Chicken salt in the oven can be considered a unique dish. In the process of cooking, the whole carcass of the bird seems to be saturated with salt vapor, and the meat literally leaves the bones and conceals in the mouth. The crust is crispy, and the meat is not fat at all. But the most interesting thing is that the salt dish absorbs the perfect amount. It is impossible to undersalt or salt. Why? Learning recipes!
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How to bake chicken on salt - a classic recipe
If you look at the amount of ingredients, chicken baked in salt may well be considered an ascetic dish. For the recipe base is required - chicken and salt. Only salt is suitable not simple, but coarse. In many stores you can find large salt from the city of Sol-Iletsk, where it is mined. Sometimes it sticks together and resembles a hard stone. Found such an instance? Take it immediately!
So we need:
- bird weighing 1.5 kg;
- a packet of coarse salt (can be stone).
That's all. It remains to bake the bird and make it very simple. It seems that even a child can cope with the recipe, the main thing is to buy a large and juicy carcass of pale pink color (fresh) in advance. We wash the boiler under running water, wipe it dry with a paper towel: excess moisture is not needed at all for this recipe. We take the form - it is better not large and round, pour salt into it.
It is not worth covering the entire diameter of the baking sheet with salt: the main thing is to create a place equal in size to the carcass. It remains to put the chicken on the back and put the bake in a preheated oven. Cook the dish at a temperature of 200 degrees for about 60-80 minutes.
And now we’ll tell you a little secret: so that the carcass is baked evenly, and the thin wings do not have time to burn, we simply do: we make small slots on the breast and hide the boiler wings there.
Accent! Now it’s fashionable to buy iodized salt or enriched with other useful substances. But here you should not chase fashion: a classic version of an inexpensive, but coarse salt with transparent crystals is enough.
Baking pan recipe
You can also make a salt pillow on a large baking sheet if you don’t have a round shape on hand. Sprinkle the salt evenly, forming a small circle. We spread the bird on it. Some housewives dress the legs with a special culinary thread - try this too and you - the chicken on salt in the oven is fried more evenly, and the skin does not crack during baking.
Serve a dish with herbs, sauces. It is very tasty to cook a classic tomato sauce with cilantro (as for a barbecue), offer it with pickled onions, lemon slices, herbs and fresh vegetables.
What is the ideal thickness for a salt pad? It is better if it does not exceed one centimeter.
Juicy whole baked chicken
Chicken in the oven entirely on salt - a dish worthy of royal serving. If you decorate it with slices of lemons, herbs, served with cherry tomatoes or pickled gherkins, it will take the best place on the festive table and will surely delight guests.
For baking, prepare the carcass by rinsing thoroughly in running water. Then you need to dry it with a paper towel, tie the legs, put on a salt pillow. Some housewives place a small (250 ml) glass container with water on a baking sheet: in the process, it evaporates, saturating the bird with additional moisture, so that the meat becomes even juicier. Make sure that the chicken does not burn - maintain a temperature of 150-180 degrees. Ready chicken will be rosy, completely covered with a delicious crust.
Our advice! Such chicken is suitable for yogurt sauce, with mint and fresh cucumber. But the main thing: to find a boiler with uniform proportions: a carcass where there is a huge breast, but the legs are relatively small - set aside for another dish.
With lemon, garlic and thyme
The variant of chicken on salt in the oven with odorous herbs is very fond of advising its followers, a fan of cooking experiments, cooking guru Julia Vysotskaya. The difference of the traditional recipe is in a special chicken dressing, with which it lubricates ready-made chicken carcasses.
The first thing to do is cook the chickens in steps from a basic recipe. But the difference here is in the size of the “birds”: for this recipe, small chickens, which are previously slightly beaten, are better suited.
While the chickens are brought to readiness on a salt pillow, we make dressing from oil. To do this, lemon zest is added to the softened butter, a little garlic is squeezed out, and thyme sprigs, previously ground in a mortar for spices, are put. Salt refueling is not necessary! The chicken will turn out to be moderately salty. It remains to grate our ready-made chicken carcasses with our dressing and eat with fresh bread.
Such a chicken will be very good in the form of heat, but especially tasty in the cold. You can eat it either independently or use it for home-made sandwiches or salads.
On the salt and pepper in the oven
And you can make odorous directly a salt pillow. To do this, just mix the spices with salt, season with black pepper and put our bird on it to bake.
What spices will flavor meat?
- Oregano.
- Thyme.
- Provencal herbs.
It is important to take herbs dry and then mix them with salt. And then we spread the bird, in whole or in slices, bake until tender and serve with a salad of fresh asparagus.
Recipe with lemon
Chicken and lemon - as if made for each other. Especially if you stuff the carcass with it and cook the whole chicken in the oven for salt. There is one trick here: it’s important to pour lemon over with boiling water and rub it lightly with an iron brush. The essential oils of the fruit will open up and give themselves up to meat faster.
And in parallel, you can pickle a little carcass in a zest, grated on a fine grater.The meat will be very fragrant, tender, “inheriting” from its citrus its signature acidity.
Salt-baked chicken is a versatile, convenient, quick dish that will always turn out different depending on the change of spices. But the main thing is that it always surprises guests with its juiciness, the amount of salt, and the unusual structure of the meat, which even turns out to be similar to baked over an open fire. Try, experiment, enjoy delicious and healthy food.
