Chicken legs in puff pastry without yeast

An unusual and original dish of chicken legs. Chicken legs in puff pastry are an original dish for serving both on a festive table and for a cozy home feast. They prepare quickly and simply, the guests really like them.
Natalia VasilenkoAuthor avatar
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 36 % 14 g
Fats 38 % 15 g
Carbohydrates 26 % 10 g
231 kcal
GI: 0 / 100 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Prepare all the ingredients. Wash and dry the chicken legs. Season with salt and ground black pepper and leave for 20 minutes. Optionally, you can use your favorite spices – chicken seasoning, paprika, etc. – whatever you like. Cut the cheese into small rectangles, detach the skin from the fillet and insert a cheese plate into the pocket. Defrost the puff pastry and roll it out with a rolling pin to a thickness of 0.5 cm .

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cut the dough into strips 1 cm wide and wrap the chicken drumsticks with dough starting from the wide side.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Cover the baking sheet with baking paper and grease it with vegetable oil. Place the shins on a baking sheet. Break the eggs and carefully separate the yolks from the whites. We will need only yolks, you can make an omelet from proteins or use it to prepare another dish. To get a beautiful golden crust, apply a layer of mixed egg yolks on top of the dough with a brush.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Send the chicken drumsticks in puff pastry in a preheated 180 degree oven for 1 hour. Put the finished legs on a platter, decorate as desired and serve to the table. Chicken legs in puff pastry are ready! Enjoy your meal!

Chicken dishes are gaining more and more popularity, many housewives are showing interest in delicious, budget, interesting and inexpensive recipes. I myself love chicken for its variety of taste - the breast is drier, but dietary, the thighs are very tasty, but fatty, each part of the chicken is interesting and delicious in its own way. Today I want to offer you, in my opinion, an original and interesting recipe for cooking chicken legs in puff pastry. The dish turns out to be very tasty and unusual, the dough is soaked with chicken juice and becomes soft and tender. Once I tried this recipe, I began to cook it often, my family also liked it, and friends who came to visit appreciated it. It is good both for ordinary pastime and for a festive table. I hope you like this recipe too.

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

  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352   kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335   kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366   kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345   kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "steppe" - 362   kcal/100g
  • Uglichsky cheese - 347   kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377   kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400   kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363   kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395   kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420   kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356   kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364   kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360   kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61   kcal/100g
  • Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401   kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100   kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260   kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355   kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316   kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327   kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250   kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350   kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Puff pastry - 400   kcal/100g
  • Puff pastry, unleavened - 337   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chicken legs - 158   kcal/100g

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