Pie is a dish that occupies a special place in cooking. Indeed, despite what they are: whether with meat, cottage cheese, vegetables, jam, these products are always welcome on our dining table. And the hero of our article today is a chicken pie. A flaky, emitting stunning aroma and an unrivaled flavor. We will talk about several ways to prepare this dish. More precisely, about the filling options, thanks to which each product will have its own zest. So, the chicken pie is layered, extremely tasty and quick to prepare. We offer a detailed step-by-step recipe.
Step one
And you can do it in two directions. Go to the store and buy ready-made semi-finished product - puff pastry. Or gather your courage and make it yourself. The first option is much more productive in the sense that it does not take much time, especially if the store is next to the house. The second, of course, is more laborious. Nevertheless, he will give confidence to the hostess that her pastries will be really high-quality in all respects.
Further, talking about how to make puff chicken pie , we will no longer mention which dough to take. The choice will remain with the hostess. But just in case, we will offer you the simplest recipe for it.
Make the dough
Half a kilogram of good flour is mixed with salt, add a cup of boiled water and fifty grams of butter, pre-melted butter. Thoroughly knead the future basis of our pie and send it, wrapped in film, for an hour in the refrigerator. Then we get it, cut it (by the type of petals) into four parts, roll it out.
In the middle we spread three hundred grams of butter (soft) butter, cover it with “petals”, making a kind of envelope. And then, we roll it out strictly in one direction. The resulting layer is folded in three, four layers can be, sent again to the refrigerator. And again for an hour. You will have to do four more such rolls, and each time in every direction in every direction. Long? Yes! But you wanted the dough to be your own, homemade. So don’t grumble. And when everything is ready, you can start cooking a
pie from puff pastry with chicken.
Step two: prepare the filling
Chicken fillet (its amount will depend on the size of your future masterpiece, but usually a few pieces are enough) wash and cut into small pieces. To make the filling juicier, you can also cut a small piece of brisket. Salt pepper. Fry it all. Remove from heat. Add finely chopped two boiled eggs and chopped green onion. Solim.
Step Three: Cooking the Pie
We take the form, put in it two-thirds (as already mentioned, we take either the store, or ours) of the test, so that it goes on the sides. Then - the filling. The remaining third cover it, pinch the edges. We make punctures with a fork or knife. If desired, grease (naturally, raw) yolk. Sent to the oven. The optimum temperature is one hundred eighty degrees. After forty minutes, your puff chicken pie will be ready.
With chicken and potatoes
As you may have noticed, a puff pastry pie with chicken is prepared quite simply and quickly, especially if you do not make the dough yourself. In addition, leaving the chicken as the main ingredient, you can diversify the filling. And both due to the simplest products, and adding more sophisticated components. Take the simplest option - try to cook a layer cake with chicken and potatoes.
How? Yes, very simple. Almost the same as last time. The only difference is that we exclude eggs from the filling, but add potatoes. You can also take not fillet, but, say, chicken legs.
So, three hundred grams of chicken meat is again chopped with a knife, fried with one chopped onion. Three large potatoes cut into strips. Fry in a separate pan. We spread the dough in the same way as last time, in the form, the filling - in layers. Meat + potatoes. Close, pinch, pierce. We put in the oven at the same temperature as the first time. After forty-five minutes we take it out, cover our pie with a clean linen towel. After about twenty minutes, you can tell your family that it is time to feast on wonderful pastries.
What else can you make such a cake with?
Puff pastry + chicken + mushrooms - a great combination! Such pies are hearty, tasty, everyone likes them without exception.
To prepare a puff chicken pie with mushrooms, for example, you can take the same champignons as the last. Forest gifts - mushrooms, chanterelles, are also perfect. Actually, there are no strict rules. What do you have in the refrigerator - then put it in the filling. And for its preparation, take the same few pieces of chicken, chop finely and fry with the onion. As for mushrooms, they can be cut as you like. Or even take whole mushroom caps. Just do not forget to fry too, so that during the preparation of the pie they do not let the juice.
Then grease (or cover with baking paper) your baking sheet, roll out the dough. Put the filling in the middle. And on the two corners of the dough with a knife, make small notches. Then pass the opposite edges of the formation into them. As a result, get a beautiful envelope. To make it even more attractive after cooking, grease the top with whipped yolk. And send your product for thirty minutes in the oven. All at the same temperature indicated above - one hundred eighty degrees.
If you wish, you can sprinkle the filling with finely grated cheese (of any hard variety). In the end, get a layer cake with chicken, cheese and mushrooms. By the way, this lactic acid product can be added, by and large, to any filling. With it, the cake will only taste better. The only thing that should not be overlooked is that the cheese itself is quite salty, and therefore it’s better not to sprinkle the rest of the ingredients with a “white death”.
Conclusion
Of course, these are not all recipes for making such a pie. There are a huge number of them in the treasury of culinary specialists. However, those given by us are basic, on the basis of which you can create your own. The main thing is not to restrict your own imagination.