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Chicken and Potato Hand Pies (Kurniki) with Flaky Pastry

Wonderfully tasty and quite easy to make! A great recipe for homemade savory hand pies for teatime, made from crumbly flaky pastry with chicken and potato — they'll pleasantly surprise you with their refined flavor and are sure to be a hit!

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Chicken coops with chicken breasts and puff pastry potatoes
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 21 % 9 g
Fats 26 % 11 g
Carbohydrates 52 % 22 g
214 kcal
GI: 24 / 0 / 76

Cooking method

Cooking time: 55 min

  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    Gather the ingredients and spices for these delicious kurniki.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    Start the flaky pastry: sift 500 grams of wheat flour into a large bowl, then add a little salt to taste.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Add 200 grams of butter to the bowl, cut into small pieces ahead of time and well chilled.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Mix and rub everything together with your hands until crumbly.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    Pour 250 ml of kefir into the bowl.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Add the yolk of one egg to the bowl.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7

    Mix everything together, then knead the dough well with your hands.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8

    Gather the dough into a ball, then turn it out and shape it.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9

    Cut the shaped dough into ten pieces and put them in the freezer for 40 minutes.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10

    Roughly chop one onion — not too fine.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11

    Add the chopped onion to a skillet with vegetable oil and fry, stirring, until translucent.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12

    Cut the peeled potatoes into small cubes.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13

    Put the cubed potatoes in a deep bowl.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14

    Cut 400 grams of chicken breast into small cubes.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15

    Add the cubed chicken to the bowl with the potatoes.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16

    Add the translucent fried onion to the bowl with the potatoes and chicken.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17

    Add cumin and khmeli-suneli to the bowl to taste.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18

    Add salt to the filling to taste.

  19. Step 19:

    Step 19

    Add dried herbs and a black-and-red pepper blend to taste, and mix everything well.

  20. Step 20:

    Step 20

    After 40 minutes, take the chilled dough out of the freezer.

  21. Step 21:

    Step 21

    Lightly flour the surface and roll each piece of dough into a round about 1/4 inch (0.5 cm) thick.

  22. Step 22:

    Step 22

    Put two heaping tablespoons of the rested filling on each round.

  23. Step 23:

    Step 23

    Gather the edges of each round over the filling and pinch them together firmly.

  24. Step 24:

    Step 24

    Shape the kurniki and place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

  25. Step 25:

    Step 25

    Brush the tops with beaten egg and put the sheet into an oven preheated to 410°F (210°C).

  26. Step 26:

    Step 26

    After 20–25 minutes, take the baking sheet out of the oven and arrange the finished kurniki on a plate.

  27. Step 27:

    Step 27

    Cook together, cook simply, cook the most delicious dishes at home from everyday ingredients with our recipes! Enjoy, everyone!

  • Chicken and potato kurniki — a really simple recipe for savory flaky-pastry hand pies for teatime, lunch, or dinner. They're irresistible: golden, juicy, fragrant kurniki with tender chicken in thin flaky pastry! Their unbeatable, rich, perfectly balanced flavor is hard to put into words. Made with lean chicken and everyone's favorite potato in a crumbly flaky pastry, these come out incredibly tasty and very filling. The pastry follows its own special method. Chicken kurniki are wonderful, simple, flawless baking! Enjoy!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Ripe potatoes - 80  kcal/100g
  • Baked potatoes - 70  kcal/100g
  • Mashed potatoes - 380  kcal/100g
  • Boiled potatoes - 82  kcal/100g
  • Potatoes in uniform - 74  kcal/100g
  • Fried potatoes - 192  kcal/100g
  • Zira - 112  kcal/100g
  • Kefir fat - 62  kcal/100g
  • Kefir of 1% fat content - 38  kcal/100g
  • Low-fat kefir - 30  kcal/100g
  • Kefir 'doctor beefy' 1,8% fat content - 45  kcal/100g
  • Kefir 2.5% fat content - 53  kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734  kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661  kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652  kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869  kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873  kcal/100g
  • Hops-suneli - 417  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325  kcal/100g
  • Chicken breast - 113  kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41  kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41  kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80  kcal/100g
  • Ground pepper mixture - 255  kcal/100g

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