Pickled Chicken (how to make EASY Pickled Chicken)

He Marinated chicken It is a traditional recipe, tasty and easy to prepare. He marinade It is a method of preserving food in vinegar, the preparation basically consists of cooking it using a vinegar broth, fried oil, bay leaf, wine and peppercorns.

He marinated meat and fish was traditionally one of the most used methods as a way of preserve food. Today we can preserve food without pickling but it is still a delicious way to prepare dishes.

He pickled chickenIt is a very easy recipe to prepare, but it is necessary to maintain a certain balance with the acidity point of the vinegar (so as not to overdo it). Then I leave you this chicken recipe exquisite to delve into this delicious culinary technique.

Pickled Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

1 chicken in eighths
Some flour
Salt
A few grains of black pepper
350 g extra virgin olive oil
3/4 parts of a glass (of wine) of sherry vinegar
Water
1 head of garlic
1 large onion
2 bay leaves
1 carrot
thyme to taste
rosemary to taste

How to make homemade pickled chicken

We prepare the chicken

Season the chicken.
We go through flour and give each piece a few touches, to remove excess flour.

We prepare the homemade escabeche

In a casserole we put the sliced onion, sliced carrot, bay leaf, whole peppercorns, thyme, rosemary and the head of garlic cut in half.
Let’s pour the olive oil, in a pan, when it’s hot, we’re frying the chicken. This step is very important, a good frying is essential to get a rich marinade.

We are putting the fried chicken pieces on top of the bed that we have prepared with the onion, and the other ingredients, we pour the frying oil on top.
Add the vinegar and water, the amount of water is indicative, they do not have to float, you just have to cover a little more than half.

We cook the chicken with the escabeche

We cook until done.
A medium chicken usually takes about three quarters of an hour to cook in a traditional casserole (not express or fast). Test it before finishing, in case it has to be rectified.

If eaten the next day, the flavors are accentuated and it is even better.

Tips for Cooking Pickled Chicken

Pickled chicken in a pressure cooker

We can use the pressure cooker to make this dish, but with some caution, taking into account the cooking time.
Much better to stay short 10 minutes with the lid on and continue later without the lid, to control when it is done.
Caution! Do not remove the lid until the valve is fully lowered and the pot has lost pressure.

Ingredients to make the marinade for chicken

As for the recipe, the ingredients that it incorporates are to get a normal marinade, if you like it stronger, you should add a little more vinegar.
Use a good wine vinegar and a good olive oil, prepare your own mixture of herbs and the result will be exquisite.

Carrot for the pickled chicken stew

You can do without the carrot, but if you like it, keep in mind that if the carrot is not tender it may be somewhat hard.
To avoid this, put a glass and a half of water in the pressure cooker, peel and chop the carrot.
Cook for 5 minutes with the valve in position 2
Turn off the heat and let the pot lose pressure little by little, when the valve has gone down you can open the lid.
Use the cooked carrot, incorporating it halfway through cooking the marinade.

If you want to keep experimenting with some pickled recipeswe recommend that you try the pickled quailanother delicious traditional dish that you will love.

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Other traditional recipes with chicken

Do you want to try other chicken recipes traditional? try the garlic chickenhe chicken in pepitoriahe cider chickenor the chilindrón chickenfour delicious traditional recipes of Spanish gastronomy.

Others chicken casseroles that you may like are the chicken with tomatoor the chicken with mushroomsrecipes that the whole family will like, including children.

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