Roast chicken with potatoes and vegetables - tasty and satisfying

Kitchen appliances and utensils: stove or hob, oven, baking pan, 2 frying pans, cutting board, knife, spoons, bowls, sauces.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. Chop the chicken legs into large pieces with a heavy knife, put them in a bowl, salt well and pepper with white pepper. Let stand for 5 - 7 minutes, and at this time put 2 frying pans to heat up, previously adding vegetable oil to them. One pan is for meat, the other is for vegetables. Put the chicken fried until golden brown. Meanwhile, you are preparing vegetables.
   
2. Peel 2 medium-sized potatoes and cut each into 3 parts. Peel 1 medium-sized carrot. Cook 100 g of champignons (not large so as not to cut).
   
3. Sauté the mushrooms without slicing. 1 carrot cut into circles and put in a pan to the mushrooms, add potatoes and a little (20 g) of butter there.
   
4. Coarsely chop the half of the red onion and, when the mushrooms, carrots and potatoes are slightly fried, add the onions to the pan. Cut into large pieces 1 zucchini. Cut the cherry tomatoes (8 pcs.) In half, put in a bowl and mix with zucchini there.
   
5. You can already start making the sauce. To do this, pour 200 ml of cream of fat into a bowl, at least 22% fat, chop 1 bay leaf and add to the cream, add salt and black pepper with peas. Cut 1 bunch of parsley, 1 bunch of dill, 2 branches of basil, removing stems in advance, and add the greens to the cream. Shuffle.
   
6. Put the products in a fireproof baking dish in this order - first, to the bottom, fried vegetables, then pieces of fried chicken, and on top zucchini and cherry tomatoes. Pour the sauce with herbs. Divide the mozzarella into fibers and lay on top. Put the baking dish in the oven, heated to a temperature of 220 - 240 degrees, and bake for 25 - 30 minutes.
   
   Important!It is not recommended to change the order of laying the ingredients in the form. First vegetables, then chicken, and on top zucchini and tomatoes. Otherwise, the roast may turn out to be rather dry. And so the chicken will add juiciness and fat content to the whole dish.
7. While the roast is baked, you can prepare decoration for the dish. To do this, heat the pan with vegetable oil and fry on it until golden brown 2 slices of carrots, a circle of zucchini and half champignon.
   
8. Cut the cherry tomato in half and cut 2-3 slices of red onion, but do not fry. Remove the roast from the oven, decorate it with fried carrots, zucchini and mushrooms. Also put the halves of cherry tomatoes, sliced ​​onions, a sprig of dill. Everything. Beautiful, with a ruddy cheese crust, fragrant and delicious roast can be served.
   

Video recipe

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