Whole chicken in the oven on a jar

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake a whole chicken in the oven on a jar? Prepare all ingredients. The taste of the 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. Remove the packaging and put it in a container on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator a day before cooking. For pickling, take a 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 suitable. I took a stainless steel bowl. Rinse the chicken under running water, remove the insides and feathers, if any.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel the garlic. Rinse it, dry it and chop it in a garlic press.

4. Step 4:

   

   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, garlic and a mixture of spices.

6. Step 5:

   

   Grease the chicken inside and out with mayonnaise. Cover the dishes in which the chicken will be marinated with cling film or a towel. Leave at room temperature for 15-20 minutes. The longer the chicken is marinated, the tastier and juicier it will turn out. I often leave it overnight on the eve of cooking.

7. Step 6:

   

   Put the chicken on a jar and then put it on a deep baking sheet. Any glass jar will do. The main thing is, before putting the chicken on it, make sure that the whole structure fits in the oven. I have a 450 ml jar. Pour 2/3 of the volume of warm water into the jar, add bay leaf and pepper to the water. 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.

8. Step 7:

   

   Fill it half with cold water. Put the chicken to bake in a cold oven so that the water heats up evenly and the bottle does not burst. 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.