How To Cook Chicken Thighs

Joe Fowler Author: Joe Fowler Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
How To Cook Chicken Thighs

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Chicken thighs are an affordable, tasty and nutritious product. Therefore, housewives often use them to prepare various dishes. The legs are baked in the oven with vegetables, fried in a pan, stuffed, removing the bones beforehand, and stewed.

 
 

How long to cook chicken legs until tender

Chicken thighs are an affordable, tasty and nutritious product. Therefore, housewives often use them to prepare various dishes. The legs are baked in the oven with vegetables, fried in a pan, stuffed, removing the bones beforehand, and stewed.

Very often, chicken legs are boiled when preparing first courses, and boiled chicken legs can also be served as an independent dish with mashed potatoes, pasta, rice, and vegetables. Young housewives sometimes have questions: “How long should chicken legs be boiled?”, “How do you know that the legs are ready?”, “On what fire should they be cooked?”, “Salt the water when cooking chicken legs?”, “Can Is it possible to cook chicken legs in a double boiler or a slow cooker?”... You can get answers to all these questions by reading our tips.

Recipes with chicken leg ingredient

Option 1
in a double boiler
Option 2
in a saucepan
Ingredients:
  • chicken leg
  • Bay leaf
  • Allspice
  • Black peppercorns
  • Provencal herbs
  • Salt
  • Garlic
We will need:
  • Double boiler

How to cook chicken legs in a double boiler step by step instructions with a photo

Step 1

 

For work, we need 1 chicken leg, salt, Provence herbs, bay leaf, black and allspice peas, garlic, double boiler.

Step 2

 

Rinse the ham well in cold water. Dry. Grate with salt (0.5 tsp) and Provence herbs (0.25 tsp). Pour into a steamer bowl.

Step 3

 

Pour 1 liter of water into the multicooker bowl. Add 1 garlic clove, a few peppercorns, 2 bay leaves.

Step 4

 

Cook the leg for a couple of 30-40 minutes, depending on the size of the thigh.

Ingredients:
  • Water
  • chicken leg
  • Salt
We will need:
  • Pot
  • Fork

How to cook chicken legs in a saucepan step by step instructions with a photo

Step 1

 

For work, we need a chicken leg, water - 1 liter, salt - 1 tsp, a saucepan, a fork.

Step 2

 

Bring water in a saucepan to a boil. Add salt.

Step 3

 

Put the washed leg into boiling water. Boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 20-30 minutes depending on size.

Step 4

 

Check the readiness of the leg by piercing it with a fork. If only a clear broth comes out when pierced, the thigh is ready. Keep the cooked thigh for another 5-7 minutes in the hot broth. After cooling down a little, it will become even juicier due to the absorbed broth.

Step 5

 

The shank is ready to go. And the broth can be used to make soup.

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