The traditions of other peoples are becoming more and more integral to our lives. So, in America, there has long been a tradition for Christmas to bake a turkey for the festive table. In ancient times, the Indians brought a baked bird as a sacrifice to the Gods. Every year more and more families also cook on this day. Holy holiday similar dish.
Our ancestors called the turkey Indian chicken. And in our stores you can find chicken everywhere, but turkey is much less common. Therefore, housewives often make Christmas chicken the main dish of the festive table.
Just like a turkey, this bird is tasty, has tender and dietary meat. Moreover, the most dietary part of chicken and turkey is the breast, so it usually goes to children. Long time I christmas chicken lubricated with oil or before baking. Until one day a friend advised me to bake a bird immediately without prior preparation. The main condition was a sufficiently strong fire in the oven, but not the maximum. The chicken turned out incredibly delicious. Now I am sharing this recipe with you.
Cooking steps:
Ingredients:
Chicken - 1 pc.,
apples (large enough) - 2 pcs.,
salt - to taste,
the black ground pepper- taste,
nutmeg - to taste.
Christmas Eve is not complete without a hot dish and a side dish to go with it. How to bake a Christmas chicken and cook potatoes in foil for a side dish read and see further.
Recipe Christmas Chicken Stuffed with Buckwheat and Baked Potato Garnish
Our festive table for Christmas is not as plentiful as on New Year. But we still do not refuse some dishes. I suggest baking a juicy chicken and a side dish for it in the oven. The chicken will not be ordinary, but festive - Christmas, stuffed with buckwheat porridge and mushrooms.
Recipe Christmas chicken stuffed with buckwheat with mushrooms and potatoes in foil for garnish
Ingredients:
- chicken
- 1 st. l. butter
- ground black pepper
- spices and seasonings to taste
For minced meat:
- 1 st. buckwheat porridge
- 1 jar chopped canned mushrooms
- onion
- butter
For garnish:
- 2 kg small potatoes
- butter
- pepper
- spices
- foil
Cooking method:
1. Defrost chicken, if frozen, wash and dry with napkins.
2. Mix soft butter, seasonings, salt and pepper in a bowl.
3. Rub the chicken with the fragrant oil mixture inside and out.
4. Cut the onion into half rings and fry in butter.
5. Pour liquid from the mushrooms.
6. Connect buckwheat porridge, mushrooms and onions along with the oil in which it was fried.
7. Stuff the chicken with minced buckwheat.
8. Cover the edges of the abdomen and secure with toothpicks or sew with thread. Tie up the chicken legs and place on a wire rack.
9. Bake a 1.5 kg chicken for a little over an hour at a temperature of 170-190 degrees.
10. Determine the readiness of the chicken by the juice flowing out.
11. While the chicken is baking, you need to do the side dish. To do this, wash small even potatoes with a brush, it is not necessary to peel.
12. Cut the potatoes into large circles or quarters. Drizzle melted potatoes butter, season with salt and pepper. A mixture of spicy Mediterranean or Provence herbs is perfect for potatoes.
13. Toss the seasoned potatoes and place on a large sheet of foil. Roll up the foil to make a tight roll. Put a bundle with potatoes in the oven with the chicken. Potatoes are also baked for about an hour. Then carefully cut the top of the foil and let the potatoes brown a little.
14. Put the finished chicken and potatoes in a serving dish.
Garnish the chicken with fresh vegetables, herbs and pickles.
Tired of traditional dishes and you want to cook something unusual, but easy to prepare for Christmas? I recommend cooking Picasso chicken. See video recipe.
video recipe Chicken "Picasso"
Merry Christmas, dear readers! Peace to your home!
Cook with pleasure and be healthy!
Always your Alena Tereshina.
The duck dish has its own unique taste, it will take a little more time to cook the duck. Chicken with apples is no less tasty, it cooks faster, so you choose, what to cook for new year or Christmas.
Chicken in gold with apples Christmas dish recipe
- Cooking time - 1 hour 20 minutes
- Servings 4
- Calorie per serving 520 kcal
The approximate cost of the dish is 160 rubles.
To make chicken with apples, you will need:
- Chicken carcass
- Garlic 2 cloves
- Vegetable oil 20 grams
- Butter 20 grams
- Almond nuts 20 grams
- Apples 300 grams
- Black ground pepper - to taste
Salt - to taste 
This recipe is very easy to make. Even a person who is not very experienced in cooking can easily prepare this dish.
Cooking chicken with apples:
1) The chicken carcass must be gutted. Be sure to wash the chicken, dry it with a towel made of natural fabric and grate with salt, pepper and garlic crushed in a garlic press. 
2) Then grease with vegetable oil and wrap in foil.
Chicken with apples - a dish that is cooked in the oven.
3) Put the chicken prepared in this way in the oven and bake at a temperature of 150 degrees for 25 minutes.
4) After 25 minutes, take out the half-finished chicken, stuff with medium-sized apples cut into 4 parts (if the apples are large, cut them into smaller pieces), cutting out the seeds beforehand.
5) Then wrap the chicken, already with apples, in foil again and bake for another 30 minutes.
6) After thirty minutes, remove the chicken with apples from the oven and brush with butter.
Butter can be pre-melted or smeared with a solid piece of butter - in contact with hot chicken, it will melt on its own. This procedure is necessary to give the finished chicken a brilliant golden color.
7) Put the buttered chicken, now without foil, in the oven and brown for another 5 - 7 minutes, until a golden crust forms.
While the last stage of baking chicken with apples is in progress, chop the almonds and fry for 2-3 minutes. Remove the chicken with apples from the oven, and still hot, sprinkle with nut crumbs. The dish is ready - you can serve it on the table!
Recently, the traditions of other peoples are increasingly entering our lives. For example, in America there has long been a tradition of roasting a turkey for Christmas at the festive table. It is connected with the fact that in ancient times, the indigenous people of America, the Indians brought a baked bird as a gift to the gods.
Our ancestors called the turkey Indian chicken. And since it is much easier to find chicken on the shelves of Russian stores than a turkey, its place of honor on holiday table takes more and more christmas chicken.
Chicken, like turkey, has an excellent taste, has tender dietary meat. The most dietary part of both turkey and chicken is the breast, which, most often, goes to children.
In order for the Christmas chicken recipe to turn out well, you need to know some tricks. The chicken will turn out with a beautiful crust if the oven is heated strongly enough, but not to the maximum.
christmas hen
Ingredients:
- Chicken - 1 pc.
- - 2 pcs.
- Ground black pepper
- ground nutmeg
Cooking method christmas chicken:
Rinse the chicken, dry it, rub the carcass inside and out with a mixture of salt, pepper and nutmeg.
Peel apples, cut into slices. Stuff chicken with apple slices.
Lubricate the baking dish with oil, put the prepared stuffed chicken on it. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees, put the chicken mold in it for 1 hour. During the cooking time, the chicken must be watered with the juice formed from it.
Transfer the finished chicken to a dish, decorate with herbs.
Christmas chicken with potatoes and rosemary
Ingredients:
- Chicken - 1 pc.
- Fresh rosemary - 3 pcs.
- Small potatoes - 10 pcs.
- Paprika - 0.25 tsp
- Dry garlic - 0.5 tsp
- Lemon pepper - 0.5 tsp
- Olive oil - 3 tbsp. spoons
Cooking method Christmas chicken with potatoes and rosemary:
Combine the necessary spices, oil and salt in a bowl. Add 2 sprigs of rosemary. Mix everything well. Rinse the chicken, rub with the prepared mixture, tie the legs with a thread. Transfer the chicken to a baking sheet or dish.
Peel potatoes, cut into halves. Add the rest of the spice mix to the potatoes, mix well.
Transfer the potatoes to a baking sheet or dish with the chicken. Remove the form in an oven heated to 200 degrees for 1-1.5 hours.
Transfer the cooked chicken to a platter and serve hot.
Recipe for chicken fillet with prunes
Ingredients:
- Chicken breast - 2 pcs.
- Prunes - 50 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Apple - 1 pc.
- Sour cream - 100 g
- Ground black pepper
- Vegetable oil - 100 ml
- Greens for decoration
Cooking method chicken fillet with prunes:
Sort the prunes, rinse in warm water, cut into strips.
IN chicken fillet using a knife, make longitudinal cuts, stuff the chicken with chopped prunes.
Peel the onion, cut into half rings. Cut the apple in half, remove the core, cut one half into cubes, the other into slices.
Fry the stuffed fillet in vegetable oil before the formation of a beautiful golden brown, add apple cubes, onion half rings. Salt and pepper, add sour cream and leave to stew for 10-15 minutes.
Transfer the finished fillet to a plate, decorate with apple slices and herbs.
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