How to cook a kurik - a traditional Slavic pie?

Some of the recipes of ancient Slavic dishes are used to this day, but there are undeservedly forgotten ones, and one of them is a traditional curry, a special kind of pie, which in the olden days was considered to be a festive dish, and today not every one of the hostesses is He does not know how to cook it, but has never even tried it. How to cook a kurik? What products are needed for our parents' favorite food? If there are questions, then there must be answers.

How to cook a kurik?

Ingredients:

• Puff pastry (you can take ready, that our grandmothers could not afford) - 600 g;
• Pancakes (cooked according to any of the usual recipes) - pieces 7;
• Chicken fillet - half a kilogram;
• Rice - ½ cup;
• Eggs - 2 pieces;
• Onion green - 2 bunches;
• Butter - 100 g;
• Milk - ½ cup;
• Onions (large) - 1 piece;
• Champignons - 300 g;
• Dill - 1 bunch;
• Pepper and salt to taste.

Preparation:

1. Before preparing the kurik, first prepare the filling of three different types (you can at your discretion).
2. Rice cook until ready, add butter and chopped finely green onions. Eggs, hard-boiled, grind on a grater, add to rice, stir.
3. Boil the chicken fillet, cut into small cubes. The remaining butter is melted in a frying pan, add milk, a little flour, salt and season with pepper to taste, cook over low heat to the consistency of sour cream, add sliced chicken fillets and cook for 5-10 minutes.
4. Fry the mushrooms with finely chopped onions until golden in warmed vegetable oil, pepper and salt add to taste, as well finely chopped dill. The filling is ready, now go directly to how to make a kurik.
5. Puff dough is divided into two equal parts, rolled out and from one half of the dough, pre-rolled out, cut out the circle, which is laid out layers of filling, each of the two layers, separating pancakes. How to make a cookie you decide - you can put the filling in three layers, it is possible in six - it is correct in both cases. When the filling is laid out all over, cover the pie with the remaining rolled out layer of dough on the top, tightly press it around the edges, and its excess is cut in such a way that the pie turns into a shape resembling a mound - three-dimensional and round. It is necessary to make sure that air does not get into the dough, it is pressed tightly with his hands. Fasten the edges of the cake and wrap them up. To decorate the kurik, the scraps of the dough are used - various figurines, pigtails are sculpted from them, they are laid on top and pressed tightly.
6. How to cook a kettle in the oven? It is necessary to warm up the oven to a temperature of approximately 200 degrees and bake until a golden crust of beautiful color is formed. Since the pie is stuffed with a completely finished filling, baking does not take much time and corresponds to about 15-18 minutes. To make the cake even more appetizing, the surface of the kurik is smeared with a beaten egg - in this case the crust turns out even more attractive - crispy and golden.

There are many different ways to make a kurik, for which the dough is not only flaky, as in our case, but also sand, and also yeast or fresh. The filling is chosen depending on the season and personal taste preferences, the main thing is that it should be multi-layered, and the layers should be separated by the most ordinary pancakes, otherwise it will not be a kurik, but some other cake. Everything is simple enough, no special wisdom and special skills are required, and the result will impress and allow you to try the ancient dish of our distant ancestors, which they specially prepared for weddings and especially solemn holidays, we will not and we forget traditions.