Appearing as a separate semi-finished product, in our trade chicken legs were very fond of both the housewives and their households.
Relatively inexpensive, tasty, allowing you to compose dozens and dozens of recipes. Chicken meat allows for various cooking options, including very fast ones, combined with most available spices and simple marinades. Chicken drumsticks are also convenient in that nature itself is divided into portions.
One of the favorite foods for children, and adults are not averse to gnawing chicken bone. And if you cook this product in a slow cooker, then the fantasy is limited only by available products.
Chicken drumsticks in a slow cooker - general principles of preparation
To make the dishes from chicken drumsticks delicious, you should choose high-quality fresh meat for cooking. The skin should be light, without hemorrhages and spots of various colors, white fat with a slightly yellowish tint.
When buying chilled chicken meat in a package, pay attention to the presence of excess moisture. Her presence indicates that the product has already been frozen and has been thawed.
The lower legs are washed under running water, removing feather residues and pieces of excess fat from the skin. After that, the meat is laid out on a towel to dry or wiped, removing excess moisture.
Cartilages are removed from the bottom of the bone by chopping with an hatchet or knife. The skin for stuffing is removed by hand to avoid damage.
It is better to rub chicken drumsticks with spices and salt, and not sprinkle on top.
Cooking time depends on the size of the shins available and may vary within small limits.
Chicken drumsticks in the Puff pastry cooker
A few legs, a pound of finished dough, and a little cheese - that’s basically all the main components. Simply? Of course! Quickly? Highly! Yummy? What are you, amazing!
Ingredients:
• Shins - 6 pcs.;
• Mild hard cheese - 300 grams;
• Mayonnaise - 150 grams;
• Half a kilogram of puff pastry;
• Spices - black pepper, white, ground cumin;
• Salt to your taste.
Cooking method:
1. Hard cheese finely rub on a grater.
2. Raise the skin on the prepared legs. Place cheese between the meat and the skin.
3. Lubricate the lower legs with mayonnaise mixed with salt and spices.
4. Wrap the legs in a spiral strip of dough with a width of two fingers.
5. Lubricate the bowl with oil and put the prepared drumsticks into it.
6. Cook in the "Baking" operating mode 3/4 hours.
7. It is recommended to spicy lovers to pre-marinate the legs in a marinade from a mixture of cooked mustard, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and paprika.
Chicken drumsticks in a slow cooker, in a kefir marinade
Why invent complex sauces and marinades? One of the best is simple, low-fat kefir. You don’t even need a pickle, just soak the meat a little longer in kefir and the effect will be the same
Ingredients:
• Kefir - 1 liter;
• Chilled drumsticks - 1 kg;
• salt;
• Seasoning for roasting chicken, or curry.
Cooking method:
1. Loosely lay the shins in the capacity of the multicooker.
2. Sprinkle generously with seasoning for chicken, salt.
3. Pour kefir and leave to pickle. Kefir should cover the legs completely.
4. After three hours, select the “Baking” mode for cooking for 50 minutes.
Chicken drumsticks in a slow cooker with potatoes
The crock-pot is good for its versatility, once invented just for cooking rice, it has become the imagination of our hostesses into a universal food processor. Together with us, try to make a full-fledged chicken roast with potatoes and cheese.
Ingredients:
• Medium-sized potatoes - 10 pieces;
• Two onions;
• Mayonnaise - 250 gr.;
• Shins;
• Hard mild cheese - 200 gr.;
• Fresh greens;
• Mild spices;
• Salt of your choice.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the peeled potatoes as your heart desires: rings, half rings, straws.
2. Onion cut into rings and divide them.
3. Marinate onions, potatoes, drumsticks in mayonnaise, each ingredient in a separate container. Add salt and spices to the meat in the marinade.
4. After 2 hours, put in the bowl layered pickled products:
• Potato
• Ray
• Meat.
5. In the "Baking" mode, cook for 50 minutes. Sprinkle with mixed herbs and grated cheese, cook until the cheese melts.
Armenian-style chicken drumsticks in a slow cooker
Spicy, spicy and low-calorie, so these can turn out dishes in a slow cooker. For example, legs with Armenian color. And do not worry about the smell of garlic, by the end of cooking there will be only a slight aroma and a slightly noticeable aftertaste.
Ingredients:
• Shins - 6-7 pcs.;
• 8 large cloves of garlic;
• 4 medium-sized onions;
• Hot pepper - two pods;
• Ripe tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
• Two pods of bell pepper;
• salt;
• A mixture of herbs;
• Vegetable oil, olive can be.
Cooking method:
1. Prepare the marinade. Mix chopped garlic, finely chopped hot pepper and onion, oil, a mixture of herbs, salt.
2. Put the legs into the container, pour the marinade. Turning them over every twenty minutes, we stand about an hour.
3. We start cooking in the "Extinguishing" mode.
4. After 25 minutes, the rest of the onions, tomatoes and sweet peppers, cut into large rings, spread on top of the legs and continue to cook in the same mode for about half an hour.
Chicken drumsticks in a multicooker with almonds
Well, are we all about the simple, but about the simple? And let's check what our miracle pot is capable of, with the uncomplicated name "crock-pot"! Only a little non-trivial products and such simple and homemade chicken drumsticks turn into a salon-class dish!
Ingredients:
• Chicken legs - 700 gr.;
• Garlic - two heads;
• Onion bulbs;
• Potato - 2 pieces;
• 1 head of garlic;
• Two medium-sized tomatoes;
• Natural butter, or thick homemade sour cream - 100 gr.;
• A tablespoon of flour;
• Almonds - 60 gr.;
• Dry white wine - 80-100 ml .;
• Bouillon cube;
• Milk - 80 gr.;
• Carnation - 3 umbrellas;
• Cinnamon - a pinch;
• Salt to taste;
• Parsley - 3-4 stems.
Cooking method:
1. Roll the drumsticks in a mixture of flour and salt. Fry in a pan with hot oil until golden brown.
2. In the same oil, fry potatoes cut into small pieces.
3. Put the potatoes in the bowl.
4. Tomatoes finely chopped into cubes, chop onion and garlic. Prepared vegetables, along with peeled almonds, lay with potatoes.
5. Salt to taste, add cloves, cinnamon, chopped parsley.
6. Pour the cube, milk, wine diluted in half a glass of boiling water and bring to a boil, setting the "Soup" mode.
7. Then lay out the prepared chicken.
8. Cook in the "Baking" operating mode for about 1/3 hour.
Italian-style chicken drumsticks in a slow cooker
Do they like chicken in Italy? It seems - yes! But, without even asking this question, take seasonings typical of the Mediterranean and prepare aromatic dishes. Your family will surely like it, and if an Italian accidentally comes to visit you, take an interest in his opinion.
Ingredients:
• Chicken legs - kilogram;
• 3 onions;
• Tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
• Neutral to taste white table wine - 150 ml;
• Carrot - 1 little thing;
• salt;
• Olive oil;
• Thyme, rosemary, hand-ground black pepper.
Cooking method:
1. Grate chicken meat with a mixture of salt, rosemary, black pepper, thyme.
2. Fry in the "Frying" mode for 8-9 minutes, put on a plate.
3. Sasser until golden onion, sliced in half rings and carrots chopped in circles.
4. Put the fried drumsticks on top, pour in the wine.
5. Turn on "Extinguishing" for one hour.
6. After 25 minutes add chopped peeled tomatoes, rosemary, thyme.
Chicken drumsticks in the Gift cooker
In the cuisines of many European nations, the ginger flavor is associated with the Christmas holidays, which is why we called our recipe “Gift”. And it doesn’t matter at all whether you will prepare it for the holiday, or decide to please yourself and loved ones just like that, on an ordinary weekday - give everyone a gift, we hope they will appreciate it.
Ingredients:
• Chicken drumsticks - 700 grams;
• One medium-sized lemon;
• Ginger root 5 cm long;
• Garlic - 6 teeth;
• Hot pepper - pod;
• Olive oil;
• Honey - 1/3 cup;
• Cognac - 100 ml.
Cooking method:
1. In a small container, put the chicken meat, grated with chopped garlic.
2. Pour with freshly squeezed lemon juice, mix well and marinate until half an hour.
3. In a bowl, heat the oil, brown the shins on each side.
4. For the sauce, grate the ginger root, chop hot pepper, melt the honey, pour in cognac, a little olive oil and mix everything thoroughly.
5. Slightly warmed up sauce fill in legs, add salt to taste.
6. We cook in the "Baking" operating mode for 40 minutes.
Chicken drumsticks stuffed with mushrooms and vegetables in a slow cooker
The stuffing method is very laborious, but attractive with the delicious results of the resulting dishes. Grab your drumsticks according to our recipe, ask someone to help. Time will not be wasted, especially since the multicooker will cope with its part of the work, as always almost lightning fast.
Ingredients:
• Chicken drumsticks - 5 pieces;
• One large carrot;
• Any fresh mushrooms - 400 grams;
• Two chicken eggs;
• Light bread crumbs - 4 tablespoons;
• Ground pepper;
• Spices for frying chicken, or curry;
• salt;
• Mayonnaise 67%.
Cooking method:
1. Remove skin from each leg, carefully so as not to tear.
2. Cut off part of the bone with the skin attached to it.
3. Cut the meat from the chopped bone, chop it with a knife.
4. Finely chop the onions and mushrooms.
5. Grate the carrots.
6. Mushrooms, carrots, onions spasserovat in oil in the "Frying" mode.
7. Mix sautéed vegetables, mushrooms, breadcrumbs, raw eggs, meat, spices and herbs.
8. Salt at the discretion, and slowly knead thoroughly.
9. Stuff the skin with minced meat, fixing the edges with a toothpick.
10. Lubricate the stuffed drumsticks with mayonnaise, put on the oiled surface of the bowl.
11. Cook for 45 minutes by setting the “Baking” operating mode.
Oriental Stuffed Chicken Drumsticks
In the cuisines of the Arab countries, poultry meat occupies an honorable place, and it would be strange if the cooks from these places were not familiar with such an exquisite cooking method as stuffing. We change the composition of the filling and the table has a fragrant, slightly sweet oriental dish.
Ingredients:
• Chicken legs - a kilogram;
• A mixture of raisins, prunes, dried apricots - 200 grams;
• A glass of boiled rice;
• Spices, salt;
• 67% mayonnaise.
Cooking method:
1. Soak a mixture of dried fruits in warm water for forty minutes.
2. Grind dried apricots and prunes to the size of raisins.
3. Prepare the lower legs for stuffing: remove the skin, separate the meat from the bone and chop with a knife for stuffing.
4. Add minced meat and pepper.
5. Mix boiled rice with dried dried fruits, meat.
6. Stuff the skin with the mixture, forming in the form of the lower leg, pinch with a toothpick or sew up with thread.
7. Lubricate with mayonnaise, put loosely in the capacity of the multicooker. Cook for 45-50 minutes on Baking.
Chicken drumsticks in a slow cooker with pineapples under a cheese cap
Well, if you go even further in our experiments and combine sweet pineapple and salty spicy cheese? Believe me, it will turn out just wonderful! Chicken meat is very friendly to any accompanying flavoring components.
Ingredients:
• Chicken drumsticks - 7 pcs.;
• Canned pineapple canned in syrup - a can of 450-550 grams;
• Two large onions;
• Garlic - 4 cloves;
• Cheese - 250 gr.;
• Mayonnaise - 100 gr.;
• Spices;
• salt;
• Olives for serving.
Cooking method:
1. Place the drumsticks on the oiled surface of the bowl.
2. Salt, season with spices to your taste and choice.
3. Pour pineapple slices evenly over the legs.
4. Grate the cheese thoroughly mixed with mayonnaise, add the grated garlic.
5. Form the onion into thin rings and lay on top of the pineapples.
6. Top with a mass of cheese and garlic, garnish with olives.
7. Cooking time is one hour in the "Baking" mode.
Chicken drumsticks in the multivark "For the male company"
If a men's company is going to talk about business, or about sports. Just to meet friends, or discuss the upcoming outing to the nature - offer a simple and brutal meal to the table - chicken drumsticks stewed and baked with beer.
Ingredients:
• Chicken legs - 8-10 pieces (in terms of multicooker volume);
• Spices;
• salt;
• Dark live beer - a half liter bottle.
Cooking method:
1. Put grated spices with salt and put in a slow cooker.
2. Pour beer.
3. Cooking time fifty minutes on the “Baking”.
Chicken drumsticks in a slow cooker - tricks and tips
- To get a delicious rosy crust, after cooking, you can change the multicooker mode to another, allowing you to get the desired result.
- Adding a small amount of butter to the meat cooked on the Roast will make the legs juicy and give the dish a more delicate creamy taste.
- Many manufacturers pump poultry meat with special jelly, this changes the quality and taste characteristics of the prepared dish. When buying, press the pulp with your finger, if the dent disappears quickly, it is more likely that the product without unnecessary additives.
- Puncture the legs with a knife in several places, you can speed up the pickling process.
- If the sauce in which the shanks were prepared is not thick enough, you need to hold the dish with the lid closed until it has cooled, turning off the multicooker. You can also fry the flour a little in a pan, until light, cool, mix with a small amount of water, pour into the cooked dish 10 minutes before cooking.
