It would seem that what is so special - the legs and dough.
Simple ingredients that are actively used in the daily menu. But in fact, when baking chicken, meat juice is released, it impregnates the dough, and a crispy crust is fried on top.
The aromas of the products are mixed, the dish pleases with an amazing taste. And at the same time it looks spectacular. Let's try to cook?
Drumstick dough - general cooking principles
Chicken drumsticks are approximately the same size, so are ideal for roasting in the oven. Before cooking, they need to be washed, dried. Then sprinkle with spices, pickle if necessary. If the exact name and quantity of spices is not indicated in the recipe, then we use various seasonings to your taste. You can wrap raw chicken in the dough or pre-fried in a pan until half-cooked.
The dough for the legs often use ready-made puff, but you can make it yourself. Homemade pastries always get tastier. You can take both yeast and unleavened dough. If it is frozen, then it must first be thawed, then decomposed, sprinkled with flour on both sides and rolled to the desired thickness.
Shins can be:
• just wrap dough strips;
• form pouches.
The latter option allows you to put any fillings to your taste. For the bag, the dough layer is cut into squares, with sides no less than 15 cm. Size depends on the presence or absence, as well as the amount of filling. The edges of the dough are fixed with a ribbon of dough or thread. To simply wrap the shins in strips, the dough is rolled out and cut into long ribbons. And so that the winding is not damaged during baking, the edge is laid under a piece.
So that the shins in the dough acquire a beautiful color and a crispy crust, they need to be greased with yolk or a whole egg before baking. If for some reason you didn’t do this or just forgot, then after baking, hot shins in the dough can be greased with a piece of butter.
Recipe 1: Dough drumstick with mashed potatoes in sacks.
A wonderful dish that combines chicken and side dishes. First you need to cook mashed potatoes, lush, homemade, with butter and refried onions. For the bags used ready-made puff pastry, which must be defrosted beforehand.
Ingredients
• 6 legs;
• 12 tablespoons of mashed potatoes;
• pack of puff pastry;
• butter;
• spices for chicken;
• yolk;
• A spoon of sour cream or mayonnaise.
Cooking
1. Drumsticks, sprinkle with spices, grease with sour cream and let it marinate for an hour.
2. Pour oil into the pan and fry the chicken at high temperature, without a lid on both sides. A golden crust should appear on the surface.
3. Lay out the dough on the table. If it is thick, then roll out to 4-5 mm, cut into squares.
4. Put in each square 2 full tablespoons of mashed potatoes, put the drumstick vertically and collect the edges of the dough up with a bag.
5. We tie the bag with thread. It is possible and a strip of dough, but with a thread will be stronger and the edges just do not boil over. We form all the bags, we shift in the form for roasting.
6. Add a spoonful of water to raw chicken yolk, mix well and grease the bags with an egg using a brush.
7. Put the bags in the oven. Cook for half an hour at 190 degrees until a golden crust appears on the dough.
Recipe 2: Spiced Drumstick in the Dough
Option for cooking chicken legs wrapped in strips of dough. For this recipe you will need spices, you can use it for chicken, hops-suneli or dry adjika. The number of products is taken by eye.
Ingredients
• lower leg;
• mustard;
• spices;
• puff pastry;
• egg;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Mix ready mustard with spices. We cover the legs, if there is time, then we can let the chicken stand for an hour.
2. Fry the drumsticks in oil for 5 minutes on each side.
3. Puff pastry thinly rolled out, cut into long strips of 2 centimeters wide.
4. We retreat from the extreme bone two centimeters, wrap the shins with dough, and put them on a greased baking sheet.
5. Stir the egg, and brush the prepared legs with a brush.
6. Bake until dough is fully cooked, about 35 minutes at 190 ° C. You can serve both hot and cold.
Recipe 3: Drumstick in Pickle Dough
Very interesting recipe of the leg in the test. Instead of a bone, a chicken pickle is used in the chicken leg, which gives the dish an unusual taste. You can cook with both yeast and fresh puff pastry, which you need to completely wrap the drumsticks.
Ingredients
• pack of puff pastry 0.4 kg;
• 8-10 legs;
• 3-4 salted cucumbers;
• spices;
• butter;
• egg.
Cooking
1. Cut the drumstick along, remove the stone. Salt, sprinkle with spices.
2. Cucumbers cut lengthwise into several parts. Small can be just two halves, large four.
3. Put a piece of cucumber inside each drumstick, fold the edges inward, pretending to be a whole chicken leg.
4. Puff pastry cut into strips of 2 cm wide.
5. Wrap each stuffed drumstick with overlapping strips. We hide the tip below.
6. Put the convolutions on a baking sheet, grease with a beaten and salted egg, put in the oven for 40 minutes. We bake at 180 degrees.
Recipe 4: Drumstick with Hawaiian Batter
Another version of the drumsticks in the dough, which combines a complete dish with a side dish. A frozen Hawaiian mixture of vegetables is used, but you can take any other to your liking. Defrost vegetables do not need to pre.
Ingredients
• 8-10 legs;
• 0.4 kg Hawaiian mix;
• puff pastry;
• butter;
• spices, egg.
Cooking
1. Sprinkle shins with any spices to your liking and fry in oil. Cooling down.
2. The Hawaiian mixture is cooked in a frying pan until soft, evaporating all the liquid that is released, and also leave to cool.
3. Roll out the dough into a layer, cut into squares.
4. Put 3 spoons of ready vegetables, put the leg and fasten the bags.
5. Grease with egg and bake for half an hour in a preheated oven.
Recipe 5: Drumstick with mushrooms and cheese
A win-win combination of products: chicken, cheese and mushrooms. The legs in the dough according to this recipe are prepared in the same way, in the form of bags, but the cheese is laid directly in the meat. The dough is prepared on the basis of beer, you can use light or dark. Cheese can be taken any, including melted.
Ingredients
• 6 legs;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• 200 grams of champignons;
• onion;
• egg;
• spices, oil.
For the test:
• egg;
• salt;
• 150 ml of beer;
• flour.
Cooking
1. Pour a pile of flour on the table, make a depression, add the egg, salt, beer, knead the dough. We send "rest" for 20 minutes. At this time, prepare the chicken and mushrooms.
2. Cut the mushrooms into slices, chop the onion and fry the filling in a pan almost until done, salt and season with any spices to taste.
3. Chop grated cheese.
4. In the shins, remove the upper joint, which is located on the thickened side. Using our hands, carefully push the meat from the bone and stuff the resulting pocket with grated cheese.
5. Divide the dough into 6 pieces and roll out a circle from each, put the mushroom filling and the stuffed leg. Form the bags.
6. Grease with an egg and bake until cooked for about 40 minutes.
Recipe 6: Shin in a dough with summer vegetables
Delicious and juicy dish. The legs in the dough are cooked with eggplant, pepper, onion. For this dish it is better not to use the former vegetables in the freeze, because of their increased wateriness. We use puff pastry, but you can cook it yourself if you wish. We take products by eye.
Ingredients
• lower leg;
• dough;
• eggplant;
• bell pepper;
• spices;
• egg;
• butter;
• onion.
Cooking
1. Shanks crumb in spices and fry on both sides in a skillet.
2. Cut the onion into cubes, fry in butter for a minute.
3. Cut eggplants into strips, soak them in salted water if necessary. Pepper cut into small cubes.
4. Add the eggplant slices with pepper in the pan to the onion and fry together for 5 minutes, season with spices and cool. If the filling has a lot of oil, then it needs to be decanted by placing the pan on an oblique surface.
5. Roll out a layer of dough, cut into squares, put the vegetable filling, drumsticks and form bags.
6. Grease the formed shanks with an egg, bake for half an hour until golden brown.
Recipe 7: Tibia dough with rice, olives and walnuts
Festive version of bags with unusual filling. Rice for drumsticks can be used any, but it turns out more interesting with a brown look. Olives can be replaced with olives if desired.
Ingredients
• 0.1 kg of rice;
• 100 grams of canned olives;
• 50 grams of nuts;
• spices;
• 6 shins;
• egg;
• butter;
• garlic;
• puff pastry.
Cooking
1. Sprinkle the drumsticks with spices, then fry until half cooked. Sent to cool.
2. Boil rice almost until ready, rinse with cold water.
3. Cut the olives into thin rings, mix with rice.
4. Chop 1-2 cloves of garlic and add to the rice filling.
5. Grind the nuts, you can slightly fry and also add to rice. All mix, try on the salt. You can put any spices. Fans of spicy dishes can add a spoon of adzhika or mustard.
6. Roll out the dough, cut into squares, distribute the whole filling equally, put a drumstick in the center of each square and form bags.
7. Fold the blanks on a baking sheet, grease with egg and bake. Since all products are almost ready, just fry the dough, it usually takes about 15 minutes at a temperature of 200-220 ° C.
Recipe 8: Garlic drumstick in cheese and sesame dough
The peculiarity of these legs is that under the skin of the chicken there is a fragrant filling of cheese with garlic, which not only gives taste, but also preserves the juiciness of meat. For the preparation of garlic drumsticks, fresh puff pastry is needed, without yeast. To taste we use any spices.
Ingredients
• shins 8-10 pieces;
• puff pastry;
• sesame seeds;
• garlic 5 cloves;
• egg;
• spices;
• 0.2 kg of cheese;
• one or two spoons of mayonnaise;
• half a lemon;
• sesame seeds;
• soy sauce 100 ml.
Cooking
1. Pour any spices to your taste in soy sauce, add one chopped clove of garlic, juice of half a lemon and mix well.
2. Wash the lower legs with cold water, dry with a napkin and pickle in the prepared sauce for at least 3 hours. You can leave it overnight in the refrigerator by covering it with a lid.
3. Clean the remaining cloves of garlic, finely chop or skip through the press.
4. Three grated cheese, add a little mayonnaise and garlic, mix everything well.
5. We take the drumsticks out of the marinade, gently push the skin back and lay the cheese filling, return everything to its place. We distribute the filling between all the legs.
6. Roll out the dough, cut into long strips, wrap legs.
7. Beat the egg, grease the prepared drumsticks in the dough, sprinkle with plenty of sesame seeds and bake for 35-40 minutes.
Shin in the test - useful tips and tricks
• So that the extreme bones of the lower leg during frying in the oven are not charred and look attractive, you can wrap them with pieces of foil or parchment. When serving, the protection can be not removed, it is convenient to take it with your hands so as not to get dirty.
• So that the bottom of the puff bags does not tear from the juice, and is stronger, an extra flat cake rolled out from the scraps can be put on the bottom of the dough piece.
• Puff pastry has the peculiarity of sticking in the oven, no matter how firmly fasten it. To avoid this, the joints must be lubricated with water or an egg.
• If, according to the recipe, you need to fry the legs before connecting with the dough, and for some reason you do not want to do this, you can simply fold them into a mold and hold in the oven for about 20 minutes at a temperature of at least 200 degrees. And for the crust just grease with butter.
• The dough is poorly fried, looks pale and ugly? Quickly mix the egg with a spoon of sugar or honey, brush the hot drumsticks with a brush and put it back into the oven, adding the temperature to 220 degrees, hold for 5-10 minutes. You can also sprinkle with sesame seeds on top.
