Chicken thighs in sour cream

The simplest, budget, tastiest! Chicken thighs in sour cream is a recipe that will help you out when you need to quickly prepare a dish for dinner and even for a festive table. You can bake a whole pan of such thighs at a time. Thanks to the cheese on top, an appetizing ruddy crust is obtained.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 58 % 19 g
Fats 42 % 14 g
Carbohydrates 0 % 0 g
207 kcal
GI: 0 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 10 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to bake chicken thighs in sour cream? Prepare the products. Thighs, if they are frozen, pre-defrost by transferring from the freezer to the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Legs are also suitable for this dish. If you prefer them, then take 6-8 pieces for this amount of ingredients. And in general, this way you can bake any part of the chicken.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the chicken thighs and dry them with paper towels. Put them in a deep bowl. Season with salt and pepper on both sides. In addition to pepper, you can add any spices to taste.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Add sour cream to the chicken and mix. Choose high-quality sour cream, natural, without vegetable additives. You can use mayonnaise instead of sour cream. Or take a mixture of sour cream and mayonnaise. Just keep in mind that the calorie content of the dish will increase from this.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Grate the cheese on a coarse grater.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Put the meat with sour cream in a baking dish.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Sprinkle the dish with grated cheese on top. Bake the chicken thighs in a preheated 180 °C oven for about 40 minutes. Be guided by your oven and by the appearance of the dish — it should be covered with a ruddy crust. If the cheese suddenly starts to blush too quickly, cover the mold with foil, and remove it 10 minutes before the end of baking. Ready-made hips are served to the table with any side dish. Bon appetit!

Note that the quality and taste of the finished dish largely depends on the proper defrosting of the ingredients. How to avoid mistakes and choose the best way, read the article about defrosting.

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

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

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Sour cream of 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 20% fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglich cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chicken thighs - 185   kcal/100g

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