Many people like chicken, but often the question arises of how to cook it. Sooner or later, a bird fried in a pan or boiled in a broth bothers. Therefore, the search begins for a delicious and unusual dish. An excellent alternative in this case is the chicken legs in the dough. This is a hearty and tasty snack, which is perfect for a festive table. And as a filling, in addition to legs, you can use other products. Several cooking options are compiled in this article.
Self-cooking puff pastry
The dough for making “bags” can be bought ready-made in the store or made independently. This will require:
- 1 egg
- 50 ml of water;
- 30 g of live yeast;
- 3 cups flour;
- 2 teaspoons of sugar;
- ½ teaspoon of salt;
- 150 ml of milk;
- 1 pack of butter.
For the chicken legs recipe in the dough you need to prepare a delicious puff "bag". First you need to fill the yeast with water and mix. Then add sugar and salt. Stir again and leave for 15 minutes to activate the yeast.
Pour cold milk into another bowl. Add the egg and stir with a whisk. When the yeast is ready, pour the liquid into the milk. Mix all the ingredients together.
Sift flour, pour it onto the table. Make crumbs out of oil. To do this, grind it on a grater. Mix with flour, in the center form a depression. Pour the liquid into the well in small portions, gradually kneading the dough. It should be tight and not very elastic. Then wrap the resulting kolobok in a bag and put in the freezer for 25 minutes.
A simple chicken recipe in puff pastry
The most common option involves quick cooking. Making chicken legs in a dough without topping is the easiest. Put the meat in a bowl, salt, add pepper and favorite seasonings, stir well with your hands. Spices for chicken, hops-suneli, universal seasonings, Provencal herbs and so on are suitable. The narrow ends of the legs must be wrapped with foil so that they do not stick in the baking process.
Roll out the dough, cooked by yourself or bought in a store, thinly, then cut into strips. Starting from the wide part of the leg, wrap each in a spiral so that the next layer is on the previous one. Put the meat in the dough in a form lined with parchment, grease with egg yolk and send to the oven. At 170 degrees, baking is cooked for 40 minutes.
Cheese legs in puff pastry with cheese
You can diversify the recipe by adding cheese and garlic to it. Such a dish, of course, will be tasty without additives, but this option will clearly win at the festive table. For him it is necessary:
- 0.5 kg puff pastry;
- 250 g of hard cheese;
- 5 chicken legs;
- salt, pepper, spices - to taste;
- 3 cloves of garlic.
The dish is prepared in almost the same way as in the previous version. The only difference is the preparation of chicken legs. After washing and draining them, you need to grate each with spices, garlic and salt. Then slightly peel the skin and put cheese into thin slices into this hole. Wrap in stripes of dough in a spiral and bake in the oven, as in the previous recipe.
Chicken legs in the dough with vegetables
In this recipe, rolled dough must be cut into squares. The size is determined by eye: it should fit a few vegetables and the chicken leg itself. Grease each square with butter, put the vegetables and put the drumstick with the bone up. You can take any vegetables that you like more. For example, bell peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, onions. A mixture of vegetables, prepared independently or bought in a store, is suitable.
When the meat and vegetables are on the dough, collect the corners at the top, twist them and tie a strip of dough or thread. Bake at 170-180 ° C for half an hour.
Chicken in a "bag" of dough with mushrooms and potatoes
The chicken legs cooked according to this recipe in the dough are a complete dish for the festive table or dinner with the family. Such products will be required:
- 7-8 chicken legs;
- 500 g of puff pastry;
- 5 potatoes;
- 350 g of frozen champignons;
- 1 onion;
- salt, pepper, spices - to taste.
The drumstick must be marinated for one and a half hours. To do this, you can mix them with salt, pepper and a wide variety of spices. For example, special seasonings for chicken, mustard, horseradish and so on.
Put one onion chopped into pieces in a blender, season with salt, season, add a little water and grind to make mashed potatoes. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces, fry in vegetable oil. Do the same with onions.
Boil potatoes, mashed from it. Mix with mushrooms and onions, mix well, if necessary, salt and add spices.
Roll out the dough, cut out the squares, approximately 15 x 15 cm each. Lay out the filling, put the leg up with the bone, and then raise the corners of the dough, fixing them. Lubricate with salted egg yolk to make a delicious crust. Chicken legs are baked in the test in the oven, heated to 160 degrees. Estimated cooking time - one and a half hours.
"Sacks" of dough with chicken and mashed potatoes
If there are no mushrooms, and you don’t feel like going to the store for them, you can prepare “bags” of drumsticks with puree alone. This option involves pre-frying the chicken legs. Potatoes need to be boiled and mashed from it. Stack the products in the same way as in the previous version. Baked fried chicken legs with mashed potatoes in a dough at a temperature of 200 degrees. It takes about 40 minutes to cook.
The video demonstrates how to cook chicken legs in a bag of dough with mashed potatoes and mushrooms. The meat is very tasty, hearty, and therefore will become a traditional festive dish.