Chicken in puff pastry bags with mushrooms and potatoes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Why do you need boring chicken legs with mashed potatoes when you can work a little more and create a special dish that will definitely surprise your guests and make you a master of cooking in their eyes? The easy way to cook bagged chicken will not interfere with the peaceful and excellent taste and presentability on the holiday table.

Among other dishes, chicken cooked in this way will be distinguished by its versatility - meat in a bun, while the content of this dish is very difficult in composition, but after the first test, the guest will definitely not want to leave the table without eating. If you cook chicken in a bag of puff pastry one day, then this dish will forever be written into your everyday menu.

Which table fits?

Chicken in pouches can be both part of a festive dinner and a great midday snack. We recommend preparing it for holidays such as birthday, New Year, Christmas, February 23rd and March 8th.

What products do you need?

The main components of the dish, designed for 6 people (1 serving per person), will be the following products:

• 600 grams of potatoes;
• 2 onions;
• 1 leek;
• 6 chicken drumsticks;
• 300 grams of mushrooms;
• 500 grams of puff pastry (you can use both store-bought and homemade);
• 50 milliliters of milk;
• 100 milliliters of vegetable oil;
• 0, 5 teaspoons chicken spice;
• 1 teaspoon s alt.

How to cook bagged chicken?

1. Sprinkle the drumsticks with s alt and spices and send to a hot frying pan. Frying time in vegetable oil varies from 25 to 30 minutes. Fried legs must be cooled immediately after they are cooked.
2. In the same oil that we fried the chicken drumsticks, fry the chopped onion and mushrooms, cut into larger pieces, into small cubes. The frying time is determined by the browning and evaporation of all the liquid from the pan, that is, it will take approximately 15 minutes.
3. Cooking mashed potatoes. We wash and clean the potatoes. If the potatoes are young, then cook them until fully cooked for 15 minutes in s alted water. Old potatoes will take 30 minutes to cook, so if you are in a hurry, it is better to buy new potatoes in advance, even if it takes time to find them. After we boil the potatoes in s alted water until fully cooked, we drain the hot liquid and mash the potatoes with a potato masher until they are mashed. Add s alt to tasteif you want to. We add fried mushrooms and fried onions to fragrant mashed potatoes without lumps. Thoroughly mix the stuffing for chicken with mushrooms in bags and add the required amount of s alt.
4. From the rolled dough, we should cut off a small strip about 4 centimeters wide. The rest is divided into 6 identical parts. We divide the four-centimeter strip into 6 pieces and lay it in the center of each cut out square. The trimmings will be needed as a patch for the potential bottom that forms in the middle of the test pattern. We place a "patch" in this middle of the shape.
5. Approximately 2 tablespoons of potato, mushroom and onion filling to each of the six squares. The filling is also placed in the middle and strictly on the "patch". And then we vertically set the chicken drumsticks on each figure.
6. Now we carefully take the edges of the square and create a pouch by wrapping it around an upright chicken drumstick that stays in place. We tie the test wrapper with the feathers of 1 leek cut into strips or with the remaining dough, which we can also divide into strips. Wrap the chicken legs in foil to protect the dish from burning. We should cover the baking sheet with baking paper or treat it a little with vegetable oil. At the end of the sixth step, we put all the bags on a baking sheet.
7. At this stage, we bake the chicken in bags in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees for 30-40 minutes. Thus, the dough will bake better.
8. BAt the end of cooking, remove the foil and the leek or remaining pastry string.

In conclusion

Dish is ready! For more elegance, especially for a New Year's feast, chicken in dough bags should be additionally decorated with green onion feathers and chopped vegetables.

Bon appetit everyone!