Tobacco chicken: cook fast and delicious

We all know the dish - "chicken tobacco". This is a kind of symbol of the Soviet era and the times of friendship of peoples. The national dish of Georgian cuisine (although some believe that this dish first appeared in Abkhazia), it has become firmly established in our kitchens. And this is not accidental: the chicken of tobacco is an uncomplicated dish, requiring a minimum of ingredients, which will be obtained even by a novice cook.

For the preparation we need the chickens themselves, salt, black pepper, garlic and vegetable oil for frying. If you are going to prepare this dish for a festive table, consider that portions are small, usually prepared for each guest by chicken. With the purchase of the main ingredient problems should arise, in any supermarket you can find suitable chickens. Pay attention to their size: in length they should be slightly more than a tablespoon. Now you need to prepare the carcass. Our future chickens of tobacco should be cut on the breast and well beaten with a hammer along the spine. They should become more flat, but not lose shape. Now sprinkle them with salt and pepper on both sides and rub garlic. Some after this immediately begin to fry, but you can fold the carcasses on top of each other and leave for a couple of hours to make them missed. Marinades for chickens can be used in a variety of ways. One of the most common options is a marinade with red wine, olive oil and basil. You can soak the chicken in beer and garlic or make it any at your discretion. In order to prepare a dish of "chicken tobacco", usually use a special frying pan with a screw press. By the way, the name of "tobacco" came just from the Georgian word tapaka, which is called this very frying pan. In the absence of such a chicken dish, you can simply press it over the heavy lid, and put a press on it (for example, a container of water). But in any case, the dish "chicken tobacco" on the brazier is not prepared, only in a frying pan. If there is a great desire, of course, you can press the chicken carcass and cooked chicken with a grill and fry it, but it will not be the same. So, in the frying pan pour the vegetable oil, warm it up and lay out our promarinovannogo chicken. Cover with a lid and leave to fry for 15-20 minutes until a beautiful crust is formed. Constantly check and stand at the stove is not necessary: wait 15 minutes and turn it over. Now fry on the other side in the same way, in order to make the meat more tender, grease sour cream and leave to cook for another 15 minutes. Our chickens are ready!

Serve the dish best with fresh vegetables and herbs. As a side dish, usually served with boiled or baked potatoes. By the way, in Georgia itself such a chicken is not considered an independent dish at all. You can make a spicy sauce: mix sour cream with chopped garlic, salt and cilantro. In the Imeretian version, the tobacco chickens are served with a mashed blackberry. This dish perfectly suits as a snack for beer. Eat it, as a rule, hands.