French pie Quiche Lauren: cooking features and recipe with the addition of chicken and mushrooms
You can cook French pie Kish with chicken and mushrooms for any festive table. It is very tasty, as the pie combines a shortbread or puff base with a fragrant filling baked in cream.
Initially, such a cake began to be prepared in Lorraine, which is located in France. This is a very satisfying dish that smells of French cuisine. Now there are a lot of recipes for a pie called quiche. They come with different fillings and bases. Chicken and mushroom quiche can be made from puff pastry, but this article will describe a recipe for making a pie from homemade shortcrust pastry. The recipe that uses puff is no different from the one described below. In addition, buying puff pastry in the store is easier than making shortbread yourself. When preparing this dish with puff pastry, you can count on not the worst result. It is necessary to cook in the same cooking sequence, except for the stages in which the dough preparation technology is described. Roll out the puff pastry cake very thinly.
The recipe for cooking Kish Lauren with chicken and mushrooms includes 3 main stages (shown below with a photo): the choice of ingredients, preparation of products for baking and baking directly. All these stages will be discussed separately.
Selection of ingredients
- for making dough;
- for making the filling;
- for filling preparation.
What products are needed for making the dough:
- 2 cups flour (this is about 250 g);
- 3/4 pack of butter;
- one thing egg;
- some salt.
What products are needed to prepare the filling:
- 1 onion;
- 0.3 kg of chicken fillet;
- 0.3 kg champignons;
- vegetable oil for frying;
- a little salt, pepper.
What products are needed for making fillings:
- 0.3 liters of low-fat (or medium-fat) cream;
- two chicken eggs.
All the ingredients for making the Kish Lauren Open Pie with Chicken and Mushrooms should be prepared in advance, even before starting the cooking process.
Preparing food for baking
The first step should be to prepare the dough, because after kneading it needs to stand in the refrigerator for half an hour. In order to prepare the dough, mix a little softened butter with flour. It is advisable to sift it first. Flour and butter are rubbed with hands into crumbly fat crumbs. Do not try to do this with a spoon or mixer. After the dry mass has acquired a homogeneous consistency, you need to drive an egg into it and finish the process of kneading the dough with your hands.
If salt is added to the dough, it should be mixed into the flour, even at the very beginning of the kneading.
Cover the steep dough with foil and refrigerate for half an hour. The film will protect the surface of the dough from airing.
The second stage in the preparation of the quiche pie will be the preparation of chicken and mushrooms. The filling should be put into the pie in a ready-made form. Therefore, the chicken fillet should be boiled. To prepare mushrooms, peel and finely chop one onion, and then fry it in vegetable oil. Cut the mushrooms into slices and add to the onion frying. When the mushrooms are ready, add the chicken fillet, cut into pieces, to the pan. Season the filling with salt and pepper and, when ready, remove from heat.
The third stage is the preparation of the filling. Mix cream and eggs with a mixer. They should form a homogeneous mass.
Do not whip cream until foam forms. They must remain liquid.
The fourth step in making a quiche with mushrooms is preparing a baking dish. You can take both round detachable and any rectangular shape. It must be covered with parchment paper. Moreover, it is advisable to grease the paper and the sides of the form with vegetable oil. After that, place the dough rolled into the layer at the bottom of the mold. In addition to the fact that it must completely cover the bottom of the mold, create small sides with your hands. The height of the sides should be at least 3 cm so that the filling does not flow out of the cake.
When the dough is spread over the surface of the mold, pierce it in several places with a fork to avoid swelling.
Baking
Place the cake without filling in the oven at 200 ° C for 10 minutes. Then put the filling on the cake, pour with whipped cream and bake for 25 minutes without changing the temperature.
According to the recipe, quiche lauren pie with chicken and mushrooms should be left to cool in the mold.
Take it out and cut it already cooled, since it is so fragile when hot that it is practically impossible to get it out of the mold without damage.