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Leg recipes. Chicken legs: recipe

We will describe the dishes with them later) are a versatile meat product. You can cook absolutely any kind of lunch from it. So, some housewives cook soups from poultry meat, make second courses, use it as ingredients for salads, etc. Today we will tell you how to deliciously fry such a product in a pan, as well as bake it in the oven.

Fried chicken legs: a step-by-step recipe

If you want to quickly make delicious and hearty lunch, then we suggest frying chicken legs in a frying pan. For this we need:

  • chicken legs (thighs with drumsticks) - 3 pcs.;
  • drinking water - a full glass;
  • sunflower oil - 3 large spoons;

Preparation of components

Chicken leg dishes always turn out to be very satisfying and tasty. To make sure of this, we suggest making them yourself.

Before frying the meat ingredient in a pan, it should be thoroughly rinsed and then singed off any hairs on the skin. Further, the hams must be divided into legs and thighs. This will cook the product much faster than as a whole.

As for the onions and carrots, they should be peeled and then chopped and grated accordingly. You must do the same with the cloves of garlic.

Heat treatment in a pan

How should you fry chicken legs? Recipe of this dish requires the use of a cast iron pan. All the legs and thighs should be laid out in it, and then pour in a little water and put on fire.

In the process of such cooking, the liquid should completely evaporate from the dishes, making the meat almost ready. Next, add oil, pepper and salt to the bird, as well as grated carrots and onions. It is necessary to fry all the ingredients until appetizing crust... In this case, the thighs and lower legs should be regularly turned over so that they do not burn.

How should guests be served correctly?

Chicken leg dishes are easy and simple to make. After the meat products and vegetables are fried, they should be seasoned with grated garlic, removed from the stove and kept under the lid for several minutes. Next, a hot chicken drumstick or thigh must be placed on a plate, and put some side dish next to it. It is recommended to serve such a dinner to the table along with herbs, bread and gravy.

Cooking stuffed chicken legs in the oven

If you want to do original dish in the oven, then we suggest using the recipe described below. For it, you need a minimum of ingredients and time.

So, we need:

  • bitter onions - 2 pcs.;
  • garlic cloves - 2 large pieces;
  • whole chicken legs (thighs with drumsticks) - 3 pcs.;
  • large carrots - 1 pc .;
  • fresh mushrooms - about 200 g;
  • honey - 5 g;
  • sunflower oil - 4 large spoons;
  • ground pepper and medium-sized salt - use to taste.

Ingredient processing

Stuffed chicken legs should be cooked using chilled meat product, whose skin will be as intact and pierced as possible. The purchased ingredient must be thoroughly rinsed in cool water, and then seasoned with spices and left aside for several hours. After the specified time has passed, the meat of the hams should be carefully separated from the skin, but not removed. As a result, you should get a kind of bags with pulp and bone inside.

Making the filling

Cooking chicken legs in the oven does not take much time. And before you put them there, you should make a fragrant filling separately. To do this, you need to chop fresh mushrooms and onions, and then grate the carrots. Next, all the ingredients must be placed in a saucepan and fried on sunflower oil with the addition of pepper and salt.

We form products

How should you stuff chicken legs? The recipe for this dish recommends using the simplest and most affordable products. After the filling is well fried in oil, it should be evenly laid out in the space that has formed due to the separation of the skin of the hams from the pulp. If necessary, it can be additionally seasoned with salt.

To mushroom filling did not go beyond the hams during their heat treatment, the skin should be sewn up with ordinary threads or pinned with toothpicks.

We bake in the oven

After filling the chicken leg with the filling, rub its surface with a mixture of honey and crushed garlic. Thanks to this, you will get not only very tasty, but also quite appetizing dish with crispy crust... Next, all products must be placed on a greased baking sheet and sent to the oven. Bake them at 210 degrees, preferably for a whole hour. During this time, the entire thickness of the meat product will be completely cooked, and the skin of the hams will brown beautifully, become very tasty and crispy.

Serving correctly to invited guests

As you can see, cooking delicious chicken legs in the oven is not as long and difficult as it seems from the very beginning. After all the stuffed meat products are baked, they must be carefully removed from the sheet and placed on a flat plate. It is recommended to cover such a dish on top with a thin mayonnaise mesh. It should be served as a full hot lunch. Moreover, the mushroom filling can serve as a side dish. If you want to eat more satisfyingly, then it is better to cook it separately. This is perfect for this mashed potatoes, boiled rice, buckwheat and so on.

Let's summarize

By purchasing chicken legs and placing them in the freezer, you will provide yourself with tasty and satisfying raw materials that you can defrost at any time and use to prepare various dishes. This is due to the fact that such an ingredient is great for making both soups and stir-fries.

If you want to feed your family quickly and tasty, chicken legs dishes are what you need. They are easy to prepare and are liked by almost everyone.

This is the simplest dish that can be made from chicken legs. Any side dish can be served with fried chicken legs.

Ingredients

  • 4 chicken legs
  • Pepper
  • Vegetable oil

Cooking method

    Rinse the legs and dry with a paper towel.

    Rub the legs with salt and pepper and leave to marinate for at least 15 minutes.

    Pour oil into a skillet and place over medium heat.

    When the oil boils, place the chicken legs in a skillet.

    Roast the legs for 10 minutes on each side until golden brown... If the meat starts to burn, reduce heat.

    Pierce the chicken with a fork to check if the chicken is ready. If red juice comes out, the chicken is not ready yet. Ready-made chicken legs have clear juice.

it spicy dish originally from China. Best of all chicken legs in honey-soy marinade are combined with rice.




Ingredients

  • 4 chicken legs
  • 100 ml soy sauce
  • 3 tbsp liquid honey
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • Pepper

Cooking method

    Mix honey with soy sauce, chopped garlic, pepper and salt. Be careful with salt! The soy sauce is quite salty.

    Chicken legs rinse and dry with a paper towel. Pour the prepared marinade over them and leave for at least 2 hours.

    Pour vegetable oil into a baking sheet.

    Place the legs and bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 40 minutes.

    Transfer the oven to the "Grill" mode and brown for another 10 minutes.




Ingredients

  • 6 chicken legs
  • 200 g bread crumbs
  • 100 g cheese
  • 100 g flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
  • Salt pepper

Cooking method

    Grate cheese and mix with breadcrumbs.

    Beat eggs.

    Mix flour in a separate bowl with salt and pepper.

    Rinse and dry the legs.

    Dip each leg in flour, then dip in an egg and roll in breadcrumbs.

    Fry on vegetable oil 5-10 minutes on each side, then cover, reduce heat and bring to readiness for 20-25 minutes.

Rich chicken soup usually very popular with children, even those who do not eat other soups. Instead of noodles, you can put "shells", "stars" and others in the soup pasta and also fig.




Ingredients

  • 2 chicken legs
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 onion
  • 100 g noodles
  • Vegetable oil
  • Salt, spices

Cooking method

    Pour chicken legs with 2 ml of water.

    When the water boils, remove the foam, cover the pan with a lid and reduce the heat. Cook until chicken is tender (about 40 minutes).

    Peel, chop and fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil.

    Remove the finished legs from the broth, separate the meat from the bones.

    Salt the broth, add spices.

    Pour noodles into boiling broth.

    After 10 minutes, add the frying and meat to the soup, boil for another 5 minutes.

This dish does not require complex manipulations; even a novice hostess can cook it.




Ingredients

  • 5 chicken legs
  • Frozen Vegetable Mix Pack
  • 200 g mayonnaise
  • Vegetable oil
  • 1 onion
  • 200 g mayonnaise

Cooking method

    Peel, chop and fry the onion.

    Add chicken legs and a mixture of vegetables to the onion.

    Salt and season with spices.

    Simmer the legs for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

    Add mayonnaise, cover and cook until tender.

Stuffed chicken legs can be served with festive table... You can add to the filling fried mushrooms or prunes.




Ingredients

  • 4 chicken legs
  • 3 tbsp. l. chopped parsley
  • 4 tbsp. l. grated cheese
  • Vegetable oil
  • Seasoning for chicken
  • Mayonnaise

Cooking method

Carefully remove the skin from the legs, being careful not to damage it.




Cut off the bone at the very base, so that the skin remains attached to it.

Free chicken meat from bones, grind in a blender.

Stir the meat with cheese, salt, spices and parsley.

Fill the skin with the mixture.



Brush the legs with mayonnaise.

Pour oil into the mold, put the chicken legs.

Place the legs into the mold, seam side down.

Bake at 200 ° C for 40 minutes.

They always turn out delicious, satisfying, and their preparation takes very little time. You can do almost anything with them: fry, bake, boil, stew - in any form, chicken leg dishes come out nutritious and appetizing. And most importantly, their preparation does not require any special culinary skills.

And due to the fact that chicken is combined with all products, the recipe options with these are amazing tasty pieces there is really a lot of meat. So, if you do not know what to cook from a chicken leg, this article will help you choose the most delicious, light and satisfying dish. Choose the recipe that you like the most, and start the cooking process to the delight of yourself and your loved ones.

Chicken legs with potatoes in the oven

Chicken cooked in this way is unique in that it does not require a separate side dish. It is prepared easily and quickly, it turns out satisfying and tasty.

Ingredients:

  • Four chicken legs.
  • 700 grams of young potatoes.
  • Two heads of onions.
  • One sweet bell pepper.
  • Three cloves of garlic.
  • Two carrots.
  • Vegetable oil.
  • Spices: paprika, pepper, salt, turmeric.
  • Greens.

How to fry chicken legs with potatoes:

  1. Rinse young potatoes thoroughly, dry, cut into slices. You do not need to peel off the fruit.
  2. Cut the peeled onions into half rings, and the carrots into round pieces, squeeze the garlic through a press.
  3. Put all prepared vegetables in one bowl, mix, add spices and a little oil.
  4. Spread vegetables evenly on a baking sheet.
  5. V separate container mix salt, paprika, turmeric, pepper, any other spices, two tablespoons of vegetable oil.
  6. Put the chicken legs in the mixture, coat them well, then place the meat on top of the vegetables.
  7. Sprinkle chopped herbs on top of the ingredients on a baking sheet, put a couple of bay leaves.
  8. Bake the legs at 180 degrees for about an hour.

Serve hot with fresh vegetable salad.

Fried chicken legs

This is perhaps one of the easiest dishes to prepare: with mayonnaise. It can be described in three words: fast, easy, tasty.

Ingredients:

  • Three chicken legs.
  • Salt.
  • Vegetable oil.
  • Garlic.
  • Three tablespoons of mayonnaise.
  • Pepper.

Preparation:

  1. Rinse the legs.
  2. Combine mayonnaise, spices, squeezed garlic and chicken.
  3. Pour some oil onto a baking sheet. Lay out the legs, bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees, then turn over and hold for another 20 minutes.

Can be mashed potatoes, rice, stewed vegetables.

Stew

Still not sure what to cook from a chicken leg? How do you like a dish like stew? The recipe for chicken legs is very simple, but the dish turns out to be hearty and, most importantly, healthy.

Ingredients:

  • Four legs.
  • Three potatoes.
  • One medium eggplant.
  • Bulgarian pepper.
  • Two tomatoes.
  • Two heads of onions.
  • Garlic.
  • Two spoons of adjika.
  • Salt.
  • Sunflower oil.
  • Greens.

Preparation:

  1. Wash and clean all vegetables thoroughly.
  2. Cut the onion into half rings, potatoes, carrots and tomatoes into slices. Chop the pepper into strips, and chop the garlic and herbs in a blender.
  3. Cut the washed eggplants into rings and salt, leave for 10 minutes, then rinse in cold water.
  4. On a baking tray, lay out in layers: onions, bell peppers, carrots, eggplants, potatoes, then four washed legs. Spread the herbs and garlic on top with an even layer.
  5. Pour over all with vegetable oil, add spices.
  6. Bake for about 40 minutes.

How to fry chicken legs in tomato sauce?

The chicken cooked according to this recipe turns out to be especially tender; it can serve as an excellent dish for any side dish.

Ingredients:

  • Four chicken legs.
  • Five tablespoons of tomato sauce.
  • Three tablespoons of sour cream.
  • Garlic.
  • Spices.
  • Vegetable oil.

Preparation:

  1. Wash and dry the legs, cut into smaller pieces.
  2. Heat some vegetable oil in a frying pan, fry the meat until golden brown on both sides.
  3. Place the chicken legs in a saucepan or heavy-walled saucepan.
  4. In a separate container, mix two glasses of water with the rest of the ingredients.
  5. Pour the legs with the resulting sauce, simmer for half an hour.

Legs in sauce are ready, serve hot.

Legs with vegetables and cheese

You will definitely like this recipe for chicken legs: all the ingredients are selected so that the dish turns out to be not just tasty, but deliciously tasty.

Ingredients:

  • Eight legs.
  • 50 grams of hard cheese.
  • Half a cup of soy sauce.
  • Two spoons of mayonnaise.
  • A quarter of a lemon.
  • One small spoonful of honey.
  • The same amount of ready-made mustard.
  • A slice of garlic.
  • Sunflower oil.
  • One carrot.
  • Spices.

Preparation:

  1. Rinse the legs and carefully remove the bones, being careful not to damage the skin, leaving a small shank at the very end.
  2. Put the prepared chicken in a deep bowl and cover with soy sauce mixed with honey, mustard and lemon juice... Add chopped garlic and spices. Mix everything and leave the legs to marinate for two hours.
  3. Peel the carrots, grate and simmer until tender.
  4. Cut the cheese into eight equal pieces.
  5. As soon as the meat is marinated, remove it from the sauce, put cheese and grated carrots in each piece.
  6. Place each leg on a small piece of foil, coat it with mayonnaise, wrap it tightly in foil and place on a baking sheet.
  7. Bake for 30 minutes, then remove the foil and leave for another 10 minutes to brown the meat.

Remove the legs in foil from the oven, unfold, serve with garnish. This chicken is also delicious cold as a snack.

Leg pilaf

Chicken can be cooked not only in the oven or on the stove, but also in a multicooker. You don't need complicated recipes to cook. You just have to lay out all the components and set the timer. And tasty and hearty dish will be ready soon.

Ingredients:

  • Three chicken legs.
  • Two glasses of rice.
  • One onion head.
  • One carrot.
  • Garlic - optional.
  • Half a teaspoon of barberry.
  • Salt.
  • Sunflower oil.
  • Pepper.

Preparation:

  1. Wash the legs, dry, cut into three parts and put in a multicooker bowl.
  2. Onion and cut the carrots into strips, put on top of the meat.
  3. Rinse the rice well and add to the rest of the ingredients.
  4. Pour boiled water enough to cover the cereal by 1 cm.
  5. Add chopped garlic and spices, two tablespoons of oil.
  6. Set the "Pilaf" mode for 60 minutes.

Decorate the finished dish with herbs.

Stewed chicken legs in a slow cooker

The recipes selected in this article are unique in that all the ingredients that make up them are found in almost every kitchen. Here and this one easy way cooking chicken legs on hastily you will surely like it.

Ingredients:

  • Two legs.
  • Two cloves of garlic.
  • Half a glass of mayonnaise.
  • Spices.
  • One apple (unsweetened).
  • Two potato tubers.
  • Vegetable oil.

Preparation:

  1. First, prepare the sauce. Squeeze the garlic into mayonnaise, add all the spices, mix.
  2. Wash and dry the legs, brush with salt.
  3. Pour oil into the multicooker bowl.
  4. Dip the meat in mayonnaise sauce and put in a multicooker pan.
  5. Wash the apples and potatoes and cut into small cubes, add to the chicken.
  6. Cook on the "Simmer" mode for 50 minutes.

Pan-fried chicken legs

And what to cook from a chicken leg in just ten minutes? Of course, ordinary cuts of meat fried in a pan.

Ingredients:

  • Legs.
  • Mayonnaise.
  • Spices.
  • Vegetable oil.

Preparation:

For this recipe, you can take absolutely any spices and seasonings.

  1. Add spices to taste to mayonnaise (one spoonful of mayonnaise for one leg).
  2. Wash the meat, cut into small portions, rub in the mixture.
  3. Heat oil in a skillet.
  4. Put the pieces of poultry, fry until golden, appetizing color, first on one side for 2-3 minutes, then on the other for the same amount.

Spicy chicken legs

This recipe will appeal to fans of something unusual.

Ingredients:

  • Two chicken legs.
  • Two onion heads.
  • One carrot.
  • Two cloves of garlic.
  • Spices.
  • Zest of half a lemon.
  • Salt.
  • Half a glass of dry white wine.
  • Vegetable oil.

Preparation:

  1. Rinse and dry the meat.
  2. Use a knife to pick up the skin, separating it from the meat.
  3. From chopped zest, one head of onion, garlic, as well as a spoonful of oil, spices and salt, make a mixture.
  4. Place the resulting mass on the legs between the skin and the meat.
  5. Grease a baking sheet with oil, lay out the chicken.
  6. Peel the carrots and the second onion and cut into strips, place the vegetables where the legs are.
  7. Bake the chicken for 30 minutes, turning occasionally, then pour in the wine and simmer for another 15 minutes.

Serve the meat with herbs and vegetables.

These are some simple recipes. Now you know what to cook from a chicken leg quickly, satisfying and tasty.

Bon Appetit.

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Chicken semi-finished products have long and reliably solved the problem of many housewives for cooking delicious dinner or lunch. Chicken legs are especially popular in our daily menu. Most often, our lunch or dinner is prepared from them. How to quickly and tasty cook a new dish of chicken legs, how to cook chicken legs see and read on.

How to cook chicken legs?

Recipe Chicken legs in crispy crisps

Ingredients:

  • 4 legs
  • curry seasoning
  • pepper
  • 1 pack. potato chips (natural)
  • 100 g cheese

Cooking method:

  1. Wash the legs and pat dry with a towel.
  2. Beat the egg with salt, pepper and curry.
  3. Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
  4. Pour the chips into a bowl and crumble them into small crumbs with a wooden pestle.
  5. Combine cheese and chips.
  6. Dip the chicken legs in an egg, then roll in breadcrumbs and place in a deep baking sheet.
  7. Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
  8. Place the baking sheet with the legs in the oven and bake until golden crisp. It usually takes 40-50 minutes to cook.

Chicken Leg Recipe with Pineapples

Ingredients:

  • 4 legs
  • vegetable oil (3-4 tbsp. l)
  • ground paprika
  • curry
  • pepper
  • 1 ban. pineapple rings
  • a pinch of dry ginger
  • 150 g sour cream

Cooking method:

  1. Combine vegetable oil with salt, paprika, pepper and ginger.
  2. Wash the legs and coat with oil marinade. Place the legs on a baking sheet and place in hot oven for 40 minutes.
  3. Drain the syrup from the pineapples.
  4. Set aside a few pineapple wheels for garnish.
  5. From the rest of the pineapples, puree with a blender. Add sour cream to the puree.
  6. Season with salt, pepper and curry.
  7. Put the pineapples with wheels on top of the legs and put in the oven for 5-7 minutes. Better to put it under the grill. When baking the legs, I recommend periodically pouring pineapple syrup on them.
  8. Serve the chicken legs on big platter pouring pineapple sauce.

Recipe Chicken legs in white sauce

Ingredients:

  • chicken legs
  • cream
  • pepper
  • parsley or dill
  • vegetable oil

Cooking method:

  1. Wash and chop the legs. Salt, pepper and fry in vegetable oil. Place the chicken on a plate.
  2. Fry flour in oil from frying chicken.
  3. Pour cream and a little boiling water into the flour. Boil the sauce to the desired thickness, stirring constantly so that there are no lumps. Season the sauce with salt and pepper.
  4. Finely chop the greens.
  5. Put the chicken and herbs in the boiling sauce.
  6. Stir the dish, close the lid and remove from heat. Serve with a side dish.

Recipe Stuffed Legs

Ingredients:

  • 4 legs
  • 1 sec. cores walnuts
  • 0.5 tbsp. prunes
  • parsley
  • pepper
  • onion
  • mayonnaise
  • vegetable oil

Cooking method:

  1. Wash the legs, dry them with a towel and use a knife to carefully remove the skin to the end of the bone. Then, also carefully chop off the bone at the place where the skin converges on it. Remove all meat from the bone.
  2. Put meat, nuts, prunes and herbs in a bowl.
  3. Pass the prepared ingredients through a meat grinder and cook the minced meat. Salt and pepper the minced meat.
  4. Dice the onions.
  5. Pour the onion into the minced meat and add mayonnaise.
  6. Knead the minced meat.
  7. Fill the skins with minced meat, giving them the same shape of the legs. Fasten the ends of the skin with toothpicks.
  8. Grease a deep baking dish with oil.
  9. Put in the chicken shape. Season the legs with salt, cover the mold with foil and place in a hot oven.
  10. Bake at 190 degrees for about an hour.
  11. 10-15 minutes before being ready, remove the foil and grease the legs with mayonnaise. Fry until golden brown and serve.

Recipe Legs with rice in beer

Ingredients:

  • 1 tbsp. rice
  • 2 chicken legs
  • 0.5 l of light beer
  • pepper

Cooking method:

  1. Wash the legs and chop finely.
  2. Place the chicken in a deep baking dish or in a large pot.
  3. Cover the tin with foil and place in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Then take out the form.
  4. Season the chicken with salt and pepper and pour over half the beer.
  5. Put the mold back in the oven for another 30 minutes.
  6. Remove the dish from the oven.
  7. Remove the legs along the edges of the form.
  8. Pour dry rice into the middle of the mold.
  9. Pour the rest of the beer into the middle of the rice slide.
  10. Place the dish in the oven and bake the dish for another 30-40 minutes. Oven temperature 180-190 degrees.

Useful and quick meal obtained from the legs with cauliflower in a slow cooker according to the recipe below.

Video recipe "Chicken legs with onions and cauliflower in a slow cooker"

Enjoy cooking and be healthy!

Always yours, Alena Tereshina.