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50 min (your 20 min)

Time-tested, long-established recipe in our kitchen is tobacco chicken. The recipe for making tobacco chicken came from Georgian cuisine. In the original, such chicken is called "tapaka, " from the name of the type of pan that was used for this dish.

chicken (up to 1 kg) 1 pc., vegetable oil (3-4 tbsp.) 50 g, garlic - 3-4 cloves, greens (cilantro, parsley, dill) 50 g, salt to taste, ground black pepper to taste, sauce (ajika, tkemali) to taste

Prepare products. These are chicken carcass, vegetable oil, salt, pepper, garlic and herbs.

Gut the chicken, remove the remaining feathers, cut the fat behind. Wash, dry and cut along the breast.

Unfold the chicken and place on a board between layers of cling film. Well beaten on one side, turned under the film and just as well beaten on the other side.

Salt and pepper the beaten chicken.

Heat the pan over a medium heat. Pour about 1. 5 tbsp. l. oil and heat it (if desired, you can use melted butter).

Place the chicken in the pan, skin down. Place a pot (board) with a load (for example, a pot of water) on the chicken.

Fry on one side until ruddy, about 15 minutes. Turn the chicken over.

Fry on the other side (under weight) until ruddy, also 15 minutes.

Remove the load, pour 50-70 ml of water into the pan, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the chicken under the lid for 5 minutes. Then turn over, add some more water and simmer the chicken for another 5 minutes.

Cut the greens (leave a few sprigs).

Crush (or crush) garlic, mix with chopped herbs,

Add 1. 5-2 tbsp. l vegetable oil, mix.

Place the fried chicken on a plate.

Pour over the garlic sauce. Serve a chicken of tobacco with fresh cilantro greens and ajika (or tkemali). Enjoy your meal!

A few moments to cook and serve tobacco chicken (or, more precisely, tapaca chicken): - do not rub the chicken with garlic before frying; - the finished chicken can be grated with garlic, or it is better to pour garlic water or garlic sauce; - a variant of garlic sauce: rub 3-4 garlic cloves, pour over the broth (half a glass) and leave for a couple of hours; - another version of the sauce: grated blackberry with crushed garlic and green cilantro. Now let's go directly to how to cook tobacco chicken.