread flavor, it turns juicy with a delicious crust.

Chicken should only be baked in a strong container, such as a glass bottle of sweet soda or the same beer.

Ingredients:

  • whole chicken;
  • half a liter of the selected type of alcohol;
  • spices.

Cooking method:

  1. Pour a quarter of the contents from the bottle into a separate bowl, place the chicken on the bottle and put in the oven (temperature 190 ° C);
  2. The remaining drink is mixed with any seasonings and after 25 minutes we water the bird with it. Bake another 25 minutes.

With potato

Many have heard that you can bake whole chicken directly on the bottle, but not everyone knows how to cook it with a side dish - either the side dish will burn, then the meat will not be fried ... We offer a simple recipe for baking chicken with vegetables.

Ingredients:

  • chicken;
  • five potato tubers;
  • three tomatoes;
  • two onions;
  • several cloves of garlic;
  • 280 g of mayonnaise, spices.

Cooking method:

  1. First of all, we rub the bird carcass with salt on all sides.
  2. Mix the mayonnaise with chopped garlic cloves and pickle the chicken in the resulting mixture for four hours.
  3. Cut the tomatoes and potatoes into slices, chop the onion rings.
  4. Take a half-liter bottle and fill it with cold water. We put chicken on it and place the “construction” on the baking sheet.
  5. We spread potato circles around the bird, put onion on top and the last layer - tomatoes. Pour all the sauce in which our chicken was marinated, and bake the dish for 1.5 hours (temperature 180 ° C).

Whole chicken in the oven

Chicken baked on a bottle can be called the folk method of its preparation. Such a simple technique allows the carcass to evenly fry and brown on all sides.

Ingredients:

  • bird carcass;
  • salt pepper;
  • mayonnaise, garlic.

When processing chicken, it is very important to remove the upper part of the tail, since the iron located there gives the finished dish bitterness and an unpleasant smell.

Cooking method:

  1. We rub the bird with a mixture of salt, pepper and other seasonings, then pickle it in mayonnaise and garlic sauce.
  2. Pour a little salt into a bottle of water, shake and plant a bird on it.
  3. So that the wings during the baking process are not burnt, they should be covered with foil.
  4. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C and bake the chicken first half an hour, and then another 1.5 hours, but already at a temperature of 180 ° C.

With italian herbs

When thinking about how to cook chicken on a bottle, remember everyone's respected grilled chicken with a crispy crust and juicy meat inside. It can be done at home, and Italian herbs will be a good choice to improve the aroma.

Ingredients:

  • whole bird carcass;
  • a mixture of peppers;
  • two tablespoons of Italian herbs;
  • mint, salt to taste.

Cooking method:

  1. Rub the carcass of the bird with oil, Italian herbs mixed with salt and a mixture of peppers. Leave for an hour.
  2. We fill the bottle half with water, put mint leaves in it. You can also pour some water into the pan so that the fat does not smoke and does not burn.
  3. We put a spicy carcass on a filled container and bake for about an hour (temperature 200 ° C).

In a honey mustard marinade

The chicken on the bottle really turns out to be very juicy, and the taste of the dish largely depends on what seasonings are used in the recipe.

Many housewives pickle meat in mayonnaise, sour cream sauce, but we offer spicy mustard and honey marinade.

Ingredients:

  • chicken;
  • half a glass of mayonnaise;
  • three cloves of garlic;
  • 1 tsp mustard;
  • a spoon of honey.

Cooking method:

  1. Sprinkle the poultry carcass with salt, pepper and rub it with chopped garlic slices.
  2. Put mustard and honey in mayonnaise, mix.
  3. We put the bird on the bottle, coat it with marinade and let it stand for about half an hour. Only then we send the carcass to the oven for an hour (temperature 200 ° C).

In sour cream sauce

Before sending the chicken to the oven for baking, the meat must be properly marinated. For this, you can use any sauce and spices, but the most delicious is the sour cream marinade. You can pour plain water into the bottle, but if you have a bottle of beer at hand, then it is better to use such a drink - this way the meat is saturated with a special, bread flavor.

Ingredients:

  • a small chicken carcass;
  • a bottle of beer (0.5 l);
  • five spoons of sour cream;
  • three cloves of garlic.

Cooking method:

  1. In the sour cream we put chopped garlic, salt, and, if desired, other spices. Marinate the chicken in the sauce for an hour.
  2. We pour beer into the bottle and plant the pickled bird on it.
  3. Bake a spicy and creamy carcass for about an hour at a temperature of 180 ° C.

Before baking, chicken can also be smeared with a sauce of lemon juice, oil and ginger - the meat will turn out to be islandy, with a bright aftertaste. Also, chicken is excellent with basil, oregano, paprika and tarragon.

For spicy crisp, you can mix honey, citrus juice, chili and cinnamon. When baking, the top of the carcass burns quite rarely, but if this happens, reduce the heat of the oven or cover the most vulnerable spots with foil.

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