For most people, chicken is the main course on their table. This leads to the fact that at one point you understand that all the dishes from it have already been tried, and it's time to think about how to diversify your menu. Our article presents chicken in puff pastry, or rather, interesting recipes for its preparation. Among them there will definitely be one that you have not tried and have never prepared before.
Puff pastry chicken with mushrooms and cranberries
This dish may well become the main one on the festive New Year's table. The chicken in the puff pastry, the recipe of which is offered below, is not difficult to prepare, and the result will definitely exceed all your expectations.
Step-by-step cooking is as follows:
- Chicken fillet is cut with a book, beaten and laid out on a plastic wrap with a layer. The edges of each filet should go a little to the previous one. The prepared “towel” is smeared with a mixture of pepper and ground thyme (2 teaspoons). Dried cranberries (50 g) and cranberry jam (300 g) are laid out in the center of the formation. Then the fillet is carefully folded with a roll and fastened with a toothpick. The prepared roll is laid out in a pan with warmed vegetable oil and fried on both sides. Then it needs to be transferred to a baking sheet and sent to the preheated oven for another 15 minutes.
- Mushrooms (600 g) are fried in a pan with butter, cooled and chopped with a blender.
- Puff pastry is cut into 2 parts. Half of the mushroom filling is laid out on the first layer , roll is placed on top, and then the remaining mushroom mixture. After that, the roll is covered with a second layer of dough.
- Chicken in puff pastry in the oven is baked for 30 minutes at a temperature of 180 °. To the table, the dish can be served both hot and in the cooled form.
Chicken Wellington
The famous Beef Wellington festive dish is traditionally made from beef. However, from chicken it turns out no worse, and it takes much less time to cook it. For convenience, the fillet is baked portionwise.
Chicken in puff pastry according to this recipe is prepared in the following sequence:
- The oven warms up to 200 degrees.
- Beat the egg with a teaspoon of water.
- Chicken fillet (4 pcs.) Is rubbed with ground thyme (½ teaspoon) and black pepper (¼ teaspoon).
- Prepared chicken is fried in butter (1 s. Spoon) for 10 minutes over medium heat. The fried filet is laid out on a plate and covered with foil.
- A tablespoon of butter is added to the pan. Fried mushrooms (100 g) and finely chopped onion.
- Cream cheese (80 g) is mixed with Dijon mustard (1 tablespoon).
- Puff pastry (250 g) is rolled into a square with sides of 35 cm. 4 squares of the same size are cut.
- For each square, a tablespoon of mushroom mixture, chicken fillet and a tablespoon of cream cheese with mustard are laid out.
- The edges of the dough are greased with an egg, after which they are lifted and glued over the filling. It turns out a pie.
- Prepared products are laid out on a baking sheet, greased with an egg and sent to the oven for 25 minutes.
Closed chicken pie: recipe for cooking
To prepare this pie, the chicken fillet (500 g) is diced. In addition, for the filling, it is necessary to finely chop raw potatoes (2 pcs.) And onions (1 pc.). Salt, pepper and other spices are added to the prepared ingredients to taste. The filling is thoroughly mixed.
Puff yeast dough (500 g) is cut into 2 unequal parts. A larger layer is rolled out with a rolling pin and laid out on a baking sheet, oiled, so that its edges hang slightly. The filling is laid out and evenly distributed on top. After that, the chicken mixture is closed with a second layer of rolled dough. A hole is made on top of the pie, into which 50 ml of water is poured. Before baking, it is recommended to grease the dough with a beaten egg to make a golden chicken pie. The recipe involves baking the product for an hour in a preheated 180 ° oven. Inside it turns out juicy, and on top crispy.
Chicken drumsticks in puff pastry
This easy-to-cook dish is distinguished by a non-standard, original serving. To reproduce this recipe in life will be able even to those who so far only get acquainted with cooking.
To prepare the dish, first of all the shins (5 pcs.) Must be washed and dried with a towel. Then they are rubbed with a mixture of salt and pepper and fried in vegetable oil on both sides. At this time, the puff pastry is cut into thin strips of 1 cm. When the legs are slightly cooled, the dough is wound on them in a spiral (100 g per 1 chicken leg). The open part (bone) is covered with foil. Chicken in puff pastry is baked in the oven for only 40 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C.
Tasty puff pastry stuffed with chicken
According to this recipe, you can cook delicious pies with juicy chicken stewed in cream. For the filling, first onion and garlic (2 cloves) are sautéed for several minutes in vegetable oil, then chopped fillet (500 g) is laid out in a pan and fried until golden brown, followed by mushrooms (100 g). Lastly, cream (100 ml) is poured onto the pan, after which the filling is stewed until the liquid has completely evaporated.
To make pies, you will need 6 rectangles of puff pastry with sides of 6 and 12 cm. A slice of cheese, a spoon of chicken filling are laid out on one half of each rectangle, after which it is covered with the remaining dough on top. Three sides of the dough are gently pinched. In a preheated oven, cakes are baked for 30 minutes.
Snack tartlets with chicken and mushrooms
As a rule, not a single celebratory event can do without a snack. They are not only an integral part of the menu, but also an excellent decoration of the table.
You can prepare a snack stuffed with chicken and mushrooms as follows:
- The oven is preheated to 200 degrees.
- Onion (1 tablespoon) is fried in olive oil. As soon as it begins to brown, mushrooms (200 g) and butter (20 g) are laid out in a pan. After 10 minutes, finely chopped fillet is added.
- After about 20 minutes, salt, pepper, dried thyme (½ teaspoon) and finely chopped garlic clove are added to the filling.
- For juiciness, a little broth (¼ cup) is poured into the mushroom mass. Once the liquid has evaporated, you can remove the pan from the heat.
- From a puff yeast dough, using a glass, cut circles with a diameter of 7 cm. Then, departing from the edge of 1 cm, put on each circle a tablespoon of the filling and sprinkle with grated cheese. The free edge is smeared with yolk.
- Chicken with mushrooms in puff pastry goes to the oven for 15 minutes. During this time, the edge of the yeast puff pastry will rise slightly, and very interesting tartlets will be obtained.