Delicious pancakes can be cooked even for beginners in the culinary business. And from them you can create more than one masterpiece of home cooking. For example, a henhouse from pancakes is simply amazing. This recipe has been known since ancient times: in Russia such a cake was served at the wedding table. The recipe has undergone many changes over the years, but the main steps in creating a wonderful “royal” baking have remained the same.
Material Content:
Classic chicken pancake hen
To create original versions of the dish, you need to familiarize yourself with the basis - the classic pie recipe. It implies the use of two types of dough: pancake (it will become the basis) and butter (will be used to create a “cap” -top). For the basics, you can cook pancakes according to any convenient recipe. And for the top, yeast, shortbread or puff pastry is suitable.
- Cooking time: kneading dough - 30 minutes + 2-3 hours, preparing the filling and baking - 90 minutes.
- Servings Per Container: 8
- Calories: 204.4 kcal per 100 g.
Ingredients for Yeast Dough:
- milk - 200 ml;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- egg yolk - 1 pc.;
- salt - 4 g;
- butter - 100 g;
- sugar - 25 g;
- flour - 500 g;
- yeast - 25 g.
Ingredients for Pancake Dough:
- milk - 500 ml;
- vegetable oil - 25 ml;
- boiled water - 250 ml;
- butter - 30 g;
- flour - 450 g;
- salt - 4 g;
- egg - 3 pcs.;
- sugar - 25 g.
Meat filling:
- chicken fillet - 2 pcs.;
- salt, spices, herbs - to taste.
Mushroom filling:
- champignons - 300 g;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- salt, ground pepper - to taste.
Rice Filling:
- rice - 250 g;
- sour cream or cream - 50 ml;
- water - 400 ml;
- egg - 3 pcs.;
- green onions, dill, pepper, salt - to taste.
Preparation of yeast muffin for covering the henhouse:
- Heat the milk. You don’t need to boil, otherwise the yeast in it will not “work”.
- Pour yeast into a bowl, pour milk (100 ml), add sugar and a couple of tablespoons of flour. Mix everything. Remove to heat. After 15-20 minutes, when the sponge is covered with foam, you can work with it further.
- Sift flour into a deep bowl, make a depression in the resulting slide. Drive an egg in there. Add salt and mix well.
- Pour in the remaining milk and pre-melted butter. Mix thoroughly again.
- The last step is to add the dough. It must be combined with other components and thoroughly mixed with a spoon, and then with your hands. Put in a warm place for 2-2.5 hours.
Egg yolk will come in handy when assembling the henhouse.
Cooking pancakes:
- Sift flour into a deep bowl. Pour salt and sugar there. Mix everything.
- Heat the milk slightly, pour in a thin stream to the loose components, stirring constantly.
- Put water on the stove, bring to a boil.
- Introduce eggs into the milk and flour mass, beat with a mixer until smooth, gradually increasing speed.
- Pour boiling water into the container with ingredients in a thin stream, while not ceasing to knead the composition with a mixer or manually.
- Leave the resulting mass to rest for 30 minutes.
- After this time add the butter. It must first be melted in a water bath and carefully pour into a container for other ingredients. Stir well until the stains disappear.
It remains to heat the pan with vegetable oil and bake ordinary pancakes.
Important! Pancakes can be prepared for the chicken pot according to any convenient recipe.
Cooking meat toppings:
- Boil chicken fillet in salted water. You can add any suitable spices to your taste, such as a little pepper or dried herbs.
- Remove the cooked meat from the broth, let it cool. Disassemble the fillet into fibers or finely chop.
- Add chopped fresh herbs and a little decoction to the chicken for juiciness.
Cooking mushroom toppings:
- Peel the onion, chop in small cubes.
- Mushrooms cut into quarters, and then into smaller pieces. Put in a pan with warmed vegetable oil. Fry for 12-15 minutes. Then transfer to a deep bowl, and put onions in the pan instead.
- When the onion sticks are browned, return the mushrooms to the pan. Mix everything, add salt. Add spices if desired.
After a minute it will be possible to turn off the gas and cover the filling with a lid.
Important! It’s not necessary to take champignons for a pancake pie. Others, including pickled and frozen, will also work.
Cooking rice toppings:
- Pour water into a saucepan, pour out cereals and cook, salting, until tender. It takes no more than 20 minutes.
- While the rice is cooling, boil hard-boiled eggs, peel them and cut into cubes.
- Mix the prepared ingredients, add fresh dill, onion.
- Salt the filling, mix well again, season with sour cream or cream.
Collection and baking:
- Mix the yeast base on a table sprinkled with flour. Separate from her about a third.
- Roll the resulting piece into a cake so that it is 3-4 cm larger than the pancake.
- Put the pancake on the cake.
- Place a suitable baking sheet with parchment greased with oil.
- Place the bottom of the future pie on parchment. On top lay the first layer - chicken.
- Cover the meat with pancake. Put half the rice with eggs on it.
- Putting another pancake on top, place champignons with onions on it. Cover again with a cake.
- Lay out the remains of chicken, rice and mushroom fillings, all overlaid with pancakes.
- Roll out most of the yeast dough into a layer of such a size that they can cover the entire product.
- Using a rolling pin, transfer the layer to the kurnik and carefully place it on its surface.
- If there is excess dough - cut with a knife. Pinch the edges. Of the residues, if desired, you can make jewelry and put them on top. Grease the entire surface with yolk.
- Bake pancake chicken in the oven at 180 ° C for 30-40 minutes.
Pastries cooked according to the described recipe exudes such a flavor that homemade people gather in the kitchen without waiting for an invitation.
Pie with tomatoes and cheese
In order not to waste time proofing the yeast dough, you can use a simpler option: purchase ready-made puff pastry. Pancakes in this case are prepared according to any convenient recipe.
- Cooking time: 1 hour 45 minutes.
- Servings Per Container: 7
- Calories: 170 kcal per 100 g.
Ingredients:
- finished puff pastry - 500 g;
- pancakes - 13-15 pcs.;
- chicken or turkey - 300 g;
- onion - 1 pc.;
- tomatoes - 2-3 pcs.;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- mushrooms - 300 g;
- hard cheese - 300 g;
- vegetable oil - 15 ml;
- salt to taste.
Cooking method:
- Washed tomatoes cut into slices.
- Grate cheese on a grater with small cells.
- Hard-boiled eggs, peel and cut them into medium cubes. You can use the egg cutter.
- Peel the onion, chop finely. Fry with mushrooms cut into slices.
- Boil the meat in salted water until tender. Disassemble into fibers.
- Divide the dough into 2 unequal parts. Roll out less.
- Put puff pastry and pancake on a greased baking sheet. Place tomatoes on top. Sprinkle with grated cheese.
- After covering the layer with pancake, put the mushroom filling. Put another pancake.
- The next layer is boiled eggs. Place another fried flat cake on top.
- Repeat layers until the chicken filling is over. As a result, tomatoes should be on top.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Roll out the rest of the puff pastry and cover it with the pie. Pinch the edges.
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C, send the product there for 20 minutes.
Important! The kurnik does not have to be stuffed with chicken. It can be stuffed with turkey meat or other poultry. It is known that in the north chicken pies are called fish pies. This once again confirms: the filling for such baking can be used in a variety of ways.
It is generally accepted that the name "henhouse" comes from the word "chicken", because it is this bird that is the main filling. However, there is another interpretation: the name of the pastry comes from the word “smoke”, because a fragrant “smoking” park appears over the top of the pie during baking.
Baking a henhouse from pancakes with chicken and other fillings is not as difficult as it might seem. This cake is a real find for the holiday table.
Classic chicken pancake hen
Ingredients
- Yeast dough:
- 200 ml Milk
- 1 PC. Egg
- 1 PC. Egg yolk
- 4 g. Salt
- 100 g. Butter
- 25 g. Sugar
- 500 g. Flour
- 25 g. Yeast
- Pancake dough:
- 500 ml Milk
- 25 ml Vegetable oil
- 250 ml Boiled water
- 30 g. Butter
- 450 g. Flour
- 4 g. Salt
- 3 PC. Egg
- 25 g. Sugar
- Meat filling:
- 2 PC. Chicken fillet
- taste Salt, spices, herbs
- Mushroom filling:
- 300 g. Champignons
- 20 ml Vegetable oil
- 2 PC. Onion
- taste Salt, ground pepper
- Rice Filling:
- 250 g. Rice
- 50 ml Sour cream or cream
- 400 ml Water
- 3 PC. Egg
- taste Chives, dill, pepper, salt
Step-by-step instruction
- Preparation of yeast muffin for covering the henhouse:
- Heat the milk. You don’t need to boil, otherwise the yeast in it will not “work”.
- Pour yeast into a bowl, pour milk (100 ml), add sugar and a couple of tablespoons of flour. Mix everything. Remove to heat. After 15-20 minutes, when the sponge is covered with foam, you can work with it further.
- Sift flour into a deep bowl, make a depression in the resulting slide. Drive an egg in there. Add salt and mix well.
- Pour in the remaining milk and pre-melted butter. Mix thoroughly again.
- The last step is to add the dough. It must be combined with other components and thoroughly mixed with a spoon, and then with your hands. Put in a warm place for 2-2.5 hours.
- Cooking pancakes:
- Sift flour into a deep bowl. Pour salt and sugar there. Mix everything.
- Heat the milk slightly, pour in a thin stream to the loose components, stirring constantly.
- Put water on the stove, bring to a boil.
- Introduce eggs into the milk and flour mass, beat with a mixer until smooth, gradually increasing speed.
- Pour boiling water into the container with ingredients in a thin stream, while not ceasing to knead the composition with a mixer or manually.
- Leave the resulting mass to rest for 30 minutes.
- After this time add the butter. It must first be melted in a water bath and carefully pour into a container for other ingredients. Stir well until the stains disappear.
- Cooking meat toppings:
- Boil chicken fillet in salted water. You can add any suitable spices to your taste, such as a little pepper or dried herbs.
- Remove the cooked meat from the broth, let it cool. Disassemble the fillet into fibers or finely chop.
- Add chopped fresh herbs and a little decoction to the chicken for juiciness.
- Cooking mushroom toppings:
- Peel the onion, chop in small cubes.
- Mushrooms cut into quarters, and then into smaller pieces. Put in a pan with warmed vegetable oil. Fry for 12-15 minutes. Then transfer to a deep bowl, and put onions in the pan instead.
- When the onion sticks are browned, return the mushrooms to the pan. Mix everything, add salt. Add spices if desired.
- Cooking rice toppings:
- Pour water into a saucepan, pour out cereals and cook, salting, until tender. It takes no more than 20 minutes.
- While the rice is cooling, boil hard-boiled eggs, peel them and cut into cubes.
- Mix the prepared ingredients, add fresh dill, onion.
- Salt the filling, mix well again, season with sour cream or cream.
- Collection and baking:
- Mix the yeast base on a table sprinkled with flour. Separate from her about a third.
- Roll the resulting piece into a cake so that it is 3-4 cm larger than the pancake.
- Put the pancake on the cake.
- Place a suitable baking sheet with parchment greased with oil.
- Place the bottom of the future pie on parchment. On top lay the first layer - chicken.
- Cover the meat with pancake. Put half the rice with eggs on it.
- Putting another pancake on top, place champignons with onions on it. Cover again with a cake.
- Lay out the remains of chicken, rice and mushroom fillings, all overlaid with pancakes.
- Roll out most of the yeast dough into a layer of such a size that they can cover the entire product.
- Using a rolling pin, transfer the layer to the kurnik and carefully place it on its surface.
- If there is excess dough - cut with a knife. Pinch the edges. Of the residues, if desired, you can make jewelry and put them on top. Grease the entire surface with yolk.
- Bake pancake chicken in the oven at 180 ° C for 30-40 minutes.
