Chicken Elesh is a pie of a round shape, which in the upper part has pinches connecting the cake itself and its small “lid”. Inside are pieces of chicken fillet, potatoes, butter, spices and onions. The most basic thing in the preparation is that raw chicken is placed inside and it is cooked in its own juice. It turns out filling with broth, hearty, tasty, juicy and aromatic. We will prepare chicken eleesh now. A recipe, and not even one, will also tell you in detail.
Standard Chicken Eleash Recipe
This dish is a must for everyone to try, at least once in a lifetime. Having done this, you will forever make friends with the Tatar cuisine. So, let's get started.
For the test we need : eggs - three pieces, sour cream - 270 grams, flour - 0.7 kg, margarine or butter - 100 grams, granulated sugar - 20 grams, salt - 10 grams, baking powder - half a teaspoon.
For the filling : 0.8 kg of chicken without skin and bones, 0.6 kg of peeled potatoes, 130 grams of onions, ground black pepper, salt and an egg for lubrication.
By the way, such a test, tasty and creamy, like our dish, you will not meet anywhere else. Therefore, now we will dwell in detail on
how to knead the dough for chicken with chicken. In the dough bowl we put the eggs, granulated sugar, salt and sugar, all together, lightly beat and mix. Melt the steam or microwave oil, gently, constantly stirring, introduce into the mixture, adding portionwise, flour, pre-mixed with baking powder. Knead the dough all the time. When we use all the flour, we knead better and longer. As a result, we should get a base that looks like puff chopped dough.
Cooking the filling and the final stage of cooking
We clean the chicken from bones and skin, cut lean meat from low-fat legs. Cut potatoes, meat, onions the size of a bean. Mix everything, pepper (strictly black pepper), salt. You can not mix the filling, but this is a matter of taste. Try it both ways and make your choice. Then divide the dough into pieces of 100 grams and 30 grams. From the named amount of ingredients, ten such pieces are obtained.
Roll out into rounds of five millimeter thickness. We spread the filling on a large one, put a small one on top, while pinching the edges. If it turns out unevenly, you can cut it with scissors. We grease a baking sheet with butter, lay out our beauties on it and send it to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. After 20 minutes, shake the egg and grease the elesha. The total cooking time is 40 minutes. Well, how do you get the chicken elesh? The recipe is super!
The recipe for elesh sold in the Moscow supermarket "Bahetle"
In the capital of Russia you can buy our dish in the form of a semi-finished product. Very delicious! We offer his recipe. Stock up on the necessary ingredients.
For the test : a glass of kefir, 100 grams of margarine or butter, three tablespoons of sour cream, a teaspoon of salt, two teaspoons of granulated sugar, a teaspoon of baking powder and 600 grams of flour.
For minced meat : 500 grams of brisket, five medium-sized potatoes, a large onion, half a bunch of cilantro, parsley and dill, bay leaf, 500 grams of chicken stock, egg, seasoning - black pepper, red, salt, caraway seeds.
The dough for this recipe is prepared very quickly. Dissolve sour cream in kefir, baking powder, granulated sugar, salt and oil in a softened form. Add flour and knead elastic, cool dough. We take the film and cover the bowl with it for 40-50 minutes.
Filling and baking elesha
And now we’ll tell you how the chicken eles begins and prepares (recipe from Bahetle). To begin with, finely chop the meat, unlike the previous recipe. Then grind onions and potatoes, mix all these ingredients and add greens, grind it in advance, salt. Cut a piece the size of a small apple from the dough and roll it out. We spread three to four tablespoons of the filling in the middle, wrap up the ends of the dough. We take a piece of dough the size of a walnut for the “lid”, roll it out, you can make a pen. Six pies are made from our ingredients.
We cover the baking sheet with parchment, grease it with oil and put eleshes on it. Immediately grease with an egg and send to the oven, heating it to 220 degrees. After 30 minutes we take it out, pour the broth into each pie and put it in the oven again, lowering the temperature to 200 degrees. Bake for about an hour. Then turn off the oven, add a little more broth and leave it to soak for half an hour. If it is difficult for you to cook chicken elesha, a recipe, a photo of the process will help to cope with this task.
The easiest pie recipe
If you don’t have time to start this slightly complicated process, then you can use the purchased, store yeast test. You will need: one chicken breast, five potatoes, two onions, 50 grams of butter, of course, yeast dough, pepper and salt. Cooking chicken elesh. The recipe indicates that you need to finely chop the chicken breast, cubes - potatoes, onions - finely. All this is pepper, salt and mix well.
The dough, as before, is divided into two parts - larger and smaller. We roll out the first one, put the filling in it, on top - with butter slices, cover with a smaller circle from the dough. We raise and pinch the edges, you can do it beautifully, with a frill. We put it in the oven and bake for about an hour at 180 degrees. We hope that you have learned well how to cook chicken eleshes. Enjoy your meal!