Kurnik is a national dish of Russian cuisine. In the old days, this pie was prepared for major holidays. An appetizing and unusually tasty dish was used to decorate the wedding and Easter tables. It was called the royal pie for its beautiful appearance, high taste and difficulty in preparation.
Every modern housewife can surprise guests or household members with a shortcrust pastry chicken. To do this, you need to have a desire to please others with your culinary talent and a couple of hours of free time.
Let's move on to the last stage
1. Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Divide it into two parts of different sizes, one of which should be larger.
2. Roll out a large cake to about 5 mm thick and place on a greased baking sheet.
3. Spread the filling, leaving the edges of the crust empty.
4. Roll out a small cake, make a small hole in its center.
5. Cover the pie with the resulting crust and pinch the edges of the pie.
6. Bake the kurnik at a temperature of 190 degrees for 45 minutes.
7. When the finished dish has cooled slightly, remove from the oven and cover with a cloth towel until serving.
Kurnik from shortcrust pastry: recipe with photo
Shortbread dough for chicken with sour cream turns out to be very tender and soft. Consider a recipe for making a delicious pie based on it.
Ingredients for the base:
- 2 eggs;
- 1 tsp. baking powder;
- 200 g sour cream;
- 200 g butter;
- ½ tsp. Sahara;
- ¼ tsp. salt;
- 2 tbsp. sifted flour.
Ingredients for filling and sauce:
- 200 g sifted flour;
- 50 g butter;
- 150 ml cream;
- 6 eggs;
- salt;
- 50 g rice;
- 300 g mushrooms;
- 2 tbsp. broth;
- vegetable oil;
- 400 g chicken fillet;
- greenery.
Preparation:
- Separate the yolks from the protein mass. Beat the yolks with salt and granulated sugar.
- Add sour cream and butter at room temperature to the yolk mass.
- Mix the resulting mass until it has a homogeneous consistency.
- Add sifted flour mixed with baking powder into it. Attention: add flour in small portions so that lumps do not form.
- Mix the base. We should get a homogeneous and smooth dough.
- Wrap it in food grade film and place it in the refrigerator for now.
- We need to boil chicken meat and 3 eggs in salted water and cool. Don't pour out the broth, we'll need it!
- Cut the fillet into small cubes.
- Let's prepare the sauce. Combine butter and 100 g of sifted flour.
- Cook the resulting mass in a water bath, stirring constantly.
- Add cream and chicken broth to the creamy flour mixture. Cook the sauce until it thickens.
- Separate three egg yolks from the whites. Mix the yolk mass with 100 g of sifted flour and grind.
- Slowly add the creamy sauce into the yolk-flour mixture and stir until smooth.
- Place the saucepan with the sauce on the stove or water bath and cook for five to six minutes. Don't forget to stir! Then whisk the sauce until smooth.
- Pour half the sauce over the chicken fillet and stir.
- Clean the mushrooms, rinse and dry. Fry them, adding salt, in vegetable oil until golden, then add the remaining sauce and simmer for several minutes, stirring.
- Boil the rice and place in a colander.
- We wash the greens, chop them and combine them with rice.
- Divide the dough into two parts. One of them should be a little larger. So we roll it out into a round layer, and then put it in a heat-resistant form covered with parchment paper. We form the sides.
- Spread a layer of rice filling, using only half of it.
- We clean the eggs and cut them into two parts. Place them on top of rice and herbs.
- Next, chicken in sauce and mushrooms come into play. Attention: make each subsequent layer smaller in diameter than the previous one. We should have a slide.
- The last layer is rice.
- Now roll out the remaining layer of base and cover the chicken pot with it. We will make several holes along the surface.
- Brush the pie with beaten egg yolk and place in the oven. Bake at a temperature of 180-190 degrees for forty minutes.
- This is such a delicious shortcrust pastry with chicken!
Shortbread dough with sour cream
For preparation you will need the following ingredients:
- half a kilogram of flour;
- sour cream – 100 grams;
- milk – 2 large spoons;
- butter – 4 large spoons;
- table salt - to your taste;
- soda – 1 incomplete teaspoon.
Cooking time: 40 minutes.
Calorie content – 412 kcal.
Cooking process:
- Break the chicken egg, put it in a cup and stir thoroughly with a fork or whisk;
- Add sour cream to the egg mixture and stir with a whisk until smooth;
- Natural butter should first be removed from the refrigerator so that it softens a little;
- Pour milk into the egg-sour cream mixture and stir;
- Next, add softened butter, rub with a whisk or fork;
- Add salt, baking soda and mix;
- The flour needs to be sifted several times and added to the rest of the ingredients;
- Mix all the ingredients into a dough. First you need to mix with a spoon;
- Next, knead the base with your hands. The result should be a base with an elastic structure;
- Place the base in a plastic bag and place in a cool place for 30 minutes;
- After the required time has passed, remove the dough;
- Divide the base in half, roll them into two layers, and place your favorite filling between them.
Description of preparation:
In our family, everyone really respects pies, especially savory ones, but for us kurnik is a whole holiday. And like every housewife, I also have my own special recipe for making shortcrust pastry for chicken. I don’t know why, but it is with this dough that our chicken turns out especially tasty, probably it’s all about the crumbly consistency of this dough. Overall, the result is a very juicy and tender pie, but the filling is your personal choice, because chicken can be prepared with anything, and in any case it turns out incredibly tasty. Believe me, with this simple recipe for shortbread dough for kurnik, you will no longer have to think about how to please your family, because such a juicy and tender pie is a holiday in itself.
On butter
To get a delicious butter dough, you need to use the following components:
- butter – 0.2 kg;
- kefir – 2 tbsp.;
- flour – 3 tbsp;
- salt and soda - on the edge of the knife.
Step-by-step preparation:
- Melt the butter over low heat.
- Combine kefir with salt and soda. Pour in melted butter.
- Add flour in small portions and knead the dough until it is elastic and does not stick to your hands.
- Leave the dough in cling film to infuse for 1-2 hours.
This type of dough is suitable for forming kurnik and other pies with various fillings.
How to cook with mayonnaise
To prepare elastic dough for an exquisite delicious pie, you will need the following ingredients:
- 0.5 tbsp. mayonnaise;
- 0.5 tbsp. water;
- salt;
- 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- 2.5 tbsp. wheat flour.
Preparation:
- Combine warm boiled water and mayonnaise in equal quantities until completely dissolved.
- Add salt and oil.
- Sift the wheat flour using a fine sieve. Gradually add to liquid ingredients, stirring thoroughly.
- Knead the dough.
- You can leave the workpiece in film in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
- It's time to shape the product before baking.
Kurnik made from this dough turns out to be especially tasty and delicious. And guests will not guess the main component of the dough recipe - mayonnaise.
Puff pastry for chicken
Today they prefer to buy ready-made puff pastry for baking, but it is much tastier to make it at home.
Required Products:
- butter - 100 g;
- wheat flour - 2 tbsp;
- mayonnaise - 5 tbsp. l;
- baking powder - 3 g;
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
- Chop the butter into small pieces. Add flour, salt, baking powder. Grind all ingredients into crumbs.
- Next, add mayonnaise and knead the resulting mass. Form a ball, cover it with cellophane, roll it into a layer with a rolling pin.
- Place the resulting layer inside the freezer for 15 minutes. Remove the layer from the refrigerator, roll it into an envelope, do not roll it out thin. Place back in the refrigerator.
- To make the puff pastry kurnik porous and crumbly, roll it out in several stages, each time keeping it in the cold.
Adherents of a healthy diet may notice mayonnaise instead of sour cream, milk or kefir. The taste of the pie will not change by changing the ingredient.
Lenten sand base
For those who adhere to a diet, there is good news: shortcrust pastry is easy to make lean. This base is suitable for preparing both sweet and savory baked goods.
Compound:
Preparation:
- We need chilled water, so we’ll put it in the refrigerator in advance.
- Combine purified water with olive oil. Add salt. Attention: if the amount of oil is less, the base will be less crumbly.
- Using a mixer or blender, beat the base until smooth.
- Sift 200 g of flour into a deep cup and add the resulting liquid mixture.
- Mix the base with a spoon, slowly adding the rest of the flour. This is the kind of dough we should get.
Other cooking options
The dough prepared according to these recipes can be used not only for classic chicken pies, but also for other savory pies, for example, chicken and mushroom pie, or a very tasty chicken and potato pie.
Also try baking chicken jellied pie. It is prepared very simply and quickly - even a beginner can handle it.
I hope you have already chosen one of my dough recipes for making chicken? If you have your own proven recipe, write it in the comments. I've been wanting to try something new for a long time, so I'll be grateful to you. Good luck and inspiration to you!
Recipes
Kurnik on shortbread dough with mushrooms
Kurnik on crispy shortbread dough stuffed with chicken, mushrooms and rice. The cake will turn out beautiful, tall, in a word, festive.
The filling uses pancakes, which you can make yourself (see 2 links at the beginning of the article), or buy in a store to save time.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour – 430 g.
- Butter (or margarine) – 120 g.
- Milk (or water) – a quarter glass;
- Baking powder – 1 pinch;
- Sour cream (or mayonnaise) – 3 tbsp. spoons;
- Chicken (thighs, fillet, etc.) – 900-1000 g.
- Mushrooms (champignons) – 450 g.
- Boiled rice – 200;
- Eggs – 3 pcs.
- Green onions, dill, etc.
- Salt and pepper;
- Ready-made pancakes – 6 pcs.
Preparation
For now you can put the chicken to cook. Lightly salt the water. If desired, add bay leaf.
2 eggs also need to be boiled. You can add them to the chicken if you don't need broth.
Shortbread dough for chicken
Let's start preparing shortcrust pastry for chicken. It is mixed with margarine (in our case, butter) and sour cream. This recipe is universal and perfect for any savory baked goods.
Beat the egg with sour cream and butter. Add milk. Combine flour with baking powder, then add to liquid mixture and mix well. The resulting homogeneous lump of dough should be placed in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
All! That's the whole cooking sequence.
Filling and baking
Separate the boiled chicken from the bones and cut into small pieces.
Chop the boiled eggs, then mix with boiled rice and chopped herbs. Pepper and salt.
Wash the mushrooms and fry them together with the onions in oil in a frying pan.
Take the dough out of the refrigerator and break off half. We roll this piece into a flat cake, which is larger in diameter than pancakes.
The flatbread was placed on a baking sheet. The first layer is the chicken, then we put the pancake on it. Next are mushrooms, then pancake again. Next comes the rice. Cover it with a pancake and alternate layers until the ingredients run out.
Roll out the second piece of dough. The flatbread should be even wider. We place it on top of the filling, fasten it with the bottom dough and turn it up.
Make a small hole in the center of the cake to allow steam to escape.
Heat the oven to 180 degrees, place the pie, bake for about 60 minutes.
Shortbread chicken with potatoes and chicken
This pie is easy to make and has a more traditional flat appearance. You can find more similar recipes on the page: chicken shortbread pies.
Ingredients:
For the dough:
- Flour – 410 g.
- Margarine (or butter) – 210 g.
- Sour cream – 200 g.
- Salt – 1 pinch;
- Baking powder – 1 teaspoon;
Filling:
- Chicken fillet – 650 g.
- Sour cream (or mayonnaise) – 3-4 tbsp. spoons;
- Potatoes – 2 tubers;
- Salt and pepper to taste;
Preparation
- Grind margarine with flour, add baking powder, sour cream and salt. Roll into a ball and place in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
- Wash the chicken fillet, chop and fry in oil. Then lay out the chicken, chop the onion and place it in this frying pan - let it fry until golden.
- Peel the potatoes, rinse with water and cut into small cubes. Mix raw potatoes with chicken, onions, sour cream, salt and pepper.
- Grease the baking dish well with oil.
- Take out the dough and divide it into 2 parts. The one that is bigger will go down. Roll it out, put it in shape, make sides.
- Place the filling into this base. Roll out the remaining dough and cover the pie with it, pinching the edges.
- We make a small hole in the center. Through it you can pour in the remaining oil or some tasty broth. 3-5 spoons will be enough.
- Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 45 minutes until golden brown.
Kurnik made from shortcrust pastry with minced meat and cheese
This option is distinguished by the presence of cheese and minced meat. The third main component is rice or potatoes.
Ingredients:
- Minced pork – 200 g.
- Chicken – 300 g.
- Onions – 3 pcs.
- Eggs – 2 pcs.
- Margarine – 210 g.
- Milk – 110 ml.
- Flour – 520 g.
- Salt – 0.5 teaspoon;
- Black pepper;
- Cheese – 100 g.
- Potatoes – 2 pcs.
Cooking process
- Cut the chicken into small pieces and mix with minced meat, one onion, pepper and salt. Let the meat marinate slightly.
- Beat the egg with milk and melted margarine. Gradually add flour, stir. Don't forget to add salt.
- Wrap the dough in plastic and close it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- While we are peeling and cutting the potatoes and remaining onions.
- We took out the dough and divided it into two pieces: one slightly larger than the other.
- We roll out the larger piece and place it in a mold with high sides. Pre-grease the pan with butter or line it with parchment.
- Lay out the potato layer, then the onion layer. Next, grate the cheese. The meat is the last layer.
- Roll out the remaining piece of dough thinly, place it on top of the filling and pinch the edges tightly.
- Make a small hole in the center of the pie.
- Turn on the oven at 180 degrees. Meanwhile, beat the egg yolk and generously brush the entire pie with it.
- Bake this chicken for about 50 minutes.
