Chicken legs with mushrooms in the oven

4 servings
1 hour 15 min

The legs turned out to be very tasty! The meat is soft, tender, under a creamy mushroom sauce. The cheese melted to a mouth-watering crust. Serving this dish is better when hot. Anything will work as a side dish - rice, potatoes, and pasta. It will also taste good with buckwheat or vegetables. Bulb onions cut with half rings can be added to this dish. Chicken and mushrooms can be lightly fried before putting into the mold. First, fry the chicken, then the mushrooms, pour cream into the mushrooms, thicken with flour. Put the chicken in the sauce and bake until tender.

How to bake chicken legs with mushrooms in the oven? Prepare the products. I took 20% of the cream, they are the most suitable for sauces. Mushrooms can be taken absolutely any. And in general, this recipe is great for any part of the chicken, not just the legs. Choose seasonings and spices to taste. Ready-made chicken seasoning can be used, combining well with curry chicken.

Wash the chicken legs, dry, fold in the dishes. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and spices. Mix well. You can leave the chicken in this form to lie down for a while so that it is soaked in aromas and salt. But you can cook right away.

Take a baking dish, put chicken legs in it.

Clean the mushrooms from dirt. It is better not to wash them, because mushrooms absorb water like a sponge, which is why their taste deteriorates. You can only slightly rinse the mushrooms under the tap if they are caught very dirty. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces.

Place the mushrooms in a tin against the chicken.

Mix the sour cream and cream together until smooth. You can add garlic or finely cut greens to the resulting sauce.

Pour the resulting sauce over the chicken and mushrooms. Spoon the sauce all over the tin. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Bake the legs with the mushrooms for 30-40 minutes.

While the chicken is baking, grate the cheese. On small or large - not fundamentally.

Remove the tin from the oven, sprinkle over the top with grated cheese. Return to the oven and bake for a further 15 minutes, before the cheese melts and a golden crust forms. Serve the finished dish to the table with or without the side dish. Enjoy your meal!

Instead of fresh ones, you can take frozen or dried mushrooms (dried ones will need 5-6 times less than fresh ones). Frozen mushrooms can be thawed in any convenient way (for example, in the microwave in the appropriate mode - see the instructions for your technique) and drain the liquid. Or, if the amount of liquid in the recipe is not critical, use without defrosting. Dried mushrooms must be washed well, as they are not washed before drying, and then soaked in cold water for at least 2-3 hours.

Any cheese for this dish is suitable - hard, semi-hard, soft, mozzarella type. The main thing is that it is tasty, high-quality, without milk fat substitutes and melts well.

Keep in mind that everyone has different ovens. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those indicated in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of the ovens!