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Stuffed chicken legs. Video recipe
Chicken legs are the most affordable type of meat available even to people with low incomes. In addition, chicken legs have a pleasant, delicate taste. Dishes made from them are perfect both for a daily menu and for a festive feast. The legs are boiled, stewed, fried and baked, and if you cut out a small bone, you can prepare such a spicy and original dish like stuffed chicken legs.
Stuffed chicken legs. Recipe
How to cook stuffed chicken legs
To cook chicken legs stuffed with cheese, you will need: – 2-3 chicken legs; – 1 bell pepper; – 150 g of hard cheese; – 1 egg; – salt and pepper.
Chicken legs must be washed, dried and removed from the bones. To do this, cut the meat around the bone from all sides with a sharp knife. Then chop off the bone at the base and carefully remove it. The skin must be gently lifted, slightly separated from the meat, but not completely separated. You should get a kind of pocket. The chicken legs prepared in this way should be rubbed well with a mixture of salt and ground pepper.
Next, you need to clear the bell pepper from the stalk and seeds, and then cut into small cubes, add cheese grated on a coarse grater, beat an egg, salt everything and mix the filling thoroughly. Then the resulting cheese mince must be placed in a pocket under the skin. In this recipe, chicken liver with mushrooms can also be used as a filling.
The edges must be tightly connected and sewn up with a thick thread or fastened with wooden skewers. Then put the stuffed chicken legs in a saucepan with a little cold salted water, put on low heat and cook for 45 minutes until tender. After this time, the stuffed chicken legs are removed from the water and cooled.
Chicken legs stuffed with cheese is a great snack. Cut them into slices before serving.
Stuffed chicken legs with prunes and nuts
To prepare stuffed chicken legs according to this recipe, you need to take: – 2 chicken legs (drumsticks can be used); – 200 g of walnuts; – 150 g of pitted prunes; – 1 head of onion; – cream; – parsley, salt and pepper.
It is very important to choose fresh chicken legs for cooking. They should have smooth, undamaged skin of light pink color with a slight bluish tint.
Chicken legs need to be washed, dried with a napkin and carefully, trying not to damage, remove the skin from them. Then separate the meat from the bones and remove the tendons. After that, the separated chicken meat must be minced along with walnut kernels, prunes and parsley. Add finely chopped onions, salt, pepper and cream to the resulting minced meat.
Then it is necessary to carefully fill the skin removed from the chicken legs with the cooked minced meat. Grease the heat-resistant form with oil, then put the stuffed chicken legs in it, cover the form with foil and bake in an oven preheated to 220 ° C for 30-40 minutes. Then remove the foil and put the form back in the oven for just a few minutes, so that the stuffed chicken legs are browned. Pancakes stuffed with liver go well with the dish.
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