Ingredients for - Mediterranean chicken
How to cook deliciously - Mediterranean chicken
1. Stage
Salt the chicken thighs and shanks. Then chop 5 cloves of garlic on a fine grater and rub all the pieces of chicken with your hands.
2. Stage
Add 1 tbsp. oregano, mix all the chicken pieces well.
3. Stage
Take 5 plums, remove pips and cut into slices.
4. Stage
In a baking dish, mix together the sliced plums, apricots and add a little olive oil.
5. Stage
To the plums and apricots add: green olives, capers with brine, 2 tbsp of the remaining oregano, bay leaf, white dry wine and white wine vinegar. Stir everything well.
6. Stage
Place the prepared pieces of chicken in a baking dish on top of the marinade. Mix everything well.
7. Stage
Stack the chicken pieces so that they are skin-side up.
8. Stage
Cover the form with marinade and chicken, cling film and place in the refrigerator overnight or for 12 hours to marinate.
9. Stage
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees. While the oven is preheating, take the chicken out of the refrigerator and allow it to warm up to room temperature for 35-40 minutes. Crush the unpeeled garlic - 5 cloves with a knife and add to the chicken too. Sprinkle brown sugar over the skin of the chicken. Pour all the remaining olive oil around the chicken, avoiding getting it on the skin of the chicken.
10. Stage
Bake the chicken for 50-60 minutes, until the skin is golden brown and the juice is clear when the meat is pierced.
11. Stage
The chicken is delicious both hot and chilled. Help yourself!
12. Stage
Serve the chicken on a serving platter with capers, olives and plums. The sauce can be poured into a sauce pan. Bon appetit!