Chicken Legs In Puff Pastry In The Oven: A Step By Step Recipe With Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Surprising guests: cooking juicy chicken legs in puff pastry

Chicken legs baked with various additives in a crispy puff pastry shell is an original and very tasty dish. It can be offered for a family celebration, surprising guests and home with an unusual serving of hot. Or you can pamper your family on a weekday by turning an ordinary lunch or dinner into a small holiday.

Chicken legs with potatoes and mushrooms in puff pastry

An excellent dish that combines both the main hot and the side dish. Such legs, looking out of a crispy shell, look very appetizing!

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of puff pastry;
• 10 chicken drumsticks;
• 5-6 potatoes;
• 100 ml of milk;
• 200 g of champignons;
• 1 onion;
• 1 tbsp. l. butter;
• 4 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 2 egg yolks;
• 2 tbsp. l. wheat flour;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Recipe:

1. Prepare the chicken legs. Wash and dry with paper towels.

   

   It is better to take chicken legs chilled rather than frozen

2. Peel the potatoes, cover with cold water and cook for mashed potatoes.

   

   Fill potatoes are best suited for crumbly varieties

3. While the potatoes are boiling, rub the chicken drumsticks with salt and pepper, roll in wheat flour and fry in hot vegetable oil (2 tablespoons).

   

   Fry the legs until golden brown, so the meat will be juicier

4. Chop the peeled onion and mushrooms, and then fry them in butter until golden brown.

   

   Instead of champignons, you can take forest mushrooms or oyster mushrooms

5. Drain the boiled potatoes until tender and mash with salt and hot milk. Add the mushrooms fried with onions to it and stir. Try it with salt.

   

   Knead the puree until completely homogeneous.

6. The dough needs to be rolled out a little and cut into squares with sides of 15–20 cm. In the middle of each place a pillow of mashed potatoes with mushrooms and onions, and on it place the chicken drumstick bone up. The leg should stand firmly in the mass of mashed potatoes.

   

   Chill the chicken legs a little before forming the puff pouches.

7. Then wrap the dough around the chicken drumstick and tie just below the joint with cooking string. Use your hands to slightly bend the edges of the puff pastry to give the dish a more flavorful appearance.

8. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil (2 tablespoons) and place the bags with chicken legs on it.

   

   Culinary thread can be replaced with plain white

9. Beat the egg yolks with a fork and brush all the puff pastry bags with a silicone brush. This will give them a nice golden color while baking.

10. Bake puff pouches with chicken drumsticks in the oven at 200 ° C for half an hour.

    

    Serve hot chicken legs in puff bags

Chicken drumsticks in dough stuffed with cheese

Delicious and very satisfying recipe with a spicy note thanks to the spicy filling. For such a dish, the legs can be prepared in advance, this will significantly save time.

Ingredients:

• 7 chicken drumsticks;
• 1 package (450 g) puff pastry;
• 150 g of hard cheese;
• 1 tsp mayonnaise;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• a small bunch of greens;
• 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 2 egg yolks;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Recipe:

1. Prepare chicken drumsticks: rinse and dry with a paper towel. Grate cheese, mix with mayonnaise, garlic passed through a press and finely chopped herbs.

   

   Instead of hard cheese, you can add the same amount of processed cheese to the filling

2. Cut out all cartilage and joints from the legs with a sharp knife. There should be skin and pulp with a cavity inside.

   

   When preparing the legs for stuffing, try not to damage the skin

3. Fill the cavity of each drumstick with cheese filling.

   

   It is convenient to lay out the filling in the cavity of the shins with a dessert spoon

4. Cut the puff pastry into triangles and, after rolling out each with a rolling pin, completely wrap the drumsticks.

5. Grease a baking dish with vegetable oil and put the chicken legs in the dough in it. Brush with whipped yolks and bake for 40 minutes in a preheated oven at 200 ° C.

   

   Baked chicken legs in puff pastry are very aromatic and tasty

Video: chicken legs in dough from Natalia Parkhomenko

Option for unleavened chicken leg dough

The dough for baking chicken drumsticks can be used not only for puff. Below is a recipe for a budget unleavened dough, which is easy and simple to prepare, but great for hot dishes cooked in the oven.

Ingredients:

• 350 g wheat flour;
• 1 bag of baking powder;
• 3/4 cup water
• 2 eggs;
• 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 1/2 tsp salt;
• a pinch of sugar.

Recipe:

1. Sift wheat flour and baking powder through a sieve.

   

   During sifting, the flour is saturated with oxygen

2. Add eggs, salt and sugar to it.

   

   Choose eggs with a bright yolk

3. Pour in room temperature water, oil and knead a homogeneous plastic dough.

   

   It is convenient to knead the dough in a large bowl with high walls

4. After kneading, the dough must be rolled into a ball and wrapped in cling film. It should “stand” in the refrigerator for 1–2 hours. During this time, the gluten contained in the flour will swell, the dough will become fluffy and crispy after baking.

   

   The cling film will keep the dough from winding

I love simple and effective recipes, they can diversify the family menu. Now, on holidays and family celebrations, I don't rack my brains, thinking what to cook such. Chicken legs in puff bags are what you need. Especially children are delighted with such a dish - they really like crispy fluffy dough.

Sometimes I cook the legs in advance, and then only defrost and bring them to readiness in the oven. This saves time and effort. In addition to puff pastry, I use both unleavened and choux pastry.

Chicken legs with a shell of dough soaked in meat juice is an excellent hot dish. It combines juicy filling, crispy dough with a golden crust, and thick sauce. Try to prepare such a delicacy and enjoy well-deserved compliments from guests and family!