All lovers of delicious homemade pastries are offered a recipe for a fairly simple dish - lush pies with mushrooms and chicken. The familiar and fairly successful combination of products in this filling provides a truly amazing taste experience.
A bit about the dish
To make pies, you need to take fresh yeast, eggs and flour; for the filling you will need: chicken fillet, onion and mushrooms (or any other mushrooms). All components of the future test should be at room temperature.
The process of making pies is an amazing, fun, and most importantly, incredibly enjoyable activity. In every Russian family, they are one of the most beloved dishes. In addition, the filling can be completely different - berry, fruit, meat, fish, cabbage or potato.
Pies are not cooked too often. There is usually a lot of trouble with them, especially with dough, and their regular consumption will not affect the figure in the best way. Therefore, pies are considered Sunday or holiday dishes. In addition, the housewives have time to prepare this dish only on weekends. If you suddenly wanted pies to save a lot of time, you can buy ready-made dough, then the cooking process will be significantly reduced.
Pie filling - chicken with mushrooms
With the preparation of the filling for pies should not be a problem. Chicken fillet for them can be boiled, fried or raw, and any mushrooms can be used, either fresh or pickled. It is not necessary to strictly adhere to the recipe, you can cook from what is at hand. Such small experiments can lead to the emergence of a new family dish.
Pies with mushrooms and chicken can rightfully become a favorite family dish: for a little time (especially if you buy a ready-made dough), you can feed your family a hearty and tasty lunch or dinner, serving fresh meat broth with pies. They can be either baked in the oven or fried in a skillet. It can be yeast or puff pastries with mushrooms and chicken. If desired, chopped greens, aromatic fresh herbs and various spices can be added to the filling. We suggest you consider some of the most common recipes.
Oven pies
Consider a delicious recipe for pies with mushrooms and chicken in the oven. Cooking time: two hours.
List of ingredients:
- soy sauce (optional) - one teaspoon;
- champignons (or any other) - 350 grams;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sugar;
- 50 grams of butter;
- one onion;
- flour - about 400 grams;
- yeast - 10 grams;
- chicken (fillet) - 500 grams;
- milk - 250 ml;
- pepper and salt to taste.
Servings Per Container: 16-18 pies.
Cooking method
Consider how to cook pies with chicken and mushrooms:
- Yeast is best added to the dough separately. This is necessary in order to get the perfect dough. It is necessary to pour yeast with warm milk (it should not be hot!), Add sugar, mix everything well and set aside for a while.
- While the yeast is infused, you need to melt and cool the butter. When the yeast is ready, you need to add the already sifted flour, oil and a little salt to them.
- Next you should start kneading a tasty and soft dough. In order to make the pies soft, it is extremely important not to overdo it with flour. When the dough is ready, cover it with a towel and place it near the battery or in another warm place for about an hour. This time should be enough to prepare the filling.
- For the filling, you first need to wash and dry the chicken, cut the breast into small cubes. Then it must be fried in vegetable oil until fully cooked, add salt and pepper to taste.
- Next, you need to cut and fry the mushrooms with onions in a pan in the same way, season them to your taste. Then add the mushrooms to the chicken and mix them well.
- As soon as the dough increases in volume, it must be divided into 16-18 equal parts. Then you need to roll each piece into a cake, put a little filling in the middle.
- Then carefully fasten the edges so that the pies do not creep out during baking.
- When all the pies are molded, it's time to preheat the oven.
- Then you need to put the pies on a baking sheet, greased with vegetable oil, and let them stand for about 5 to 7 minutes. During this time, the oven will have time to warm up. It is necessary to send the received products to a hot oven and bake until golden brown.
Pies in the pan
This is a recipe for fried pies with chicken and mushrooms. Cooking time for this dish: one and a half hours.
Servings Per Container: 6 Pieces.
To make pies with mushrooms with chicken according to this recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
- champignons (or any other mushrooms) fresh - 300 grams;
- refined sunflower oil - 100 ml;
- boiled water - one glass;
- wheat flour - six glasses;
- ground black pepper - two pinches;
- chicken fillet - 200 grams;
- dry yeast - about 25 grams;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon of salt;
- onions - 1 piece.
Cooking dough
You need to start cooking these delicious pies with dough. It will be yeast, sponge:
- Initially, you need to combine warm water, yeast, a tablespoon of wheat flour and a teaspoon of sugar. Then mix everything well, put near the battery or in any other warm place for half an hour, so that the dough comes up.
- After that, add one egg, a teaspoon of salt, 60 ml of vegetable oil and a small amount of sifted flour to the dough.
- Gradually introduce six glasses of flour into the mixture. Then knead the dough so that it does not stick to the hands, but is not too tight.
- Then you should put the finished dough to the battery or to another warm place for 45-60 minutes. During this time, the dough should come up and double in volume.
Cooking toppings
While the dough reaches, we proceed to the preparation of the filling for the pies:
- Onions and mushrooms need to be cut into small cubes.
- Rinse the chicken fillet well and also cut into small cubes.
- Then you need to warm up one or two tablespoons of vegetable oil and fry mushrooms and onions on it for five to seven minutes.
- Then you should lay the chicken fillet with them and fry them together for about five to ten minutes, until the meat is completely ready; you need to salt and pepper the future filling to taste.
- Cooked filling must be cooled.
- Then you need to get the dough and divide it into identical parts, roll them out and put the filling in the center.
- Then you need to pinch the edges of the dough as tightly (and preferably beautifully), forming neat pies.
- Then you should anoint the pan with sunflower oil and gradually spread all the pies on it with a seam down. After that, you can beat one egg and anoint them with pies to make a golden crust.
- It is necessary to fry pies with chicken and mushrooms until a golden crust appears, periodically turning them over.
Delicious pies are ready. Enjoy your meal!