Chicken for the New Year is a simple, quick, original and budget treat, for the preparation of which you can use both the whole carcass and its individual parts (drumsticks, thighs, fillets). Any of the dishes listed in the following selection will become a real decoration of the table.
Whole chicken in the oven
Whole poultry cooked in the oven will certainly become a signature dish on the New Year's table. To the surprise of inexperienced housewives, it is prepared quickly and simply, and knowledge of all the intricacies of baking will allow you to get juicy, soft and tender meat with a golden brown crust.
List of ingredients:
- 1.5-2 kg of chicken in one carcass;
- 60 g mayonnaise;
- 7 g salt;
- 3-4 g of black ground, red hot pepper and paprika;
- rosemary to taste.
How to cook chicken in the oven:
- Wash the chicken carcass thoroughly in running cool water, and then dry it with paper towels inside and out.
- Combine mayonnaise with salt and spices. This mixture is also generously spread on the outside and inside of the chicken. You can put one or two sprigs of rosemary inside the gutted bird for scent.
- Put the prepared carcass in a baking dish, which is covered with foil on top. Send the meat to the oven preheated to 180-200 degrees.
- Bake for 60 minutes, then remove the foil and keep for another 30-40 minutes until tender and golden brown. When, when piercing, clear juice flows out, the bird is ready to "fly away" to the New Year's table.
In this dish, spices play the main role, the relish and aroma of meat will depend on them. You can select and combine them, focusing on your preferences. Also, the taste will be enriched by a lemon placed inside, cut into 6-8 parts, or a sweet and sour apple in the form of medium-sized slices.
Poultry stuffed with rice and dried fruits (in the oven)
You will definitely have to prepare a side dish for a whole baked bird, but if you chop the carcass with rice, then in 1-1.5 hours you can get hot chicken and a side dish for it. There is nothing difficult in preparing such a dish, and the list of necessary ingredients will be as follows:
- 1 chicken carcass;
- 150 g of rice groats;
- 50 g dried apricots;
- 50 g of light raisins;
- 1 orange;
- 4 sprigs of thyme;
- 40 g butter;
- 40 g of honey;
- salt, pepper and other spices to taste.
Priority of actions:
- First, you should prepare the filling. For her, boil the rice until half cooked for 20 minutes. Then fold in a colander and rinse with hot water.
- Cut dried apricots into small slices. Rinse the raisins. Peel the orange, disassemble into slices, from which to remove the films. ¾ cut the citrus into cubes and let the juice survive the rest. Carefully remove the leaves from the thyme sprigs.
- Mix together rice, dried fruit, orange and spicy herbs. Wash and dry the chicken carcass, and then fill with prepared minced meat. Chop the abdomen with toothpicks, and tie the legs.
- Mix melted butter with honey and orange juice. Add salt and spices to this mixture and use a cooking brush to spread the resulting sauce over the chicken.
- Bake the bird for about an hour - an hour and a half, periodically opening the oven and pouring juices over the carcass.
Before serving, the finished stuffed poultry is cut along the sternum with kitchen scissors, after removing toothpicks and threads. Then spread the rice, and cut the carcass into portions.
Royally baked chicken for New Year 2022
This dish has not only a spectacular presentation, but also a whole bunch of different flavors. Of course, you will have to tinker with the preparation, but the result is worth it. For chicken stuffed with pancakes you will need:
- 1 bird weighing 2 kg;
- 11-12 pcs. spring rolls;
- 150 g cheese filling.
To knead the dough for pancakes, you need to prepare:
- 160 ml of milk;
- 160 ml boiling water;
- 2 eggs;
- 5 g sugar;
- 2.5 g salt;
- 2.5 g baking powder;
- 20 ml of vegetable oil;
- 200 g flour.
As a filling for pancakes you need to take:
- 400 g minced chicken;
- 300 g champignons;
- 70 g of onions.
For the cheese filling:
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- 1 large chicken egg.
On top, the chicken is coated with a sauce made from:
- 40 g sour cream;
- 20 g ketchup;
- 10 g horseradish.
Recipe step by step:
- For pancakes, shake eggs with salt, sugar and baking powder. Pour milk into them and add flour, stir until smooth and pour in boiling water. Pour in vegetable oil last. Bake 11-14 thin pancakes from the resulting dough.
- Carefully remove the skin from the chicken, cutting off the legs and wings with it, so that the finished dish looks more like a whole chicken. Then cut the carcass and twist the fillet into minced meat.
- Fry onions and mushrooms in a frying pan, cool and mix with the minced meat recipe. Spread the filling over the pancakes and roll them up.
- Mix finely grated cheese with egg. Next, lay the pancakes in layers inside the removed skin, smearing each row with cheese filling.
- Chop off the belly and throat of the formed carcass with toothpicks, tie the legs and wings together. Transfer the chicken to a baking dish, brush with sour cream, ketchup and horseradish sauce. Cook in the oven for 40-45 minutes at 180 degrees.
Shins in dough for New Year's table
Chicken recipes for the New Year do not always involve the use of a whole carcass; just drumsticks are also suitable for a tasty and original dish. They can be cooked deliciously in puff pastry with pineapple and prunes.
List of ingredients:
- 12 chicken drumsticks;
- 500 g ready-made puff pastry;
- 400 g of canned pineapples;
- 100 g of prunes;
- 100 g of walnuts;
- 40 g sour cream;
- 20 g mustard;
- 15 g garlic;
- salt, black pepper.
Progress:
- Combine sour cream, mustard, garlic pressed through a press, spices and salt. Leave the washed and dried drumsticks in this marinade for 30-40 minutes.
- Send the marinated meat to the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, grind the nuts in a blender into crumbs, cut pineapples and prunes into small slices.
- Defrost the puff pastry, roll thinly into a layer on a floured surface, from which then cut 12 circles.
- Put some nuts, pineapple and prunes in the center of each circle, set the drumsticks on top and collect everything in a bag, which is tied on the leg with culinary thread. Send the drumsticks to the oven under the same temperature conditions until the dough is ready.
Instead of pineapples and prunes, you can put mushrooms, cheese, potatoes in bags. The drumstick can be not only pre-baked, but also fried, only in this case you need to cook it quickly in a very hot frying pan. It will be juicier this way.
Fillet rolls with mushrooms
Dry fillet can be deliciously prepared in the form of rolls, the filling for which can be very diverse. In the classic version, which is considered the most delicious by most eaters, fried mushrooms are placed inside.
The proportions of ingredients for such a dish:
- 2 large chicken fillets;
- 500 g of mushrooms (champignons, oyster mushrooms or forest);
- 300 g of onions;
- 300 g of hard cheese;
- vegetable oil, salt and spices.
Cooking method:
- In a small amount of oil, fry the onion and mushrooms, chopped into cubes, until tender. Then transfer them to a bowl, let cool to room temperature and mix with fine cheese shavings.
- Dissolve the fillet lengthwise so that it opens like a book. Beat it a little with a hammer, then put the filling on one edge and roll it up. Tie the finished rolls with culinary thread.
- Next, bake in a preheated oven. You can also dip the workpieces in a beaten egg, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in a pan with hot oil.
Chicken Julienne
Although photos of this dish in small forms of cocotte makers or tartlets cause profuse salivation, it is rarely prepared for everyday meals.But the New Year is the perfect occasion to serve a delicious and easy-to-prepare hot poultry dish.
During the cooking process you will need:
- 300 g chicken fillet;
- 150 g of mushrooms;
- 70 g of onions;
- 160 ml Bechamel sauce or cream;
- 50 g of hard cheese;
- butter, ground black pepper and salt.
Sequence:
- Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the onions in it until transparent. Then add the mushrooms chopped into thin slices, and after bringing them to readiness - finely chopped chicken fillet. Simmer everything together for 3-4 minutes.
- Fill the cocotte fillet with mushrooms, pour the sauce (cream) on top and sprinkle with finely grated cheese. Next, send the julienne to the oven, where and bring it to readiness.
The chicken on the New Year's table should be not only tasty, but also beautiful, so before serving, you can decorate its legs with paper papillotes with various cutouts or scallops. It is not difficult to make such a decoration, but the dish already gets a restaurant look.
