Dough for kurnik with kefir - 7 delicious recipes

Complex and delicious chicken pies made with kefir. Quick and classic recipes for chicken kefir

Author: Marina Danko

Kurniks are simple and complex, large or portioned pies with one or more fillings, one of which is necessarily meat.

Initially, such pies were filled with chicken; modern chefs prepare chicken pies stuffed with various meats.

But we will not deviate from tradition and will consider various options for preparing chicken chicken kefir.

Kurnik with chicken and potatoes

This recipe for kurnik with potatoes and chicken breast was sent to me by Olesya, 32 years old. “I have been working as a hairdresser and makeup artist for 12 years. My first education was as a cook; I didn’t work in this specialty, but it came in handy in life.”

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Operation “Matryoshka” or how we ate mother’s Kurnik.

It is not uncommon to find children with poor appetite, and probably every child has had to sit for an hour near a plate of soup or lazy cabbage rolls at least once in their life. As a child, I ate very poorly and the call for lunch or dinner sounded like a death sentence for me. I didn’t like all this adult food at all; it didn’t seem interesting or tasty to me at all.

My mother cooked well and was a very hospitable hostess, and therefore we often had guests. When they arrived, mom always prepared a lot of something and loved to bake pies. And then one day, on one of these days, guests came to us. Our apartment was small then, one room, and the guests sat in the kitchen, and a separate table was set for me and my older sister in the room.

We categorically refused soup, and so as not to bother with us, my mother put a piece of chicken on our plates, punishing us: “until you eat it, you won’t leave the table” - and of course, no sweets, which the guests probably brought to us as gifts .

With sour faces, my sister and I picked the pie into its components, finding nothing edible in it. Now it’s hard to remember which of us came up with the idea of ​​stuffing chicken into nesting dolls. But it was a very fun and exciting activity. We were overwhelmed with emotions and feelings of superiority over the orders of adults.

Naturally, after the “matryoshka” operation was completed, we were expected to be praised for completely eating the pie and, of course, sweets. Payback for the tricks did not take long to arrive; literally a couple of days later, when we forgot to think about it, my mother discovered dried pieces of chicken in the nesting dolls.

And we remembered forever that playing with food is not good!

I remember this story with a smile and sadness; our mother died when we were still children. I would give anything to try my mom's pie again. In Rus' there was an ancient tradition when they baked bread or pies and turned to their ancestors for help so that the baking was a success. When I bake my chicken, my mother always helps me and it turns out extremely tasty and juicy. I suggest you try to cook chicken according to my mother’s recipe.”

Next, Katya prepares kurnik on kefir dough with potatoes (VE-rich)

Kurnik with kefir - general principles of preparation

• Dough for kurniks prepared with kefir can be made unleavened or rich, yeast-based and even shortbread. It all depends on the type of cake being baked.

• The classic version of kurnik is prepared from two types of dough. One goes into the base, and from the other into pancakes, which are later layered with various fillings.

• For the dough, you need to take kefir with the highest fat content and, preferably, not the freshest one.

• To make the pie juicier, it is best to use chilled or fresh meat for the meat filling. It is used both raw and boiled. Cut into pieces or grind into minced meat.

• In simple kurniks, eggs, potatoes, mushrooms or boiled cereals (rice, buckwheat) are often added to the main filling. In complex ones, based on a classic recipe, separate fillings are prepared. Subsequently, they are layered with pancakes.

Step-by-step recipe for cooking chicken with rice

1. Knead the dough with kefir, as in the previous recipe.
2. Immerse the chicken in cold water and salt, put on fire and cook for up to 1 hour, periodically skimming off the foam. Cool the chicken outside the broth and cut into pieces.
3. Peel and chop the onion, place in a heated frying pan greased with vegetable oil. Fry until softened.
4. Combine the meat with fried onions, add pepper and salt, pour broth into the mixture.
5. Cook the rice until done. The product is cooked in the proportion of 1 cup of rice to 2 cups of water for 15 minutes.
6. Boil eggs hard, chop very finely. Combine them with rice and pour in half a glass of broth. But make sure that the filling does not become liquid, so the volume of broth can be reduced slightly. Add butter and mix thoroughly.
7. How to put the filling in a chicken pot? The first layer is ½ part of rice. The second is ½ piece of chicken. Then repeat: rice and chicken. Cover with the rolled out dough and don't forget to make a hole for steam. You can bake for 40 minutes at temperatures up to 200°C.
8. Let cool in the oven. Serve in portions.

Traditional kurnik is prepared with both buckwheat and millet porridge. The filling can be mushrooms, sauerkraut and fresh cabbage, pumpkin and zucchini, as well as sour berries. And the chicken in the royal pie is placed both raw and boiled or in the form of minced meat. Pies with chicken giblets and scallops are no less tasty.

“Lazy” kurnik with kefir in a slow cooker

• one and a half glasses of flour;

• three fresh eggs;

• 200 ml full-fat mayonnaise;

• baking soda – a third of a small spoon;

• 3.2% kefir – 300 ml.

• half a kilo of chicken fillet;

1. Mix quicklime soda with kefir. When it foams well and slightly increases in volume, add mayonnaise and eggs scrambled with salt.

2. Whisk the kefir mass well and, without ceasing to stir, add flour. Enter most of it first. Mix thoroughly and only then add the rest of the flour. Cover the bowl with the batter and set aside for half an hour.

3. Cut the peeled onion into smaller pieces, and cut the chicken into medium-sized, thin strips.

4. Rinse the sorted rice until clean. Fill it with drinking water and boil until half cooked. Strain the broth, discard the rice in a colander and rinse. Leave in a colander until all the water has drained.

5. Grease the cooking bowl with any fat and pour half of the kefir dough into it. Place chicken pieces on top of it and onions on top. Cover everything with a thin layer of rice and add salt to your taste. Season the filling with ground pepper and fill everything with the remaining dough.

6. On the control panel, set the “Baking” option to 80 minutes and turn on the multicooker. After the beep, open the lid, let the chicken pot cool slightly and remove the pie.

Kurnik with kefir - cooking tricks and useful tips

• To ensure that the chicken chickens rise and bake well, place the products only in a well-heated oven.

• Cover the pan in which large complex pies are baked with a lid or foil. This way the top of the pie won't burn.

• In closed chicken pots, be sure to leave a hole at the top or pierce the cake (its top layer) in several places with a fork. In complex pies, you can always add broth through such a hole for juiciness. For regular closed ones, excess juice and steam will escape through it. This will prevent the dough from becoming soggy in the pie.

Dough for kurnik with kefir

The recipe for its creation will help you figure out what exactly makes the dough in a chicken kurnik into aromatic and tender pastries. The process is very simple, not complicated, and most products are available in almost every kitchen.

In this case, the preparation for the kurnik should be made in such a way that it becomes possible to use several types of filling, separated by pancakes. To prepare kefir dough you will need:

• wheat flour - 5.5 tbsp. or 0.7 kg;

kefir – 250 ml;

• salt – 30 g;
• granulated sugar – 180 g;
• egg – 1 pc.;
• butter – 150 g.

The dough for such a pie is prepared quickly, literally within twenty minutes, by an experienced chef, and 100 g of it contains 327 kcal.

The dough can be prepared in advance and stored in a cool place for three days. To knead it, you first need to melt the butter in a frying pan, then pour it into a deep bowl. Then beat the egg into the same bowl, add sugar and salt.

After whisking the mixture well, pour in the kefir and begin adding flour in small portions through a sieve.

Then start kneading the dough. Only when it becomes soft and elastic can it be placed in a plastic bag, wrapped in cling film or placed in a pan greased with vegetable oil.

You can start cooking chicken chicken using the previously prepared base blank immediately after selecting and preparing the filling.

Useful tips

Most recipes for kurnik dough suggest softening butter and margarine when heated, under the influence of high temperatures. However, the vitamin can be preserved in a larger amount of useful minerals by softening the creamy product with a fork, and then dissolving it, even if not completely, in sour cream, kefir, and milk. You also need to remember that:

1. The options for preparations for such a pie are very diverse, but in all of them margarine can be replaced with butter and vice versa;
2. Flour is sifted not only to prevent debris from getting into the dough, but also to enrich it and saturate it with oxygen. It is not superfluous to even carry out such an action twice;
3. You can avoid chapping and drying out the dough only by placing the dough in a bag, wrapping it in film, and placing it in a greased bowl.

Not only the process of creating the main component of the chicken - the dough - is very simple, but also the process of choosing the filling - everything that is in the kitchen. This can be potatoes, cabbage, any type of meat, as well as fish fillets, various fresh and canned fruits, and berries.

Margarine dough recipe

Yeast, yeast-free, puff pastry can turn into a fragrant, tasty kurnik. You can choose the type of batch yourself, and to create a wonderful, simple workpiece you will need:

• fat kefir (3.2%) – 0.25 l;
• cream margarine – 0.25 kg;
• flour – 0.8 kg ± 100 g;
• soda and salt - 5 g each.

You can start baking kurnik two and a half hours after you start creating the dough, while kneading the dough takes only 20 minutes.
The calorie content of 100 grams of kefir and margarine preparation is 355 kcal. Soda and salt are poured into kefir. The margarine must first be melted and then cooled. It needs to be combined with the liquid kefir mass and mixed.

Flour can be sifted through a sieve while pouring into the liquid mass. This is how the dough kneading process begins. It must be continued until the dough becomes soft and elastic and stops sticking to your hands.

After finishing, the workpiece is wrapped in film and placed in a quiet place for 2 hours before baking or moved to the refrigerator for storage.

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Recipes for making dough for kurnik

for 1 pie
15 min.

124 kcal

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Kurnik is a Russian pie, known far beyond Russia. It is also called a festive pie, as well as a royal pie, since it is usually prepared for major holidays, for example, a wedding.

To prepare it, different types of dough are used. In the old days, every housewife had her own recipe, and more than one. I want to share with you three recipes for delicious chicken dough that I bake myself.

They are, in my opinion, the easiest to prepare and the most successful.

Recipe for shortcrust pastry for kurnik with kefir and margarine

Kitchen equipment: sieve, scales, grater, bowl.

Tips for choosing products

• For dough, buy only premium wheat flour. Before use, sift it through a fine sieve. This is necessary so that the flour is saturated with air and no impurities get into the dough. Baked goods made from sifted flour are softer and airier.
• I advise you to take fatty kefir, at least 2.5%. You can, of course, use low-fat kefir, but it is more liquid, so you may need some more flour when using it.
• Dry yeast in the recipe can be replaced with fresh yeast, taking it in three times the quantity.

Step-by-step preparation

1. Pour 4 cups of sifted flour into a bowl.
2. Grate 250 grams of cold butter or margarine to it.
3. Grind flour and butter into crumbs. Due to this, the dough will be crumbly.
4. Pour in one and a half glasses of kefir.
   Add the egg and a pinch of salt.
5. Knead the dough, adding more flour if necessary. It should be soft and not sticky.
6. Wrap the dough in a bag and put it in the refrigerator. After half an hour, you can start shaping the cake.

Recipe for crumbly dough for kurnik, with sour cream and margarine

Cooking time: 20 min kneading + 20 min. cooling. Number of servings: for 1 pie. Calorie content: 139 kcal. Kitchen appliances: sieve, scales, mixer, bowl.

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All stages of kneading dough are shown in detail in this video. I recommend watching!

Classic recipe for kurnik dough with mayonnaise

Preparation time : 20 minutes kneading + 1.5 hours fermentation. Number of servings: for 1 pie. Calorie content: 139 kcal. Kitchen equipment: sieve, scales, bowl.

1. Pour 7 grams of dry yeast into a bowl.
2. Pour in a glass of warm water. Mix.
3. Add 3 teaspoons of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt and 150 grams of mayonnaise.
4. Stir and add 500 grams of sifted flour little by little.
5. Kneading a soft dough that does not stick to your hands.
6. Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel and leave it for an hour and a half in a warm place to ferment. During the fermentation process, you need to knead the dough 1-2 times.

This video will help you quickly and easily knead delicious butter dough. Pay attention to the consistency of the finished dough - it should be very soft.

Other cooking options

The dough prepared according to these recipes can be used not only for classic chicken pies, but also for other savory pies, for example, chicken and mushroom pie, or a very tasty chicken and potato pie.

Also try baking chicken jellied pie. It is prepared very simply and quickly - even a beginner can handle it.

Source: https://www.alizy.club/vypechka/testo/dlya-kurnika.html

Sandy base with sour cream

Kurnik is a Russian pie baked in the oven. Lovers of delicate, crumbly pastries will love this dish, which is based on a wonderful shortbread pastry. To create a dough with sour cream you will need:

• 200 g each of sour cream and margarine;
• 2 chicken yolks;
• 250 g wheat flour;
• 5 g each of salt, baking powder and sugar.

The kneading time will be only half an hour, and the calorie content of one hundred grams will be 410 kcal.

Having taken a couple of eggs, you will need to separate the yolks for the dough, but do not throw out the whites - they will be useful for greasing the chicken pot. Dissolve sugar in egg yolks, then salt.

Sift the flour and mix with baking powder, and combine the softened margarine with sour cream and egg mixture. Only after this can you start kneading, adding flour in small portions.

This preparation is infused for only twenty minutes; it can be used to prepare a hearty pie with meat or with curd filling for tea.

With added margarine

Margarine is the most convenient fat for baking. It is not expensive, and the product with its addition turns out incredibly tasty.

It is better to use full-fat margarine to prepare the dough. This indicator is easy to check. It is enough to press on a piece, and if it kneads without effort, then its fat content is low.

In this recipe we use the following ingredients:

• ½ kg flour;
• 2 eggs;
• ¼ l kefir;
• 150 g margarine;
• 1 tsp. salt and 2 tsp. Sahara.

Algorithm of actions:

1. Melt margarine in any convenient way.
2. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs, add salt, crush them with sugar and pour margarine.
3. When all the ingredients except the flour are placed in the bowl, it's time to start kneading the dough. Be sure to sift even the highest quality flour and only then gradually add it to the container. Along the way, we stir the composition all the time.
4. The dough should be soft. Place the bun in a bag and let it stabilize for a couple of hours in a cool place.