Kurnik ingredients. Kurniki with chicken and potatoes on yeast dough. Kefir option

Have a good and sunny day everyone! Today's article will again be devoted to pies. Only this time we will bake chicken pie according to a homemade recipe. This original dish has a funny name, kurnik :)

When my child first heard that I had baked chicken and said go sit at the table to eat, he immediately blurted out to me, kurareka, crowing, these are the associations a child has. Honestly, and not for nothing, because this miracle really consists of the main ingredient of the filling - chicken meat.

In the article you will find different best types of this baking, from lazy, quick preparation, to more difficult ones. Although there is nothing complicated in any option. The main thing is the desire to pamper yourself and your loved ones with delicious food.

Kurnik with chicken and potatoes, classic step-by-step recipe with photos

I think that looking at this photo you will immediately go to the kitchen to cook. This pie looks so appetizing, filling and delicious. Is not it? In this version, chicken meat will be used; there is no minced meat. After cooking, the pie will need to be cut into portions and served to guests or loved ones.

We will need:

For the test:

kefir - 250 ml;
butter - 180 g;
flour - about 600-700 g (how much the dough will take);
salt - ½ teaspoon;
baking soda - ½ teaspoon.

For filling:

chicken (fillet) - 350-400 g;
potatoes - 3-4 pcs.;
onions - 2 pcs.
butter - 30 g;
salt, pepper - to taste

For lubrication:

egg yolk - 1 pc.;
water - 1 tbsp. l

Cooking method:

1. To prepare this dish according to the traditional classic version, it is not at all important to be a great cook. The recipe is quite simple and not complicated, even a beginner can do it. First, prepare all the ingredients, and then start kneading the dough.

Pour the kefir into a clean, dry bowl and add soda.

Important! The soda used is not slaked, please note! Since kefir is a sour dairy product, it will quench itself in it and there will be no unpleasant aftertaste of soda.

After baking soda, add salt to kefir. Stir. Let this white mixture sit for a while, about 5 minutes, so that the soda is well extinguished.

2. The butter will need to be melted in a water bath; to be honest, now many people use a microwave instead. You can melt a piece of butter there. Add melted butter to kefir. Stir. Carefully add flour gradually and slowly.

Mix everything well with a spoon, after you reach the point where it is not convenient to stir with a tablespoon, put the flour mixture on the table and knead the dough. It should be soft and elastic and not stick to the palms of your hands at all. After kneading, place it in the refrigerator for an hour, wrapping it in cling film.

3. Now the most important and important thing is the filling for the pie. Beautiful fresh chicken, cut the flesh into small, small pieces. Cut the onion into fine cubes. Lightly salt the filling.

4. Cut the potatoes into slices. Mix with meat and onions. Season with salt and pepper to your taste. It should turn out very magically delicious. It is best to take freshly ground pepper, it is more aromatic.

Important! The potatoes should be cut very thin so that they have time to bake and become soft and fragrant.

5. Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Divide it into 2 parts. Place one fourth of it aside; this will go to the top of the pie. Roll out the first part with a rolling pin into an even circle, if your shape is round, but if it’s rectangular, then into a different shape. Place the resulting dough circle on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil. Be sure to make high sides. Next, add the filling.

Then cover the top with a second layer. Connect the edges well. Leave a small hole in the very center so that steam can escape successfully. Brush the top and surface of the pie with raw yolk and water. To do this, simply combine water and yolk and stir the mixture with a fork.

Bake this product for about one hour at a temperature of 180-200 degrees in the oven. As soon as you see that it has browned and acquired a brownish color, remove from the oven.

It should be served cooled, cut into portions. Bon appetit, friends!

Kurnik made from puff pastry with chicken and potatoes

The pie and its preparation is such an interesting, delicious adventure, the result of which is a fragrant and juicy chicken.

Prepare it using this simple, easy option and you will definitely love this dish. My grandmother suggested this type to me; this is my grandmother’s recipe for making this masterpiece from ready-made store-bought puff pastry. Choose a yeast-free one in the store, although you can also use a yeast version.

Therefore, this option is quick, one might say for the lazy, there is no need to suffer and start the dough. Moreover, you can always buy puff pastry in the store at any time and at any time of the day.

We will need:

Puff pastry without yeast – 1 kg
Potatoes – 6 pieces
Chicken breast – 350 g
Salt - to taste
Spices - to taste
Carrots – 1 piece
Egg – 1 piece

Cooking method:

1. Thaw the dough first. On any package there are always instructions on how to defrost it correctly and how long it should lie on your table. After this, make the filling. Peel fresh potatoes and cut into small cubes. It is best to cut the chicken breast into strips, and the carrots into small cubes.

2. To make the baked goods fragrant, you need to add spices, your favorite spices and salt. Make a round cake from the prepared yeast-free dough using a rolling pin.

Important! Roll out in one direction only, i.e. from top to bottom, making a nice circle so as not to disturb the layers of dough.

Apply the prepared filling to the flatbread. Oh, how bright and beautiful, I already want to try it, don’t I?

3. Now roll out another circle and place it on top of the potatoes and chicken. Pinch the edges with your hands in a circle. Make a hole in the middle so that all the ingredients bake well and evenly. Brush the finished flour product with beaten egg using a silicone brush. This is done so that it shines and looks very appetizing and unusually beautiful after baking.

4. Bake a delicious masterpiece in the oven for 40 minutes. Turn on the oven to 180 degrees, this is the most optimal temperature for this dish. Check readiness with a wooden toothpick.

Be sure to let it sit and cool for a bit before serving. Serve with fresh juice or compote. And for starters, serve delicious rich borscht. Enjoy your meal!

Kurnik with minced meat and potatoes in the oven

Do you know that this dish was once served on holidays, such as a birthday or a wedding, or some other celebration. What holiday celebration are you serving it for?

This option with minced meat and potatoes is interesting because the chicken turns out to be mini and small.

It’s very original to look at such babies, and especially to treat them, because they are so tender, they use margarine, and therefore this delicacy will not go stale for a long time. There is no need to bake a large dish, but make small ones right away. So let's start with the ingredients and preparation.

We will need:

flour - 4 -5 tbsp.
margarine - 200 g
egg - 1 pc.
salt - 0.5 tsp
water - 0.5 tbsp.
minced beef or beef + pork - 500 g
potatoes - 3 -4 pcs.
onion - 1 pc.

Cooking method:

1. You will need to melt the margarine in the microwave or use a water bath. Then add water and one egg to it. Mix this mixture well with a tablespoon. Next, gradually add flour and knead the dough. It should be very soft and elastic, not sticking to your hands.

2. Do not cut the potatoes very large, try to cut them thinly so that they become softer better and faster in the oven. After cutting, add minced meat and mix. Grate the onion on a coarse grater and add it there. Salt and pepper

3. Now to make mini chicken chicken you need to roll out small flat cakes and put the filling in them.

4. Roll approximately as if you were preparing khinkali, just leave the center open. In principle, the shape is not important at all, you can sculpt them triangular, it is at your discretion and desire. Oh, and it turns out beautifully, don’t you agree?

4. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and place the pieces, bake at 200 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Serve them warm, with strong brewed tea or some. The tiny chicken chickens look cool and simply gorgeous, and taste delicious and crumbly.

Bon appetit! If you suddenly want something sweet, then here are some sweet buns to help you.

Lazy chicken - fast, simple and tasty. Jellied pie

I love this look, I mixed it, poured it and now there’s a bite at the table. What could be simpler and better than jellied pie, and even with chicken and potatoes, oh, delicious? Many people also call it a snack option. Definitely suitable for a quick meal.

The dough will be liquid in this form, keep that in mind.

We will need:

For the test:

egg - 3 pcs.
mayonnaise - 3 tbsp
sour cream - 5 tbsp
flour - 1 tbsp.
baking powder - 1 tsp
salt - 1 tsp

Filling:

chicken breast - 2 pcs.
onions - 1 pc.
potatoes - 3 pcs.
spices, Italian herbs, salt pepper to taste

Cooking method:

1. Cut the chicken breasts into small pieces, add a little salt and pepper, add Italian herbs and spices.

2. Also cut the potatoes into cubes or circles. Add salt and pepper. Cut the onion into half rings and mix with potatoes.

Important! It is better to cut the potatoes into circles, since they can be made thin in thickness, which means the potatoes will bake quickly and will not be soggy

3. Break the eggs into a deep bowl. Beat them a little with a whisk, add half a teaspoon of salt, sour cream and mayonnaise. And of course, baking powder. Mix again with a whisk.

Important! Maintain all proportions!

4. Add flour sifted through a sieve. Stir. The consistency of the mixture should resemble that of pancake dough.

5. Cover the baking dish with foil and grease all sides and bottom with vegetable oil using a silicone brush.

6. Divide the dough in half. Pour the first part of the dough into the mold. And then add the filling to it: potatoes with onions and meat.

7. Pour out the second part.

Using a spoon, spread evenly on top to cover all the filling. Place the aspic dish in the oven at 180 degrees for 40 minutes. This is what happened, it looks very nice!

Is not it? What an appetizing and tasty piece it turned out to be, look at the cut! 😆

You can bake kurnik in a frying pan, as long as the handle is removable. But ideally, take a special baking dish.

If you are interested in baking a dish in a frying pan, then watch this video:

This option is budget and economical, perhaps you will like it the most. There is also an option for cooking in a slow cooker, with photos, see the following articles, and now this video story will help you, using it you can cook a delicious chicken pie in a slow cooker:

Pancake chicken and cheese, classic recipe with potatoes and mushrooms

If you follow traditions, then you will like this option, because previously they baked this dish using only a pancake base. This is a labor-intensive process. It was later that different interpretations appeared, for example, the Uzbek, Ukrainian, and Ural kurnik appeared. But still, our royal one is the best, although of course you can’t call it dietary, so if you are afraid for your figure, then choose another option.

We will need:

For the test:

milk 3.2 fat content - 1 tbsp.
raw chicken egg – 1 pc.
sifted wheat flour – 0.5 tbsp.
salt – 1 pinch
sugar – 1 tbsp. l
vegetable oil – 50 ml

For filling:

chicken fillet – 150 g
potatoes - 2 pcs.
mixture of forest mushrooms, champignons – 100 g
onion – 1 pc.
sour cream – 100 ml
boiled chicken egg – 2 pcs.
cheese, preferably hard varieties – 50g
table salt, ground pepper - to taste
bunch of dill - to taste

Cooking method:

1. Make the pancake dough first. Pour the milk into a bowl and add all the other ingredients, only adding the vegetable oil at the very end, after the mixture is well mixed. Add only one tablespoon of vegetable oil to the pancake mixture.

Important! To ensure a lump-free mixture, it is best to use a hand whisk.

Bake pancakes. In this option you will need approximately 10-15 pcs. And then prepare the filling. Cut the chicken meat into pieces and, together with finely chopped onion, fry it in a frying pan with vegetable oil and sour cream. Season with salt and pepper. Simmer for about 10 minutes until the onion turns golden.

You can find other types of pancakes in this article and from there take any version of the dough you like.

2. Also fry the chopped onions and mushrooms in a frying pan. Then add diced boiled eggs and dill to them. Line the baking pan with special paper. Grease the paper with butter. Place the pancakes so that they fit on the pan. Apply the filling: mushrooms, chicken pieces with onions and eggs.

Important! You can do it in layers, for example, the first layer is pancakes, then fried mushrooms and eggs, pancakes, chicken pieces, pancakes, potatoes, pancakes, cheese, pancakes. Grease all layers with sour cream. The dish will be multi-layered.

3. Bake the finished dish in the oven for about 20 minutes. Bon appetit!

Important! Grated cheese adds richness to this dish.

Tsar's Kurnik

During the time of Ivan the Terrible, this dish was served on Easter and Trinity Sunday, but now it can be prepared every day.

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How to make dough for chicken with sour cream or kefir?

There are a lot of cooking options, a great variety. Every time I bake this product, I focus on my products, I think this is a good idea, because you don’t always have to take only one option and cook, you can try all types, and then settle on just one. How many of you have baked this culinary masterpiece with kefir? What fat content did you use? I usually take the low calorie one.

We will need:

flour - by eye, so that the dough becomes elastic and not sticky
kefir - 1 tbsp.
butter or margarine - 1 pack
salt and soda each - 0.5 tsp
potatoes - 4 pcs.
chicken fillet – 500 g
onions - 2 pcs.
pepper and spices as desired

Cooking method:

1. Add soda to kefir.

Important! Wait until the soda dissolves in the kefir, about 2 minutes should pass.

Then carefully pour in the melted margarine.

Important! If you use margarine in any baking, then know that such a flour product will not go stale for a long time than with butter. But it will taste better with butter.

Add flour gradually. Mix well.

2. Knead the dough into an elastic and soft dough so that it does not stick to your hands. After kneading, wrap it in film and put it aside to rest for about an hour.

3. For the filling, cut the chicken fillet into pieces, the onion into cubes, and the potatoes into long thin sticks. Pepper and salt. If you like spices, then add them. I usually use coriander, or all-purpose chicken seasoning.

4. After the dough has rested, divide it into two equal halves. Mash one half with your hands on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil.

5. Add savory toppings.

6. Place a second layer of dough on top of the filling and very carefully roll up the edges of the pie. Make a hole in the center to allow steam to escape. Decorate with different curls.

Interesting! When you take it out of the oven, there will be smoke coming from the center. Maybe that’s why they called this dish so, kurnik, as if someone smokes like a steam locomotive

7. Place the pan in a preheated oven and bake until beautifully golden brown. The oven should be preheated to 180-200 degrees.

8. Delicious chicken stories to you!!! In the old days, such a pie was called Monomakh's cap. To make the dish shiny, cover it with egg yolk, but this is not necessary. Don't forget to invite your friends to see this beauty.

P.S. Do you know that it is customary to serve this meat dish with sauce. Sauces can be made to suit every taste. It can be cheese, creamy, tomato or even mushroom version. I suggest creamy.

So, the preparation steps are as follows:

1. One tablespoon of soft butter is ground with one tablespoon of flour, and this is diluted with any meat broth, about 2 cups. For a twist, add half a teaspoon of cream or sour cream.

2. Cook this sauce on the stove until it thickens and looks like thick sour cream.

3. Afterwards, you need to cool the sauce and add two yolks. Add a little salt and pepper, add chopped dill and mix everything well. Yummy is ready!

With this I will say goodbye, see you again in new articles. Write your comments. Have a good day and mood.

Kurnik - a dish with such a story, you still have to look for it! The most popular pie of Russian national cuisine, which is often awarded such epithets as “the peak of culinary art” or “the king of pies.” It was customary to serve a multi-layered and satisfying kurnik to the table on the most solemn occasions. A professional chef, culinary historian, and connoisseur of Russian cuisine, Gleb Astafiev, is sharing a truly Russian recipe today.

Interesting Facts

Pancakes in kurnik are used to separate layers of filling. They can be made according to any recipe, as long as they are thin.
The first recipe for kurnik appeared during the time of Ivan the Terrible. Back then it was called the “royal pie.”
Kurnik was always baked for weddings. In the groom's house, the kurnik was decorated with human dough figures - a symbol of the future family, and in the bride's house there were flowers as a symbol of femininity and beauty.

Ingredients

For pancake dough:

Chicken egg - 1 piece;
wheat flour - 300 g;
vegetable oil - 70 ml;
dry yeast - 30 g;
water - 200 ml;
salt - to taste

For the pastry:

Wheat flour - 500 g;
water - 70 ml;
chicken egg - 2 pcs;
dry yeast - 30 g;
sugar - 60 g;
salt - to taste;
milk - 500 ml;
butter - 10 g.

For filling:

Champignons - 350 g;
chicken leg - 2 pcs;
dill - 1 bunch;
parsley - 1 bunch;
onions - 2 pcs;
garlic - 3 cloves;
chicken egg - 2 pcs;
vegetable oil - 100 ml;
salt - to taste;
black pepper - to taste.

Ingredients

1. It’s better to start cooking chicken with pancakes: add salt and dry yeast to the flour, mix.

2. Beat the egg separately, add water at room temperature.

3. Then mix the dry and liquid ingredients, gradually diluting the pancake dough with water.

4. Mix thoroughly and leave the dough to rest in a warm place for 20 minutes. For the chicken we will need 6 pancakes, which must be cooled after cooking.

5. For the butter dough, mix dry yeast with a small amount of sugar and water. Sift the flour, add the remaining sugar and salt. Place 2 eggs into the “revived” yeast, pour in warm milk, and mix. Add this mixture to the flour and knead the dough, then leave the dough to rest for about 40 minutes.

6. The risen dough needs to be “kneaded” - mix it thoroughly with your hands, and then leave to rest again for another 30 minutes.

7. Filling: remove all the bones from the chicken legs and remove the skin, finely chop the resulting fillet.

8. Cut the onion and champignons into slices, then fry the onion in vegetable oil along with garlic cloves crushed with a knife. Add mushrooms to the onion and garlic, fry until half cooked, salt and pepper to taste.

9. Separately, fry the chicken pieces in a frying pan with a small amount of vegetable oil.

10. When all the ingredients are ready, they need to be cooled well. To the cooled mixture of mushrooms and onions, add the grated egg and finely chopped greens.

11. Roll out the risen dough into a square shape. Place a pancake in the middle of the rolled out dough, place 3 tablespoons of minced mushrooms, herbs and eggs on top, cover the layer of minced meat with the pancake, and place the chicken on top of the pancake. This way we form all the layers of the pie.

12. Raise the edges of the dough and fold it up, creating a pancake pie inside the chicken pot. Carefully seal the emerging “seams” with your fingers.

13. Turn the chicken over, place it seams down on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 220 degrees.

14. Then take out the pie, brush with beaten yolk and put the chicken back in the oven for 5-10 minutes. After that, grease it with melted butter and keep it in the oven for a couple more minutes.

Bon appetit!

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I suggest making mini chicken chicken today. They are prepared according to the principle of a regular large chicken pie, but in a smaller form such pies are much more pleasant to eat. And everyone at the table will be able to take not a piece, but a whole small chicken. In addition, there is no shame in serving such mini-chickens on the holiday table.

Ingredients:

For the test:

Kefir - 1 glass;
Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
Sour cream - 3 tbsp. l.;
Butter (margarine) - 100 gr.;
Flour - 3 cups;
Sugar - 1/3 tsp;
Salt - 1/2 tsp.

For filling:

Chicken meat - 500 gr.;
Potatoes - 4-5 pcs.;
Onions - 1 pc.;
Salt, ground black pepper - to taste.

Mini chicken chicken recipe.

1. Let's prepare all the necessary ingredients.

2. Let's start preparing the dough. Melt butter (or margarine) in the microwave or on the stove.

3. Then cool the melted butter to room temperature, add sour cream, egg, sugar, and salt. Mix well.

4. Pour in kefir (preferably 3.2%).

5. Add sifted wheat flour in small portions. Sometimes three glasses are enough, sometimes you have to add or subtract a little.

6. The dough is dense but soft. Cover it with a cotton towel and let it rest for 20-30 minutes.

7. Meanwhile, let's start preparing the filling. Cut the chicken meat into small pieces. It is better to use meat cut from the bone (as I did) or mix it half with fillet. If you use only fillet or chicken breast, the filling will be dry. Of course, you can run the meat through a meat grinder, but it won’t be the same.

8. Finely chop the onion.

9. Cut the potatoes into small cubes.

10. Place the chopped meat, potatoes and onions in a bowl.

11. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste. You can add some neutral, non-spicy spices.

12. Mix, the filling for mini-chickens is ready.

13. Let's start sculpting the hens. We divide the rested dough into four equal parts - this is only for ease of rolling.

14. Roll each of these parts into a small sausage and divide into equal pieces.

15. We do the same with the rest of the dough. As a result, you will get approximately 12 equal pieces. We round each piece.

16. Roll each ball into a flat cake 1 cm thick. Place the prepared filling on the flat cake.

17. Gather the edges of the flatbread and form a chicken pot.

18. Now the chicken pot needs to form a lid. Cut out a circle from a small piece of dough and place it on the upper open surface of the chicken pot.

19. Place the prepared chicken on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. But, to be sure that the baked goods will not stick to the paper, grease the paper with vegetable oil and sprinkle with flour.

20. Bake mini-chickens in an oven preheated to 220 degrees for 30-40 minutes.

21. Now let’s enjoy delicious, satisfying and always hot mini-chickens. Bon appetit!

The recipe for which came to us from time immemorial. There are many versions of the origin of its name. So, some researchers believe that it got its name because of the central hole on the “lid” from which steam comes out (smoke). The filling for chicken can be very different. For example, pork, potatoes, chicken fillet, mushrooms, sauerkraut and even berries.

Features and secrets of making pie

Delicious holiday baking can be made from almost any dough. It can be fresh, yeasty, sandy or flaky. And in some cases, kurnik is made from ordinary pancakes. The treat was traditionally prepared for major holidays or weddings. There are known folk signs and traditions associated with this pie. For example, for a wedding, two pies were prepared: one for the bride, and the second for the groom. The treats were broken over the newlyweds' heads and they watched how many crumbs would fall. It was believed that the more of them, the richer the young family would be.

The traditional filling for kurnik consists of chicken fillet, buckwheat porridge, boiled egg and fried onion. But modern recipes have dozens of variations, and you, of course, can choose any of them. Professional chefs and culinary enthusiasts prepare the filling from meat, cheese, mushrooms, sauerkraut, herbs and many other products.

Preparing this pie usually takes a long time. Even experienced chefs try to start baking on their days off, redoing all the urgent tasks. As we have already mentioned, a complex filling consisting of three or four ingredients is often prepared for chicken. But the difficulties don't end there! Keep in mind that you will be kneading two types of dough - one for the thin walls that separate the filling and create layers, and the second for the lid or dome.

This cake is usually recognized by the round hole at the top. However, there are other design options. For example, some housewives simply pierce the pie with a fork or make longitudinal cuts with a knife. Kurnik is often decorated with dough figures or simple geometric patterns. This tradition makes the pie even more interesting and original.

Many old pie recipes are passed down from generation to generation, carefully preserved in the family. Some of them are strikingly different from each other in the composition of the products or their proportions. But that’s why it’s so exciting to find original types of your favorite baked goods, enjoying new tastes and aromas every time!

Kurnik with chicken. Classic recipe

This traditional Russian treat will require your attention and time. But if you are willing to put in a little effort, the result will be a surprisingly tasty and satisfying pie.

Ingredients for dense dough:

wheat flour - 400 grams;
butter - 100 grams;
chicken egg;
milk - a quarter glass;
sour cream - three tablespoons;
soda - one pinch.

Pancake dough ingredients:

milk - 350 ml;
one egg;
flour - five tablespoons;
salt and sugar - to taste.

For the filling take:

one whole chicken - about one and a half kilograms;
porcini mushrooms - 400 grams;
onions - one or two pieces;
boiled rice, millet or buckwheat - 200 grams;
boiled eggs - two pieces;
salt and spices - to your taste.

Traditional chicken recipe

First knead a thick dough. To do this, combine milk with sour cream, egg and melted butter. Sift flour and soda, add a little salt and mix all ingredients. Divide the dough into two parts - roll out the base from the smaller one, and from the larger one we will form a dome for the pie.

After this, prepare the batter and bake pancakes from it (six or eight pieces).

Boil the chicken, remove the meat from the bones and chop it finely. Add some broth, salt and spices to the filling.

Fry the mushrooms in vegetable oil and combine them with chopped boiled eggs.

Collecting chicken

Line a baking sheet with parchment and grease it with oil. Place a thick dough base on it. After that, start laying out the fillings, covering each with a pancake. First comes a layer of rice, then the chicken, and after that the mushrooms. Repeat the sequence until all ingredients are gone.

Carefully cover the structure with a thinly rolled out layer of dough and pinch the edges. Brush the surface of the pie with beaten egg yolk and make a round hole on the top to allow steam to escape. Bake the treat for half an hour at 200 degrees.

You can serve the pie with a sauce made from butter, broth, flour and cream. All these products need to be beaten, boiled in a water bath, and then mixed with egg yolks. The broth remaining after cooking the chicken is seasoned with spices and served separately.

with potato

This time we will tell you how to bake from ready-made puff pastry.

The filling is prepared from the following ingredients:

chicken thighs (we only need fillets with skin) - 500 grams;
butter - 50 grams;
boiled potatoes - three tubers;
onions - two pieces;
thyme - two sprigs;
garlic - one clove;
chicken egg and one yolk.

Cooking a holiday pie

How the filling is prepared is described in detail below.

Peel the onion and cut into cubes.

Cut the fillet together with the skin into large pieces, and then fry it in vegetable oil. For flavor, add thyme and garlic to the pan. At the very end, add the prepared onions to the chicken. When the filling is ready, place it in a colander and wait for the excess fat to drain.

Cut the potatoes into cubes.

Roll out two sheets of dough thinly, and then trim the edges with a knife, giving the pieces a rectangular shape. Place the first layer on a silicone mat and pierce it with a fork in several places. Spread the filling in an even layer and cover it with a second layer of dough.

Connect the edges of the workpiece and brush the surface of the chicken with beaten egg. If you have some dough left, use it to make decorations. For example, you can make a geometric pattern, depict leaves or flowers, and also make figures of birds or animals. You can make any fantasy come true if you mobilize all your creative abilities and talents.

Bake the pie in a well-heated oven for 20 minutes. After this, let it cool a little, and then immediately bring it to the table. This treat goes well with hot tea, fruit juice, compote, and in some cases with strong drinks.

Kurnik with meat and potatoes

For this dish you will need ready-made dough, which you can purchase at your local grocery store or knead it yourself according to your favorite recipe.

The filling for chicken chicken with pork and potatoes consists of the following products:

450 grams of meat;
two onions;
two potatoes;
a raw egg;
spoon of water;
half a teaspoon each of ground pepper and cumin;
a teaspoon of salt.

The filling for chicken is very simple to prepare. Process the meat and cut into cubes. Peel the onions and potatoes and then cut them into very small pieces. Combine the prepared products in a deep bowl, add salt and spices to them.

Divide the dough and roll out two layers from the blanks. Place the first one on a baking sheet, and then spread the filling over it. Cover the pie with a second layer and seal the edges. Make several cuts with a knife to allow steam to escape.

Beat the egg with water and then brush the mixture onto the dough. Bake the treat for 40 minutes, setting the temperature to 200 degrees.

Kurnik and chicken

An amazingly tasty treat will decorate any holiday table. For this dish take:

15 thin golden brown pancakes;
200 ml sour cream;
200 grams of wild mushrooms or champignons;
100 grams of chicken fillet;
50 grams of cheese;
four boiled eggs;
bulb;
a bunch of dill;
salt.

The filling is prepared quickly and easily. Cut the chicken fillet and half an onion into small cubes, and then fry the food in vegetable oil. Add salt, spices and sour cream to them. Simmer the filling for a quarter of an hour, remembering to stir it periodically.

Chop the second half of the onion as desired and fry in a separate frying pan along with the mushrooms.

Boil the eggs, peel and finely chop. Mix the pieces and finely chopped herbs.

Place a sheet of parchment paper on the bottom of the springform pan. Next, lay out several pancakes so that their edges hang down. Cover the center with two pancakes and brush them with sour cream.

Lay out the filling, alternating it with pancakes (you need to put two pieces each time). The first layer is onions and mushrooms, followed by chicken, and at the end eggs and onions. Lift the protruding edges of the pancakes up and connect them. Sprinkle the treat with grated cheese and place it in the oven for 20 minutes.

Conclusion

As you can see, the filling for chicken is prepared from a wide variety of products. Combining new ingredients each time, you will get a new original taste. Therefore, do not be afraid of bold experiments. They are the ones who will help you surprise your guests at the holiday table and delight your loved ones on weekends.

Kurnik - what is it and what did it look like in the old days? This is a large Russian national pie, which, due to its size and simply huge amount of filling, was also called “royal”. First, I will talk a little about the traditional kurnik, and then I will offer two recipes for a modern interpretation. Why modern? Because at the present time, it seems to me, it makes sense to cook kurnik the way it was cooked in Rus' only on purpose, for special occasions. And for family and guests, it is more rational to bake a simplified, but no less tasty version. This is my IMHO, as they say. However, let's take it in order.

How to prepare a dish according to an old recipe

Classic kurnik was most often baked for weddings. And oddly enough, not only with chicken, but also with beef, lamb or fish. But in addition to meat, a lot of cereals were put into the filling: millet, buckwheat, as well as mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs. The finished pie was broken over the heads of the newlyweds and the filling fell out of it. The more they got, the richer the life of the new family was expected to be. That's why the dish was prepared big.

The pie looked beautiful from the outside. It had the shape of a high dome, the bottom and top of which were made of dough. Usually it was prepared in a rich way, decorated with braids, leaves and flowers made from dough. And all the space inside was occupied by the filling, laid out in layers.

However, layers here are a relative concept; when broken or cut, they were practically a mess. Therefore, they began to separate them among themselves using pancakes. This is how we move on to modern step-by-step chicken recipes with photos that you can prepare at home.

Kurnik with chicken and mushroom pancakes

Pancakes, pancakes, but the shell will still be made of dough. Yeast butter, with butter and sour cream, very soft and tasty. I usually cook in a bread machine, but this is not a requirement. I just have this device and I prefer to entrust the “dirty” work to robots. This does not mean at all that it is not possible to knead by hand; for the purity of the experiment, I did this. It turns out no worse, there’s just an element of manual labor.

As for pancakes, you can definitely cook according to your usual recipe. I have only one recommendation - they should not be thin, otherwise you will not find them in the finished pie.

Pie ingredients

Yeast dough for crust:

butter – 100g;
sour cream – 100g;
water – 100ml;
eggs – 2 pcs;
sugar – 1 tsp;
salt – 1 tsp;
instant dry yeast – 1 sachet (11g);
flour – 540g.

Pancake dough:

kefir 1% - 2 cups (250ml);
egg – 2 pcs;
soda – 1/2 tsp;
flour – 2 cups (320g);
salt - a pinch;
sugar – 1/2 tsp;
vegetable oil – 2 tbsp;
butter – 50g.

Filling:

mushrooms (champignons) – 200g;
chicken breast fillet – 1 piece;
onion – 0.5 pcs;
cream 10% - 80ml;
flour – 1 tbsp;
salt and pepper - to taste;
butter – 50g;
vegetable oil – 2 tbsp.

Attention!

If you cook in a bread machine. The quantity of baking ingredients is indicated based on a full load of the bread machine, designed for baking bread weighing 400g. You need to recalculate the proportions for your model. If you knead by hand, then the same proportions will suit you. However, you end up with more dough than you need for the pie. You can use 2/3 for the pie and freeze the remaining 1/3. It survives freezing perfectly (tested many times) and then it can be used to prepare, for example, pizza.

The quantity of ingredients for the pancake dough indicated in the list will yield 20-25 pancakes. We only need a few pieces for the pie. But I think extra pancakes won’t be superfluous. Here are a couple of stuffed recipes: and.

How to make chicken pot at home

Let's start with yeast dough. Melt the butter and pour it into the bowl of the bread machine (a bowl if making it by hand). Let it cool a little.
Add sour cream, break eggs, pour water.
Add salt, sugar. Add flour.
We make a hole in the center into which we pour the yeast.
Place the container in place and run the appropriate program (or knead by hand).
While the dough is rising, let's make the pancakes and filling. Melt the butter again. It is needed to lubricate the pancakes so that they do not stick to each other.
While it cools, pour kefir into a bowl. I indicated a fat percentage of 1%. If you use a fattier one, you may need less flour. Break the eggs there.
Add salt, sugar and all the flour. Mix the dough. Right now it's thick.
Pour baking soda into a glass and pour boiling water from a kettle. Proceed with caution, the soda will begin to foam and foam may spill out of the glass.
Then pour water and soda into the dough in a stream, continuously and vigorously stirring.
Now we see the consistency needed for pancakes.
Pour in the vegetable oil, stir one last time and leave for 10-15 minutes.
Heat the frying pan very well. Warming up is the key point, since we will not lubricate it with anything, we will pour the dough right away. In a poorly heated frying pan it will start to stick.
We bake pancakes on both sides.
Place the finished ones on a plate and oil each one.
Let's move on to chicken and mushrooms. Cut the mushrooms into pieces.
Put a piece of butter in a frying pan and pour in a little vegetable oil (mushrooms love this mixture).
First, fry the mushrooms.
When the liquid has evaporated and they are slightly fried, add the onion.
Cook until the onion is translucent and add the chicken breast cut into pieces.
Stir and, reducing the heat and stirring, wait for the chicken to be ready. Then add flour.
Mix and pour cream.
Cook, stirring continuously until the sauce thickens.
Let the chicken and mushrooms cool slightly.
When the dough is ready, we begin to assemble the chicken.
To do this, divide the baking into three parts - two large and one small. The large ones are the bottom and lid of the pie, and the small ones are future decorations. Roll out the bottom.
Add 1/4 of the filling.
Cover with a pancake and add the second quarter of the chicken. Cover with pancake again and repeat until all the filling is gone.
Roll out the lid of the pie. The diameter should be large enough to cover the top and sides of the chicken coop.
We tightly mold the edges of the bottom and lid. You can pinch it with a braid. At the very top, in the center, we make a hole for steam to escape. And from the remaining dough we prepare something with which to decorate the pie.
Brush the surface of the assembled chicken chicken with beaten egg for gloss.
Heat the oven to a temperature of 220°C. Bake until the pie lid is ready. It will become beautiful and golden. Our chicken with mushrooms is already prepared, so there is no need to worry that the inside of the chicken will be raw.

After baking, let the cake cool slightly. And we cut it. Our kurnik has a crispy and at the same time soft crust, a juicy filling of chicken and mushrooms in a creamy sauce and tender pancakes inside it. Looks elegant and festive

Kurnik - with chicken and potatoes recipe with photos

Unlike the previous recipe, which can confidently be considered a small feat, this chicken chicken can successfully be called lazy. His dough is quick-cooking - shortbread, unleavened, without eggs. Chicken and potato filling. No pancakes. Preparing is much easier and faster. But the taste is also very pleasant and you and your family will definitely like it.

The minced meat in the filling can be replaced with finely chopped fillet. There is no need to fry it first; everything will be cooked in the oven.

This recipe can be used to prepare either one large pie or several portioned mini chicken pie.

Attention!

I prepared the dough using a blender, but you can chop it with regular kitchen knives. Then one point is very important - do not try to achieve homogeneity of the mass, in no case do not knead with your hands for a long time. If the butter pieces melt, you'll end up with a tough bottom instead of a tender, crumbly crust.

Pie composition

Dough:

butter – 150g;
flour – 230g;
sugar – 0.5 tsp;
salt - a pinch.

Filling:

minced chicken – 300g;
onion – 1 piece;
potatoes – 3 pcs (medium size);
salt and ground black pepper - to taste;
egg – 1 pc.

How to cook - step by step recipe

We need frozen butter. We chop it with a knife into pieces of medium size and arbitrary shape.
Pour flour into a blender and add butter on top. Add salt and sugar. And grind it. The process happens quickly, no more than 30 seconds.
We get butter chopped into small crumbs mixed with flour.
Pour 3-4 tablespoons of very cold water into the bowl and mix again.
At this stage we will get a moistened mixture of flour and butter that is not much like dough.
Pour the contents of the bowl into a plastic bag. We crush it into a ball. You can’t crush it for too long! As soon as it sticks together into an uneven lump, stop immediately.
Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
During this time, finely chop the onion, mix with minced meat, season with salt and pepper. Peel the potatoes and cut them into very small cubes. Add to chicken and onions.
Taking the dough out of the refrigerator, knead it a little, literally 1 minute.
Then we divide into two parts. First, roll out the first one on a sheet of parchment sprinkled with flour. Lightly grease the baking dish with oil and dust with flour. We carefully transfer the dough disk, holding it by the paper, turn it over the form, place it and distribute it along the bottom and sides.
Place chicken and potatoes.
Cover with the second part of the rolled out dough. Connecting the edges. Using a knife, make two cuts crosswise in the center and open them slightly to allow steam to escape. Lubricate the kurnik with an egg slightly shaken with a couple of tablespoons of milk.
Bake in an oven heated to 190°C. The kurnik takes a long time to bake, at least an hour, since the potatoes in such pies remain raw for a long time. To prevent the top from burning during the process, cover it with foil.

Allow the finished chicken to cool for 20 minutes. Firstly, it is very hot inside, and secondly, after standing, it is cut more accurately. And we sit down at the table.