Kurnik - Slavic dome-shaped pie stuffed with chicken or meat. Prepared from yeast, unleavened or puff pastry.

The magic taste of homemade puff pastry, from which it is customary to cook chicken chicken and potatoes, is familiar to many hostesses. I propose to knead the simplest and quick half-layered dough on margarine and bake a real festive cake out of it.

To prepare the dough for kurnik, margarine products are taken from the list. You need high-grade flour, margarine for baking, high-calorie mayonnaise, sour cream, baking soda (as baking powder) and salt.

Margarine is pre-frozen. It is passed through a large grater.


Flour joins margarine chips.


Flour with margarine is ground by hand into the crumb. Soda and salt are added to the flour crumb.


Then sour cream and mayonnaise.


Mixed soft plastic dough, which requires short-term cooling. Before cutting, place it in the freezer for 5-10 minutes.


Then sprinkle with flour, cut into pieces and form a chicken roaster with a filling.


Homemade semi-layered dough for kurnik on margarine supple and plastic in work. The decor from our dough turns out to be simply incomparable.


Old Russian Kurnik is a multi-part dish that includes meat and cereal stuffing layered on. Ready Cake  turns into dough, and then served with broth, and therefore one of the main tasks of the dough recipe for this dish is to retain moisture. We will share with you a few simple variants of the dough for kurnik on sour cream, which easily cope with this task, and in addition, they give an appetizing crispy and ruddy crust after baking.

Dough for kurnik on sour cream and margarine - recipe

If desired, the margarine in this recipe can be replaced with butter in equivalent amounts, so the dough itself will turn out less porous and oily.

Ingredients:

  • flour - 255 g;
  • margarine - 225 g;
  • sour cream - 115 ml.

Cooking

In this recipe, as in the usual recipe shortbread dough, the key to the brilliant result is the temperature of the ingredients used, and therefore, before kneading the dough on the chicken broth on sour cream, do not hold the ingredients at room temperature.

Combine the flour with a pinch of salt and add ice margarine cubes to it. Spread flour and margarine into crumb, ideally, with a fork or chopped with a knife, but you can cope with this task with cold fingers. Now pour in sour cream, certainly fat, and collect all the crumb into a single room. Wrap a lump of dough with a film and put it in the fridge, let it rest while you are engaged in filling and pancakes. Next, the dough for kurnik with sour cream will only roll out evenly and you can start forming the cake.

For a more pronounced taste, you can replace a part of sour cream with mayonnaise in the recipe. The result will not be the most dietary, but guaranteed to be delicious.

Ingredients:

  • butter  - 185 g;
  • flour - 395 g;
  • sour cream - 180 ml;
  •   - 110 ml;
  • ice water - 60-80 ml.

Cooking

Salt the flour and grind it with ice cream butter. The output will turn out dry crumb, which will need to be collected together with the help of sour cream and mayonnaise. Having added both sauces, do not forget to pour some more ice water, it will help the formation of gluten filaments so that the dough can be easily rolled in the future. Long knead shortbread dough for kurnik on sour cream is impossible, because the melting butter will begin to make the dough sticky and at the output it will lose its strength, will disintegrate and poorly retain moisture. Once the baby has gathered together, wrap the ball with the film and leave it in the cold for at least half an hour.

Today, few people know how to make chicken (if we are talking about traditional Russian pie).

As a rule, the distinctive feature of the cooper is a large number of  various fillings. Perhaps the most common is the chicken roaster with chicken and potatoes. However, in addition to this, chicken steaks are prepared using other types of meat, fish, cereals, cabbage, etc.

All the fillings in the chicken should be separated by layers of dough. And for this purpose different types of dough are used.

In general, you can use the dough for kurnik yeast or fresh (for example, shortbread). Let's see how to prepare the dough for kurnik.

Kefir dough

The recipe test for kurnik on kefir is one of the most common, with the exception of the test for kurnik on milk. You can make such a dough for Kurnik in a bread maker or in the traditional way. In order for us to get sweet dough for chicken, take:

  • 200 grams of butter
  • 2 glasses of kefir
  • 1 chicken egg
  • A pinch of soda
  • A pinch of salt
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon dry yeast.

Cooking method:

In order to make the dough for kurnik on kefir, you need to melt the butter beforehand. Separately mix kefir with egg. Add a pinch of soda, a pinch of salt and dry yeast, previously soaked in 100 ml of warm water.

After obtaining a homogeneous mass, pour melted butter into the dough for the chicken. Sift the flour and also add to the dough for the chicken curd on kefir. Knead the dough for kurnik. We put it in a warm place for about 1 hour.

This dough on the chicken knead in the oven is also perfect for making pies and dumplings in a slow cooker.

Dough for Kurnik on margarine

Let's sort one more not less popular recipe of the test for kurnik. Prepare yeast free dough  for kurnik on margarine. How to make the dough for kurnik on margarine? In order to make yeast-free dough on Kurnik in the oven, take:

  • 200 grams of margarine
  • 250 ml of kefir
  • A pinch of soda
  • A pinch of salt
  • Flour.

Cooking method:

Margarine for making dough for kurnik should be pre-melted over low heat.

Separately mix kefir, soda and salt. Pour melted margarine into the dough for chicken. Next, we begin to gradually add flour, kneading dough for kurnik on margarine.

As soon as the dough stops sticking to the hands, it means it is ready. Leave the dough for kurnik at room temperature for 1 - 2 hours. After roll it and make a cake. By the way, yeast-free dough for kurnik is suitable for cooking other pies. For example, you can make fish or carrot cake in a slow cooker.

Sandwich dough for Kurnik

If you want to cook loose dough for kurnik, then try using a shortbread dough recipe for kurnik. Preparing such a dough for kurnik on sour cream. However, if you do not have sour cream, you can make the dough for kurnik in mayonnaise. How to make shortbread dough for kurnik?

Ingredients:

  • 90 grams of butter
  • 75 ml cream
  • 50 ml sour cream
  • 15 grams of sugar
  • 1 chicken egg
  • A pinch of salt
  • A pinch of soda
  • 350 grams of flour.

Cooking method:

As in the above recipes, to prepare shortbread dough for kurnik, we need to pre-melt the butter on low heat. Combine melted butter with cream, sour cream, egg, sugar and salt.

Separately mix soda with flour. We begin to gradually pour the mixture in the dough for kurnik on sour cream. Knead tasty dough  for kurnik.

Please note that shortbread dough can be used immediately after cooking.

Dough for kurnik, in principle, you can use any, just so that it was not sweet, of course. I propose to make the dough for kurnik on sour cream. This is a proven option and very good.

Servings Per Container: 8-10

A simple dough recipe for kurnik on sour cream Russian cuisine step by step with the photo. Easy to cook at home in 50 min. Contains a total of 186 kilocalories.



  • Preparation time: 8 minutes
  • Time for preparing: 50 min
  • Calorie Count: 186 kilocalories
  • Servings: 12 servings
  • Complexity: Simple recipe
  • National cuisine: Russian kitchen
  • Type of dish: Baking, Kurnik

Ingredients for four servings

  • Sour cream - 4 Art. spoons (full)
  • Butter - 100 Grams
  • Egg - 1 Piece
  • Soda - 2 Pinch
  • Salt - 2/2, Teaspoons
  • Flour - 500 Grams
  • Milk - 1/1, Glass (fat)

Step by Step Cooking

  1. This recipe is classic version  short pastry for savory pies, including chicken. Prepare the dough for kurnik on sour cream is not difficult. The main thing is that the sour cream is fresh and the milk fatter. Products from such a dough are obtained lush, tasty, with a beautiful crust. I am writing, and even the drooling of my mouth is flowing. Therefore, now I will quickly, in detail, write how to replace the dough for kurnik on sour cream and begin to prepare it. So:
  2. Four full tablespoons of fresh sour cream are mixed with a beaten egg fork.
  3. Add the softened butter and milk, which should be big fat.
  4. Now add salt and soda to the mixture and mix well.
  5. Gradually pour the flour and knead pretty steep dough.
  6. The dough is placed at least half an hour in the fridge so that it becomes more plastic.
  7. We divide the dough into two parts and form a curd with the selected filling to your taste.

Kornik on margarine can be cooked from different varieties  dough - fresh, yeast, butter or sand. The dough cooked in margarine, not stale for several days, while remaining soft.

Kornik on margarine can be cooked for an hour

Ingredients

Margarine 1 pack Milk 150 milliliters Yolk 2 pieces) Granulated sugar 0 tbsp Flour 4 stack Baking powder 1 tsp

  • Servings:6
  • Time for preparing:60 minutes

How to cook the dough for kurnik on margarine

Dough on the margarine is cooked faster than yeast. Therefore, it can be used when the cake needs to be made quickly.

Cooking:

  1. Mix flour and baking powder, sift the mixture through a sieve.
  2. In a bowl, put the yolks, salt and sugar and whisk. Then put in the resulting mixture pieces of softened margarine and whisk bring it to homogeneity.
  3. Heat the milk a little and pour it into the egg-margarine mixture.
  4. Then pour the flour, constantly mixing the ingredients.

The dough will be cool, but elastic. Knead it until it stops sticking to your fingers.

Then remove the dough in the cold for 30 minutes. After that, it can be used for its intended purpose.

Recipe dough for kurnik on margarine and kefir

The dough on kefir and margarine is always fluffy and soft. Kefir is desirable to use not too fresh.

You will need:

  • fatty kefir - 1 stack;
  • margarine - 150 g;
  • eggs - 2 pieces;
  • flour - 3 stak;
  • sugar - 1⁄2 tbsp;
  • salt - 1⁄4 tsp

Cooking:

  1. Melt the margarine in a water bath and allow to cool slightly.
  2. Whisk the eggs in a deep bowl until lightly frothy. Add the melted margarine, salt and granulated sugar. Mix well.
  3. Allow the egg-oil mixture to cool and pour the kefir into it. Stir and gradually add flour, constantly mixing the dough. On a consistence it should remind dumplings dough.

Put it in the fridge for 2 hours, and then use to form a pie.

Shortbread dough on margarine

This recipe is the most quick way  making dough, because you don't need to put it on the cold. In the oven, a shortbread chicken roaster will be ready in 20 minutes.

Ingredients:

  • margarine - 100 gr;
  • sour cream - 2/3 stack;
  • egg - 1 pc;
  • flour - 3-4 stak;
  • salt - 1⁄2 tsp;
  • granulated sugar - 3 tbsp;
  • baking powder - 1 tsp

Cooking:

  1. Softened margarine mash with a fork. Add sour cream to it and mix.
  2. In a separate bowl, beat the egg with sugar. Then salt it.
  3. Combine the egg and the mixture of sour cream and margarine. Add flour gradually, kneading dough.
  4. Knead it to an elastic state. It should not stick to hands.

Let the dough rest for 20 minutes. Then you can collect the cake.

Before kneading dough flour must be sifted. It is saturated with oxygen, the dough is soft and airy.