Chicken tobacco - a guest from the Caucasus, well established in the territory of Russia. In each, even the seediest cafe of the Soviet Union, this dish was present in the menu. The most delicate meat, crunchy, spicy from adzhika, delicious crust - that's what attracts you most. For proper cooking, you need a special frying pan with a lid-oppression tapa. The spreading bird is pressed tightly against the frying surface . The chicken of tobacco in the oven must also be roasted under the yoke to justify its name. But first a classic recipe.
How to cook a chicken properly
What you need for this
Chicken grams for seven hundred, and not broiler chicken. Garlic, salt, freshly ground black pepper, hops-suneli, adzhika (better Abkhaz), a mixture of olive and butter for frying.
How it's done
Garlic - two or three denticles - crush the plane of the knife and crush it. Mix garlic, a little salt, hops-suneli and olive oil, add adzhika. Chicken cut through the breast, spread out on the board, covered with a film or napkin and beat off to make it as flat as possible. We rub on all sides with a mixture of spices, sprinkle with a large salt. Wings bend inward so that they do not spoil the shape of the chicken. On a wide frying pan, melt the butter (the cream must be for taste, and the vegetable does not allow the butter to burn). Spread the chicken inside down. Clearly, you do not have tapas. Take a plate of a little smaller diameter than the frying pan, put it on the chicken, and from above place something heavy - for example a saucepan with water. Fry, without touching, twenty minutes on average or slightly below average fire, then turn over and again conjure with the load. Twenty more minutes - and your chicken will remind guests and households of a golden stagnant time, when the food was more natural, and the grass is greener. Although, you have not tried the second recipe: the tobacco chicken in the oven. The result is not quite the same, but delicious.
Chicken of tobacco in the oven
What you need for this
Chicken - up to a kilogram, half the head of a young garlic, salt, adzhika, mustard, black pepper or a mixture of peppers, vegetable oil.
How it's done
Rub or crush garlic with a knife, mix it with pepper, salt, adjika and vegetable oil. Chicken cut through the breast, spread out the skin up and discourage. We rub the chicken first with mustard, then with the garlic mixture. Lightly sprinkle the skin with a large salt and sugar (for caramelization - so that the skin crunches). Pour into a wide frying pan, suitable for baking, vegetable oil, put the chicken skin up, put a plate on it, load on the plate. And all this building - a chicken of tobacco - in the oven, heated to two hundred and twenty degrees, is twenty minutes. Now lift the load and brown the top. To get a crust, like when frying in a pan (and exactly this will never work), sprinkle the chicken skin at this stage with lemon juice. Or - already an absolute departure from the topic - sprinkle with cheese, grease with mayonnaise. The dishes from the oven are very different from those from the frying pan. But the young chicken of tobacco in the oven is also delicious. Serve with fresh vegetables.