Chicken in a cauldron with vegetables on the fire

Healthy, bright, appetizing, incredibly delicious! Chicken in a cauldron with vegetables on a campfire with the aroma of smoke is a great option to feed the whole family or a large group of friends in a satisfying and useful way! A dish is prepared from the simplest products!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 32 % 8 g
Fats 40 % 10 g
Carbohydrates 28 % 7 g
148 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make chicken with vegetables on a fire in a cauldron? Prepare all the products listed in the recipe. Pluck the chicken, gut it, and scorch it to remove the remaining feathers. Wash the carcass thoroughly and dry it with paper napkins. Cut the chicken into small portions. If you have frozen food, take it out of the freezer in advance and defrost it. Instead of a whole carcass, you can use individual parts of the bird.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Preheat the cauldron. Pour in the vegetable oil. Using a slotted spoon, pour boiling oil over the edges of the cauldron. Send the chicken to fry. Stirring, cook over a high fire until golden brown.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Pour in a small amount of water so that it lightly covers the meat. Cover the cauldron with a lid and simmer the chicken for about 20-30 minutes.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Meanwhile, take care of the vegetables.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Peel potatoes, garlic and onions. Cut the bell peppers in half, remove the seeds with the core. Rinse all vegetables in clean water and dry. By the way, if you use peppers of different colors, then your dish will turn out very colorful and appetizing.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cut the potatoes into slices, onions and bell peppers into half rings. Leave the small garlic cloves as they are, and make the large ones into quarters.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Send onions, garlic and bell peppers to the cauldron. Fry for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Cut tomatoes into cubes. If desired, remove the peel from the tomatoes in advance.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Send potatoes and tomatoes to the cauldron. Add salt to taste, add your favorite spices. Pour the required amount of water, but keep in mind that tomatoes will give juice.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Cover the cauldron with a lid, make the fire moderate under the cauldron (remove a few logs if necessary) and cook the chicken and potatoes for about 30 minutes, until all the ingredients are ready.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    At the end of cooking, add the chopped greens to the cauldron. Leave the cauldron without a lid on the smoldering embers for 10-15 minutes so that your dish is saturated with the aromas of the campfire.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Ready, you can serve!

Serve chicken with potatoes hot with fresh salads, vegetables, pickles and so on.

Bon appetit!

Chicken can be replaced with turkey or any other type of meat at your request. But keep in mind that in this case, the cooking time and calorie content of the dish will change.

How easy is it to peel tomatoes? Wash them, make criss-cross incisions on top with a sharp knife. Put it in boiling water for 1-2 minutes. Remove, cool slightly and remove the skin.

If you use ready-made spice mixes, be sure to read the composition on the package. Often, salt is already present in such mixtures, take this into account, otherwise you risk over-salting the dish.

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

  • Category I chicken - 238   kcal/100g
  • Chicken of the II category - 159   kcal/100g
  • Chicken, flesh without skin - 241   kcal/100g
  • Chickens - 140   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Ripe potatoes - 80   kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70   kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380   kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82   kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74   kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192   kcal/100g
  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41   kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41   kcal/100g
  • A mixture of ground peppers - 255   kcal/100g

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