Kurnik is a very tasty pie, extremely popular in Slavic cooking. It is appreciated for its nutritional value, excellent gastronomic qualities, and the originality of the filling. Of course, there is an original pie recipe, classic. But cooks and housewives are creative people, and the original version has long been improved by all sorts of additions.
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The classic
chicken puff pastry
recipe includes chicken meat, eggs, mushrooms, buckwheat porridge, pancakes (shamrocks) and puff pastry base. Of course, it’s easier to cook a dish, if, say, buy a dough ready. Although you can knead it, if time permits. Two types of filling are used in the pie: meat and porridge and mushrooms. How many pancakes have baked, so many layers and will be included in your recipe for a chicken puff pastry. This is the first nuance of cooking. We’ll talk about the second later.
- Filling. For meat, we take medium-sized meat of chicken or several chickens, boil in salted water until tender, free from bones and skin. You can leave it in this form, finely chop. And you can also fry it - the recipe for a chicken pot from puff pastry allows both options. Just fry in butter (this is the second little trick), then the stuffing will be juicy and soft. The main thing is that there is a lot of meat, it's a meat pie! Then porridge. Boil two hundred grams of buckwheat by adding salt, seasonings, etc. Fry mushrooms in a pan with onions (100-150 gr, chopped) until cooked.The classic recipe for a chicken puff pastry recipe allows the use of white, champignons, and indeed any variety that is at hand. Luke should not be sorry. You can add a little crushed garlic at the end. Then put the porridge in the mushrooms, mix, leave it on fire for a couple of minutes. Then turn it off. Also boil hard boiled 3-4 eggs, crumble. Pepper each type of filling, sprinkle with your favorite spices, seasonings, but do not overdo it!
- Now we collect our dish from puff pastry. Roll one sheet of puff to such a diameter so that it is larger than the leaf cases. Roll out the second sheet, even a little more. First place, for example, in a pan or baking dish. Pre-grease the surface with vegetable oil. Edges raise up. Put the first shamrock. Mix eggs and meat, put on a shingles. Put the second pancake on top. On it - minced porridge and mushrooms. Again the cloak and meat. And so on until one of the ingredients runs out. Now we cover the pie with a second sheet of dough, pinch the edges, and grease the “lid” with a beaten egg.Everything, you can put the pan or pan in the oven. Puff pastry products, the photos of which you see in the article, clearly show what the final result should be.
- The last trick. Before you send the cake for baking, in the center of it you need to carefully make a small hole from the first layer to the bottom pancake. Pour in a couple of spoons of the broth that we received when cooking meat. Then the kurnik will turn out to be very tender, juicy, tasty. And you do not need to bake it for long, only until the blush of the shell is made of dough, because inside the filling is completely ready!
If everything is done as it should, the cake is excellent. You can include your favorite components in the filling, improving the taste according to individual needs.