Chicken drumstick in puff pastry and other dishes suitable for a picnic

In the warm season many people come to rest on nature and have picnics in the fresh air. Naturally, the question arises as to which products to take with you. Of course, many fry traditional shish kebabs, but it is not always possible to light a brazier for safety reasons. Therefore, it is worth picking up such dishes that you can cook at home. The main thing is that they are delicious, and they were convenient to take with them.

A variation of this dish can be a chicken drumstick in a puff pastry. It is not difficult to cook, you can eat hot, and after cooling, it is convenient to carry. In addition, this dish can be called "three in one", there are also meat, vegetables, and bread.

So, to prepare the dish, the chicken drumstick in the puff pastry for packing chicken meat (there were seven shins), 750 grams of puff pastry (one and a half packs of 500 grams), one hundred and fifty grams of cheese, three hundred grams of fresh mushrooms, a bulb, a large carrot, half Jars of olives (or olives, then who, what more like it). Also, you will need to take a little vegetable oil, a packet of mayonnaise, a couple cloves of garlic, a little soy sauce and seasonings for chicken.

Defrosted or chilled legs should be sprinkled with seasonings for chicken, put them in a saucepan, adding there mayonnaise, soy sauce and chopped garlic. Mix everything and put the pan in the fridge for two hours, so that the shins are blotted out.

In the meantime, grind vegetables and mushrooms. Fry onions in a frying pan, then add carrots and mushrooms to them, fry until ready, not forgetting to salt and season.

Ready-made puff pastry, which today can be bought in almost every store "Products", you need to roll out and cut into squares of this size to fit the chicken drumstick. Now we begin to collect our dish. In the center of the square, we put olives (or olives) cut into rings, then grated cheese and cooked vegetable stuffing, and then set the shank with the wide part down. Raise the edges of the dough up, squeeze them at the end of the stone and tie it with a string. On the baking tray, put our "bags" upside down, lightly butter the dough with an egg and send the dish to the oven.

The chicken drumstick is baked in a puff pastry for an hour, and the first half hour the temperature should be 180 degrees, and then it should be reduced to 150. About the preparedness of the dish can be judged by the ruddy color of the dough and the appetizing aroma that is closer to the end of the cooking will come from Oven.

The recipe for chicken drumstick in puff pastry is very good also because the stuffing can be used very differently. Do not like olives and mushrooms? Replace this ingredient with braised cabbage or mashed potatoes. You can use as a filling and ready-made vegetable stew. Or just use only grated cheese.

Similarly, you can prepare and a dish such as a leg in a puff pastry, only in this case, the dough should be cut into strips, and wrap the strand with a leg, applying coils so that there are no gaps. For this dish, it is better not to use juicy fillings, it is better to take thin slices of cheese and place them in the cuts made with a sharp knife on the ham.

And if there is no time or the desire to mess with the chicken, then for a picnic you can very quickly cook such a delicious dish as sausages in a puff pastry. The recipe for making this appetizing snack is quite simple. The puff pastry is rolled out, cut into strips about two centimeters wide and wrapped with these strips of sausage, applying coils so that there are no gaps. If desired, the sausage can be pre-cut in half by placing a slice of cheese or a pickled cucumber in a slice. Prepared sausages in the dough spread on a baking sheet, grease the top with a yolk and bake until the dough gets a beautiful golden hue. This appetizer is very tasty and hot and chilled.