Pie with chicken and potatoes on kefir

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 2 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to bake a pie with chicken and potatoes using kefir? We prepare the necessary products and various spices to prepare a delicious filled pie.

2. STEP 2

   

   Pour two hundred milliliters of warm kefir at room temperature into a small bowl, then put twenty grams of fresh pressed yeast into it and pour in twenty-five grams of sugar.

3. STEP 3

   

   Add thirty grams of wheat flour to a common bowl.

4. STEP 4

   

   Mix all the ingredients in a bowl until smooth and place it in a warm place to activate the yeast for fifteen to twenty minutes.

5. STEP 5

   

   Break one chicken egg into a large bowl, then add forty grams of melted butter to it and mix well.

6. STEP 6

   

   Pour the dough with activated yeast into a bowl with the egg-oil mixture.

7. STEP 7

   

   Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl until smooth.

8. STEP 8

   

   Sift three hundred grams of wheat flour into a bowl with a liquid base in parts and pour one teaspoon of salt into it.

9. STEP 9

   

   Mix all the ingredients in a bowl together, knead the dough and, if necessary, add a little flour.

10. STEP 10

    

    We continue to knead the dough well in the bowl with our hands for about five to seven minutes.

11. STEP 11

    

    We collect the kneaded dough into a lump, which we then put into a bowl and grease with a small amount of vegetable oil, after which we cover the bowl with a kitchen towel and put it in a warm place for one hour.

12. STEP 12

    

    To prepare the filling, finely chop three hundred grams of onions, which we then place in a bowl and add salt to taste.

13. STEP 13

    

    Mash the onion well in a bowl with a masher until the juice appears, then pour dried herbs, cumin, coriander into the bowl to taste and mix.

14. STEP 14

    

    Place five hundred grams of chicken fillet cut into pieces in a bowl with onions and spices.

15. STEP 15

    

    Place four hundred grams of finely diced potatoes in a common bowl and mix all the ingredients well.

16. STEP 16

    

    Add a mixture of black and red peppers to a common bowl to taste and, after mixing all the ingredients again, set the bowl with the prepared filling aside.

17. STEP 17

    

    After some time, place the well-risen dough on a table sprinkled with a small amount of flour.

18. STEP 18

    

    Punch down the dough and shape it, then cut it into larger and smaller pieces.

19. STEP 19

    

    Knead most of the dough and roll it out to a flat cake two millimeters thick.

20. STEP 20

    

    We roll the cake onto a rolling pin, then transfer it and place it in a mold that has been previously greased with a small amount of vegetable oil.

21. STEP 21

    

    Distribute the cake evenly in the pan and form sides.

22. STEP 22

    

    Sprinkle the flatbread with a small amount of breadcrumbs.

23. STEP 23

    

    Mix the prepared filling in the bowl again and spread it in an even layer in the mold.

24. STEP 24

    

    Place thirty grams of butter in pieces on top of the filling in the mold.

25. STEP 25

    

    Roll out the second part of the dough to a thin flat cake, then transfer and place it in the mold on top of the filling.

26. STEP 26

    

    We interlock the edges of the cakes well, decorate them with openwork molding and make a small hole in the middle.

27. STEP 27

    

    Place the decorations made from the dough on top of the pie and let it rise in a warm place for thirty minutes.

28. STEP 28

    

    Place the pan in an oven preheated to one hundred and seventy-five degrees and bake the pie for one hour, then remove the pan from the oven and grease the top of the pie with egg yolk beaten with milk, after which we put the pan in the oven and, lowering the temperature to one hundred and fifty degrees, continue baking the pie for another twenty- thirty minutes until fully cooked.

29. STEP 29

    

    Remove the prepared pie from the mold and place it on the table.

30. STEP 30

    

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