Passport & Plate - Home Family Kurnik
Russian Federation | Wednesday, March 12, 2014 | 5 photos
Ingredients
Ingredients :
For the pancakes:
1 egg
350 ml Milk
5 tbsp flour ( or just a bit more )
salt and sugar to taste
For the dough:
400 g flour
100 g butter
1 egg
3 tbsp sour cream
For the filling:
1 chicken (about 1.4-1.5 kg)
400 g mushrooms (ideally forest, but also mushrooms went well)
2 onions
200 grams of cooked rice ( any kind )
bunch of greens (parsley and dill)
4 boiled eggs
salt and pepper to taste
And Of Course - Love ...
How to prepare this recipeDirections :
1) Set to start cooking the chicken - this is best done in advance. Boil in salted water for about an hour. Then take out and allow to cool. Broth use at their discretion.
2) Prepare dough. Mix the softened butter, sour cream, egg. Gradually add the flour, knead a soft dough.
3) Cover it and put 40 minutes in the refrigerator.
4) Next bake pancakes. We will need 8-9 pieces.
5) Remove from the chicken meat and crumble at the hands of the fiber.
6) Rice mix with finely chopped egg and greens. Add some salt to taste .Mushrooms cut into small pieces and with the chopped onion, fry in olive oil until tender.
7) ALL READY toppings! Begin to gather kurnik.To start the dough from the refrigerator, separate the more than a quarter and rolled cake with a diameter slightly larger than our pancakes. Put the pan. Top placing third rice stuffing.
8) Cover the pancake top placing third chicken. Again cover with pancake, put one third of mushrooms and onions. Alternating pancakes and stuffing. Divide the dough into two parts by a small piece of jewelry, the rest roll out into a large cake and cover the cake stuffing future. Well fasten edge .
Bon appetit ! ...
The story behind this recipeKurnik - one of the most famous Russian pies. It is also called the king cakes king's cake, birthday cake. It bought in restaurants foreigners came to Russia. It is prepared housewives wishing to surprise guests. On it you can read in various literary and historical works.
Kurnik has always been considered a special, festive cake that was served on special occasions. For example, for a wedding. Wedding kurnik tried to make the big, tall, strongly and solemnly decorated Serve. For wedding feasts prepared Kurnik just two - one for the bride and one for the bride. There are even special wedding signs associated with Kurnik - pie breaks down over the heads of the newlyweds, and more wheat grains fell out, the more money you will have a young family.
It is believed that the name Kurnik obtained because as the main filler is used chicken. But there is another view that kurnik so called Cossacks, because this cake reminded them of their home - a round hut. Especially in the cake makes a hole from which "kurilsya" smoke.
Now to cook kurnik not have to wait special occasion. But prepare kurnik better at the weekend, because the case is quite troublesome and time-consuming.
Kurnik can make almost any test. It can be RICH or insipid . Maybe even a puff or sand - depends on taste hostess. Usually used for preparing two types of dough. One make pancakes, which are separated stuffing. And from the other - or dome cap pie ( which previously was called a " Cap of Monomakh ").
What ingredients are required in this delicious cake ? First - this chicken . Second - in a traditional porridge Kórnik be present (usually buckwheat ) and egg with fried onions . And then the hostess or relied on the imagination , or the fact that it was home. As a stuffing could be mushrooms, berries , potatoes, sauerkraut and other kinds of meat . In good Kórnik always plenty of toppings !
