Russian Holodets | Jellied Meat Recipe | Куриный Xолодец

Hello everyone and welcome to Alice's yummy food. Today I'm making jellied chicken. It's so good, in Russian it's called холодец and it's just one of those dishes that we have every single time on big celebrations, New Year's, Easter, birthdays, it's a must on the dining table. So don't say you don't like it before you've actually tried it and made it. It's really easy to make, it tastes really delicious and I know it's just something I grew up with and I'm sure everyone who grew up in Soviet Union times will appreciate this dish so let's get started we're going to need a bit of gelatin onion fresh parsley carrots peppercorns salt garlic bay leaves and I'm using 1 kilo of chicken drumsticks and thighs take a deep pan and fill it with 2 liters of water and add your chicken in there and we're gonna cook it slowly for about 2 hours chop your onion roughly just into few cuts just like that cut your carrots into discs add everything into your pot your onions bay leaves peppercorns garlic and carrots while it's cooking you need to get rid of all the scum so just take a bowl and place it in here and get rid of all the white stuff you can see the chicken has reduced nearly by half so we're gonna stop cooking that now we're gonna sieve everything through we're going to keep all the mixture just pour that in I'm gonna place chicken onto a plate and let it cool down separate your chicken from the bones and skin so just take it off place it into a different bowl I like to put carrots into my jellied meat so I'm just gonna cut them into smaller pieces just into quarters just like that so for jellied meat and you can use any kind of cups trays I'm going to be using something like this it's small and it's like one portion so we're gonna do them separately I don't know how many it's gonna be maybe few and but you can use a big tray you can use a big baking tray whatever you have in your kitchen will do. I'm going to add two teaspoons of gelatin into hot water. I'm just gonna make sure it's all dissolved. Into each dish place a bit of carrot. Then we're going to add our chicken. You need to press inside. Then we're going to add minced garlic on top of each chicken. Just spread it around. Finally take your mixture and pour into each bowl until it's full. We're going to place our kholodets or chicken jellied meat into the fridge until they're completely set but it's best if you leave them overnight I have just taken my kholodets out of the fridge and you can see it's all nice and set what we're gonna do now run a knife around the edges just to loosen it