King of Pies Kournik - a dish of national Russian cuisine. For the originally solemn appointment it is called the king of pies. Served on holidays to the royal table, and in some regions of Russia the kurik was a mandatory ritual pie for weddings. A multi-layered tall pie is decorated with dough pieces. The obligatory ingredient is chicken meat, and then vegetable, cereal, mushroom and other fillings are laid in several layers, separated from each other by pancakes. From the culinary historical literature it is known that the kurikas were first cooked with millet, then they began to use buckwheat or rice. Yeast dough is prepared almost for any home-made recipe or, as an option, a purchased and even a puff pastry is used. I kneaded such a composition of ingredients: 2.5 glasses of flour with 1 teaspoon of dry fast-rising yeast, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 0.5 teaspoons of salt, 50 g of melted butter, 1 egg, 100 ml of milk. It is advisable to knead after two lifts and after the third lifting the furnace, but it is possible and after the second. With pancakes, too, options are possible: yeast, on milk, on yogurt, on different grades and types of flour ... Improvise and with fillings. Successful culinary experiments!
Ingredients:- Yeast dough 600 g
- Long grain rice 300 g
- Mushrooms champignons 100 g
- Onion 2 pcs.
- Eggs of chicken 4 pcs.
- Pancakes 4 pcs.
- Fresh dill 1 bunch
- Salt 2 pinch
- Sunflower refined sunflower oil 2 tbsp. l.
- Chicken fillet 300 g
- Step 1 To make a kurik, you will need dough, pancakes, ready-made chicken, hard-boiled eggs and 1 raw yolk, ready-to-eat friable rice, mushrooms, onion, dill greens.
- Step 2 On the vegetable oil, lightly fry the chopped onion, season with salt, add the chopped mushrooms to it and simmer all together for about 3 minutes on medium heat.
- Step 3 Collect the kurik immediately on a baking sheet, on a silicone rug or baking paper or in a form in which it can immediately be placed in the oven, without shifting anywhere! Roll 1/3 of the dough into a cake 2 cm in diameter larger than the diameter of the pancakes and lay half the rice on it, smooth, salt and add spices to taste as desired.
- Step 4 Cover the rice with a pancake and then cover each filling in the same way as a pancake.
- Step 5 With an even layer on the pancake, lay out the ready-made and diced chicken fillet (boiled, fried or baked with spices) and then cover it with a pancake.
- Step 6 The next layer is the second half of rice and chopped dill.
- Step 7 Then again, pancake and on it a mushroom filling.
- Step 8 Eggs grate on a coarse grater - this will be the last stuffing of the curlin.
- Step 9 Roll into a large cake 2/3 of the dough and gently cover the entire "design" of pancakes and fillings. Eliminate, or rather cut off excess dough at the edges. Puncture the kurik from top to the day, since you need a hole for the steam to exit.
- Step 10 Cut the edges of the kurik and tuck it, then cover all the dough with a raw egg yolk.
- Step 11 From the remains (cuttings) of the test, make some figures.
- Step 12 Decorate the kurik and bake it in a preheated oven at 200 ° C for about 20-30 minutes.
- Step 13 The ready kurik is covered with a towel for about 15 minutes. The cake is juicy, but you can serve all kinds of sauces, aromatic herbal teas, morsels.