Whole chicken on a bottle in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake chicken on a bottle? Prepare all ingredients. The taste of the finished dish strongly depends on which chicken you choose. I usually bake a chicken weighing less than 1.5 kg. It is advisable to buy chilled, since it is difficult to judge the freshness and quality of meat from a frozen carcass. The chicken should be light pink in color, with a neutral smell. If you take poultry, it must be young (less than a year), otherwise it will not be suitable for baking.

2. Step 2:

   

   If the chicken is frozen, defrost the chicken in advance. It is better to remove the packaging and put it in a container on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator a day before cooking. For pickling, take a deep bowl or saucepan in which it will fit freely. The material from which it is made should not be oxidized. Enameled, ceramic and glassware are ideal. I took the enameled bowl.

3. Step 3:

   

   Rinse the chicken under running water, remove all the insides and feathers, if any. Wipe the carcass with a paper towel so that there is no moisture left and it is better marinated. Thoroughly rub the chicken inside and out with salt and pepper mixture. Leave to salt for a while while you make the marinade.

4. Step 4:

   

   Peel the garlic. Rinse it, dry it and chop it in a garlic press. To prepare the marinade in a deep container, mix sour cream, tomato paste, curry, hot pepper and garlic.

6. Step 5:

   

   Rub the chicken with the resulting marinade inside and out, cover the dishes in which the chicken will be marinated with cling film or a towel. Leave it for at least an hour. The longer the chicken is marinated, the tastier and juicier it will turn out.

7. Step 6:

   

   For baking, the chicken must be put on a bottle and then put on a deep baking sheet. Any glass is suitable for baking chicken. The main thing is, before putting the chicken on it, make sure that the whole structure fits in the oven. I have a 22 cm high juice bottle. Take a baking sheet of such a size that it is larger than the surface under the chicken, so that fat flows down there when baking. Pour warm water into the bottle, leaving 4-5 cm to the neck.

8. Step 7:

   

   Nasty fill half with cold water. Put the chicken to bake in a cold oven so that the water heats up evenly and the bottle bursts. Turn the oven up to 200 degrees. After half an hour, reduce to 180 and bake for 1.5 hours. During this time, pour water over the chicken from the baking tray so that it does not dry out. If you see that it is unevenly baked, the darker parts can be covered with foil.