Chicken legs in sour cream in the oven

Fragrant, delicate, rosy, for a holiday and for every day! Chicken legs in sour cream in the oven are prepared from a minimum of ingredients and almost effortlessly. You can always adjust the recipe for yourself by adding new spices and changing the sauce.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 52 % 14 g
Fats 44 % 12 g
Carbohydrates 4 % 1 g
168 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 hours
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make chicken legs in sour cream in the oven? Prepare all the necessary ingredients for this. For baking according to this recipe, you can use any part of the chicken, but I will bake chicken drumsticks.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Chicken legs must be pickled. To do this, put sour cream in a spacious bowl, add salt and spices to taste. I added some curry.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Peel a few cloves of garlic from the husk, rinse and pass through the press. Add the crushed garlic to the bowl with sour cream. Mix all the ingredients together. By the amount of garlic, focus on your taste. For a more flavorful dish, add more garlic.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Put the chicken drumsticks in a bowl with sour cream and mix everything well so that the sour cream evenly covers them from all sides. Leave the legs to marinate for 1 hour.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    For baking, take any heat-resistant mold, the bottom and sides of which are slightly lubricated with vegetable oil. Put the legs in the mold. Smooth the remaining sour cream marinade over the legs. Put the mold in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees for 45-60 minutes. Be guided by your oven.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    The finished chicken drumsticks will brown and become an appetizing golden color. If you pierce the leg with a knife, a light juice should appear. If the juice is pink, then the legs are not baked yet. To prevent them from burning, you can cover the top with foil. Ready-made chicken legs can be supplemented with any side dish. Bon appetit!

Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper). 

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 !

Secrets, life hacks and all the most useful tips read in the article: "Cream and sour cream in cream sauce: what should I do so that they don't curl up?"   

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20% fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Spices dry - 240   kcal/100g
  • Chicken legs - 158   kcal/100g

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