There are many recipes for the preparation of these products. Each of them in its own way is good and unique, tasty and useful. In the hands of a skilled hostess, potatoes and chicken can turn into a real work of culinary art. But this is in the hands of a skilful hostess, but what about those who have just started on this difficult path of becoming a real hostess? You do not know how to cook a chicken with potatoes in the oven or in a frying pan?
This will help a few tips and a few easy recipes.
Let's start with the simplest. If you simply boil the potatoes and cook mashed potatoes (do not forget to add butter and hot milk), and fry the chicken pieces in a frying pan until tender rustic crust, you can get a very tasty lunch. But if such a dish seems rustic, then there will already have to be reserved for patience. And, not only to the hostess, but also to those for whom, in fact, all this splendor will be prepared! After all, we understand that it is unlikely that anyone will get it all the first time, but despair should not be.
So, if you still decided to make something more original, then go ahead - for the cause! Take a couple of chicken pieces, make an incision in them to make a pocket. Fry separately on a frying pan finely chopped onions, a little carrots and add a handful of chopped walnuts. Fill the filling with your favorite spices, just try not to overdo it. Gently fill the "pockets" stuffing and fasten them with toothpicks. Lightly salt the meat from above. Whisk the egg and roll in it the resulting "pockets", then roll them in flour and put them on a well-heated frying pan. Lightly brown and roast in the oven for 30 minutes. While the chicken is cooking, peel the potatoes and boil them in large pieces. In half an hour dinner is ready!
Have you decided not to stop the experiments? You are welcome! Cook the chicken forcemeat. Pass the chicken meat through the meat grinder, salt, pepper and add the egg, knead well and form small cakes. Finely chop dill or any other greens. The further process will become quite fascinating. Take a minced meatball, put a piece of butter in the middle (about 1 teaspoon), the same amount of melted cheese, a little greens and close the cutlet, forming it in the form of a ball. In a deep frying pan heat the sunflower oil and fry the balls in it. And the oil should completely cover the balls. Once the balls become golden - take them out! Serve with mashed potatoes. This option of cooking chicken with potatoes will not leave anyone indifferent!
You can cook chicken and whole and for this you do not need to spend the whole evening in the kitchen. Prepare the carcass of the chicken, wash it and make sure that there are no remains of feathers on it. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Mix salt and pepper in a 2: 1 ratio, add 3-4 cloves of garlic to the resulting mixture, rubbing it on a shallow grater or letting it through the garlick. Well knead the mixture and add mayonnaise. The resulting mixture generously grease your chicken both outside and inside. Now the main point, such beauty in any case can not be laid on a baking sheet, otherwise the tan, which she is obliged to receive in the oven, will not be uniform and this will break all our grandiose plans. In this case, an ordinary beer bottle will help or, if it is not available, a half-liter can. Fill it with warm water and "sit" on it your chicken. Thanks to the water in the jar, the chicken will remain juicy and well prepared inside, and its vertical position will help to get a uniform ruddy crust. Now you can mark the chicken in the oven for 20 and start cooking potatoes. Well, wash the potatoes with a brush and put in boiling salted water. Cook in a uniform until half ready. Then remove and cut into 2-4 pieces and lay on a baking tray, on which there is a jar / bottle with chicken. By the time on the baking tray must appear the juice, allocated by the chicken in the process of cooking, it must be soaked our potatoes. Send all this to the oven for another 20-30 minutes. When you make sure that the chicken and potatoes are completely ready, get them out of the oven and lay the chicken on a large dish and serve in the frame of ruddy fragrant potatoes. Believe me, the guests will be delighted.
Enjoy your victories in the kitchen and excellent appetite for your loved ones!