A miracle helper in the kitchen - a slow cooker, can even create a culinary masterpiece from ordinary chicken legs. She can bake them and stew them well. Meat cooked with the device retains its juiciness and is perfectly soaked in marinades and sauces. Great dinner for a reasonable price and minimum time!
General principles of preparation
Chicken drumsticks should be inspected before cooking. If they have feather stumps on them, they need to be removed. You can even cut off the skin, but it gives extra juiciness and protects the meat from drying out.
It is very easy to choose a sauce or marinade for chicken meat. It can be just sour cream, or a set of different spices, or complex combinations with oriental sauces, mustard, sweet honey, etc. The legs will absorb absolutely all tastes, so you can experiment with sauces, as well as with side dishes.
Chicken legs with potatoes
Time for preparing
calories per 100 grams
Potatoes soaked in meat juice always have a special flavor. Dinner will be ready in two hours.
How to cook:
Tip: the dish is ready within an hour after stewing, but to make it as tender as possible, it is worth simmering it longer.
Chicken legs with rice in a slow cooker
The original recipe for cooking legs along with a side dish - rice. The cereal is very tender and crumbly.
How much time - 1 hour 20 minutes.
What is the calorie content - 203 calories.
How to cook:
- Wash the drumsticks, remove moisture, rub them with spices and set aside to marinate.
- Remove skin from onion and chop finely.
- Peeled carrots cut into thin strips.
- Select the "Frying" mode with a timer for twenty minutes. Pour in a little oil and place the drumsticks here. Fry them until golden.
- Then add onions and carrots, fry lightly.
- Pour in rice and pour in water. It should be enough so that it covers the cereal by 2-3 cm, interfere. Season. Change the mode to Rice. Prepare until the end of the program.
Tip: If you want a bright color of both rice and meat, you can mix a little curry into the water.
Braised chicken legs
The legs according to this recipe are very tender, while they have a light golden crust.
How much time - 1 hour 40 minutes.
What is the calorie content - 170 calories.
How to cook:
- Grate washed drumsticks with spices and put them in a slow cooker.
- Free the onion from the husk and cut into half rings, sprinkle on top of the meat.
- Dilute tomato paste in vinegar, pour in soy sauce, add a little water. Pour the resulting mixture to the legs.
- Select the "Extinguishing" program with a timer for an hour and a half. Serve with any side dish.
Tip: to make the dish juicier, you can add a piece of bacon directly to the sauce. This will give the chicken a smokey flavor.
How to cook with sour cream
Sour cream keeps the top of the meat from drying out. Even in a short period of time, she manages to soak the legs well.
How long - 1 hour 30 minutes.
What is the calorie content - 171 calories.
How to cook:
- Cut the peeled onion into half rings.
- Place washed and dried legs in a slow cooker along with onions.
- Select the "Baking" mode and fry the ingredients for twenty minutes.
- After that, season and switch to the "Extinguishing" mode with a timer for one hour.
- Peel the garlic from the husk and squeeze it through a press into the sour cream, stir.
- About five minutes before the end of the stew, open the lid of the device, add sour cream to the meat, stir, close the lid and wait for the end of the program.
Tip: it is better to take sour cream of medium fat content. But if you want to get a lighter dish, it is better to take natural yogurt in the same amount.
Recipe with roast
A recipe for those who really like fried meat. It has a brighter taste, although less juicy.
How long is 40 minutes.
What is the calorie content - 195 calories.
How to cook:
- Wash and dry the legs well.
- Make an incision on each leg. This is not necessary at all, but this way the meat is better saturated. Rub them all over with spices.
- Finely chop the peeled garlic and rub the legs with it, put a few small pieces directly into the cuts.
- Pour the oil into the multicooker bowl. Select the "Frying" mode with a timer for fifteen minutes. Put the drumsticks into the oil.
- Honey, it should be liquid, mixed with soy sauce. When the multicooker beeps, it must be poured to the legs. Mix everything and select the “Frying” mode again, but now for twenty-five minutes.
- During frying, it is advisable to turn the legs over several times. Then serve.
Tip: if the honey has had time to sugar, you can melt it again in a water bath or put it in the microwave for a few seconds.
Variant of cooking drumsticks with vegetables
Soaked in vegetable juices and various spices, the meat immediately absorbs a dozen flavors.
How much time - 1 hour 10 minutes.
What is the calorie content - 146 calories.
How to cook:
- Chop the peeled onion into small cubes.
- Remove the peel from the garlic, chop it with a knife or a press.
- Wash the legs and cut off the skin from them. Season the meat and leave it to marinate for twenty minutes at room temperature.
- Select the "Frying" program and pour a little olive oil into the multicooker bowl, heat it up.
- Put the garlic and onion into the oil at the same time. Fry them until golden brown, stirring occasionally with a spatula.
- Cut the carrots without peel into half rings and add it to the finished onion. Fry everything together for another five minutes.
- Wash the pepper, free it from the seed boxes, cut into cubes. Add to vegetables and cook again for five minutes.
- After that, turn on the "Baking" program. Set the timer for forty minutes. Lay the chicken legs on top of the vegetables.
- Close the cover of the device. Wait for the signal and then serve.
- Finely chop the greens and add it either ten minutes before the end of the program, or already at the time of serving. From greens, it is better to stop at green onions and dill.
Tip: in order for vegetables to have a light crispy structure, they can be fried not in olive oil, but in butter.
Chicken in soy mustard sauce in a slow cooker
Slightly salty, pronounced and spicy sauce makes chicken legs so appetizing that you want to eat them yourself.
How much time - 1 hour 45 minutes.
What is the calorie content - 197 calories.
How to cook:
- Wash chicken legs and pat dry with paper towels.
- Finely chop the garlic, do not use the husk.
- Prepare the sauce. In a small bowl, mix garlic with honey, mustard, soy sauce, and turmeric. You can mix with a fork.
- Pour the mixture over the chicken legs and leave them to marinate for half an hour.
- Pour sunflower oil into a multicooker bowl. Set the program "Baking", set the time for forty minutes.
- When the oil is hot, put the marinated legs into it. Start frying them, after twenty minutes turn them over to the second side.
- When the multicooker beeps, the legs can be removed from the bowl directly to the table.
Tip: salt may not be needed at all, as soy sauce can fully replace it. It is not necessary to take the classic version. For example, mushroom sauce will give a pleasant flavor to the whole dish.
In a slow cooker, drumsticks can be boiled or steamed. If the first option is more suitable for getting the broth, then steaming is very important for those who follow their figure and do not want to spoil it with fried foods with butter.
In addition to the sauce, chicken drumsticks can be baked under a cheese crust. You can grate any hard cheese and mix it with two tablespoons of sour cream, yogurt or cream. Apply this mixture fifteen minutes before the end of cooking if the meat is stewed. If it is fried, you need to put the cheese mass on top and cover the device with a lid for literally seven minutes. The steam will melt the cheese.
While frying the meat, you can add small pieces of butter so that it remains as juicy as possible, but at the same time acquires a crust. And if the slow cooker has a special program for creating a crust, you can use it at the end of cooking.
Incredibly delicious drumsticks are prepared very simply. Most of the tasks are performed by the multicooker, it remains only to program it. What an amazing aroma will envelop the entire apartment when the legs are ready to serve!
