The chicken in the oven is delicious! Try cooking chicken with pumpkin in the oven.
The pulp of pumpkin, saturated with aromas of spices and chicken fat will not leave anyone indifferent.
It turns out an independent dish that does not require any additions.
Having tried this dish at least once, you will cook it again and again.
Chicken with pumpkin in the oven - the basic principles of cooking
For cooking, you can use any part of the chicken or even the whole carcass. The meat is washed and cut into portions. If fillet is used, it is crushed in small pieces. You can bake whole breasts.
The pumpkin is peeled and seeds with fibers are selected. Then the vegetable is cut into arbitrary pieces. In addition to pumpkin, you will need onions and garlic. They are peeled. Chop onion into thin half rings, and garlic into thin slices.
Pieces of chicken are mixed with marinade or spices and left for an hour. You can also pickle vegetables.
Then vegetables are laid out in a greased form, pieces of chicken are laid out on top. Bake for 45 minutes at 180 C.
Before baking, the dish can be poured with cream or sour cream sauce.
The dish can be prepared in ceramic pots.
In addition to pumpkin, potatoes, bell peppers or other vegetables are added to the dish.
Recipe 1. Chicken with pumpkin in the oven with spices
Ingredients
kilogram of chicken;
3 g dried garlic;
kilogram of pumpkin;
40 g parsley;
black pepper;
30 g of garlic;
3 g of allspice;
100 g of sour cream;
10 g of turmeric;
50 ml of drinking water;
3 g dried ginger;
lemon;
5 g of mustard seeds;
20 g of barberry.
Cooking method
1. Peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds with fiber. Cut the flesh into not too small cubes.
2. Wash the lemon, wipe, cut in half and squeeze the juice out of it using a special device.
3. Wash the chicken, dry it with napkins and remove the skin from it. Put the meat in a bowl and add mustard seeds, half barberry, dried garlic, ground black and allspice, ginger and turmeric to it. Mix with your hands so that the spices are evenly distributed over all pieces of meat. Pour lemon juice on top and leave to marinate in the refrigerator for half an hour.
4. Peel the garlic. Put the pumpkin cubes into a deep form, add sour cream to it, season with black pepper and turmeric, pour water and squeeze the garlic through a press. Stir and place in the oven for half an hour. Bake at 180 C.
5. Rinse and chop the parsley. Take out the shape with the pumpkin, lay the pickled chicken with the marinade on top. Sprinkle with half the parsley and mix. Return to the oven for forty minutes. Then cover the mold with foil and leave for another ten minutes.
Recipe 2. Chicken with pumpkin in the oven with apples
Ingredients
three large chicken thighs;
half a glass of purified water;
one and a half kilograms of pumpkin pulp;
salt;
large onion head;
two green apples.
Cooking method
1. Cut the peel from the pumpkin, peel the seeds. Crush the flesh into cubes the size of two centimeters. Fold the pumpkin into a deep baking dish.
2. Peel the apples, cut the seed boxes. Grind the fruit pulp in small cubes. Throw apples on top of pumpkins.
3. Peel the onion, cut in half and chop into thin slices. Spread the onion over the apples.
4. Salt vegetables with fruits, and pour half a glass of purified water.
5. Wash the chicken thighs, dry with a napkin and rub with a mixture of salt and pepper. Put the meat on the fruit and vegetable mixture. Put the mold in the oven for an hour. Bake at 180 degrees.
Recipe 3. Chicken with pumpkin in the oven with potatoes
Ingredients
600 g of chicken drumstick;
salt;
300 g pumpkin;
a mixture of peppers;
two onions;
sweet paprika;
large potato;
curry;
three cloves of garlic;
5 g of sugar;
75 liters of olive oil;
5 g of French mustard;
25 ml of soy sauce.
Cooking method
1. In a deep plate, combine olive oil with spices, soy sauce, mustard and sugar. Mix well.
2. Peel potatoes and pumpkins. Remove the pumpkin seeds. Chop vegetables with whetstones. Grind the peeled onions in half rings. Peel the garlic cloves and squeeze through a garlic squeezer.
3. Put the vegetables in a bowl, add part of the marinade to them and mix.
4. Wash the chicken, soak it with napkins and rub each shin with marinade. Put the meat to the vegetables, mix and leave for at least an hour.
5. After the allotted time, transfer everything to the baking dish. Preheat the oven to 180 C. Place the mold in the oven for 45 minutes. Serve with fresh vegetables or pickles.
Recipe 4. Chicken with pumpkin in the oven with cheese
Ingredients
200 g chicken;
sea salt;
200 g of pumpkin pulp;
hops-suneli;
200 g of Dor Blue cheese;
50 ml olive oil.
Cooking method
1. Wash the chicken fillet, dry it with a paper towel and cut into medium pieces. We spread the meat in a bowl, salt and season the hops-suneli. Mix and leave for 20 minutes.
2. With a sharp knife, peel the peel from the pumpkin, clean the seeds. The pulp is cut into arbitrary pieces. We shift the chopped vegetable into a deep bowl, add a spoonful of pumpkin seeds. Salt, season the hops-suneli, pour a spoonful of olive oil and add finely chopped garlic. Mix and leave to marinate for 20 minutes.
3. Dor Blue cheese is cut into large pieces. Lubricate the deep form with olive oil. We spread the chicken fillet on the bottom, put the pickled pumpkin on top. Sprinkle all with pieces of cheese.
4. Put the mold in the oven preheated to 200 C and bake for forty minutes. Serve hot with pita bread.
Recipe 5. Chicken with pumpkin in the oven with oranges
Ingredients
1.5 kg carcass of broiler;
vegetable oil;
large orange;
salt;
half a small pumpkin;
black pepper.
Cooking method
1. Gut the chicken carcass and wash it well under the tap. Dry with a disposable towel. Season with salt, season with pepper and your favorite spices. Stir and rub this chicken carcass inside and out.
2. Remove the peel with a sharp knife from the pumpkin and remove the seeds. Coarsely chop the flesh. Wash the orange, peel and cut into large slices.
3. Lubricate the deep heat-resistant form with oil and put pumpkin and half oranges in it.
4. Inside the chicken carcass, put half an orange and fasten with a toothpick. Put the chicken on a pumpkin and bake for forty minutes at 180 C. From time to time, water the chicken with water to make the meat juicy.
Recipe 6. Chicken with pumpkin and mushrooms in pots
Ingredients
freshly ground pepper;
300 g chicken;
salt;
600 g of peeled pumpkin;
100 ml of olive oil;
50 g of dried mushrooms;
a glass of purified water;
two onions.
Cooking method
1. Wash dried mushrooms, soak them in cold water for an hour. After the allotted time, throw them in a colander and leave all the water to the glass. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces.
2. Peel the pumpkin and remove the seeds. Crush the vegetable pulp in small cubes.
3. Wash the chicken fillet under the tap, dip in a paper towel and cut it into cubes.
4. Peel, wash, and crush the onions.
5. Boil water in the kettle. Put all the ingredients in a deep bowl and mix. Divide into four parts and arrange in pots, salt, season with pepper and pour in olive oil and hot water. Cover with lids.
6. Put the pots in a cold oven. Turn it on 180 degrees. Stew chicken with pumpkin in the oven for 50 minutes. Serve hot directly in pots.
Recipe 7. Chicken with pumpkin in the oven with cream sauce
Ingredients
300 g chicken fillet;
table salt;
400 g pumpkin;
freshly ground pepper;
400 g pumpkin;
spices;
100 ml cream;
two cloves of garlic;
dill and parsley - a bunch.
Cooking method
1. Wash the chicken fillet under the tap and dry it with napkins. Cut across the fibers into thin slices.
2. Peel the pumpkin, take out the seeds with fibers. Cut the pulp into small pieces.
3. Lubricate the mold with oil. Put sliced chicken on the bottom. Spread the flesh of pumpkin on top.
4. Salt and season the cream with spices. Stir and pour the resulting vegetable and meat dressing. Cover the mold with a sheet of foil and put in the oven. Bake at 180 C for forty minutes. We lay the finished dish on plates and season with garlic and finely chopped greens squeezed through the press.
Chicken with pumpkin in the oven - tips and tricks
- To make the dish tasteful, marinate the vegetables and chicken.
- Adjust the baking time depending on the size of the pieces of chicken.
- To make the meat juicy, periodically pour water over it during baking.
- Muscat pumpkin is best for this dish.
- The dish will turn out juicy if it is cooked in a sauce based on cream or homemade sour cream.
