You can make a festive even daily family dinner. To do this, you just need, using the universal equipment - multi-cooker, to cook a nourishing, tasty and healthy chicken. The meat of this bird is wonderfully combined with all kinds of side dishes, salads, sauces.
How to cook a delicious chicken in a slow cooker
It is very convenient to use the multicooker in the case of cooking fragrant chicken with the help of the program of delayed start. You can choose the required time to start cooking, marinating an appetizing whole chicken for a longer time, during which it will absorb more of your favorite spices, will become more tender, soft, juicy.
To create such a hearty, wholesome dinner for a family or receiving guests will be needed:
- chicken carcass - 1.3 kg;
- sour cream - 150 ml;
- garlic - 20 g;
- seasoning for chicken, salt - 10 g;
- vegetable oil - 15 ml.
Marinating the whole carcass is very simple and comfortable, so the time for cooking takes only 60 minutes. The calorie content of an aromatic dish is 187 kcal per 100 g of dish.
Peeling garlic from the husk, it should be chopped in a convenient way with the help of a garlic shove or cut finely with a knife. After pouring it to the sour cream along with the seasoning and mix. The skin of the chicken should be checked for possible feather residues, rinsed inside and out.
Oil the slow cooker inside. Chicken wipe with salt and sour cream mixture. Having tied the legs tightly so that it was convenient to turn them over, place the chicken in the bowl of kitchen equipment back down and leave to soak for a convenient time of more than one hour. Cooking can be scheduled at the right time by setting a timer.
The whole chicken should be baked in baking mode for one hour. The temperature is 180 °. After half an hour, to form a beautiful crust on all sides, it is necessary every 10 minutes to turn the carcass on the other side - the right, left, side of the brisket.
The dish can be served immediately after cooking, adding a side dish of stewed vegetables or fresh salad.
How to cook chakhokhbili chicken in a multicooker
Using the slow cooker, you can cook any dish. That is why this equipment is considered versatile, convenient. Even this Georgian dish, which requires cooking chicken without adding oil, additional fat. This dish is called chakhokhbili and is made from chicken. To make an aromatic dish of tender chicken meat will be needed:
- chicken (chicken) - 1 kg;
- garlic - 20 g;
- onions - 4 pcs. (medium);
- tomatoes (in own juice) - 0.8 kg;
- coriander, chilli powder (dry) - 10 g;
- spices (hops-suneli) - 20 g
- salt - 20 g;
- greens (cilantro, basil) - 50 g.
Creating a wonderful dish takes 1 hour, and preparing products will take an additional 20 minutes. Kcal per 100 grams of chakhokhbili will contain 130 units.
Greens should be washed, onion and garlic peel. Chicken carcass to cut, and then cut into portions, not too small. Chop tomatoes in their juice in a blender.
In a slow cooker, set the "frying" mode, place the chicken pieces and fry for 15 minutes after heating, not often stirring with the lid closed. Seven minutes after the start of roasting, pour onion sliced in half-rings, and at the end add chili pepper, hops-suneli, ground coriander, pour in tomatoes.
You should also add finely chopped herbs, chopped garlic and salt.
You can use the function of the "quenching" multicooker for one hour or set the "multi-cook" program for 45 minutes and cook with a temperature of 120 °. Chahohbili better served with a side dish of green lentils, crumbly rice.
What can be cooked from chicken with potatoes in a slow cooker
Chicken with potatoes can be a wonderful option for cooking in a slow cooker. Simultaneously with the garnish soaked in meat juice, a rich, juicy chicken will be cooked. To create a double universal dish in this kitchen equipment you will need:
- chicken carcass (chicken) - 0.8 kg;
- potatoes - 1 kg;
- lean oil - 50 ml;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- a mixture of peppers, seasoning for meat, salt - 1.5 tsp;
- dried basil, cinnamon - 5 g.
To prepare a delicious chicken with a garnish that is great for it will take 80 minutes, and one hundred grams of food will contain 150 calories.
In a deep small container, mix basil and cinnamon, a teaspoon of seasoning, a mixture of peppers and salt with mayonnaise. Washed well from the inside and on top of the chicken smeared on all sides with mayonnaise dressing and leave to soak for ten minutes.
Peel potatoes and cut into large slices, blocks. Inside the slow cooker, oil the bowl, place half the potatoes, sprinkle with the remaining spices, salt and place the chicken in the middle. Put the second part of the potato around the fragrant chicken, close the equipment lid and turn on the baking function for sixty minutes.
When choosing poultry, you will first need to make a solution of salt, hold the chicken in it for 1.5-2 hours, and in the marinade, do not add salt filling.
How to cook rice with chicken (pilaf) in a slow cooker
Despite the fact that many multivarks have plov functions, you can’t cook it by filling all the ingredients and putting this program out. This dish is prepared only after making a zirvaka, so it is worth a little work to get a satisfying, very tasty and beloved dish. To properly cook flavored pilaf with juicy chicken will need:
- chicken (legs, wings) - 0.5 kg;
- steamed rice - 0.27 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- carrot - 100 g;
- seasoning for pilaf, grated ginger, dried barberry - 20 g each;
- sunflower oil - 100 ml;
- water - 0.6 l;
- salt - 10 g;
- whole garlic - 1 head.
The choice of this pilau speaks of an increase in cooking time to two hours, and 100 grams of chicken-flavored rice will contain 150 kcal.
Wash the meat, wipe with a towel, which will absorb excess liquid, cut into slices (portion size). With vegetables, remove the peel, husk. Onions cut into quarters and fry in butter in a slow cooker, setting the function "frying". After acquiring a golden onion, add chicken to it and continue roasting for another 15 minutes.
Next, the meat should be poured half of all taken water and turn on the function of "quenching" for twenty minutes. When this time has elapsed, you need to pour into the bowl the pre-washed rice, chopped carrots, add salt, seasoning and pour the rest, but already hot, water, only now having set the “pilaf” mode.
Ten minutes before the end of cooking in the middle of the pilaf, stick the unpeeled garlic head clean, put the barberry, ginger. To plov soaked with a wonderful aroma, you need in the "heating" mode to leave it for another half an hour.
How to cook buckwheat with chicken in a Redmond multicooker
Depending on the company in the multicooker, mode names may slightly change. To review the detailed stage of cooking buckwheat in Redmond kitchen equipment, you can use a simple recipe for creating a fragrant and healthy side dish with chicken. To cook a wonderful meal for a hearty, hearty breakfast, a quiet family dinner will need:
- chicken (pulp from the leg, breast) - 0.4 kg;
- buckwheat - 200 g;
- water - 0.4 l;
- sunflower oil - 15 ml;
- carrot - 50 g;
- spices, salt to taste.
The process of cooking buckwheat and chicken is very simple, but it takes almost an hour and a half. Calories in 100 grams - 140 kcal.
Chicken meat should be washed, cut into small pieces, and the carrot peeled and cut into bars. The only vegetable dishes need to brown in oil, setting the mode "baking" for ten minutes.
After pouring the meat pieces to the roasted carrots and cook another twenty minutes in this mode, periodically, not often stirring.
Then set the mode "buckwheat", and maybe even "pilaf", "quenching", pour in the washed buckwheat, pour in water and add spices and salt. The signal for the end of preparation can be heard in fifty, sixty minutes. When serving, you can decorate the dish with greens, offering a choice of tomato or sour cream sauce.
Useful tips
Depending on the choice of the manufacturer of the universal kitchen equipment - the multivark, you may notice that the names of the functions and modes are slightly changed. Preparation of any chicken dishes depends only on the preferences of individual housewives.
You can also add your favorite spices, herbs, use the necessary amount of spices and seasonings. It is worth paying attention only to some useful tips:
- The juiciness of the chicken or chicken breast can be increased by placing a piece of butter or ghee under the skin;
- Abundant use of mayonnaise and sour cream will increase the caloric content of the dish, but the chicken crust will be more rosy, beautiful, appetizing;
- With chicken, literally all the spicy herbs, spices and seasonings are combined, so you can experiment as much as you can to create a dish;
- Cereals in the form of a side dish before cooking in a slow cooker should be washed, soaked in water;
- When cooking a side dish of rice, stir the dish only with a wooden spatula or spoon.
Multicooker helps to cope with any task when cooking the first, second dish.
Another recipe for cooking chicken in a slow cooker - in the next video.
