Stuffed chicken legs in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake chicken legs stuffed with champignons? Prepare the specified ingredients. We will stuff chicken drumsticks. Defrost them beforehand if they have been frozen. I take the champignons fresh, but you can use canned or frozen. Cheese will suit any kind you like or what you have at home.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash and peel the onions and carrots. Chop them: cut the onion into cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Wash the champignons, having cleaned them from the ground and debris, finely chop them. Heat a little vegetable oil in a frying pan over low heat and fry the chopped onions, carrots and mushrooms until tender. Add a little salt to taste. Leave the pan aside so that the fried vegetables and mushrooms cool down.

3. Step 3:

   

   Wash and dry the shins. Pull the skin off them — you need to pull from the wide edge of the shin down to the joint. If a thin transparent film located between the meat and the skin interferes, cut it slightly with a knife, carefully so as not to damage the skin itself. With a large knife or a kitchen hatchet, cut the bone at the narrowest part of the shin, trying not to touch the chicken skin remaining at the bottom of the joint.

4. Step 4:

   

   From the resulting parts, freed from the skin, cut off all the meat. Finely chop it. There can be a lot of meat for stuffing the shins, so some of it can be postponed immediately. In the future, use the bones for cooking broth.

6. Step 5:

   

   In a deep bowl, mix chopped chicken meat, fried mushrooms with onions and carrots, grated cheese on a coarse grater. Mix everything, add salt and pepper to taste.

7. Step 6:

   

   Carefully stuff the shins with prepared minced meat, trying not to damage the integrity of the skin. To prevent the filling from falling out of the shins, you can fix the edges with a toothpick, sew up with a culinary thread or bend the long edge of the skin.

8. Step 7:

   

   Grease the selected baking dish with vegetable oil. Put the stuffed chicken drumsticks into the mold. Brush each leg with oil and sprinkle with paprika. Place the form with stuffed shins in a preheated 180 degree oven for 30 - 40 minutes. Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe.

9. Step 8:

   

   Serve the legs hot. This is a versatile dish that goes well with many side dishes: pasta, rice, potatoes, vegetables. bon appetit!