Chicken legs fried in a frying pan

For lunch and dinner with the family or for a festive table! Chicken legs fried in a frying pan in a marinade of honey, vegetable oil and lemon juice are very juicy and tender. Fast, flavorful and budget dish, the most delicious fried legs!
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the recipe composition
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 47 % 15 g
Fats 41 % 13 g
Carbohydrates 13 % 4 g
195 kcal
GI: 20 / 0 / 80

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How delicious is it to fry chicken legs in a frying pan? All the secrets of fragrant juicy chicken in this recipe. First, prepare the necessary ingredients according to the list. If your honey is very candied, pre-melt it. The spice set may be different according to your taste. Ground ginger will help to give the dish a light edge. You can completely replace all these spices with 1-2 tablespoons of the finished mixture for chicken.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash and dry the chicken drumsticks well. According to this recipe, you can cook any part of the chicken, not just the legs.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Put the chicken drumsticks in a bowl. Pour in vegetable oil, lemon juice and liquid honey. Mix everything together. Any vegetable oil will do. I have sunflower oil.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add dry garlic, paprika, oregano, salt and pepper. Mix everything thoroughly. Dry garlic can be replaced with 2 cloves of fresh, passed through the press. But pieces of fresh garlic can burn in a frying pan. Leave the chicken to marinate for 1 hour at room temperature or longer, but in the refrigerator.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Heat the frying pan over medium heat. Lay out the chicken drumsticks. Pour half of the marinade from the bowl over the top. Fry for 5-8 minutes. Then turn over, pour out the remaining marinade and fry the legs for about 15 minutes more. During frying, the shins can be turned over 1-2 more times to get a ruddy crust on all sides. Instead of roasting, you can put the shins in a baking dish, pour marinade and bake in the oven for about 40 minutes at 180 ° C until ready.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Transfer the finished fried drumsticks to a plate, pour the rest of the sauce from the pan, sprinkle with fresh herbs and serve to the table. Bon appetit!

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.

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). 

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

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

  • Honey - 400   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Paprika - 289   kcal/100g
  • Chicken legs - 158   kcal/100g
  • Oregano dry - 306   kcal/100g
  • Garlic powder - 331   kcal/100g

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