Gone are the days when a whole baked chicken carcass was the main decoration of the festive table. They cooked a chicken on a bottle and stuffed with all kinds of fillings. Everyone could choose a piece to their liking: someone loved white meat, someone liked the legs more, and there was always a fan of sorting out the bones of the wings.

And so, it would seem, what will change if you take the fillet or legs, fold it into a mold, season with spices and bake in the oven instead of doing it with the whole chicken? But many note that with absolutely identical ingredients, the taste whole chicken significantly different, and this taste is richer.

Today I propose to cook one of my favorite recipes from childhood - whole chicken stuffed with apples in the oven.

Ingredients

• chicken carcass 1.5 kg
• Russian mustard 2 tsp
• vegetable oil 3 tbsp. l.
• salt 0.25 tsp
• ground paprika to taste
• a mixture of ground peppers to taste
• 3 cloves garlic
• apples 4 pcs.

How to cook whole chicken with apples in the oven

1. I prepare everything you need. I carefully examine the chicken for the presence of feather residues, wash it outside and especially carefully inside, while removing all internal organs, which often remain even in carcasses bought in a store.
2. 
   Preparing a mixture for pickling. In a small bowl I put mustard, vegetable oil, salt and spices.
3. 
   Add chopped garlic and mix well until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.
4. 
   I rub the chicken generously with this mass.
5. 
   After that, I leave the carcass for 2-3 hours at room temperature, so that it is properly marinated. The ideal option would be to put the grated chicken in a closed container or bag and send it to the refrigerator overnight, and best of all for a whole day. This is exactly the option when the longer, the juicier and more flavorful the meat will turn out.
6. 
   I peel the apples and cut them into quarters, if they are large, then smaller ones can be done. Stuff the chicken tightly.
7. 
   I tie the legs with twine. This will keep them together and the finished chicken will look more attractive.
8. 
   I wrap the tips of the wings and legs with foil, since these parts char very quickly when baked in the oven. Put the remaining apple slices in a mold near the chicken. In this form, I send the carcass to an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 1 hour.
9. 
   At the same time, after 30 minutes, periodically, once every 5-7 minutes, I open the oven and pour the melted fat over the chicken with a spoon, this will ensure the presence of a crispy and ruddy skin.
10. 
    After about an hour, the chicken with apples in the oven will be whole.

You can taste it immediately, and baked apples make a great side dish.

On a note:

• apples are better to use sour varieties, Antonovka is ideal;
• if the chicken carcass is large, it is necessary to proportionally increase the cooking time;
• the composition of the chicken marinade can be chosen to your taste.

There are few people who refuse a fragrant chicken, with a crispy crust, tender pulp baked in the oven. Chicken meat is a universal food product, treats from it are present in the daily menu, as well as on festive table.

General rules for cooking chicken with apples

As practice has shown, no matter what kind of chicken dish you cook, the basic rule is that the meat is fresh and chilled. We have already mentioned that chicken is a universal product that is “friendly” with almost all cereals, vegetables, spices, dairy products and even fruits.

Simple but delicious chicken recipes with apples:

Recipe 1: Roasted whole chicken with apples

Every housewife knows that portioned chicken pieces coated with spices, mayonnaise and baked in the oven is a simple, win-win dish with minimal costs. But very often dietary chicken meat is dry after heat treatment. This recipe for cooking poultry in the oven is an exception to the rule, since the meat is juicy, with a sweetish aftertaste thanks to apples.

For cooking meat dish- baked chicken with apples for 6 persons You will need the following ingredients:

chicken no more than 1 kilogram;

sweet apples (dessert) - 4 pieces;

fresh garlic- 2 teeth;

honey - 2 tablespoons;

lemon zest- 2 tablespoons;

thyme, rosemary - 1/4 teaspoon;

bourbon or whiskey - 2 tablespoons;

salt pepper.

To bake a whole chicken with apples, you need 50-55 minutes of which: 10 minutes. preparatory process, 40-45 min. heat treatment.

Step by step - Cooking a whole chicken with apples.

Preparatory process:

- Filling - 2 sliced ​​apples, chopped garlic, bourbon (whiskey) are mixed. The ingredients are soaked with each other for at least 5 minutes.

- Chicken grating mixture - in one container mix chopped thyme, rosemary, lemon zest, salt, honey and pepper.

- Chilled chicken carcass

- 2 remaining apples are cut into wedges.

- Chilled chicken is rubbed with a spice mixture (outside and inside), fruit filling is put inside. The stuffed bird is laid out in a mold and covered with chopped apples on all sides.

Heat treatment:

Chicken is baked for 30 minutes at 200 degrees. Then the degree in the oven is lowered to 180 degrees, and the poultry is baked until tender. The finished chicken is removed from the oven and wrapped in foil for 10 minutes.

Finished chicken meat is cut into portions and served with baked apples or potatoes. Bon appetit, everyone!

Recipe 2: Chicken stuffed with apples and buckwheat

This treat is not only hearty and tasty, but also saves you time, since the meat dish is prepared simultaneously with the side dish. The zest of stuffed chicken is buckwheat. Buckwheat porridge is obtained not as an everyday meal, but as a festive side dish, since during baking it is soaked in apples, sauce and chicken fat.

To prepare a meat dish with a side dish - chicken, stuffed with apples and buckwheat for 6 persons you will need the following ingredients:

chicken carcass no more than 1 kilogram;

buckwheat porridge(ready-made) - 1/2 cup;

onion head;

sweet and sour apple - 1 piece;

mayonnaise - 2 tablespoons;

tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;

mustard (best of all American, with a sweetish aftertaste) - a teaspoon;

vegetable fat for greasing the baking sheet;

salt pepper.

To cook chicken stuffed with apples and buckwheat in the oven, you need about an hour, of which: 20 min. preparatory process, 40-45 min. heat treatment.

Step by step - cooking chicken stuffed with apples and buckwheat in the oven

Preparatory process:

- Sauce for grating chicken - mix the mustard in one container, tomato paste and mayonnaise.

- Small onion cubes, fried in vegetable fat. The apple without the peel is sliced small cubes... Mix onion, apples and buckwheat in one container.

- Chilled chicken is rubbed with spices and sauce (outside and inside), the porridge filling is put inside.

- Oven heated to 200 degrees.

Heat treatment:

Chicken covered with foil is baked in the oven for 40-45 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. 10 minutes before turning off the oven, the foil is removed.

The chicken is cut and served with buckwheat-fruit garnishes. Bon appetit, everyone!

Recipe 3: Chicken in the sleeve with sweet and sour apples

Surprise your family and cook your favorite chicken in a new "look" - a chicken in your sleeve. The poultry does not have a crispy crust, but do not be upset, because juicy meat cooked in own juice... Another advantage of this cooking method is that the chicken can simmer in its own juice, either whole or in pieces with various vegetables.

To prepare a meat dish in the sleeve - chicken with sweet and sour apples for 6 persons, you will need the following ingredients:

chicken carcass not less than 1 kilogram;

medium onion onion;

garlic - 2 cloves;

sweet and sour apple - 2 pieces;

banana - 0.5 pieces;

sour red wine - 2 tablespoons;

soy sauce - 0.5 tablespoon;

honey - 1 tablespoon;

lemon juice - 1 tablespoon;

salt, pepper, herbs.

It will take you 6 hours 45 minutes to cook chicken with apples in the sleeve. of which: 25min. preparatory process, 5 hours marinating, 80 min. heat treatment.

Step by Step - Cooking Chicken with Apples in the Sleeve

Preparatory process:

- Filling - in one container, mix apple slices, banana slices, thin onion half rings, chopped garlic, sour wine and soy sauce.

- Chilled chicken carcass is rubbed with spices (outside and inside). The fruit filling is placed inside and the holes are sealed with toothpicks. Then the carcass is coated with honey on top, placed in a sleeve, which is tied and pierced from above.

- Sleeve with stuffed bird goes to the refrigerator for 5 hours.

- Oven heated to 190 degrees.

Heat treatment:

A sleeve with chicken is baked for 80 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees. The finished meat is removed from the sleeve, toothpicks are removed. The bird is laid out on a dish, sprayed lemon juice and sprinkled with herbs. Bon appetit, everyone!

Recipe 4: Chicken with apples and potatoes

Tender chicken fillet, potatoes with sweet and sour apple, cheese and half an hour of time and on your table hearty lunch.

To prepare a meat dish - chicken with apples and potatoes for 2 persons, you will need the following ingredients:

chicken fillet - 400 grams;

Apple ( hard grade) - 1 piece;

potatoes - 4 pieces;

hard cheese- 150 grams;

sour cream - 100 grams;

water - 0.5 cups;

salt pepper.

To cook chicken fillet with apples and potatoes in the oven, you need 55 minutes. of which: 25min. preparatory process, 30-35 min. heat treatment.

Step by step - preparing chicken fillet with apples and potatoes.

Preparatory process:

— Chicken fillet cut into small strips and seasoned with spices.

- Potatoes and apple, take the form of thin slices.

- Pour half a glass of water into a baking dish and lay out the ingredients in layers: potatoes, meat, apples, meat, apples. Top layers are poured with sour cream and grated cheese.

- Oven heated to 180 degrees.

Heat treatment:

The meat dish is baked in the oven for 30-35 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Bon appetit, everyone!

Recipe 5: Chicken with prunes and apples

Many women believe that a festive meat dish cannot be prepared with three ingredients (spices and oil do not count) for only 25 minutes. We have destroyed the myth and pretexts for you this simple, and most importantly inexpensive recipe add chickens with prunes and apples to your menu festive dishes.

For cooking meat dishes on hastily- chicken with prunes and apples for 4 persons You will need the following ingredients:

chicken - 600 grams;

prunes - 1/2 cup;

apple - 2 pieces;

butter - 2 tablespoons;

sour cream - a glass;

salt, pepper, herbs.

To cook chickens with fruits in the oven, you need 35 minutes. of which: 10min. preparatory process, 25 min. heat treatment.

Step by step - cooking chicken with prunes and apples in the oven.

Preparatory process:

- Cut the chicken carcass into portions.

- Apples are cut into slices, prunes in half.

- Oven heated to 220 degrees.

Heat treatment:

Chicken meat is seasoned with spices and fried in a saucepan on butter... Then the chicken is transferred to a baking dish where the fruit is placed. The ingredients are poured with sour cream and baked for 15 minutes. Bon appetit, everyone!

Chefs' recommendations on how to choose a quality chicken carcass.

When buying chicken at the supermarket, pay attention to:

- for color and smell, the bird should be pink, shine a little and almost not smell;

- pay attention to the integrity of the chicken, it must be undamaged;

- the weight of a chicken carcass should not exceed 2kg.

Step 1: Prepare the chicken.

Peel and crush the garlic with a press. Mix it with pepper, salt and herbs. You can choose herbs and spices according to your taste or use ready-made mixtures from the store. The approximate composition of the spices: thyme, rosemary, basil, red pepper, cloves, marjoram. Use chilled chicken, wash it thoroughly in cold running water. We cut off all visible fat from it. We rub it inside and out with a spicy mixture, and then generously coat it with mayonnaise or sour cream.

Step 2: Stuff the chicken with apples.

Apples need to be washed and scalded hot water... Cut the apples in half, cut out the core with seeds and cut into large slices. We stuff the belly of the chicken, trying to fit the maximum number of apples into it. We spread the apple pieces from the side of the neck. Now sew up the hole by piercing the skin with a thick darning thread threaded into a large, strong needle. We leave the long ends of the thread so that after it can be easily removed. We also tie the legs with a thread. This is necessary so that it bakes evenly. We leave the chicken on half an hour, so that it is saturated with spices.

Step 3: Bake the chicken with apples.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and put the greased vegetable oil baking sheet with chicken. During baking, periodically water the chicken with melted fat - this will prevent the chicken from drying out, and will also give it a beautiful golden crust. Roasting time depends on the size of the chicken, on average it will take 1.5-2 hours... Per half an hour until tender, put apple slices on a baking sheet with chicken and bake.

Step 4: Serve the baked chicken with apples.

We put the chicken on a dish, take out the threads and decorate with baked apples and flowers cut from tangerines. We cut the chicken right on the table and put it on the plates along with the apples. Bon Appetit!

When sewing the chicken, make large stitches so it will be easier to remove the threads.

Apples are preferable to take sour varieties.

The readiness of the chicken can be checked by piercing it with a toothpick - if it easily enters the meat, and the juice is clear, the chicken is ready.

I propose to cook chicken with apples in the oven. I have already shown you the recipe, baked with apples in the sleeve, and baked with apples. The recipe I'm proposing today is also incredibly good and I'm sure your family will love it. This is the one I use most often. Of course, in this recipe you can use the thighs, as in my version, or the wings, drumsticks or legs. All of these parts will be equally good. Well, now let's cook.

Prepare all products according to the list.

Combine honey, mustard, soy sauce, salt, pepper and chopped garlic in a deep bowl. Stir well.

Wash chicken parts, remove hairs and pat dry. Dip the chicken into the marinade, stir and leave for 1 hour.

Peel the onion and cut into half rings. To warm sunflower oil and fry the onion on it until golden brown.

After a while, put the onion on the bottom of the mold. Cut each apple in half and remove the seeds, then cut each half into 4 pieces. Put some of the apples on the bottom on top of the onions.

Then put the chicken and spread the remaining apples between it. Add another 1 tsp to the remaining marinade. honey and stir. During baking, grease the chicken with the remaining marinade 3 times.

We bake chicken with apples in the oven at 190 degrees for 45-50 minutes, until beautiful golden crust... We check the readiness of the chicken by ordinary pricking with a fork.

Serve the chicken with any side dish, pouring the resulting marinade over it. Also, be sure to add the onions and apples with which the chicken was baked.

Bon Appetit!

Rosy chicken whole baked with apples in the oven always looks very appetizing on the table. I suggest you cook a chicken stuffed with apples and raisins today. We will cook the whole chicken. The chicken recipe, although it seems simple, has several features. It is necessary to highlight several nuances so that the result you will certainly get excellent. To prepare such a dish, you can take any apples, but, in my opinion, yellow or green varieties are most ideal for such a dish.

Cuisine - European
Cooking time - 2.5 hours
Servings - 6

how to cook chicken with apples in the oven recipe

• chicken carcass - 1 pc. (about 1.5-2 kg),
• onion - 1 pc.,
• raisins - 50-70 g,
• apple - 2-3 pcs.,
• salt - 2 tsp,
• dry red adjika,
• ground coriander - to taste,
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons.

For cooking, take a chicken carcass of about two kilograms, apples, raisins, onions, vegetable oil, salt, dry red adjika, vegetable oil.

Rinse the chicken carcass under running water and pat dry with a paper towel. If the skin of the chicken is wet, then when baking, we will not get a crispy and evenly brown crust. Blot well.

Now let's remove the gland on the tail of the chicken. This is a musky gland. Gives an unpleasant aftertaste to meat. It should always be removed. Where is she located? This is a small mound on the tail of a chicken. It can be seen with the naked eye. Remove (cut) it with a sharp knife. Remove any remaining feathers, if any. It is convenient to work with tweezers, but if it is not available, you can handle the chicken with your fingers. Feathers are usually easy to remove.

Place the chicken on the board. Season with salt on all sides. Don't forget about the inside of the chicken. Rub the poultry well with salt. Rub with dry adjika both from the top and from the inside.

Let the meat soak in the spices for 10-15 minutes. In addition to adjika, you can add a little coriander. He gives special taste ideal for meat and chicken. My adjika contains dry garlic. If you just have adjika, rub the chicken carcass with chopped garlic.

While the chicken is marinated in spices, prepare the filling. To do this, cut the apples into wedges. Rinse the raisins under running water.

Fill the belly of the chicken with apples and raisins. Stuff tightly and well. The baked apples are delicious. Don't be sorry.

The filled chicken belly must be secured. Many people prefer to sew up, but I do not see the need for this. Use wooden toothpicks. They ideally allow you to chop meat, hold firmly and are just as perfectly removable from ready meal... Tie the legs with a thread.

Line a baking dish with parchment. Onion cut into half rings and place on foil. Leftovers apple slices that did not fit into the chicken, lay on top of the onion. We do the same with raisins.

Place the prepared carcass on a pillow of onions and apples. In my case, the chicken was sold with its wings clipped. They didn't have to be chopped off. But, there are chicken carcasses on sale that have a full wing. These wings need to be properly prepared. The wing consists of three parts. It is better to wrap the thinnest and outermost part of the wing with a piece of foil. This will prevent the wing from burning when baked. The wings themselves are best pinned with wooden skewers to the chicken carcass. When baked, these wings will not bulge. The chicken will have a beautiful aesthetic appearance.

Preheat oven to 200 degrees. Place the chicken dish in the hot oven. Bake it in the oven for about 2 hours. One hour after starting to bake, remove the chicken dish from the oven. Drizzle with vegetable oil and return to the oven. After every 30 minutes, water the poultry with the meat juice and fat formed during the baking process. Check the readiness of the chicken with a puncture of a knife. If the baked chicken produces clear meat juice when it is pierced, it means that it is ready.

Serve the chicken to the table.

It should be cut and added to each portion apple filling, with which this carcass was baked. Chicken with apples turns out delicious, ruddy. Despite the fact that adjika is quite spicy, chicken meat turns out to be dietary. Not too spicy. Apples and raisins also played a role. They have absorbed excess fat, complemented the taste of meat with a sweet note.

Baked chicken with apples: a recipe with a photo from Varvara Sergeevna.

Recipe number 2 from Ekaterina Apatonova

Hello everyone! Anyuta's notebook inspires to cook - just yesterday I was leafing through the recipe for a rabbit with apples baked in the oven and decided that it was time to use a huge bag with this fruit given to me by my grandmother for drying. I never cooked a rabbit in the oven at all, since I left this meat for the kids for complementary foods, but I spoiled my husband with a duck with apples. I didn't have any duck at the moment, and I decided to bake chicken meat, namely chicken drumsticks and wings with apples in the oven.

Chicken with apple slices in the oven

how to cook drumsticks or wings with apples in the oven recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg chicken drumsticks and wings,
• 5 large apples,
• 2 medium onions
• 2 cloves of garlic
• salt, ground pepper, allspice peas,
• soy sauce,
• sunflower oil,
• food foil.

Cooking process:

First of all, fill our chicken with soy sauce, while we prepare the rest of the products, the meat will soak a little with it.

Now let's prepare the apples: peel them, cut out the seeds and cut them into small pieces like this.

We clean the onions, cut them into arbitrary pieces (I have half rings).

Mix onion with apples, add garlic passed through a press, salt, pepper and mix thoroughly.

Be sure to try salt at this stage, it will be a shame if you get undersalted.

Put the resulting mixture of apples, onions and spices into a baking dish.

And on top - the legs and wings. Sprinkle them with pepper and add quite a bit of salt (after all, the meat was marinated in soy sauce).

We cover everything with foil and send to bake in the oven for 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.

After this time, we remove the foil and give our dish another ten minutes to cook in the oven, so that the chicken with apples acquire a beautiful golden hue.

I always serve this dish with mashed potatoes... Apples can be served with meat, or you can make a very delicious sauce... To do this, transfer the "gravy" to a deep plate.

And grind it well with a blender.

Here is such delicious dinner today we have. Don't forget to garnish with herbs before serving.

Bon Appetit!