Chicken with Potato
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As you know chicken is one of the most beneficial nutrition, which is so important for child growth. Moreover, it has no negative effect on old people’s health like red meat. Everyone should eat it without any fear. But of course the cooking style matters. If you prefer frying, you make it impossible to mention the benefits of chicken although you create a scrumptious dish.
I perefer a better and easier way, saving its nutritional value: baking it in oven, which is as tasty as fried one. Also, you don’t need to clean your kitchen deeply as you do after frying, which is so important for me as I’m a working girl. I can count a lot of reasons here why I love cooking it in oven. Then you have to wait longer to read the recipe, so not to make you angry, I’ll stop here and tell you how to cook this hearty chicken with potato easily.
Ingredients (serving: 2)
•   4 chicken legs
•   2 middle potatoes
•   2 tomatoes
•   2 green peppers
•   6 cloves garlic
•   ½ tbsp pepper or tomato paste
•   3 tbsp olive oil
•   2 tsp salt
•   1 tsp black pepper
•   1 tsp red pepper flakes
•   1 tsp thyme
•   3 tbsp water
Preheat oven to 200C (400F)
Coat a small oven tray with 1 tbsp olive oil.
Peel the potatoes, cut them in apple slices and place them in the oiled tray. We should put the potato slices first because the cooking time of them is longer than chicken.
Discard the seeds of peppers, chop them in big pieces and place them on potatoes.
Remove the skin of chicken legs. If you love them, you can leave. Rinse the chicken pieces in water. Rub each chicken legs with the spices given above. And put them on potatoes and green peppers.
Slice the tomatoes in big pieces and lay them on chicken pieces. Do not slice the garlic cloves, just peel them and intersperse in the tray randomly. Sprinke 2 tsp salt on it.
Dilute ½ tbsp tomato/pepper paste in 3 tbsp water and pour it on the raw dish. Finally add the the rest of the olive oil and put the tray in oven. Cook it about an hour. When you check it poking one of the legs with a knife at the end of this time, it shouldn’t be juicy or the color inside shouldn’t be pink. You can cook it about 10 minutes more if you hink it’s not cooked enough.
You can serve rice with carrot as a side dish near this hearty chicken cooked in oven. And serving them with a season salad is a must.
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Grilled Chicken Recipe
I love chicken dishes, but grilled chicken is my favorite. This may be your main dish, but it is a kind of appetizer for me and my husband as we like eating this chicken with glasses of beer. Many people prefer french fries with their beer, but grilled chicken is better for us. We cook it on an electric griller. The smell of the chicken on griller is as scrumptious as its taste. If you don’t have a griller, you can cook it in oven, as well.
Ingredients
•   500gr chicken wing pieces (depends on the number of people)
•   Salt
•   Dried thyme
•   Cayenne pepper
Wash the chicken pieces and drain. Sprinkle all spices on them. Incorporate all of them.
Place the chicken wing on your griller and roast them by turning occasionally. After this first group is grilled enough, take them from the griller and put on a plate. Without wasting time, place the second group of chicken and while they are roasting, you can eat the ones you’ve put on a plate accompanied by a large glass of beer.
Chicken in Hot Pot Recipe
I decided to cook a chicken dish today, but I wanted to cook something different. Generally I cook chicken saute or grilled chicken. But for the dinner today, I didn’t want those. Then my dear husband offered to cook the dinner. So this time, I was the helper, he was the chef. And here is his special recipe: Chicken in Hot Pot
Hot Pots are very popular in Turkish cuisine. These are very special pots made of clay and soil. The taste of the dish you cook in these pots is certainly different from the dishes in ordinary pots. This one adds its taste. We prefer these hot pots especially for meat, chicken dishes and Turkish rice pudding.
Ingredients
•   1 chicken breast, chopped in cubes
•   A cup of mushrooms (200gr), sliced in big size
•   1 tomato
•   2 green peppers
•   1 onion
•   Tomato paste
•   salt
•   black pepper
•   3 cloves garlic, sliced
•   thyme
•   2 tbsp olive oil
•   yellow cheese, grated
Saute the onion in a pan until, golden. Add chicken pieces and cook them until they whiten. Then put the sliced mushrooms and garlic. Sprinkle salt, black pepper and thyme on it.
In a small bowl, mix tomato paste with little water to liquefy it a bit. Then pour it into the pan. And cook it for 20 minutes ove medium heat.
After it’s done, put this saute evenly into small hot pots or ovensafe bowls.
Preheat the oven to 200 C. (392F)
Garnish the saute in bowls with grated yellow cheese and put them into the oven. Cook it until the cheese melts.
Serve it hot with some whole mushrooms stuffed with yellow cheese. (This will be my next recipe).
Cacik goes very well with this dish. You can search its recipe in my archive.
Boiled Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
•   4 or 5 pieces of Chicken (or a whole chicken)
•   2 carrots
•   2 onions
•   1 celery
•   1 yolk
•   1 tbsp all purpose flour
•   4-5 cup water
Place the chicken pieces in a pan (if you wish, remove the chicken’s skin).
Chop all the vegetables and put them in the pan. Add water and cook. After about 15 minutes (when water boils), add salt. Boil them together (at least 30 minutes).
While waiting for boiling chicken, mix yolk and flour in a bowl. When the chicken and vegetables are about to cook, pour this mixture in it. Boil it for some more time (5-10 minutes).
Serve it hot.
To clean your kitchen counter easily after making pastries on it, sprinkle some salt and then clean it with a wet piece of cloth.
