Before the holidays, every housewife thinks about how and how to decorate the table. In the course are dishes whose recipes were passed from mother to daughter. The table also includes more modern dishes, the recipes of which can be easily found on the Web. Gourmet salads, foreign pies, sophisticated desserts. All this has long been a part of festive feasts. But do not forget that there are native Russian, traditional dishes that can decorate the holiday.
For example, you can cook a delicious and satisfying chicken in the oven, recipes with photos of which are presented below. Kurnik is the king of pies. It is traditionally prepared from puff pastry. Between layers the cake is filled with various fillings for every taste. The ingredients are selected at their discretion, only the main component remains unchanged - meat.
Today, the kurnik can be prepared not only from puff pastry, but also from shortbread, add mushrooms, potatoes and pork to the pie. Some housewives prefer the traditional "lazy" henhouse. And someone is preparing small, palm-sized, henhouses.
Potato and mushroom potato
Dough:
- Flour - six hundred grams.
- Sour cream - one hundred grams.
- Milk - one hundred milliliters.
- Butter - one hundred grams.
- Mayonnaise - one hundred grams.
- An egg is one piece.
- Salt.
- Stuffers - three pieces.
Filling:
- Potatoes - four hundred grams.
- Champignon mushrooms - four hundred grams.
- Fresh dill - half a bunch.
- Green young onions - five pieces.
- Ground black pepper - half a teaspoon.
- Sunflower oil - one hundred and fifty milliliters.
- An egg is one piece.
- Salt.
Cooking dough
You need to take a suitable bowl and be sure to sift flour into it. Chop the butter into small pieces and put into flour, salt and grind with a combine into crumbs. In a separate bowl, combine sour cream of fifteen percent fat, milk with a fat content of three and a half percent and mayonnaise. Beat all ingredients into a mixture of uniform consistency with a blender. Add the resulting milk mixture in small portions to dry butter crumbs. The dough should be soft and elastic. Cooked dough according to the recipe of the chicken in the oven is ready. It needs to be wrapped in foil and placed in the refrigerator for forty minutes.
During this time, it is necessary to prepare the filling according to the recipe for the chicken potato in the oven. Rinse the mushrooms well, cut into small pieces, fry in a pan until cooked and put in a bowl. Peel the potato tubers, wash, cut into very small cubes and put in the mushrooms. Add finely chopped greens of young onions and dill, egg. Then pepper and salt. Stir all the ingredients for the filling.
We form a kurnik
All the preparatory work is completed, and you can begin to form a kurnik. The dough must be divided into two parts, with one part being larger than the other. Roll out most of the dough into a layer and place it on a baking sheet with baking paper greased with oil so that the dough covers the walls of the baking sheet.
Spread a layer of filling evenly on the baking sheet, and on top of the casing. Repeat the layers twice more, the last layer to be filling. Roll out the rest of the dough, make a hole in the middle and cover the pie. Connect the edges carefully. Bake at a temperature of one hundred eighty degrees for about fifty minutes.
Kurnik with meat
Ingredients:
- Ready puff pastry - one kilogram.
- Chicken legs - two pieces.
- Pork meat - three hundred grams.
- Onion - two heads.
- Parsley - four branches.
- Garlic - two cloves.
- Spices - half a teaspoon.
- Broth - five tablespoons.
- Salt.
Cooking meat chicken
According to the recipe of the chicken meat oven, the pie will consist of chicken and pork meat. Rinse the legs, carefully cut the meat from the bones and cut into small pieces. Pork meat, like chicken, cut into small pieces. Peel the onion heads, finely chop. Skip the garlic through the garlic. Finely chopped washed parsley. Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, add your preferred spices, salt and mix well. The filling for the chicken is ready.
Roll out the thawed puff pastry to a thickness of four to five millimeters, not more. Divide into two parts so that one part is slightly larger than the other. Place the larger dough on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and greased with oil so that its edges cover the baking sheet.
Put the prepared meat filling on the dough and cover with the remaining smaller part of the dough. The edges must be carefully joined. In the middle of the top layer, you need to make a small hole, which during baking should be closed with a piece of dough, like a cork. Preheat the oven to one hundred and ninety degrees and place in it a baking sheet with a chicken pot for forty minutes.
Remove the pan from the oven. Then remove a piece of dough and carefully pour a strong meat broth into the hole. Put a piece of dough into place, closing the hole. Then grease the entire surface of the chicken coop with egg yolk and place it in the oven again for another twenty minutes.
Shortcake in the oven
To prepare the dough:
- Flour - five glasses.
- Baking powder - two teaspoons.
- Margarine - four hundred grams.
- Sugar - one teaspoon.
- Sour cream - four hundred grams.
- Eggs - four pieces.
- Salt.
Chicken Filling:
- Chicken - one kilogram.
- Sunflower oil - two tablespoons.
- Salt - one tablespoon.
- Ground black pepper - half a teaspoon.
- Onion - five heads.
- Chicken broth - one glass.
Rice Filling:
- Rice - one and a half glasses.
- Chicken broth - one glass.
- Eggs - eight pieces.
- Butter - fifty grams.
- Salt - one teaspoon.
Cooking Chicken Filling
In this recipe for a chicken in the oven, the filling consists of two types. For chicken, you must first boil the chicken. Rinse the whole bird carcass and place in a suitable pan. Pour water and add whole carrots, onions and a little salt to add flavor to the chicken. Put on the fire and cook for about one hour, not forgetting to periodically remove the foam.
Remove the finished chicken from the broth, wait until it cools, remove all the bones and cut into small pieces. Peel the five onion heads, wash and finely chop into cubes. Pour the onion into a preheated pan with butter and fry, stirring until tender. Pieces of meat to combine with onions, sprinkle with pepper, salt, pour chicken stock and mix.
Cooking Rice Filling
According to the recipe of the chicken house in the oven, you need to cook rice filling. Pour one and a half glasses of rice into the pan and pour three glasses of water, salt a little, put on the fire. After boiling, cook for about twenty minutes. Fold the finished rice in a colander. Hard-boiled chicken eggs - this is about seven to eight minutes, no more, cool, remove the shell from them and cut into small cubes. Combine rice with eggs, pour in a glass of chicken broth, salt and mix if necessary.
Chicken and rice fillings according to the recipe of the chicken house in the oven are ready. Now you can start preparing the dough. Place the yolks separated from the proteins in a bowl, salt and beat with a whisk. To the yolks put the sour cream, margarine and beat with a blender. Then gradually add the sifted flour and baking powder. Knead the dough and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Take out the dough and divide it into three parts, two of which are rolled into a layer about half a centimeter thick and put in a greased mold so that the walls of the mold are closed with the dough. According to the recipe for a chicken in the oven with chicken, you need to lay layers of rice and chicken stuffing. From the remainder of the dough, roll out a layer with a hole in the middle, cover it with a pie and connect the edges. Grease with yolk and bake at a temperature of one hundred and ninety degrees for about an hour. Cooked according to the recipe, the chicken in the oven is ready.