Kurnik on kefir and margarine

Pour kefir into a large bowl. It is better to take fatty kefir, then the ready-made chicken coop will turn out even softer and more tender. Add soda to it and mix. Melt the margarine to a liquid state. The easiest way to do this is in a microwave oven, but if there is no one, a water bath will do.

Add salt and melted margarine to kefir. Mix well. Sift the flour into a separate bowl and add it to the kefir mixture in small portions. Knead the dough with a fork, whisk or mixer with dough mixers.

When mixing with a fork is already difficult, we continue to knead the dough with our hands. Add flour until the dough becomes soft and stops sticking to your hands. Wrap the dough in a film and leave at room temperature for 3 hours.

Potatoes and onions are cleaned and washed. Cut the onion into the smallest cube, the potatoes into thinner strips. The chicken is washed with running water, dried and cut into small pieces.

Divide the pie dough into two parts (one should be slightly larger than the other). The smaller part is rolled out and put into a baking dish, greased with oil. Do not forget about the formation of the sides.

Put a layer of chicken in the middle, season with salt and ground pepper. Put the onion in the second layer, and potatoes on top of it. We also salt and pepper it. Cold butter is cut into cubes, spread on the surface of the filling.

Roll out the second part of the dough, cover the chicken coop and pinch the sides. From the remains of the dough, if desired, we make various decorations. You can also make several cuts on the surface of the cake to release steam. Lubricate the surface with beaten egg. We send the chicken coop to the oven, preheated to 200 degrees for 35-45 minutes. Readiness is determined by a golden crust.

We take the finished pie out of the oven, lubricate it with a small amount of butter, which can be replaced with water, and serve it to the table hot. If a little cake remains after dinner, it can be served cold.

Bon appetit!