Recipes
Chicken Obara
Obara is the specialty of Slovenian cuisine. This main soup-like meal was prepared from different kinds of meat, in some regions from frog legs, and the most known is the chicken obara.
| Preparation time | 50 min |
|---|---|
| Demanding |  |
| Energetic value | 281 kcal / 1175 kJ |
| Table of nutritive values | |
Ingredients
 | 4 — 6 |
|---|---|
| 600 g | chicken |
| 40 ml | oil |
| 1 | carrot |
| 1 | parsley root |
| 30 g | celery |
| 1 tablespoon | cornstarch |
| salt | |
| pepper | |
| lemon rind | |
| marjoram | |
| bay leaf | |
| vinegar | |
| 1 tablespoon | Vegeta |
Preparation
- Put carved chicken onto oil and fry on all sides.
- Add chopped onion, carrot, parsley and celery cut into rings or strips and shortly sauté everything.
- Then add salt, starch diluted in some water, stir well and pour with 800 – 1000 ml of water. Add Vegeta, pepper, marjoram, bay leaf and lemon rind.
- Cook in light fire until the meat gets soft. If desired, add vinegar to get sour taste.
Serving
Serve the chicken obara with cooked potatoes.
Advice
An original side dish to obara is buckwheat flour polenta.
Little secret
Lemon rind will provide a special taste to this meal, as well as a few drops of lemon juice instead of vinegar.
This meal can be frozen
Freezing: Before the meat is completely cooked, remove the meal from the stove. Chill, distribute by portions into appropriate dishes with covers or plastic bags and freeze.
Unfreezing: Thaw over night in the refrigerator or for a short while at room temperature. Slowly heat up obara and add vinegar as desired.
Durability: 60 days.
Nutritional values
Energetic and nutritional values have been calculated per meal.
| Nutrient | Unit of measurement | Quantity | RDA (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women* | men* | |||
| Total proteins | g | 30,24 | - | - |
| Total carbohydrates | g | 3,88 | - | - |
| Total fat | g | 15,49 | - | - |
| Diet fibres | g | 0,79 | - | - |
| Cholesterol | mg | 84,00 | - | - |
| Vitamin A | IU | 3929,50 | 98 | 79 |
| Niacin | mg | 18,63 | 133 | 93 |
| Vitamin C | mg | 9,39 | 13 | 10 |
| Vitamin D | IU | 12,00 | 6 | 6 |
| Calcium | mg | 38,30 | 4 | 4 |
| Phosphor | mg | 227,85 | 28 | 28 |
| Potassium | mg | 348,27 | 9 | 9 |
| Sodium | g | 0,86 | 0 | 0 |
* RDA is based on daily intake for women of 2000 kcal, for men 2900 kcal, from 25 to 50 years of age. (Data source: DRI reports - Macronutrients, Elements, Vitamins, www.nap.edu; Genesis R&D and Podravka d.d.)
