Do you know how delicious it is, if not, then be sure to cook it at home before the pumpkin season is over. It's no secret that they are often baked with vegetables or on a vegetable pillow. Thanks to the vegetables, you get a very tasty side dish that complements the meat.

Most often, potatoes are baked with chicken meat, although in addition to it, there are a very large number of tasty and healthy vegetables that can be used to diversify numerous types of meat. These include asparagus, green beans, eggplant, sweet peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, onions, artichoke, pumpkin.

I love pumpkin very much and most often I cook sweet desserts and pastries from it. Soups and main courses are somewhat less common, but you never had to bake pumpkin with chicken. This year I decided to make this dish. Chicken with pumpkin turned out very, very tasty. If you love this vegetable, be sure to cook with pumpkin in the oven. Take sweet varieties of pumpkin for baking.

It is such a pumpkin that is sold in suparmarkets, while in the market they can also sell fodder varieties of pumpkin. Regarding chicken, I would like to add that for baking, you can take one or another part of it or even a whole carcass. Today I want to show you how delicious and quick to bake chicken thighs in the oven in a spicy marinade with spices.

This marinade is also suitable for roasting a whole chicken carcass, but in order for it to bake accurately, I recommend using a baking bag. Pumpkin can be placed both in the middle of the chicken carcass and around it. In addition to vegetable chicken, I used only onions, but you can add potatoes, carrots, prunes, mushrooms, dried apricots, bell peppers, grated cheese to the dish.

Ingredients:

• Chicken legs - 1 kg.,
• Pumpkin - 300-400 gr.,
• Spices - 1 teaspoon,
• Balsamic vinegar - 3 tbsp. spoons,
• Apple cider vinegar - 2 tbsp. spoons,
• Salt - 1 coffee spoon without a slide,
• Garlic - 3 cloves,
• Onions - 2 pcs.,
• Sunflower refined oil - 80-100 ml.

Chicken with pumpkin in the oven - recipe

Any parts of the chicken for roasting, whichever you choose, should be checked for the presence of feathers, and then be sure to rinse with cold water. Before marinating, it is advisable to blot the meat with napkins or paper towels. Whole chicken legs, consisting of a thigh and a drumstick, it is advisable to cut into two parts at the joint. Today I will bake chicken thighs with pumpkin.

Peel a piece of pumpkin from the peel and seeds. Cut the pumpkin pulp into cubes about 2 by 2 cm in size.

Peel the onion and cut it into rings. Cut the onion rings in half. And in half again. The result should be quarter rings.

We proceed to the next stage - the preparation of the marinade. To do this, pour sunflower oil into a bowl.

Pour in the spices.

There are no strict rules for choosing them for marinating chicken. You can buy ready-made spices for chicken or chicken, or mix your favorite spices. Most often I cook spices for meat and fish on my own. In this recipe for baking chicken with pumpkin in the oven, I used a mixture of spices from paprika, black pepper, curry, dry adjika.

Pour in the balsamic vinegar, but don't confuse it with plain grape vinegar. Balsamic vinegar is very sweet and thick, while ordinary grape vinegar is very similar in texture and taste to table vinegar, but at the same time differs from it in ruby ​​color and a characteristic smell of grapes. If you do not have it, then replace it with a teaspoon of honey.

In the chicken marinade, peel and squeeze the garlic through a press.

Pour in apple cider vinegar.

Pour in the salt.

Mix the marinade.

Pour the resulting spicy marinade with vegetable oil, vinegar and spices chicken legs (drumsticks, wings or breast). Keep a little marinade for marinating vegetables. Using your hands, rub the marinade over the chicken pieces until they are completely covered. In a bowl, combine pumpkin and onion. Pour marinade over them. Stir.

Place the chicken thighs in a baking dish.

Arrange pickled vegetables around them.

Heat the oven up to 180C. At this temperature with vegetables in the oven should be baked for at least 35 minutes. chicken and vegetables during baking must be watered with the juice formed at the bottom of the mold. Make sure the chicken is ready by piercing it with the tip of a knife. If clear juice appears instead of blood, then it is already well baked and you can safely take it out of the oven.

Chicken with pumpkin in the oven. Photo

Take a beautiful pumpkin of medium size - 20-25 cm in diameter. The larger the fruit, the more chicken and vegetables will fit there. However, baking a large pumpkin and taking it out of the oven will make it more dangerous to remove the foil - it may leak or fall apart.

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For example, only 3 chicken thighs are placed in a small pumpkin with a diameter of 15 cm.

The fillet is more plastic and settles better inside the pumpkin. However, the bones, giving their gelling juices, give the dish a brighter flavor and density. Choose to your taste.

Cut chicken legs into 2 parts - leg and thigh. Lightly salt them (you can pepper). Fry the chicken in vegetable oil until a light golden crust appears. Leave her to cool.

And at this time, take care of the pumpkin. Step back from the tail of 5 centimeters and cut off the lid.

Remove the core with a spoon. The wall thickness of the pumpkin should be about 1 centimeter. Carefully remove the excess pulp with a spoon, if it is hard to remove - slightly cut it with a knife and continue to help yourself with a spoon. I don’t advise you to cut and take out with a knife, there is a risk of piercing the pumpkin through and then all the juice will flow out through this hole and you will have to cook another dish.

Place a cooled fried chicken piece, vegetable slices, garlic, greens, then meat again and so on on a layer of onions.

Try to lay the filling delicately - the walls of the "pot" should remain intact.

Preheat the oven to 160-180 degrees.

Spread 2 large pieces of foil on a baking sheet - criss-cross. Set the pumpkin in the center of the intersection of the foil sheets, carefully pour the oil on which the chicken was fried into the fruit cavity, close the pumpkin pot with the previously cut lid.

Wrap the pumpkin tightly with foil. Close the tail on the lid too, otherwise it will burn.

Baking time depends on the properties of a particular fruit. You can make sure that the dish is ready by catching the obvious meat aroma flowing from the closed oven.

The second way: sniff the pumpkin, carefully peeling back the edge of the foil, while if the pumpkin is ready, you will also see a soft, shiny orange skin, tender as pulp.

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Be careful, during baking, the pumpkin came out with juices that accumulated at the bottom of the foil. Move the hot pumpkin in foil or with napkins/towels - the pumpkin is now slippery and soft.

The dish is ready.

Can be served both hot and cold.

Put chicken, vegetables and pumpkin pulp on a plate - you can choose it with a spoon from the inside, or you can cut an empty pumpkin with a knife, cutting off the skin (although it is already so soft that you can eat with it).

And the contents of a chilled pumpkin usually turns into a delicious jelly.

Enjoy your meal!

Chicken meat baked with pumpkin and potatoes in the oven is a delicious, hearty dish for a family dinner.
For cooking, you can take any part of the chicken. Only the fat content of the meat used should be taken into account. For example, with a lean breast, the roast will turn out a bit dry. In this case, it is better to take a little more oil than recommended in the recipe. But the thighs, on the contrary, are high in fat. Here you can reduce the amount of vegetable oil.
As for seasonings, here you can completely rely on your taste. Thyme, ground black pepper, curry, allspice, suneli hops - this is only the smallest list of spices that will perfectly fit into the composition of vegetables and meat. The main thing is not to overdo it with herbs, otherwise you can hopelessly spoil the taste of the dish.

TIME: 1 hour 30 min.

Easy

Servings: 4

Ingredients

• Potatoes (large) - 6 pcs.;
• Pumpkin - 400 g;
• Chicken wings - 600 g;
• Onion - 1 pc.;
• Garlic - 2 cloves;
• Sour cream - 70 g;
• Vegetable oil;
• Salt;
• Spices.

Cooking

First, prepare the chicken marinade by combining sour cream with minced garlic, salt and seasonings. Wash the wings thoroughly under cold running water, remove the feathers, if any. Lubricate the chicken with the resulting sour cream mixture and leave in a cold place for 30-40 minutes to marinate.


Prepare potatoes. Cut the peeled potatoes into cubes about 2 cm.


Remove the skin from the pumpkin, and cut the flesh into slices, like a potato.


Next, place the ingredients on a baking sheet. First, 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable oil, then potatoes.


Sprinkle the potato layer with spices and salt. Lay out the pumpkin.

Now it's the turn of the onion, cut into rings.


Lay the pickled wings on top of the "vegetable pillow".


To prevent moisture from evaporating, and the dish remains juicy and fragrant, cover the baking sheet with the ingredients with food foil. Send the chicken with vegetables to an oven preheated to 200 degrees.


Bake the dish for 35 - 40 minutes. After the specified time, remove the foil and leave the dish in the oven for another 15-20 minutes to brown the meat.


Sprinkle the chicken baked with pumpkin and potatoes with chopped herbs and serve.

In autumn, the main vegetable is a pumpkin, you can cook desserts and main dishes from it. Chicken with pumpkin in the oven is a hearty, healthy and dietary dish that is perfect for dinner.

The pumpkin turns out tender, fragrant and spicy, because garlic gives sharpness, lemon juice gives an incredible aroma and sourness. The chicken is very tender and cuddly. You can use any part of the chicken: drumstick, wings, chicken breasts. It is prepared quite quickly and simply.

You will be surprised, but salted pumpkin is even tastier than sweet, the main thing is to fill it with spices correctly. Such spices go well with pumpkin: hot pepper, paprika, nutmeg, garlic, ginger. Be sure to pour over the finished dish with the gravy, which will turn out from the juice of chicken and vegetables, it will add a bright shade. This dish can be served even to small children, because it turns out to be light and dietary.

Pumpkin is very useful and low-calorie, it consists of 90% of water. It is very useful for digestion, non-allergenic, so it can be eaten by children and people on a diet.

Chicken with pumpkin in the oven recipe with photo

Ingredients

• Pumpkin - 300 g.
• Chicken fillet - 300 g.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 2 tooth.
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp
• Water - 1 glass
• Salt - 0.5 tsp
• Spices - to taste

How to cook pumpkin with chicken

Rinse the pumpkin under running water, peel, cut into small cubes. Onion cut into thin slices. Do not chop the onion large, it should have time to bake.

We cut the chicken breast into pieces 1-1.5 cm wide, do not cut it very thinly, because the pumpkin is cooked for a long time. Season it with spices: salt, ground black pepper, turmeric. Put the chicken fillet in a hot frying pan with vegetable oil and fry for about 1 minute on each side. If you want more dietary meat, you can not fry the meat.

Pour water into a bowl, add salt and crushed garlic. It is advisable to pour warm water so that the salt dissolves quickly and the vegetables cook quickly.

Pour the fat from the pan, which remains from the chicken, into the baking dish, then put all the vegetables on the bottom of the dish, and then the meat. Be sure to salt a little and mix so that the salt is evenly distributed. Fill with spicy water, it should cover all the vegetables, then they will quickly cook. Put in the oven for 30 minutes at 180C.

We take out the chicken with pumpkin and serve it hot. This is an excellent dish for children and adults, especially for those who adhere to proper nutrition. Bon appetit!

And if you want to make a pumpkin dessert, then it is

Adviсe

1. To make the side dish delicious. You must buy a ripe pumpkin. The vegetable should be without damage, the peel is thin and light orange in color. The color of the pulp should be bright.
2. Cut the pumpkin into small pieces so that it cooks quickly, it does not take long to cook, usually 30 minutes is enough. Check with a knife for doneness, if it breaks easily, it is ready.
3. Garlic gives the dish a taste and aroma, if you do not like it, you can add sour cream or tomato paste to the filling, then it will not be bland.
4. Salt is added to water and vegetables, so be careful not to over-salt.
5. Water is added so that the vegetables cook quickly, at the end of cooking it turns into a delicious gravy, which can be poured over the meat.
6. Fresh greens refresh the dish, I did not add it, since not all family members like it. But you can sprinkle with parsley, dill, cilantro.
7. In addition to pumpkin, you can add the following vegetables: broccoli, cauliflower, bell pepper, green peas, zucchini, eggplant. Then you get a super vitamin dish.

The bird goes well with various additives. One of the unusual options is chicken with pumpkin in the oven. You can cook the dish in a special baking bag, or you can use portioned pots. But the most spectacular option is pumpkin stuffed with chicken.

To prepare the dish, you can use the whole chicken carcass, or you can take separate parts, for example, drumsticks or thighs. Before baking, the chicken is rubbed with spices or kept for some time in a specially prepared marinade.

Pumpkin must be peeled and cut before cooking. If you plan to stuff the pumpkin, then you will need to cut off the lid and carefully remove the seeds with fibrous pulp.

Chicken and pumpkin make a delicious roast. Other vegetables are added to the two main products. You can add mushrooms to the dish.

Good to know! From a botanical point of view, the pumpkin fruit is a berry.

Chicken in a pumpkin baked in the oven

A delicious dish of chicken in a pumpkin, baked in the oven, looks very impressive on the table, so it can be prepared even for a holiday.

• 1 pumpkin with a diameter of about 20 cm;
• 2-3 chicken legs;
• 2-3 ;
• 2 pods;
• 1 onion;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• salt, fresh herbs, vegetable oil to taste.

To prepare the dish, you need to choose a pumpkin of a beautiful shape. The optimal size is about 20 cm in diameter. You can take a larger pumpkin, it will fit more pieces of chicken and vegetables. However, it takes a long time to bake a large pumpkin, in addition, when serving, the dish may fall apart.

To fill the pumpkin, you can use the legs with a bone, cut into pieces. And you can remove the fillets from the legs. But when using pieces with a bone, the filling will turn out to be thicker and more aromatic due to gelling agents.

We cut the legs into two parts - the drumstick and the thigh. If fillet is used, it must be removed in large pieces. Salt and pepper the chicken legs, fry in vegetable oil until a light crust appears. Let the fried chicken cool down.

Wash the pumpkin. Step back from the tail of 5 centimeters and cut off the lid. Using a spoon, take out the seeds and fibers. Then take out some of the pulp. It must be cut with a knife and removed with the same spoon. You need to be careful not to pierce the pumpkin through, otherwise the juice will flow through this hole.

As a result, a pumpkin will look like a pot. It is necessary to salt the walls from the inside and grease them with vegetable oil.

Wash the tomatoes, cut into halves of circles, chop the onion into thin half rings. Remove the seeds from the bell pepper and cut into fairly wide strips. Chop the garlic and fresh herbs.

At the bottom of the pumpkin pot we place a layer of onions, then fried chicken, tomatoes and peppers. Sprinkle with salt, fresh herbs and garlic. Alternate layers of chicken and vegetables until the pumpkin pot is full. You need to act carefully so as not to damage the walls of the pumpkin.

Spread two large strips of foil on a baking sheet, placing them crosswise. Place the stuffed pumpkin in the center. Inside the pumpkin, pour the oil in which the chicken was fried. We cover the pumpkin pot with a lid and wrap the pumpkin in foil, pressing it tightly. The tail of the pumpkin also needs to be wrapped in foil so that it does not burn. Bake at 160 degrees for about 2 hours. To make sure the pumpkin is ready, you can try to pierce the fruit in the upper part with a toothpick. If the stick easily enters the pulp, then it's ready.

Carefully remove the pumpkin from the oven and unwrap. You need to be careful, as you can burn yourself with steam and juice. The dish can be served hot or cold.

• 600 gr. drumsticks or other parts of the bird carcass;
• 300 gr. purified;
• 2 onions;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce;
• 1 teaspoon French mustard;
• 1 teaspoon of sugar;
• 0.25 teaspoon curry;
• 0.25 teaspoon ground paprika;
• 0.25 teaspoon of pepper mixture;
• salt to taste.

We make a marinade: mix soy sauce, vegetable oil, mustard, spices, sugar. Rub the drumsticks with salt, then with the marinade.

Cut the pumpkin and potatoes into cubes or slices. We chop the onion in half rings, pass the garlic through a press or cut into small cubes. Put in a bowl, pour over the rest of the marinade and mix. You can mix vegetables and chicken. Leave for an hour or more.