Chicken pie is an ideal dish for all occasions. It can be used as a hearty dinner, a treat for welcome guests, and even put on the festive table. There are many options. A distinctive feature of this unique dish is that there are a lot of different recipes for its preparation. For example, it is worth considering several interesting options.
Quick and easy
Before you start cooking the simplest chicken pie, you need to make sure that on the desktop there are all the necessary components for this:
- 300 grams of chicken fillet;
- 150 grams of milk;
- salt;
- 50 grams of flour and cheese (hard);
- half a teaspoon of baking powder;
- 2 eggs;
- a set of seasonings (oregano, a mixture of aromatic herbs, black pepper);
- 1 medium sized zucchini (optional).
As soon as all the products are assembled, you can immediately begin to cook the chicken pie:
- First you need to boil the meat, and then grind it as much as possible. You can do this even with your hands.
- Grate cheese using a coarse or fine grater (optional).
- In a deep bowl, stir the eggs with salt and milk. Then, gradually adding wheat flour with baking powder and seasonings, prepare a sufficiently thick dough.
- Gather all the ingredients together and shift the resulting mass into a mold. On top of the semi-finished product, you can decorate with thin circles of zucchini.
- Bake in the oven for 35 minutes at a temperature of about 200 degrees.
The result is a tender and very delicious chicken pie. Due to its composition, this low-calorie dish is suitable even for those who monitor their weight.
Puff pastry pie
There is another simple, but original way recipe. The chicken pie will turn out to be no less tasty if made from puff pastry. Cooking this semi-finished product yourself is not necessary. It can always be purchased at a cookery or any grocery store. For such a pie you will need:
- 500 grams of puff pastry (yeast-free);
- 1 onion;
- salt;
- 2 chicken fillets;
- ground pepper;
- 100 grams of cheese (any hard);
- 2 eggs (for spreading).
Cooking Technique:
- Divide the thawed dough with your hands into two equal parts. Roll each of them into a layer with a thickness of not more than 2 millimeters.
- For the filling of the pie, raw meat must be cut into small pieces. They immediately need to be salted and pepper. Then chop the onion with a quarter of the rings, and simply rub the cheese coarsely. Collect the ingredients in one container and mix.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment and lay the first layer of dough on it.
- Distribute the filling on its surface so that from the sides around the perimeter about 3 centimeters remain free.
- Cover the products with a second layer. Previously, it is necessary to make several punctures with an ordinary fork on it.
- Tightly connect the edges and cut the excess dough with a pizza knife.
- Beat eggs and grease the surface of the pie well with them.
- Bake for 20 minutes in an oven at a temperature of 210 degrees.
But you don’t need to get the pie right away. We must give him about 15 minutes to stand there in the oven. During this time, the juice formed inside will cool slightly and thicken. As a result, the filling will become more uniform.
Yeast pie with potatoes and chicken
Many housewives believe that pies must be made from ordinary yeast dough. It turns out very magnificent and juicy. You can verify this if you look at the photo of the chicken pie. Take, for example, an option with a complex filling. Here you can’t do without a hint. Of the products you will need:
For the test:
- 1 kilogram of flour;
- 500 milliliters of water;
- 1 sachet of yeast (dry);
- sugar;
- vegetable oil;
- salt.
For filling:
- 2 onions;
- 500 grams of potatoes and chicken;
- black pepper;
- 1 egg
- salt.
The work is carried out in stages:
- First you need to do the test. To do this, pour yeast with warm water, adding 2 tablespoons of sugar, and let them stand for about 10 minutes.
- Gradually introduce flour, after mixing it with salt. Kneading the dough is best done by hand. It should not be very tight.
- Add a little oil and mix again. Roll the prepared dough into a ball and put it for ripening, covering with a towel, in a warm place.
- For the filling, chop the onions in half rings, chop the meat into cubes, and peel the potatoes and cut into slices. After this, you can proceed to the next stage. Complex filling will consist of 2 parts.
- Lightly fry the onion and chicken in oil.
- Do the same with potatoes. In each case, the ingredients need to be slightly salted and sprinkled with pepper.
- Divide the dough into approximately two parts. First, lay one on the bottom of a greased baking sheet, stretching to the right size with your hands.
- Spread the fried potatoes on top.
- The second layer will be meat with onions.
- Put a few small pieces of butter on it.
- Cover everything with a second piece of dough, firmly connecting the edges. In the center you need to make a small hole.
- Grease the surface of the pie with an egg.
- Bake in the oven for 25 minutes at 200 degrees.
The finished result can be verified with the control photo.
Jellied cake
Most often, housewives make it is jellied pies with chicken. Recipes with photos in this case will be most welcome. Work with them is easier and more confident. For such a dish, you need the following set of components:
- 100 grams of fresh champignons and as much hard cheese;
- 300 grams of chicken breast;
- 200 grams of flour;
- salt;
- 30 milliliters of water;
- 2 eggs;
- 120 grams of butter;
- nutmeg;
- a glass of cream;
- black pepper;
- vegetable oil;
- feather green onions.
The technology of making a popular pie:
- Chop the butter in slices and then grind it thoroughly with salt and flour.
- After adding water, knead the dough.
- Wrap it in foil and put in the refrigerator for a quarter of an hour.
- Dice the meat, and chop the mushrooms arbitrarily. Fry the products in oil by adding a little salt and pepper.
- Mix the eggs with a mixer (or in a blender) with grated cheese, nutmeg and cream. You also need to add pepper and salt here.
- Divide the dough in half. Roll one part into a layer and lay on a baking sheet greased with butter, making high sides on the sides.
- Put cooked stuffing on it.
- Sprinkle with chopped chives.
- Pour the filling into the creamy mass.
- Cover the contents of the pan with a second layer. You can leave part of the dough for decoration (make "roses" or a regular lattice).
- Bake for 30 minutes in the oven. It must be preheated to 200 degrees.
A cake prepared according to this recipe will be equally tasty, both hot and cold.