Classic kurnik with chicken and potatoes and pancakes

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 3 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make a classic kurnik with chicken? To prepare kurnik you need boiled chicken meat. It can be replaced by baked, fried, some even put smoked chicken in this pie. If there is no ready-made meat, then it should be boiled. Wash the chicken legs with running cold water, put them in cold water, which completely covers them, and after the broth boils, cook for 30 - 40 minutes, add salt to the broth.

2. STEP 2

   

   While the chicken is cooking you need to prepare the pancakes. You can bake them according to your favorite recipe, or you can buy store-bought ones. How to prepare the dough? For pancakes, break the eggs into a deep bowl, add salt, sugar (you don’t need to add it), mix. Add milk and mix thoroughly again. Add sifted flour and mix. Use boiling water (2 - 3 tbsp) to extinguish the soda over the dough and mix again. Before baking, add vegetable oil. The dough turns out to be pancake-like.

3. STEP 3

   

   Heat a pan for pancakes and, if necessary, grease with vegetable oil, fry the pancakes on both sides until cooked. Coat the finished pancakes with butter. From this amount of dough I got 10 thin pancakes. My frying pan has a diameter of 22 centimeters.

4. STEP 4

   

   How to make fillings for our chicken? For the mushroom filling I will use fresh champignons. But you can also pick wild mushrooms. Clean the champignons from debris and soil, rinse with running cold water and cut into medium cubes. Also chop the onions.

5. STEP 5

   

   In a frying pan with vegetable oil, fry the chopped mushrooms and onions over medium heat until tender. Do not overdry the mushrooms.

6. STEP 6

   

   Once the chicken is cooked, cool it and remove the meat from the bone. Cut the boiled meat into medium cubes. Chop the peeled carrots and onions. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the carrots and onions over medium heat, then add the chopped meat and fry everything together. Add salt and pepper to taste. Do not allow the meat and vegetables to burn or overcook.

7. STEP 7

   

   To make the potato filling, peel the skins off the potatoes and boil until half cooked. Then drain the water, cool the potatoes and cut into small cubes. Add salt and ground black pepper to taste, stir.

8. STEP 8

   

   The dough for Kurnik is unleavened, but if desired, it can be replaced with puff pastry or yeast dough. For the pie dough, melt the butter and cool to room temperature.

9. STEP 9

   

   In a deep bowl, mix the sifted flour with salt and soda. Add eggs, sour cream and butter. Knead the dough. It turns out to be very pliable and soft, easily assembled into a ball.

10. STEP 10

    

    Divide the prepared dough into approximately two parts. Remove one part and cover with a towel. Roll the other into a circle larger than the diameter of the pancakes. Make the dough 0.5 cm thick.

11. STEP 11

    

    It is better to assemble the pie directly on baking paper. For convenience, you can use a detachable form. Turn on the oven to preheat to 180 degrees. Place a pancake on the dough circle.

12. STEP 12

    

    Place half of the mushroom filling tightly onto the pancake.

13. STEP 13

    

    Place the pancake on top, and tightly place half of the chicken filling on it.

14. STEP 14

    

    Layer the next layer with a pancake and lay out half the potatoes. Place pieces of butter on top of the potatoes. Repeat all the layers and cover the last layer with a pancake.

15. STEP 15

    

    Roll out the remaining dough (leave a little for decoration) into a thin circle with a larger diameter than the pie itself and cover the filling with it.

16. STEP 16

    

    Decorate the pie as desired and possible. Make a hole in the middle of the cake to allow steam to escape. Brush the surface of the pie with a raw egg. Place the pie in the oven for 1 hour. If during this time it becomes very brown and the baking time has not yet expired, cover it with foil.

17. STEP 17

    

    The finished pie can be served hot, warm or chilled.

Comments on the recipe

Maria

05.10.2023

4.9

Anya, gorgeous, simply magical design of the chicken house. If I ever get around to cooking it, it will be only according to your recipe.

Natasha

05.10.2023

4.8

Thanks for the recipe. It turned out to be a very tasty and festive dish. The only thing is that I added less carrots, 1 kg in the recipe, I reduced it because it seemed that there would be a lot of it.

Zhanna

05.10.2023

4.9

What is the weight of the finished product?

Mila

05.10.2023

4.8

Classic Russian recipe. Great. I'll try it tomorrow and report back. But it seems to me that the layers should be swapped. The first layer is potatoes, the second is chicken, the third is mushrooms. Otherwise the driest filling is on top. If you send it down, the juice and oil from the chicken and onions will flow down and the potatoes will become soaked.

Mila

05.10.2023

5

Here. I have prepared it. A little differently. Sugar-free dough, pancakes according to your family recipe. I immediately cut the potatoes into cubes and poured boiling water over them twice. I didn't add carrots at all. Delicious.