Chicken, baked in the oven with potatoes - a simple and tasty dish!

Chicken baked in the oven with potatoes - The food is very high-calorie, but it's so delicious! It is very convenient to get both chicken and garnish right away. The only downside is that you need to worry about preparing a dish in advance. After all, to get the right taste, he should be allowed to brew for several hours.

This dish is common in our country - A chicken baked in the oven with potatoes , it is loved by both adults and children. And the housewives adore him for the simplicity of cooking.

For the simplest version of this food, we need:

- 1 chicken of medium size, it is better to use so-called "domestic" poultry;

- 1 kg of potatoes (it is better to buy tubers of medium or small size);

- 200 ml of high-fat mayonnaise, for example, "Provansal"

- 2 heads of medium sized onions;

- 2 cloves of garlic;

- a few branches of dill and parsley;

- ground black pepper;

- Ground coriander;

- 2 medium bay leaves;

- salt;

- oil for greasing a baking tray;

The hen, baked in the oven with potatoes , is prepared this way:

The bird should be well washed under running water, then dried with paper towels to remove excess moisture (the water will dilute the marinade and give enough to soak up the ingredients of the dish). Then cut into large and comfortable pieces.

Peel potatoes, cut into rings, up to 1 cm thick.

Then make a simple marinade.

Take mayonnaise, pour it into a bowl. Add crushed garlic, black pepper, coriander and fragrant herbs: dill and parsley will fit perfectly. By 5-7 branches of greenery will be enough. They will need to be finely chopped. If not fresh, then use dried versions of these spices. A little salt.

Mix all the ingredients of the sauce.

Put in pieces a large container of chicken and potatoes, add the sauce, mix and leave in the refrigerator for at least two hours, or better - at night.

Peel the onion from the husks, cut into small wheels, divide into rings.

On the oiled form put the onion, then get the potatoes from the marinade and lay out evenly.

Wash the bay leaf, break it into several parts (too small will be uncomfortable to get when eating) and spread out on top of the potatoes.

Gently spread the chicken and pour the remaining sauce.

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Make the fire slow, put the dish for 1.5-2 hours.

When the potatoes become soft, the dish "chicken, baked in the oven with potatoes" Ready.

The chicken in the sleeve, baked in the oven, Is prepared according to the same recipe, only all ingredients are laid in a special bag-sleeve. In this case, the components can be laid out not by layers, but simply mixed: chicken, potatoes, marinade and onions. Both ends are tightened with special fasteners. The sleeve is put on a baking tray and placed in the oven. In this form, the dish is cooked for one hour, then the holes in the top of the bag pierce the sharp toothpick, then the chicken can be browned.

Thus, a chicken baked with potatoes is prepared.