How to use baking foil for cooking

Foil – an indispensable helper in the kitchen. Cooked in it products are a delicate taste in them as possible to preserve the nutrients and vitamins that are lost with other methods of heat treatment. In foil, you can roast poultry, meat, fish and seafood, mushrooms and vegetables to cook cold appetizers, you can make molds for cupcakes and muffins.

Recipe stuffed chicken in foil

To cook a stuffed chicken in foil, you will need the following components:
- 1 chicken (1.5 kg);
- 1 Apple;
- 60 g pitted prunes;
- 40 g dried apricots;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 50 g sour cream;
- seasoning for chicken.

Chicken carcass rinse thoroughly and dry with a cloth or paper towel. Mix sour cream with seasoning for chicken and other spices to taste. Well lubricate the carcass from all sides and let the chicken to stand for 40 minutes.

Rinse the dried fruit and pour boiling water for 20 minutes. Then drain the water. Cloves of garlic peel and cut into strips. 2 pieces of dried apricots and prunes cut into 4 pieces. Make a well in the carcass cuts and lard the chicken with dried fruit and garlic.

The rest of the prunes and finely chop the apricots, the Apple, remove the core and cut the flesh into slices. Mix the dried fruit with the Apple and stuff the mixture of chicken carcass. Then carefully wrap the stuffed bird in foil, place on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 45-50 minutes at a temperature of 200oC. After this time, remove the chicken from the oven, carefully unwrap the foil, fold the edges and place baking sheet with stuffed bird in the oven for another 10-15 minutes.

Products in foil baked with no added oil, making their diet. In addition, they retain their natural flavor and nutritional properties.

Recipe ham cheese

The foil is used not only for roasting poultry, meat, fish or vegetables, but also for preparation of cold snacks. To make the ham cheese, you have to take:
- 300 g of ham (bar with a diameter of 5-6 cm);
- 400 grams of cheese;
- 20 g of gelatin;
- 80 g of green.

Pour gelatin cold boiled water (20 grams of gelatin is taken in 50 milliliters of water) and allow it to swell. Then, stirring continuously, heat on a water bath until dissolved gelatin.

Cheese grate on a fine grater. Parsley or dill wash, dry, finely chop and mix with grated cheese, add the gelatin mixture and mix well.

Spread on the working surface foil, and put her even layer of the cheese mass. Put a piece of bacon and carefully wrap it on all sides of the cheese layer, gently lifting edges of foil. Then, the resulting roll wrap another layer of foil and place in refrigerator for 2-4 hours. Before serving, remove the loaf from the foil and cut into round slices.