40 Cloves Garlic Chicken

Elena Butuc

This recipe was automatically translated from Romanian. View original here

The recipe that I looked at a long time ago and I plan to make it and it's a goodness, tender, aromatic, otherwise it can't be, it's just a classic French recipe.

I found many variants on the internet, simpler and more sophisticated - I chose a simple combination, I took from one side of another blog something else and I think I was right. It's very simple but it's no longer an ordinary chicken in the oven, it's a delicacy ... and you can enjoy your family without much complications.

Garlic becomes very fragrant, soft and you will come to eat it plain on bread.

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Ingredients

Metric US

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Chicken

1 piece

or you can only use thighs

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Garlic cloves

40 pieces

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White dry wine

100 ml

or 50 ml of brandy

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Sunflower oil

50 ml

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Salt

1 tsp

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Pepper

0.25 tsp

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Dried marjoram

0.5 tsp

optional

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Cumin

0.25 tsp

optional

Step by step

Wash the chicken well, cut it and cut it into small pieces. Dry the pieces of meat well on a paper towel.

Pour oil into a hot pan, let the oil heat well (to brown the chicken, not to boil it).

Carefully place the chicken pieces and let them brown.

I recommend using a sieve to protect the walls from oil - when frying, a little oil jumps here.

Turn the chicken pieces over and brown them well on all sides.

And forget the stars - the garlic cloves - especially since now is the season of tender, fragrant garlic ... I was right here and I counted 40 pieces - so that the recipe doesn't come out :)

The garlic is cleaned, although in some variants I saw that it is left with the peel - I said it is more convenient to eat like this - and I did well.

After removing the chicken pieces from the pan, add the garlic and let it harden a little - about 5 minutes - stir periodically.

After this time add the wine or brandy. Stir and simmer for 5 minutes, evaporating the alcohol.

Then add salt, pepper and if you want you have marjoram and cumin. Mix well and turn off the heat.

Put the chicken pieces in a simple oven tray, in which you spread a lot of aluminum foil (so you can cover the meat on top).

Or use a smaller oven tray with a lid.

Put the hardened garlic among the chicken pieces - pour the prepared sauce over each piece of meat.

Wrap the meat well with foil or if you have a tray with a lid, put the lid on.

Put the meat in the oven over medium heat - 180-200 degrees for 30 minutes.

After this time, remove the tray from the oven, remove the lid or foil on top and with a brush grease all the chicken pieces with the sauce formed. Put them in the oven for another 10-15 minutes - I would recommend removing them and greasing them, but it would be enough at least once.

And ready, serve with what you like - potatoes, rice, vegetables - any salad ... etc.

I'm thinking now why doesn't a programmer invent something so we can smell this food in the pictures :) To quickly convince you to run to the market, prepare the recipe and see what goodness it is