How to cook a pancake hen

Pancake Kurnik is a classic Russian dish. He is liked by both children and adults. This is a very tasty and nutritious dish, it can be served at the festive table, and in an ordinary family dinner.

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A pancake kurnik in Russia was considered a festive dish, for every day it was not cooked. An oilseed week or an autumn harvest festival, a wedding - this is the main time to treat yourself to a delicate pie with chicken pulp, mushrooms and, of course, pancake dough.

The process of its preparation is divided into several stages, each of which takes considerable time. Therefore, the hostess often cooked a kurnik with her daughters, who comprehended the basics of preparing this ritual dish from childhood.

To prepare the kurnik we need:

1. Pancakes for any recipe
2. Minced Chicken - 300 g
3. Onions - 1-2 pcs.
4. Carrots - 1 pc.
5. Rice - 0.5 cups
6. Mushrooms - 300 g
7. Greens

For the sauce:

1. Butter - 2 tbsp. spoons
2. Flour - 1 tbsp. a spoon
3. Chicken broth - 2 glasses
4. Cream - 0.5 cups

For lubrication of the yolk - 1 pc.

Cooking

During baking pancakes leave 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons of dough, add flour to them until the consistency of the dough pies. From it we will make a “cover” for our kurnik.

1. Mushrooms and onions finely chop and fry.

   

   

2. Boil rice until cooked. Add carrots, grated on a coarse grater, and finely chopped greens. Mix well.
3. Minced chicken fried in vegetable oil.

Sauce making

1 tbsp. grind a spoonful of butter with flour, pour the broth and cream. Mix well until smooth and put on a small fire, stirring until thickened (to the point of sour cream).

Putting the kurnik:

1. At the bottom of a high form, put 2 pancakes, grease with sauce.
2. Next, alternate pancake - mushrooms - pancake - rice - pancake - meat until the ingredients run out. Grease each layer with sauce.
3. From the rest of the pancake dough, roll out a circle 0.5 cm thick and cover it with a chicken. Turn the edges of the dough inward.
4. Grease the chicken with the egg and put in the oven 180 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
5. Pancake henry is ready!