Chicken with potatoes in the oven in the foil is a good opportunity to cook meat and side dishes at the same time.
Despite the apparent simplicity, this dish can be served as a main dish on the festive table.
Chicken with potatoes in the oven in the foil - the basic principles of cooking
Chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil is cooked either whole or by slicing the carcass. If you add dried fruits, oranges or apples, you get an original dish that will decorate the festive table. Chicken with potatoes can be varied by preparing a dish with vegetables or mushrooms.
Wash the chicken, wipe it with napkins, pickle or rub it with a mixture of spices and salt. Leave the meat for at least half an hour to marinate it.
Potatoes are peeled, washed and cut into slices or slices.
In the form covered with foil, spread the potatoes, on top of which pieces of chicken are laid, greasing it on top with mayonnaise or sour cream. Cover the dish with a second layer of foil and bake in the oven for about an hour.
If the chicken is baked whole, then the potatoes are seasoned with spices, the remaining ingredients are added to it and mixed. This mixture is laid inside or around the chicken. They wrap everything in foil and put it in the oven.
Recipe 1. Chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil
Ingredients
two halves of chicken breast;
paprika, thyme and salt;
large potatoes - three pcs.;
butter - 50 g.
Cooking method
1. Peel potatoes, wash tubers under the tap and cut into thin plates.
2. Cut the foil into rectangles. On each piece of foil put evenly sliced potatoes. Season them with spices and salt.
3. Wash the chicken breast, soak it with a napkin and cut into slices along the fibers. Put chicken slices on the potatoes and season with salt and season again.
4. Wrap the edges of the foil to the center and fasten them for tightness. Put envelopes on a baking sheet.
5. Put the baking sheet for 35 minutes in the oven, previously preheated to 220 C. Then open the envelopes and put in the oven for another ten minutes so that the chicken is browned. Wrap the edges of the foil inward and serve without removing it from the foil.
Recipe 2. Chicken with potatoes and cheese in the oven in foil
Ingredients
four chicken thighs;
50 ml of sunflower oil;
four onions;
freshly ground pepper and salt;
four cloves of garlic;
two pinches of ground coriander;
eight potatoes;
100 g of Dutch cheese.
Cooking method
1. Wash and dry the chicken thighs with a napkin. Mix sunflower oil with salt, coriander and black pepper. Lubricate each thigh with spiced oil and put the meat on a plate. Send the chicken for an hour in the refrigerator so that it is properly marinated.
2. Peel onions and potatoes, wash and chop not too thick circles. Chopped peeled garlic cloves with straws. Rub the cheese into small chips.
3. Take a piece of foil. Put a layer of onion rings in the middle, lay potato slices on top of it. Salt and sprinkle with a finely chopped clove of garlic. Crush everything abundantly with grated cheese.
4. Join the edges of the foil in the center so that it does not touch the cheese. There should be four such bags. Put them on a baking sheet.
5. Bake chicken and potatoes in the oven in foil for an hour. The temperature of the oven should be 200 C. Ten minutes before being ready to open the foil so that the cheese becomes golden brown. Serve directly in foil, laying the bags on separate plates.
Recipe 3. Chicken with potatoes and prunes in the oven in foil
Ingredients
chicken leg;
ground black pepper;
a bunch of parsley;
four potatoes;
salt;
bulb;
walnuts - 50 g;
large tomato;
clove of garlic;
300 g of prunes.
Cooking method
1. Rinse under the tap and dry the chicken leg with a napkin. Peel and chop a clove of garlic with a garlic squeezer. Crushed garlic mix with salt and grate the ham with this mixture. Leave it to marinate for half an hour.
2. Peel, wash and dry the potatoes. Cut it into thin slices. Cover the form with foil and lay on it an even layer of potato slices.
3. Chop the peeled onion rings and lay them on top of the potatoes.
4. Chop the leg into small pieces and lay the meat on top of the onion.
5. Pour prunes with warm boiled water, after a quarter of an hour drain the water and dry the dried fruit. Cut prunes into small pieces. Grind nuts with a rolling pin.
6. Sprinkle the dish with nuts and chopped prunes. Spread tomato slices on top and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. Salt and pepper.
7. Wrap everything in foil and send the form to the oven preheated to 200 C for forty minutes. Then twist the temperature to 180 C and continue to simmer for the same amount of time. Put the finished chicken with potatoes in the oven in the foil on a dish and decorate with green onions.
Recipe 4. Spicy chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil
Ingredients
one and a half kilogram chicken carcass;
dried herbs;
vegetable oil - 150 ml;
freshly ground black pepper;
flour - 65 g;
butter - 100 g;
young potatoes - kg;
bulb;
a small pod of chili;
spicy tomato sauce - 100 ml;
iodized salt.
Cooking method
1. Thoroughly peel the young potato tubers from their peels and rinse them under the tap. We spread it on a napkin so that they dry out.
2. My chicken, dry with a towel and chop in large pieces. In a bowl, mix the flour with salt. Bone pieces of chicken in the resulting mixture and transfer them to a deep bowl. Cover it with foil and put in the refrigerator.
3. We clean the onion from the husk and chop the thin half rings. We heat vegetable oil in a pan, add a piece of butter to it and wait for it to melt.
4. We clean the seeds from the chili pepper and crumble it in small pieces. Put it in a pan, fry for three minutes, then add the onion. Salt, slightly pepper and fry, periodically mixing, until the onions are transparent. Pour tomato sauce to it and simmer for another five minutes.
5. From foil we make a kind of bowl, put chicken in it, put potatoes cut in bars on top and pour everything over with hot tomato sauce. Wrap the foil and fasten the edges.
6. We remove the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 180 ° C. Bake chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil for about an hour. We shift the finished dish to a large dish, pour with hot sauce and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Recipe 5. Oven in chicken with potatoes, broccoli and mushrooms in the oven
Ingredients
five chicken legs;
5 g of spices for chicken;
four tubers of new potatoes;
half a liter of cream;
400 g of frozen broccoli;
200 g of Dutch cheese;
a pound of champignons.
Cooking method
1. Peel the mushrooms, wash them, dry and cut into four parts. Heat the oil in a pan, put mushrooms in it and fry until golden brown. Transfer the fried mushrooms to a plate.
2. Wash the legs, dampen with a towel, remove the skin and separate the meat from the bones. Transfer the chicken to a pan where the mushrooms are fried, salt, season with chicken spices and pepper. Fry, constantly stirring, until half cooked.
3. Cut the peeled potatoes into small cubes. Finely chop the broccoli.
4. Cover the mold with foil and sprinkle it with oil. Lay out all the ingredients in the following order:
- potato;
- hen;
- fried mushrooms;
- broccoli.
Dish with salt, pepper and pour cream all over. Sprinkle with finely grated cheese, cover with foil and fasten the edges. Put the mold in the oven for half an hour. Then remove the top layer of foil and leave in the oven for another ten minutes, so that the cheese becomes golden brown.
Recipe 6. Oven in chicken with potatoes, lemon and rosemary in a foil
Ingredients
two kg chicken carcass;
raw smoked bacon - eight strips;
potatoes - two kg;
freshly ground pepper;
large lemon;
olive oil;
garlic - head;
salt;
a handful of fresh thyme and rosemary.
Cooking method
1. We wash the chicken carcass under the tap and dry it with a towel. Mix salt with freshly ground pepper. Generously rub the chicken carcass with this mixture from the outside and from the inside. Leave the chicken for a few hours.
2. Turn on the oven at 200 C.
3. We put on a stove a large pot of water, salt it and bring to a boil. We put the peeled potatoes in boiling water, here we send a whole lemon and cloves of garlic. Cook for a quarter of an hour. Then we take out the potatoes and let the water drain. We take out the lemon and garlic. We send potatoes to boiling water to keep it hot.
4. We make ten punctures in a hot lemon with a knife. We take out the chicken carcass from the refrigerator, wipe it with a napkin and rub it with olive oil. Inside the chicken we put the garlic cloves, thyme and whole lemon. We place the carcass in the form covered with foil, wrap the chicken in it and send it to the oven for 45 minutes.
5. Then we unfold the foil, transfer the chicken to a plate. Sprinkle the potatoes with rosemary and mix well. We spread it in the form, free the middle and put the chicken in the center. Put slices of bacon on the breast, cover with foil and send to the oven for another half hour. Then we take out the form, remove the top layer of foil and continue to bake until the potato is covered with a golden brown.
5. Remove the bacon from the chicken, finely chop it and put it on the potatoes. Take the garlic and lemon from the carcass. Pass the garlic through a press and rub the chicken with this mixture. Thyme and lemon are thrown away.
Recipe 7. Chicken with potatoes, apples and prunes in the oven in foil
Ingredients
1.5 kg chilled chicken carcass;
150 g sour cream;
250 g of prunes;
spices;
kg of potatoes;
a pound of apples.
Cooking method
1. Wash and dry the chicken carcass with a paper towel. Mix mayonnaise with pepper and salt. The resulting mixture grate the chicken. Put it marinated for two hours in the refrigerator.
2. Peel potatoes and apples and chop them into small pieces. Put in a deep bowl, add the washed prunes, spices and two tablespoons of mayonnaise. Mix.
3. Get the chicken out of the refrigerator and stuff it with a mixture of potatoes, apples and prunes. Put the rest of the mixture on the bottom of the form with high sides, covered with foil. Top with stuffed chicken. Cover with one more sheet of foil and firmly fasten the edges.
4. Put the form in the oven for an hour and a half. Bake at a temperature of 200 C. Then open the chicken with potatoes in the oven in foil and send it to the oven for another quarter hour.
Chicken with potatoes in the oven in the foil - tips and tricks from the chef
When baking whole chicken, chop the potato large enough to bake evenly with meat.
To prevent the dish from getting dry, pour cream before baking.
Be sure to grate the chicken with a mixture of spices and salt. Leave it in this form for several hours so that the meat is properly saturated with the aromas of spices.
Before you finish cooking, unfold the chicken and potatoes so that the dish is browned on top.
