Kurnik made from puff yeast dough with chicken and potatoes, recipe with photos step by step

Kurnik made from puff pastry with chicken in the oven

Kurnik is a royal pie with a rich history. In Rus', for a long time, kurnik was considered the most delicious pie. It was also called royal. This multi-layered, hearty pastry appeared on the festive table of Ivan the Terrible. Later, pancake pie went to the people. But it was also served on major holidays. The preparation process takes a lot of time, but the result is worth it. The pie turns out very tasty and filling.

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Step-by-step preparation

Step 1:

As fillings for kurnik, I suggest making: boiled chicken, mashed potatoes with fried onions and eggs with green onions. Boil chicken breast, potatoes and eggs. Boil the chicken breast in salted water. Add salt to the potatoes during cooking as well. Remove the puff pastry from the freezer and leave to defrost at room temperature. Peel the onions, chop finely and fry a little in vegetable oil.

Step 2:

Mash the boiled potatoes with a potato masher.

Step 3:

Add fried onions to it. Mix. The first filling is ready.

Step 4:

We peel the boiled eggs. Chop into small pieces. Wash the green onions thoroughly and finely chop them. Then combine the eggs and green onions. Salt. Mix. The second filling is ready.

Step 5:

The third filling is boiled chicken breast. After boiling, separate the meat from the bones and cut into small pieces. If the taste of boiled chicken is too bland for you, you can add pepper and spices.

Step 6:

We will have pancakes as a layer between the fillings. Let's start preparing them. Mix milk, vegetable oil, egg white (leave the yolk for greasing), soda, salt, sugar, flour. Beat with a whisk. It should be a liquid dough.

Step 7:

Fry the pancakes on both sides. If necessary, you can pour a little vegetable oil into the pan. I have a non-stick frying pan, so I fry without adding oil. I got three pancakes. That's exactly what we need.

Step 8:

Roll out the defrosted puff pastry a little. Cut a circle out of it, slightly larger in diameter than the pancake.

Step 9:

Let's start assembling the pie. Place the first layer of mashed potatoes with fried onions.

Step 10:

Cover it with a pancake. Press down lightly.

Step 11:

The next layer is an egg with green onions.

Step 12:

Place the pancake on top again.

Step 13:

And the third layer is boiled chicken.

Step 14:

It is also covered with a pancake.

Step 15:

Roll out the other half of the puff pastry so that it is enough to cover all the layers. Cover the pie with dough. We cut off the excess with a knife or scissors. We pinch the edges. We make various decorations from the leftover dough.

Step 16:

Brush the pie with yolk. Place the pie in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 25 minutes. This time is quite enough. After all, we already have the filling ready. You just need to wait for the dough to bake and brown. Enjoy your meal.

Lazy kurnik made from batter - a quick jellied pie recipe

Jellied chicken is ideal for those housewives who do not like to fuss with dough. Here you simply mix the ingredients and pour over the cake.

On a note! Potatoes cut into slices will not fall out when cutting the chicken into pieces.

We will need:

• 0.5 kg boneless chicken;
• 4 large potatoes;
• 100 g mayonnaise;
• sour cream - 150 g;
• a glass of flour;
• 3 eggs;
• 0.5 tsp. soda;
• salt, pepper to taste.

Cooking step by step:

Cut the potatoes into rings and the onion into half rings. Chop the chicken fillet into small cubes. Place the ingredients in separate bowls.

We salt and pepper each one. Grease the pie pan with oil. Place half of the potatoes on the bottom. Then half the onion. Then meat. Next, the remaining onions. Top with the rest of the potatoes. Let's start preparing the jellied dough.

Mix eggs with sour cream and mayonnaise. Add salt, baking soda and flour. The consistency of the mass resembles thick sour cream.

Fill the chicken stock with dough. Place in the oven for 60-70 minutes at 180 degrees.

Cool and serve.

How to cook kurnik from puff pastry

Today I want to tell you how to cook kurnik from puff pastry. Initially, kurnik is an old Russian holiday pie, which got its name from the main filling - chicken.

Not a single wedding in Rus' or the Trinity holiday would be complete without this table decoration. The more festive the event, the more fillings the pie should have. Traditionally, kurnik is baked from yeast dough, but options with unleavened dough are also acceptable, but I offer the simplest recipe - with ready-made puff pastry. The main thing is that the fillings are interspersed with the thinnest spongy pancakes. Despite all the pomp and “royality” of the pie, the ingredients for it are the most budget-friendly: the remaining rice cooked as a side dish; chicken from broth; pancakes prepared for breakfast...

• Total cooking time – 2 hours
• Active cooking time – 15 minutes
• Cost – $5
• Calorie content per 100 g – 255 kcal
• Number of servings – 8 servings

Puff pastry chicken recipe

Ingredients:

• Chicken leg – 1 pc.
• Puff pastry without yeast – 500 gr.
• Rice – 1/2 cup
• Onions – 1 pc.
• Butter – 60 gr.
• Champignons – 200 gr.
• Pancake – 4-6 pcs.
• Dill – 1 bunch
• Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
• Black pepper - to taste
• Milk – 1 tbsp.
• Salt - to taste

Preparation:

Let the puff pastry defrost. Meanwhile, bake the pancakes. For many years I have been faithful to one recipe: beat 1 egg with a glass of kefir, add 1 tbsp. l. sugar and a pinch of salt, shake again and add flour until liquid sour cream thickens. Bake in a greased hot frying pan. Grease the finished pancakes with butter. Wash long grain rice (choose non-starchy varieties: basmati, jasmine) in cold water, boil in salted boiling water until tender, drain in a colander. Wash again. Boil the egg hard, cool, cut into small cubes. Chop the dill. Mix rice with egg and dill, season with 2 tbsp. l. melted butter, season with salt and pepper.

Kurnik with broth

Kurnik with broth is very popular, as the potatoes and chicken turn out very juicy, and the dough is saturated with the taste and aroma of the ingredients. It is important that the dish corresponds to what is stated; you must follow the rules described in the recipe.

Composition of ingredients

To bake chicken with broth you will need:

Water can be replaced with chicken broth or liquid cream, then the chicken will turn out even more juicy and aromatic.

Step-by-step cooking process

Cooking chicken broth with broth consists of the following steps:

1. Pour sour cream into a bowl for kneading dough, dissolve salt and soda in it.
2. After this, you need to add margarine and gradually add flour.
3. Knead the dough with your hands and put it in a bag.
4. Next, the dough needs to be put in the refrigerator for about 1 hour.
5. Potato tubers, onions and fillets should be cut into small pieces.
6. After this, the finished dough needs to be divided into 2 parts.
7. Roll out a large part, place it in a baking container and decorate the sides.
8. Place potatoes and onions on the dough. Sprinkle with ground pepper and salt.
9. Next, you need to lay out the fillet and sprinkle with salt (and chicken spices, if used).
10. Roll out the remaining dough and cover the pie with it. Pinch the edges well.
11. You need to make a hole in the middle. You need to carefully pour water (broth or cream) into it.
12. Brush the top layer of dough with beaten egg. Pour the remaining egg into the hole, it will prevent strong evaporation of the broth.
13. Preheat the oven to 200 °C and bake the chicken in it for about 40 minutes.

Since the broth can be absorbed into the dough, it is recommended to consume kurnik immediately after cooking.

How to bake a classic kurnik with chicken from puff pastry

Ingredients

• Chicken fillet (from thighs or breast) – 600 g + –
• Butter - 3 tbsp. + —
• Puff pastry without yeast (ready) – 1 package + –
• Garlic – 2 cloves + –
• Ground black pepper - to taste + -
• Carrots - 2 pcs. + —
• Hard cheese (Kostroma, Suluguni, cream or Russian) - to taste + -
• Onions - 2 pcs. + —
• Salt - to taste + -
• Chicken eggs (for greasing the surface of the pie) - 1 pc. + —
• Wheat flour - 2 tbsp. + —

Juicy chicken puff pastry with chicken fillet in the oven

Today, a simple grandmother’s recipe will help us prepare the most delicious chicken pie. For kurnik we will take yeast-free puff pastry, use boiled chicken fillet as a filling, and garlic to add a divine aroma.

The list of products for an airy homemade pie with a golden-brown crispy crust will surprise you with its affordability and simplicity, but these are small things compared to how the fabulous taste of lush baked goods toasted in the oven will amaze you.

Cooking chicken fillet for filling grandma's chicken chicken

• Boil poultry meat (fillet) in salted water for 40-45 minutes.

• Cool the cooked meat to room temperature so that it is convenient to chop it later. You don’t have to pour out the broth: it will be an excellent base for any sauce, gravy or soup.

Making the filling for chicken from vegetables and boiled chicken

• 1 tbsp. melt the butter in a frying pan (and do this before frying each filling ingredient, since all components will be fried separately from one another).
• Cut the poultry fillet into small pieces, pour them into a frying pan, then fry over medium heat, stirring from time to time, for about 5-7 minutes.
• During the frying process, add chopped garlic to the meat (either cut it finely with a knife, or pass it through a garlic press).
• Immediately at the end of cooking (frying), pour 2 tbsp into the pan. chicken broth.
• When the time for frying the meat in the broth with garlic has expired, this part of the filling for the chicken will need to be transferred to a cup or bowl.
• Grate the carrots on a grater with large holes, then pour the chopped root vegetable into a frying pan and fry it in butter for about 10-12 minutes.
• Cook the carrots, stirring constantly, until they soften and lightly brown (but do not overcook). Next, add the roast to the previously boiled chicken fillet.

• Chop the onion, simmer it in a frying pan in butter (butter) for no more than 3-5 minutes, literally until it acquires a beautiful golden hue. Then we also pour it into the finished chicken.
• We turn hard cheese into shavings using a coarse grater, then pour it into the previously crushed components of the pie.
• Salt all the filling for the fluffy puff kurnik to taste, season with spicy ground pepper, and then gently but thoroughly mix until smooth.

We form a chicken pot with chicken and vegetables in layers

• We heat the convection oven to 190°C, and while the oven is saturated with heat, we sprinkle flour on the table and roll out the finished puff pastry on it.

• Roll out the dough piece thinly so that the dough can reach the size of the baking sheet. But there is no need to roll out the edges (3-5 cm), otherwise it will be difficult to pinch the pie.
• Place a thinly rolled out sheet of dough on the bottom of the baking sheet, pour the filling on top of it and distribute it evenly over the entire surface of the lower dough layer.
• Let's start rolling out the second (top) layer of yeast-free puff pastry. We make it slightly larger in size than the bottom layer.
• We cover the filling for the future delicious chicken with a rolled out sheet of dough, then carefully pinch all the edges of the pastry so that its edible contents do not leak out.
• Beat one chicken egg with salt (1 pinch) with a fork, and then grease the surface (including the places where the edges are pinched) of the chicken with the resulting mixture, using a silicone brush.

Quickly and correctly bake kurnik from puff pastry at home

• Place the baking sheet with the pie made according to grandma’s recipe in a preheated oven and cook for about 20-25 minutes. Since the contents of the chicken pot are initially prepared, cooking in the oven comes down directly to baking the dough.
• When the homemade pie is baked and covered with a beautiful blush, you can take it out of the oven.

• Before serving, let it cool for 10-15 minutes, covering with a dry towel.
• Cooled chicken, stuffed with your favorite vegetables and dietary chicken meat, should be served in portions, cut into tasty pieces in the form of a square.

Chicken pie - portioned classic recipe

I present a successful recipe for mini-chickens with shortbread dough. They turn out beautiful on the outside, juicy on the inside. Nothing leaks out during baking. The triangles hold their shape perfectly. Be sure to try it.

For the dough we need:

• 0.5 tsp. soda (or 1 tsp baking powder);
• 1 tsp. salt;
• 250 g of soft melted butter (or margarine);
• 400-450 g flour;
• 200 g sour cream.

For the filling:

• 600 g chicken fillet;
• a pair of onions;
• a couple of potatoes;
• pepper to taste.

On a note! Do not skimp on onions - its juice makes the meat more juicy.

Recipe description:

1. Pour sour cream into the dough bowl. Add baking powder. Stir and add oil.
2. Gradually add flour. Knead an elastic dough that does not stick to your hands. Cover with a towel and let the mixture rest a little.
3. Finely chop the onion. Chop the chicken fillet and potatoes into cubes (the smaller the better). Salt and pepper the filling and proceed to sculpting mini-chickens.
4. Roll a small ball and turn it into a layer using a rolling pin. Make sure the thickness is not too thin - this way the base will not tear and will withstand the filling. Place a tablespoon of filling in the middle.
5. We lift the two edges of the round and interlock the edges together, forming a triangular shape. We leave a small hole in the center - we give the steam the opportunity to escape freely.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, prepare the mold. Bake for 30 minutes.

That makes 18 pieces. We cool it down a little and call everyone to the table quickly.