It was impossible to manage marriage events without Kournik. The necessary ingredient for Kournik was chicken meat. In days of old they put big slices of chicken even with bones. As is well known, chicken was a symbol of fertility. Kournik was baked in the houses of the groom and the bride. The groom’s pie was decorated with little human figurines and the bride’s Kournik had flowers - beauty and feminity symbols.
Method
Dough-making: Melt sugar, salt in warm milk, put a half of flour. Stir very well and add another half of flour and baking powder, mix very quickly. Add sour cream and melted butter and stir very well. Divide dough into two parts. One part must be smaller than another one. Roll out the dough in a round (25-30cm in diameter and thick 1/2 cm). Pancakes baking: Make a pastry for pancakes. The pastry must liquid. Bake very thin pancakes. 1 Filling: Boil rice, add chopped hard boiled egg, greens, butter and salt. Mix thoroughly. 2 Filling: Boil chicken. Chop chicken meat finely. Fry flour on the pan until light brown. Add butter and a little of chicken broth. Put chicken pieces on the pan and fry in the sauce for 10 minutes. 3 Filling: Chop mushrooms and fry in butter, add the sauce from chicken. Kournik baking: Put some pancakes on the dough round, then put chicken meat. After that goes another layer of pancakes and put mushroom filling on them. Then - another layer of pancakes and at last rice filling. This "construction" must look like a little hill. Put last pancakes on the top. Roll out the second round (35-40 cm in diameter). Make four radial cuts and cover the hill with it. Pinch the edges of two rounds and edges of four radial cuts on the top. Make different decorations for the top. Grease the top with egg and make some piercing with fork. Bake in the oven with heat 200-210 C.
