Kurnik is a traditional Russian dish.Most often it was made multi-layered, high, in the form of the "Monomakh's cap". Kurnik was served on royal tables back in the days of Ivan the Terrible. Great church holidays could not do without this dish. They especially loved to cook this dish for Easter and Trinity. On the eve of the holiday, everyone prepares, fusses with such bright feelings. The whole house smells of pancakes (the basis of the kurnik is a pancake). It also had to be on the wedding table. The pie was cooked both in the groom's family and in the bride's family. The recipe for making a kurnik from pancakes was passed down from generation to generation. Kurnik is a traditional holiday dish in many families. The main ingredient of the kurnik is chicken meat (hence the name). The components in the pie recipe have their own meaning. Chicken and egg - symbol of fertility, procreation, flour - the basis of life, cereals - a symbol of well-being and harmony. It is believed that the most delicious kurnik is made in a Russian oven and always on birch logs. Nowadays, kurnik recipes have become simpler, some do not even bake pancakes and do not use cereals. Some replace cereals with potatoes. There are many recipes for making kurnik. This dish consists of pancakes with three different fillings. Ingredients for pancakes:

• 500 ml. milk,
• 1-2 eggs,
• 2 table. spoons of sugar,
• 0.5 teaspoons of soda,
• 3 table. spoons of vegetable oil,
• , 5-2 cups of flour,
• salt.

Cooking pancakes for a tortilla

You will need 9 to 15 pancakes.It depends on your taste, whether you want a tall chicken pie or not. The recipe for making pancakes is simple, you need to beat the eggs with salt, sugar, add milk, vegetable oil and at the end - flour with soda. Let the dough sit for 15 minutes, so that the flour "comes to life". After the pancake dough "comes to life", bake the pancakes. Then prepare the products for the filling. You will need:

• 0.5 kg of chicken fillet,
• 1 large onion head,
• 0.5 kg of mushrooms,
• 150 ml of vegetable oil,
• 1 teaspoon of salt,
• 1 tsp black pepper powder,
• 4 eggs of boiled,
• 200 gr. boiled rice.

Preparing the filling for the kurik

Boil the chicken fillet until done and cut into piecesinto pieces. Separately, fry the onion in vegetable oil in a frying pan. Then fry the mushrooms. You can use any mushrooms you like. If they are champignons, you can fry them right away, but if they are wild mushrooms, you need to boil them first. Mix half of the fried onion with the mushrooms, mix the other half with the chicken fillet, add spices. Finely chop the eggs, mix with herbs and rice, green onions are best. You now have three types of filling. This recipe is different in that it also has a sauce, which gives the chicken pie a delicate flavor. For the sauce, you will need:

• 100 gr. butter,
• 1 liter of milk,
• 4 table. spoons of flour,
• salt,
• a pinch of black ground pepper,
• pinch of nutmeg.

Preparation of the curry sauce

You need to take a frying pan with a thick bottom andMelt the butter, add flour. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, gradually pour in a glass of hot milk (hot, so that there are no lumps), stir and add the remaining milk. Season with spices and simmer for five minutes, cool. The sauce can be replaced with sour cream. Let's move on to preparing the chicken pie itself. To do this, roll out the puff pastry and spread it on the bottom of the pan so that the edges of the dough hang over the pan. Pre-grease the baking pan with butter. The shape of the chicken pie depends on the pan you will be baking in: rectangular or round. To make it easier to remove the pie, it is recommended to take a detachable baking pan. It is also good to use a silicone mold. Place the first pancake and grease it with sauce, usually two pancakes are used for one layer. Put the mushroom filling on top and grease it with sauce, then the next two pancakes + chicken filling + sauce, then the next two pancakes + egg filling + sauce, and so on. The last layer should be made of pancakes, also grease it with sauce and cover it with puff pastry on top. Pinch the edge of the puff pastry that hangs out of the pan and the edge of the top layer of dough together. It is advisable to decorate the top with different figures from puff pastry. Cut out flowers, stars, etc. It looks beautiful when the chicken pie is made in the shape of a chicken, and figures from chickens are laid out along the edges of the pie. Grease with yolk and put in a preheated oven for 30-40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. You can sprinkle grated cheese on top, and then lay out the decorations. It all depends on your taste and preferences. Perhaps you will add your own twist to the recipe. When the crust is browned, the pie is ready. It can be served with chicken broth, which is left over after boiling the chicken. And to make the broth tasty and aromatic, when boiling the chicken, you should add an onion (without cutting) and a bay leaf. This wonderful recipe for chicken pie will please you and your friends. Enjoy your meal!

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