Skewers of chicken in the oven: a treat for any time of year

What could be more beautiful fragrant barbecue outdoors? Unfortunately, the weather is not always suitable for picnics and in rain or snow nobody wants to once again go out. However, this does not mean that from the tasty treats should be discarded. A delicious barbecue chicken in the oven turns out no worse than on the grill.

A delicious barbecue: step by step

To prepare a tasty barbecue chicken must be qualitative. It is best suited young chickens at the age of ten weeks to a year, and weighing nine grams to one and a half kilograms. The meat of young chickens are so soft and tender that requires little or no pre-marinating with the aim of softening. In addition, it is desirable to give preference to the cooled chicken meat - for its taste is far superior frozen. If available only frozen chicken carcass, it must be defrosted gradually to prevent the loss of meat juices.

Fresh chicken is cut into medium-sized pieces and thoroughly washed, and then develops into a deep bowl or saucepan. It is advisable to use an enamel or glass container. Next comes the most important stage of barbecue - marinating. As a marinade can be used with a variety of liquid sour taste, to which is added a large number of spices. Acid helps to soften the meat, but chefs do not recommend using too acidic marinades based on vinegar to coarsen and simplify taste shashlik.

So, if the marinade add thyme, marjoram, savory, basil and rosemary, the chicken kebab acquire refined taste and aroma of French cuisine French . And if you prefer ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and turmeric, the finished dish will have a distinct oriental flavor. Due to the neutral taste of chicken meat goes well with a variety of spices, so you can experiment endlessly.

Time marinating chicken an average of three to four hours. If using an acidic marinade, such as lemon or pomegranate juice, the chicken promarinuetsya faster. In the case of weakly acidic marinades processing time increases. Marinated meat lightly greased with vegetable oil and bake in the oven until cooked on the grill.

There are many ways to make a shish kebab, cooked in the oven, delicious smoke flavor. The easiest option - to use seasoning "liquid smoke", adding it to the marinade. You can use a hot coal for hookah smoke to infiltrate its cooked meat.

Delicious barbecue in the oven

In eight grams of chicken without the skin should take one head of onions, two hundred grams of sour cream Smetana: untold riches of Russian cuisine , Spicy mustard and spices to taste, salt. Chicken meat (breast or thigh) cut into small pieces, wash and put in a deep bowl. Onions finely chopped, mixed with chicken. Sour cream mixed with mustard, salt and spices. Thus prepared marinade added to the meat, mix well and cover. Leave the meat to marinate for two to four hours in the refrigerator.

While the meat is marinated, should prepare the wooden skewers, soak them in water for a couple of hours. Marinated meat, without clearing from the marinade and onion, put on skewers. Heat oven to 180 degrees and put down the pan, which will drain the juice Barbecue. Skewer with shashlik Barbecue   gently place the pan on a wire rack above and bake for fifteen minutes. After this time should be to turn the skewers and cook for another five minutes.

Shish kebab prepared in such a way is not very rosy, but extremely juicy. It can be served accompanied by a salad of fresh or canned vegetables, potatoes or rice. Well suited to this kebab flavored mustard sauce.

Maria Bykov

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