How to Properly Bake Chicken to Get a Crispy, Appetizing Crust: Secrets of Chefs

07.03.2023 11:05
Updated: 14.04.2023 12:49

The most delicious chicken is one that looks appetizing and beautiful, so it is important to achieve a crispy, golden-brown crust.

You can achieve the desired result with the help of some culinary tricks.

What secrets are worth remembering?

The classic way

Thanks to this method, you can bake a beautiful chicken without much effort. To do this, you need to use any marinade based on vegetable oil. As a rule, spices and herbs are simply added to it.

Afterwards, the chicken is kept in the refrigerator for several hours. Before baking, the form is also treated with oil. The chicken needs to be cooked for 1 to 1.5 hours at 180 degrees in the oven.

Salt

Many professional cooks use this method. It is "indecently" simple: you just need to make a kind of "pillow" of salt for the chicken and cook it for the required amount of time.

chicken
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Many housewives agree that this method is the simplest and most effective.

Soy sauce with honey and mustard

You need to choose one of the specified components and make it as a base for the marinade. After 3-4 hours, we again process the chicken with one of the selected sauces and send it to the oven.

Marina Michalap Author: Marina Michalap Internet resource editor


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  1. What secrets are worth remembering?
  2. The classic way
  3. Salt
  4. Soy sauce with honey and mustard