Some of the recipes of ancient Slavic dishesthey are used to this day, but there are undeservedly forgotten ones, and one of them is a traditional kurik, a special kind of pie, which in the olden days was considered to be a festive dish, and today not all of the owners are not all that can not cook it, but I've never even tried it. How to cook a kurik? What products are necessary for the beloved dishes of our grandparents? If there are questions, then there must be answers.
How to cook a kurik?
Ingredients:
- Puff pastry (you can take ready, what our grandmothers could not afford) - 600 g;
- Pancakes (cooked according to any of the usual recipes) - pieces 7;
- Chicken fillet - half a kilogram;
- Rice - ½ cup;
- Eggs - 2 pieces;
- Onion green - 2 bunches;
- Butter - 100 g;
- Milk - ½ cup;
- Onions (large) - 1 piece;
- Champignons - 300 g;
- Dill - 1 bunch;
- Pepper and salt to taste.
Preparation:
- Before preparing the kurik, first prepare the filling of three different types (you can at your discretion).
- Rice cook until ready, add butter and chopped finely green onions. Eggs, hard-boiled, grind on a grater, add to rice, stir.
- Отваривают куриное филе, нарезают на небольшие cubes. The remaining butter is melted in a frying pan, add milk, a little flour, salt and season with pepper to taste, cook over low heat to the consistency of sour cream, add sliced chicken fillets and stew for 5-10 minutes.
- Fry mushrooms with finely chopped onionsonions until golden brown in the heated vegetable oil, pepper and salt are added to taste, also finely chopped dill. The filling is ready, now go directly to how to make a chicken roaster.
- Слоеное тесто делят на две равные части, roll out and from one half of the dough, previously rolled out, cut out a circle on which lay the layers, each of the two layers, separating pancakes. It’s up to you how to cook the chicken - you can put the stuffing in three layers, you can put it in six - correctly in both cases. When the filling is laid out all, the cake is covered on top with the remaining unrolled layer of dough, it is pressed tightly along the edges, and its excess is cut off so that the cake turns out to be a form that resembles a mound - bulky and round. It is necessary to ensure that no air gets under the dough, tightly pressed it with his hands. Fasten the edges of the cake and wrap them up. To decorate the Kornik, dough trimmings are used - they mold various figures and pigtails out of them, put them on top and press them tightly.
- How to cook kurnik in the oven?It is necessary to heat the oven to a temperature of about 200 degrees and bake until a golden crust forms a beautiful color. Since the cake is stuffed with a fully prepared filling, baking does not take much time and corresponds to about 15-18 minutes. To make the cake even more appetizing, the kurnik's surface is smeared with a beaten egg - in this case, the crust is even more attractive - crispy and golden.
There are many different wayscooking chicken, for which use the dough not only puff, as in our case discussed above, but also shortbread, and yeast or fresh. The filling is chosen depending on the season and personal taste preferences, the main thing is that it is multi-layered, and the layers are separated by the most ordinary pancakes, otherwise, it will not be any chicken, but some other pie. Everything is quite simple, no special wisdom and special skills are required, and the result will impress and allow us to try the ancient dish of our distant ancestors, which they specially prepared for weddings and especially solemn holidays, and we will not forget the traditions.
