How to cook delicious chicken legs in an oven with a potato.

Many, thinking about what would be delicious to cook for dinner, choose a dish of chicken. First, it is inexpensive, and therefore affordable. Secondly, it's getting ready pretty quickly. And thirdly, this meat is low-calorie, so it can be eaten for dinner without risking spoiling the figure (of course, in moderate amounts).

Variants of ready meals with the use of a bird entirely or its various parts are numerous. One of the most accessible and uncomplicated in cooking is chicken legs in the oven with potatoes. Depending on the number of ingredients, they can be fed as a small family, and a serious company of hungry guests.

Of course, there are many other ways to prepare chicken legs with potatoes: in a multivarquet, in a frying pan, in a steamer, in a microwave. But it is baked in the oven on the baking sheet, they are obtained with a crisp, and at the same time everything is fried without excess fat in its own juice.

In order to cook this dish for 4 people, you need 4 legs (or 8 legs), about a kilogram of potatoes, 2 onions, seasoning for chicken (it can be taken ready, or you can make it yourself by taking your favorite spices and salt), 10 -12 pieces of champignons and a little mayonnaise and vegetable oil.

As the chicken is fried fairly quickly, it is desirable to pre-cook the potatoes until half-ready (this can be done directly in the skin, after thoroughly washing the tubers with water). Having collected all the necessary ingredients, you can start cooking. To chicken legs in the oven with potatoes turned out more juicy and delicious, it is advisable to pick them up in advance for several hours. If this is not possible, then they need to be left in the marinade at least for a while, while the potatoes are brewed.

For the marinade, spices and mayonnaise are required. The legs should be properly rubbed with seasoning, cover with mayonnaise and leave in the refrigerator. While potatoes are being brewed, onions are fried onion diced with mushrooms on vegetable oil, a little bit of it is added.

Then, when all the ingredients are prepared, the oven is heated to an average temperature, take a deep baking sheet and begin to lay the food in layers. The first layer is potatoes, peeled and cut into rings. It should be slightly salted, you can sprinkle oregano or other spices. Top spread mushrooms with onions, and then marinated meat. Chicken legs in the oven with potatoes can be roasted both with a crust, and without it. Fans of soft stews should be poured about 100 ml of water or broth. If you need a crust, do not add liquid.

Next, the pan is sent to the oven, covered with foil on top. Chicken legs in the oven with potatoes are cooked for 30-40 minutes, and after 15-20 minutes they should be opened. For flavor from above add crushed garlic (but this is not necessary). You can serve the dish separately (it already includes a side dish), but can be with fresh or salted vegetables and herbs.

Chicken legs in the oven with potatoes, fried in this way, go very tasty, unusually aromatic and look great on the table.