Chicken legs in puff pastry

Fast, delicious, spectacular, for a festive table! Chicken legs in puff pastry is an original idea of serving a meat dish. You can prepare the legs for both a regular and a festive feast. Due to baking in the dough, the meat remains juicy and soft. The dough is soaked with aromas and turns out very tasty.

Ninel

The author of the recipe

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Chicken legs

550

Puff pastry

500

Chicken eggs (only the yolk will be needed for lubrication)

Garlic

Hard cheese

Ground black pepper

to taste

Salt

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 27 % 12 g

Fats 40 % 18 g

Carbohydrates 33 % 15 g

270 kcal

GI: 0 / 100 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min

Step 1:
How to make chicken legs in puff pastry? Prepare the products. If you use frozen meat instead of chilled, then remove it from the freezer in advance, transferring it to the refrigerator overnight. In this way it will unfreeze most delicately and correctly. But defrost the puff pastry 30-45 minutes before cooking. You can use both yeast and yeast-free dough. Peel the garlic cloves from the husk.
Step 2:
Rinse chicken drumsticks thoroughly with cool water, and then dry with paper towels. Put them in a bowl, sprinkle with salt and black pepper. You can also add any favorite seasonings and spices. Chop the garlic on a grater or through a press, rub the legs with it.
Step 3:
Cut the hard cheese into thin slices. Carefully detach the skin from the meat fillet, insert a piece of cheese into the pocket. Choose natural and high-quality cheese, without vegetable fats in the composition.
Step 4:
Puff pastry dust with flour and roll out into a layer 0.5 cm thick. With a sharp knife, cut the layer into strips 1-2 cm wide . It is very convenient to use a pizza knife.
Step 5:
Wrap each leg in dough. Start wrapping the meat in the dough from the narrow side.
Step 6:
Cover a deep baking sheet with parchment paper. Spread the legs apart from each other.
Step 7:
To make the legs rosy, lubricate them with yolk. You can make an omelet from the remaining protein.
Step 8:
Bake the chicken legs in the dough in the oven at 180 degrees for about 1 hour, the dough should be well browned. Serve hot to the table, you can make potatoes as a side dish. Bon appetit!

Keep in mind 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 to defrost chicken read in article about proper defrosting of products .

In addition to the purchased one, you can also use your own dough. The recipe for homemade puff pastry for this baking you can choose in this directory .

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 !