Simple and tasty: chicken in the oven with potatoes

Perhaps, in the whole world, there is no such mistress who never baked a chicken. Chicken in the oven with potatoes is a dish for all time. It is prepared very simply, and the taste is simply magical. In addition, it saves a lot of time - the hostess does not have to stand alone at the stove and cook garnish, because the meat will be cooked simultaneously with the potatoes.

There are many recipes for cooking this dish. Consider the most delicious and simple.

It is best not to take a chicken, but a fillet, thighs or drumsticks. Such pieces and baked faster, and serve them more conveniently. Meat is thawed, washed and salted. Each piece is smeared with mayonnaise or sour cream. From above you can sprinkle or cover with your favorite spices - ajika, mustard, hops-suneli, garlic and others. The chicken in the oven with garlic or spices smells wonderful and stimulates appetite. The number of pieces depends only on the number of eaters and the size of the baking tray. It is, however, necessary to provide a place for the garnish on the sheet. Chicken in the oven with potatoes will be juicier if covered with a sheet of foil on top.

Preparing the garnish is the next step. Potatoes can be cut into thin slices, and can be medallions, a thickness of about 0.5 cm. From how you cut the tuber, will depend on the cooking time of the garnish. Sliced potatoes are put in a saucepan, salt, add a tablespoon of mayonnaise and mix everything.

Chicken on a baking sheet put in the oven and bake at a temperature of 200-220 degrees 30-50 minutes. The larger the pieces, the longer it should be in the oven. Half an hour later you can lay out potatoes under the chicken. Readiness of a bird can be checked with a knife, piercing a piece of meat. If the blood oozes - the chicken is not yet ready, and if clear juice flows, then it can be taken out of the oven. It may turn out that meat will be cooked earlier than potatoes. In this case, the chicken is simply taken out of the oven, and the garnish is left to be baked. A few minutes before the potatoes can be sprinkled with grated cheese.

Another version of this dish: chicken in the oven with potatoes and sauce. To make it, you need potatoes, chicken legs, salt, tarragon, pepper and tomatoes. And for sauce: sour cream, olive oil, soy sauce, ginger root and garlic.

The washed and thawed chicken legs are salted, peppered and piled in a container. Above put several tarragon leaves and tomatoes. For marinade mix 2 teaspoons of sour cream and soy sauce and 6 parts of spoonfuls of olive oil. Ginger is cleaned and grinded on a grater. A tablespoon of the rubbed root is added to the sauce. There also shift 4 cloves of garlic, passed through garlic. The sauce is mixed until homogeneous and poured into the chicken. An hour later, the meat is removed from the marinade and transferred to a baking sheet.

Potatoes are cleaned and cut into 4 parts. Stir it with the used marinade and tomatoes. Spread next to the chicken and put everything in the oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.

Chicken in the oven with potatoes and lemon

For this dish you will need one big whole bird. The meat is washed and a little dried. Prepare the sauce: mix mayonnaise, salt, pepper and spices to taste. The carcase is coated on all sides, cuts the skin in 5-6 places and pushes the lobes of lemon under it. Potatoes are cleaned, cut into thick rings and folded into a pan. From above a little grease with vegetable oil. The carcass is sprinkled a little more with lemon juice and laid over the garnish. The pan is placed for an hour in a preheated oven to 200 degrees. To get a chicken in the oven with a crust, 10 minutes before the end of cooking, you can raise the temperature in the oven or turn on the grill. And that the meat with garnish turned juicy and not dry, the baking tray can be covered with heat-resistant foil or foil during baking.