Chicken with garlic in the oven with a golden crust and lavrushka

Bay leaves give the chicken a very strong spicy flavor. If you need to bake a chicken quickly and deliciously, but there is no stuffing at hand, then ordinary bay leaves that are in every housewife's locker can help. To do this, you need only the leaves themselves, garlic, salt, pepper and olive oil.

Maria

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Chicken with garlic in the oven with a golden crust

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Chicken (1.5-1.6 kg)

Bay leaf

Garlic

Olive oil

Ground black pepper

to taste

Salt

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 44 % 17 g

Fats 54 % 21 g

Carbohydrates 3 % 1 g

259 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 20 min

Step 1:
How to make chicken with garlic in the oven with a golden crust? Prepare the ingredients. To cook chicken baked with bay leaf, we will need: chicken weighing 1.4-1.7 kg, bay leaves, garlic, ground black pepper and salt.
Step 2:
Wash the chicken, dry it.
Step 3:
Rub the bird with salt and ground pepper inside and out.
Step 4:
Peel the garlic. Put all the garlic and 2-3 bay leaves inside the carcass.
Step 5:
With a sharp thin knife, separate the skin from the meat on the breast and evenly distribute the remaining bay leaves under it.
Step 6:
Brush the chicken with olive oil and put it in a baking dish or skewer. Personally, I had a lot of liquid and fat released from the chicken when baking, so it's good that I decided to bake it in a deep form, and not on a spit, as I first planned.
Step 7:
Bake the bird for about 1 hour at 180 °C until golden brown. Ready-made chicken can be served with any side dish, for example, with boiled potatoes, rice. Bon appetit!

Garlic is an indispensable and constant companion of many poultry and meat dishes. Chicken baked in the oven with garlic in combination with bay leaf turns out fragrant and spicy.

Several times I met the opinion that bay leaf does not go well with poultry dishes. However, it seems to me somewhat far-fetched. And my proposed recipe for chicken with garlic and bay leaf confirms this. Moreover, the recipe itself is taken from a professional French culinary publication, and the French know a lot about the compatibility of products. By the way, there are also many similar recipes in our Russian-speaking network.

As for other combinations, laurel leaves are perfectly combined with spices such as rosemary, cloves, coriander, pepper, thyme and sage. Bay leaf also goes well with meat, vegetable, mushroom and fish dishes. It is perfect for potato dishes, gives an amazing taste to various marinades and canned food.

Bay leaf for this dish is better to use not very old, then the flavor will be brighter and richer. But not too young leaves, as they can be bitter.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Chicken can be replaced with turkey or any other type of meat at your request. But keep in mind that in this case, the cooking time and calorie content of the dish will change.