I saw the recipe and method of serving chicken baked with cranberries a few years ago on a foreign culinary site. Of course, I really liked the serving, and since I always have cranberries in the freezer, I decided to cook it for the first family celebration. The chicken turned out really very beautiful and very tasty, and the cranberry garnish is not only very healthy, it also goes well with hard liquor.
Ideally for this recipe, gherkins of 500-600 grams are suitable, they can be cooked one at a time and served to each guest separately. IN last resort you can use ordinary chickens weighing up to a kilogram and cut them in half along the back.
To start, the chicken needs to be well salted, pepper, drizzle with soy sauce and grease olive oil outside and inside. Oil helps the salt and pepper penetrate the meat better, and so it will be better salted. Leave for several hours under cling film.
Prepare all necessary products.
After a while, mix some more soy sauce, wine vinegar and hot sauce. Brush the chicken with this sauce and also leave it to marinate for a few more hours. During this time, the carcass should be turned over several times, so it will marinate evenly.
Put either a sour apple, or kiwi, or lemon into the belly of the chicken. It is better to pour boiling water over the lemon so that the bitterness of the zest is gone. I had an unripe large kiwi.
Fasten the belly with a toothpick, tie the legs with natural twine. Pour water into a pan.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the chicken without convection for 60-70 minutes.
While the chicken is baking, prepare the cranberries. Pour vegetable oil into a heated frying pan, put frozen cranberries. As the cranberries melt in the pan, they will release their juice.
Add sugar, salt to taste, pepper, crushed garlic clove and some thyme. Taste it, the gravy should not be very sour. You need to cook the cranberry garnish for 5-7 minutes, the gravy should not boil away. Turn off the stove, discard the garlic.
After 20 minutes, remove the chicken from the oven, grease it with a silicone brush with the released juice from the baking sheet.
Cover the wings with foil and roast the chicken for another 20 minutes. Remove from oven, brush with juice again. Repeat this procedure every 20 minutes. I love when the bones are well separated from the meat, so I cook the chicken for 60-80 minutes without convection, so it will be juicy and it will have a beautiful and ruddy skin, if baked with convection, the meat will become dry and the skin will be in black marks.
Put the cranberries on the bottom of the dish for serving, put the finished chicken on top, decorate with sprigs of greens. If you cook broccoli - you need to boil it for 3-4 minutes in salted water, put it in a colander and sprinkle with olive oil. Chicken baked with cranberries is ready.
Happy and delicious family holidays!
I discovered cranberries for the first time, somehow I had never seen them before, and I really liked this berry! In our area, she is a rare guest, but yesterday she bought in a supermarket and cooked these breasts! Delicious, juicy, sweet and sour, mmm, in general, delicious!!! Help yourself!!!
3 chicken fillets
1 cup cranberries
2 tbsp breadcrumbs
2 tsp butter (softened)
2 tbsp honey
egg, flour, breadcrumbs for breading
For sauce:
0.5 cup cranberries
1 tbsp starch
2 tbsp honey
Water 100 ml.
We beat off chicken fillet through the film well, but carefully so as not to tear, salt, pepper 
We make the filling: crush the cranberries, add honey, crackers and butter. 
Put the stuffing on the fillet 
and roll up tightly, I rolled up like a spring roll. Dip in flour, egg, breadcrumbs.
Fry quickly in a hot frying pan for about half a minute on each side.
Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper 
put foil on top 
and place in an oven preheated to 220 degrees for 20 minutes.
We make the sauce: crush the cranberries, place in a saucepan and, stirring, add honey. Dilute starch in 100 ml cold water and pour into cranberries, bring to a boil, salt a little to taste. 
Note:
Next time, before frying, I will not bread in breadcrumbs, because I still want a pure taste of meat with berries. 
How to cook chicken breast deliciously so that it turns out juicy, fragrant, with a beautiful golden crust? First of all, you should choose high-quality meat - it is better to use not frozen, but fresh chilled breast, which will turn out to be more juicy and tender. If you strictly follow all the recommendations that gives step by step recipe, baked chicken breast will retain all the juices and flavors, it will turn out incredibly tasty and appetizing.
The delicate taste of the bird will perfectly complement the cranberry sauce, which even a novice cook can easily prepare in just 5 minutes! It gives the dish not only beautiful colour and aroma, but also an interesting sweet and sour taste. Be sure to try the combination of chicken and cranberry sauce - you will surely love it!
Ingredients for Baked Chicken Breast:
- chicken breast - 400 g;
- salt - 2 slivers;
- a mixture of ground peppers - 2 chips;
- curry - 2 chips;
- cumin - 1 sliver;
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.;
- cranberries - 100 g;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
- red wine - 50 ml;
- water - 50 ml.
Recipe for baked chicken breast:
1) In a small container, marinate the chicken fillet in a mixture of vegetable oil with spices and salt. For the marinade, combine 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, a couple of pinches of salt and a mixture of ground peppers, add a little cumin and curry. Leave the meat to marinate for 30 minutes by placing it in the refrigerator.
2) In a hot grill pan (or other pan with a thick bottom), fry the chicken breast for 4 minutes on each side. Due to roasting, all the juices will remain inside the meat, and the breast itself will acquire a beautiful golden crust.
3) Transfer the fried chicken breast to a large piece of parchment paper.
4) We tightly wrap the meat in a parchment envelope, after which we send it for 15 minutes in the oven, preheated to a temperature of 180 degrees.
5) After baking, take out the breast and let it lie down wrapped in a bag for 5 minutes so that the juices are properly distributed inside the meat.
6) In the meantime, prepare the cranberry sauce: pour the berries into a saucepan or pan, add sugar, wine and water to them, mix and put on fire.
7) Boil the cranberry sauce for 5 minutes, stirring continuously, some of the berries can be crushed with a spoon or spatula.
8) Open the parchment paper and cut the baked chicken fillet into thin slices.
Mix oil with spices.
Place parchment paper on a baking sheet and brush with butter. Wash the meat. Rub the chicken breasts with the oil and spice mixture. Place them on greased paper lined with a baking sheet.
In a hot oven (230 degrees), bake the meat for about half an hour.
While the breasts are in the oven, you can prepare the cranberry sauce. First you need to melt the butter.
For the sauce, you will need a finely chopped onion, which you must simmer in melted butter (5-8 minutes over medium heat). Next, you can already add thyme and rosemary to the ruddy onion. By the way, if there is no rosemary, sage will also be good in this dish.
After a minute, pour water into this mass.
Boil the sauce until the volume of liquid is reduced by a third (10-15 minutes).
Then add cranberries to it. If you want the taste of the sauce to be more tender, you can pre-mix the berry with 1-2 tablespoons of sugar. Boil it for about 5-8 minutes.
Dissolve starch in a tablespoon of water. Pour it into the sauce. He seems to immediately turn a little pale and become not so expressively red. It's not scary. After all the necessary procedures, bright colors will return.
Keep the sauce on fire again. When it thickens (it will take a few minutes), remove from heat and add salt and pepper.
In order for the cranberry sauce to be uniform in texture, use a blender. You can leave a few berries for decoration, and chop the rest. Try to see if you put too little salt and pepper, add to taste.
Don't forget that while you're preparing the sauce, the breasts are already cooking in the oven. After 30 minutes from the moment the meat was sent to the preheated oven, remove it.
