Chicken Legs in Oven Recipe
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Here I present you my Low Carb Chicken Legs in Oven Recipe.
Today we serve the juicy legs with a colourful leaf salad.
The practical and simple preparation is almost without carbohydrates and fits perfectly into the diet plan.
In addition to the recipe I have included a cooking video, so you can watch the most important information in advance.
In this article you can learn everything important for a quick meal at a glance and let yourself be tempted to cook for yourself. Good luck!
Table of Contents
1. Recipe Chicken Legs in Oven
Find the step by step tutorial below. Feel free to write me a comment or a cooking question via the comment function at the bottom of the page.
Chicken Legs with Salad
Fast low carb dish, cooked, photographed, filmed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Instructions for chicken thighs from the oven.
Preparation Time
15 Min.
Cook Time
25 Min.
Ingredients
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Chicken thighs and marinade |
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| 2-4 | pc | chicken legs (Whole chicken thighs!) |
| 1 | tbs | Olive oil |
| 1 | pc | Garlic clove (I like to use young garlic) |
| 6 | pinches | Salt |
| 2-4 | pinches | Pepper |
| 1 | tsp | curry |
| 4 | pinches | brown sugar (or Stevia) |
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Lettuce |
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| 1 | pc | Lemon |
| 3 | tbs | oliv oil |
| 2 | pinches | Salt |
| 2 | pinches | Pepper |
| 1 | tsp | Sugar (oder Stevia) |
| 2-4 | portions | lettuce |
| 1 | pc | cucumber |
| 1 | pc | Zucchini |
| 15 | pc | Mushrooms |
| 1-2 | tbs | cashew nuts (or almonds or peanuts) |
Instruction
Preheat oven
Prepare a baking tray and cover with baking paper.
Preheat the oven at hot air stage 200-220° Celsius.
Prepare chicken
Wash the chicken thighs and dry with kitchen paper.
Place the chicken pieces with the skin facing upwards on the baking paper.
Season chicken
Brush the chicken skin with olive oil, finely dice the garlic and sprinkle on the chicken, season the chicken pieces with salt, pepper, a little sugar and curry.
Put the baking tray in the oven and reduce the temperature to 180°C, the cooking time is about 40 minutes.
Prepare dressing
Squeeze the lemon, mix with salt, pepper and stevia and leave to stand for a short time.
The spices should dissolve.
Stir in the olive oil and make a creamy dressing.
You can add mustard to the dressing!
Wash salad
Wash the salad and spin dry, cut or grate the vegetables and place in a bowl to marinate.
Arrange and serve
Put the chicken pieces on the plate, marinate and arrange the salad, decorate with nuts and serve.
Bon appetit!
Video
Tips:
If you want it to go faster, then cut the chicken legs at the joint once. The cooking time is then reduced by about 10 minutes.
Always marinate the salad just before serving, so that the salad is crisp when served!
I do not distinguish between thighs or legs in this recipe, the legs are the upper part of the thighs.
You can replace the sugar with maple syrup, honey, agave syrup or birch sugar. Syrup can be dosed very well as a thin thread.
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Keyword
2. Nutritional Values
3. Shopping List for Chicken Legs in Oven
The most important points I will introduce to you first. You need the following ingredients and tools:
Ingredients:
- Chicken legs or chicken thighs
- Salt, pepper,
- garlic, curry, some sugar or stevia
- Olive oil
- Lemon
- Coloured leaf salads
- Cucumber, zucchini and mushrooms
- Peanuts, cashews or almonds
Tools:
- Baking tray
- Baking paper
- Cutting board
- Pastry brush
- Chef’s knife
- Salad bowlSalad servers
The next thing we want to look at is the preparation.
4. Prepare Chicken from the Tray
First of all some important ideas for the successful preparation of poultry:
- Always check poultry with skin and remove any remaining quills. Use tweezers for this.
- Always prepare poultry promptly, as poultry spoils quickly. Important: Do not interrupt the cold chain too long when shopping and refrigerate poultry quickly.
- Cook the poultry meat well, the core temperature should reach more than 72°C for at least 10 minutes.
The preparation:
- Pre-heat the oven, I recommend hot air oven and a temperature of 200°C.
- Put the baking paper on the baking tray, this way you save yourself the scrubbing of the baking tray later.
- Wash the chicken legs and pat them dry. Place the legs with the skin side facing upwards on the baking paper.
Then take care of the garlic. Here is my advice for handling the fresh super clove:
Please do not chop or press the peeled garlic! Pressed garlic becomes bitter and does not taste good!
Now you can marinate the chicken legs: Spread some olive oil on the chicken legs with the pastry brush. Then season with salt, pepper, garlic and curry. But I almost forgot something!
Curry always needs something sweet! Season gently with brown sugar, a little Stevia or cover the legs with a thin thread of honey. In this way you give the legs a wonderful taste kick!
Now place the seasoned legs on the baking tray and baking paper in the oven. Cooking time of chicken legs with garlic: 170°C hot air about 40 minutes.
Because of the garlic I reduce the temperature to the range of 170°C. Above that the garlic tends to burn.
If you should prepare the legs without garlic, you can continue cooking in the range of about 200°C, the cooking time is then reduced by about 8-10 minutes.
5. Prepare Low Carb Side Dish
Today we have a wonderful salad as a side dish. If it has to go quickly, buy a colourful leaf salad and wash it briefly and spin dry.
If you have more time and leisure, you can buy unpacked whole lettuce, depending on the market supply.
This should also be washed, spin-dry and plucked.
For the health and environment I recommend whole heads of lettuce. These are untreated and unpackaged.
Here is a small overview of the salad varieties:
Supplement the leaf salad with vegetables: zucchini and carrots, celery and mushrooms make a great salad. Cut the vegetables into fine strips so that the marinade is better absorbed by the salad.
Oh, we still need the salad dressing…
Simple low carb salad dressing: Mix lemon juice, salt, pepper, some stevia and add olive oil.
Dressing Tip from Chef Thomas Sixt
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