The taste of the old Russian pie causes admiration and envy of the housewives who do not dare to cook it. It used to be that dough for a chicken coop was a complicated undertaking. This opinion is erroneous, you can bake a kurnik according to proven and simple recipes.

Kefir dough for chicken

A kefir-based pie is prepared very quickly, it turns out friable, tastes good.

Required Products:

  • 1 cup kefir;
  • flour - 550 gr;
  • sugar - 1.5 tbsp. l;
  • 1 egg
  • butter — 150 g;
  • 0.5 tablespoons of salt.

Cooking Technology:

  1. According to an old recipe, butter was required to melt in a pan or saucepan. Today, they often use a microwave. Pour melted butter into a bowl.
  2. Beat in an egg, add sugar, salt, pour a portion of kefir. Next, the dough for the chicken kefir needs to be mixed well until a lush mass is formed.
  3. Gradually pouring the prepared flour, knead the base. Roll up the dough, place it in cellophane - this will allow it to distance.
  4. The finished baking base is used immediately or stored in the refrigerator for three to four days. At the same time, they must be kept in cellophane, otherwise the batch will dry out.

Kefir is suitable for any fat content, in the old days they took sour milk (yogurt).

Sand base for pie

The recipe for a sand base is universal, suitable for any savory pastries.

Required Products:

  • 400 gr. flour;
  • margarine (spread) - 200 gr;
  • sour cream - 5 tbsp. l;
  • a pinch of table salt;
  • baking soda - 1 tsp;
  • flour - 400-450 gr.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Beat softened margarine and a portion of sour cream in a lush mass, add salt.
  2. Sift the rate of flour in a bowl, add soda and knead. If the mass is not kneading, you can add sour cream (milk).
  3. Wrap the mixed friable dough in food cellophane. Soak inside the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.At the end of time, form a cake and bake.

Cooking on sour cream

Required Products:

  • sour cream - 200 gr;
  • wheat flour - 350 gr;
  • 1 egg
  • soda or baking powder - 1 tsp;
  • vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l;
  • salt, sugar - 1.5 tsp.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Sour cream in a container for kneading, add soda (baking powder), salt, sugar. Mix all the products, wait for the soda to react with sour cream.
  2. Beat in an egg, pour in vegetable oil. If desired, butter can be replaced with melted margarine.
  3. Pour the sifted flour into the next step, knead the shortbread dough for the chicken pot in the usual way. For convenience, you can grease your hands with vegetable oil.

If we cook on homemade sour cream, you need to add a little milk, otherwise there will be a small yield of dough.

Chicken puff pastry

Today, for baking, they prefer to buy ready-made puff pastry, but it is much tastier to cook home-made.

Required Products:

  • butter - 100 gr;
  • wheat flour - 2 tbsp;
  • mayonnaise - 5 tbsp. l;
  • baking powder - 3 gr;
  • salt to taste.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Chop the butter into small pieces. Add the rate of flour, salt, baking powder. Grind all the ingredients into crumbs.
  2. Next, put mayonnaise, knead the resulting mass. Form a ball, cover it with cellophane, roll it with a rolling pin into a layer.
  3. Put the resulting layer inside the freezer for 15 minutes. Take the layer from the refrigerator, roll it into an envelope, do not roll it thinly. Put again in the refrigerator.
  4. In order for the puff pastry to turn out to be porous and crumbly, they roll it out in several stages, each time keeping it in the cold.

Supporters of a healthy diet mayonnaise can be noticed on sour cream, milk or kefir. The taste of the cake from changing the ingredient will not change.

Margarine Recipe

  1. The principle of preparation is the main ingredient - margarine and additives. It is taken out of the refrigerator in advance, crushed and combined with flour. It should turn out crumb, you can knead it with your hands or a blender.
  2. The amount of ingredients depends on the desired cake size.
  3. In addition to margarine, any lactic acid products or mayonnaise are added, they give viscosity and an additional taste.
  4. The soft dough is kneaded so that it is friable after baking and kept in the cold.

A dough for a chicken coop with meat and potatoes is suitable, but this does not exclude the use of any other filling. In baking, the main thing is the basis, you can fill the pie with anything.

Loose base on mayonnaise

Due to the content of fats, eggs and salt on mayonnaise, the simplest budget chicken is obtained.

Required Products:

  • mayonnaise - 300 gr;
  • wheat flour - 450 g;
  • baking powder - 1 tsp.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Place the mayonnaise inside a deep bowl, add flour there.
  2. Sift flour and mix with baking powder. If there is no baking powder, you can use baking soda.
  3. Knead the elastic mass, wrap with food cellophane. Put inside the refrigerator for half an hour.
  4. A recipe for margarine is also suitable for a chicken pot. The option should be chosen based on the available ingredients, as well as taste preferences.

Chicken yeast dough

A home-made recipe with yeast will not take too much time and will delight you with delicious pastries.

Essential Ingredients:

  • flour - 0.5 kg;
  • milk - 250 ml;
  • pressed yeast - 30 gr;
  • sugar - 1 tsp;
  • 2 eggs;
  • vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l;
  • salt to taste.

Cooking Technology:

  1. Dilute yeast in warm milk. Add sugar, a little flour to the bowl. Place the dough in a warm place, cover with a towel. It is best to use a preheated and disconnected oven.
  2. When the dough comes up, pour oil in there, drive in the eggs, and sugar.
  3. Mix everything and add wheat flour in parts, knead the dough. Flour can go more, it all depends on its quality and egg size.
  4. Cover the finished dough with a napkin, give another approach. After 30 minutes you can bake a cake.

Regardless of the type of dough, you can cook delicious pastries with different fillings from it. However, a successful result largely depends on the basis.

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