Kurnik is a national dish of Russian cuisine. In the old days this cake was prepared for great holidays. An appetizing and unusually tasty dish decorated the wedding and Easter table. It was called the royal pie for its beautiful appearance, high palatability and difficulty in cooking.
Each modern housewife can surprise guests or household with a hen of shortcrust pastry. To do this, you must have a desire to please others with your culinary talent and a couple of hours of free time.
Kurnik recipe on sour cream from shortcrust pastry
It is worth preparing this hearty and tasty dish to hear the praise of those who will eat a wonderful pie.
Dough
410 g of flour;
210 g plums oils;
200 g sour cream;
· 2 chicken yolks;
10 g of sugar;
· A pinch of soda and salt;
For chicken toppings
750 g chicken;
· 2 onions;
15 g of salt;
· Ground black pepper on the tip of the knife;
Half a glass of chicken stock;
· 20 g of vegetable oil.
For rice toppings
A glass of rice;
· 5 eggs;
Half a glass of chicken stock;
Art. a spoonful of butter;
Half a teaspoon of salt;
· Yolk to grease the cake.
Cooking steps
1. First, prepare the meat filling. Boil chicken broth in salted water with the addition of peeled carrots and a whole onion. Remove the prepared meat from the water, cool and cut into small pieces. Fry the chopped peeled onion over low heat until golden brown. Add pieces of chicken to the onion, salt the mixture, pepper, gradually pour half a glass of broth. Remove from heat.
2. Separately, boil rice in salted water and eggs. Mix the groats and finely chopped eggs. Pour the broth slowly into the mixture so that the resulting filling is not liquid. Slightly add salt and add butter. Rice filling is ready.
3. For the test, combine the chicken yolks with butter, add sour cream. Mix well, gradually introduce flour with baking powder. Send the finished dough to the refrigerator.
4. Get a cake of their cold, divide into two parts, one of which should turn out 2 times less than the other. From a large piece of dough, roll out a cake with a thickness of about half a centimeter and place it in a baking dish, leaving the sides.
5. On the prepared shortcrust pastry for the chicken coop, put half the rice filling, then the same part of the meat. Sprinkle the remnants of rice, and then the chicken.
6. Roll out the rest of the dough by making a hole in the center of the resulting cake. Cover the pie and pinch its edges. Lubricate with egg.
7. Bake the chicken with shortcrust pastry in a preheated oven for about 45 minutes at 190 ° C. About 15 minutes after being ready, you can get the finished dish out of the oven.
Classic sandwich made from short pastry
For the test, the simplest and most affordable products are used.
500 g flour;
300 g butter;
· 2 eggs;
· 2 small tablespoons of water;
A few pinches of salt.
For the filling you will need
300g chicken;
250 g of potatoes;
150 g of onion;
60 g of hard cheese;
· A tablespoon of butter.
Cooking process
1. First make a shortbread dough for the chicken pot. Add salt to flour and mix. Mash the softened butter with flour, grind the mixture with a fork. Drive eggs into the resulting mass, slowly pour water. Knead all the ingredients with your hands until smooth and divide into 3 parts. Wrap the resulting dough in cling film and place in the refrigerator. You can use it in an hour.
2. Prepare the filling. Chop onion, potato and chicken finely. Add salt, add soft butter. Stir the filling thoroughly. Rub cheese, but do not mix in the mass.
3. Remove the chilled dough, divide into two and roll. Cover the bottom of the pan with parchment paper. Place one cake on the bottom, place the meat filling on top. Sprinkle grated cheese evenly over it, wrap the mass on top with the remaining cake.
4. Pinch the dough in a circle and place in the oven. It takes about 50 minutes to cook at 220 ° C.
For any version of the chicken shortbread dough, you can apply a suitable gravy.
Universal creamy sauce
Such products are needed for its preparation.
25 g flour;
400 ml of chicken stock;
Half a glass of cream;
· 2 yolks;
70 g of butter.
Cooking steps
1. On low heat, boil sour cream to a density, broth, cream and half the butter.
2. Remove the mixture from the heat.
3. Add the yolks crushed with butter to the cooled mass.
4. Mix well, you can add spices and herbs. The sauce is ready.
Instead of such a main sauce, mushroom, tomato or cheese is prepared at will. It all depends on personal preferences, the imagination of the cook and the availability of the right products. The sauce is served in a separate small bowl.
Portioned mini-chickens
Convenient small triangles with meat filling will delight you with their taste and aroma.
Products
· 2 tbsp. tablespoons of butter;
450 g flour;
100 g of mayonnaise;
· A third of a large glass of milk;
1 egg
· Chicken (fillet needed);
5 potatoes;
3 onions
· Dill, a little salt and pepper to taste.
Cooking mini-chickens so
1. For the dough, mix grated butter with slightly salted flour. Beat egg and mayonnaise separately with milk. Pour the mixture into flour, knead the dough. Put the finished cake in the refrigerator, let it lie there for at least half an hour.
2. Prepare the filling at this time. Twist the meat removed from the breast and legs of the chicken in a meat grinder, cut raw potatoes and onions into small pieces. Stuff the filling by adding an egg, dill greens (optionally frozen), a little salt and ground black pepper.
3. Remove the dough from the refrigerator, form a long, thick bundle out of it. It needs to be cut into pieces of the same size. Roll each blank, fill the resulting pancakes with filling. Form triangular mini-chambers with a small hole on top.
4. Place the items on a greased baking sheet. Bake in an oven preheated to 210 degrees for about half an hour. For greater juiciness, a small piece of oil can be applied to the surface of each mini-chicken after baking.
Raw Filling Chicken
A relatively quick way to cook a delicious dish.
Dough
· 3.5 cups flour;
250 g margarine
A glass of kefir;
· A teaspoon of soda without a slide;
· a pinch of salt.
Filling
· 4 medium-sized potatoes;
Fillet of 2 chicken breasts;
· 2 large onions;
· Salt and pepper to taste.
Work sequence
1. First prepare the dough. In the center of the sifted and slightly salted hill of flour, make a hole in which you add soda, and then pour in the kefir. Knead, add melted margarine. Place the finished plastic dough in the refrigerator for about 50 minutes.
2. At this time, cut the raw potatoes and chicken into cubes, and the onions into half rings. All products are slightly salted and pepper, not combined.
3. Remove the dough from the refrigerator, divide it into two parts. Cover the pan with parchment paper. Lay the pre-rolled half of the dough on top. Place the filling on the resulting cake in layers. Bottom - potatoes, then onions and chicken. Roll out another cake, cover them with a pie. Make a hole in the upper central part of the henhouse, grease the surface of the cake with a beaten egg.
4. Bake in an oven preheated to 230 ° C for approximately 50 minutes. Remove the finished pie and cover with a towel, let stand for at least 20 minutes before serving.
Kurnik with dough on mayonnaise and sour cream
A great option, this shortbread dough for the chicken coop is very malleable, and after cooking it resembles puff.
Need such products
Half a glass of sour cream;
· A third of a teaspoon of baking soda;
· 3 cups flour;
100 g butter;
Half a glass of mayonnaise;
Half a teaspoon of salt.
Cooking
1. Combine sour cream and soda, pour mayonnaise.
2. In a bowl, grind flour and softened butter.
3. Add sour cream to flour and butter.
4. Knead the dough, send it to the refrigerator. After half an hour you can use.
The composition of the filling
320 g chicken fillet;
200g champignons;
100 g of onion;
1 egg
· Greens of onions or dill;
· a pinch of salt;
· A little black pepper;
· Lean oil for frying.
Make her like that
1. Fry small pieces of chicken in vegetable oil until cooked.
2. Separately lightly brown chopped onions in a pan.
3. Fry the coarsely chopped mushrooms, previously lightly salting and pepper.
4. Combine the products, beat the egg into the mixture, add a little salt and pepper, mix thoroughly.
We pass to the last stage
1. Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Divide it into two parts of different sizes, one of which should turn out to be larger.
2. Roll a large cake about 5 mm thick and place on a greased baking sheet.
3. Spread the filling, leaving the edges of the cake empty.
4. Roll out a small cake, make a small hole in its center.
5. Cover the cake with the resulting cake and pinch the edges of the cake.
6. Bake the chicken at a temperature of 190 degrees for 45 minutes.
7. When the finished dish cools slightly, remove from the oven, cover with a cloth towel before serving.
Simple chicken potato
Easy-to-make pie of available products.
Ingredients
320 g of potatoes
320 g of chicken;
1 onion;
440 g of flour;
· 2 eggs;
100 g butter;
100 g of kefir;
30 g of sugar;
· Salt to taste;
· 1 pinch of soda;
Ground black pepper to taste;
· Greens to taste.
Work stages
1. First, prepare the filling: cut the chicken and potatoes into small cubes, add chopped onions, salt and pepper to taste.
2. Grate lightly melted butter with sugar and salt. Combine them with kefir and eggs, mix well. Add flour and soda to the resulting mixture. Knead the dough well and send it to the refrigerator for 20 minutes, wrapping it in a plastic wrap.
3. Take out the dough, conditionally divide it into three equal parts. Separate one piece and set it aside. Roll a large piece about half a centimeter thick and place on a greased baking sheet.
4. On the resulting cake, evenly distribute the filling. Roll out a small piece of dough and cover the chicken pot. Pinch the edges, place the preheated oven for about 40 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees.
5. At the end of cooking, check that the cake is ready, you may need to keep it in the oven for more time.
Tricks of a successful shortcake dough for a chicken coop
· Instead of sugar, you can take powdered sugar, in this case, when kneading, the mixture becomes homogeneous faster, and the finished dough will simply melt in your mouth.
· Soda is often replaced with a baking powder, which almost always produces high-quality dough.
· Flour must be sieved before use.
· As a fat take natural butter with high fat content, it produces more delicious and crumbly baked goods. To save money, you can take margarine, but it is not so useful, it is absorbed worse by the body. Or replace margarine with a portion of the oil in the recipe.
· Butter is removed from the refrigerator in advance, before kneading the dough it should be at room temperature.
· To tint the taste of unleavened dough, it is necessarily salted.
· They try not to knead the dough for a long time, but do everything energetically and quickly. It can be prepared in the evening, put in the refrigerator (not in the freezer), and used in the morning.
Be sure to cook a chicken pot from shortcrust pastry! A dish made with love will fill the house with coziness and will be rewarded with words of gratitude from family and friends.
