Chicken and raisins rice pie

6 servings
1 hour 40 min

How do you make a pie with rice, chicken and raisins? First, prepare all the necessary ingredients on the list. Start cooking with the dough. Butter should be room temperature, so take it out of the fridge beforehand.

In a bowl, combine the sifted flour, soft butter, sour cream, sugar, soda and salt.

Knead the soft, elastic dough, adding a little more flour, if necessary. At first, the dough sticks strongly to the hands, but quickly begins to lag behind both the hands and the walls of the bowl.

Roll the dough into a ball, wrap in film and put in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, prepare the filling. In addition to dried apricots and raisins, you can add prunes or crushed nuts.

Boil the rice in plenty of boiling water until tender for about 15 minutes. For the exact cooking time, see the packaging. Tip the finished rice into a colander and let drain all the water.

Rinse the raisins and dried apricots, pour boiling water and leave for 10 minutes. Then drain the water, dry the dried fruits.

Cut the dried apricots into small pieces.

Melt the butter and cool.

In a bowl, combine the crumbly rice, dried apricots, raisins, sugar and melted butter. Mix thoroughly.

Now make a streisel.

In a blender bowl, combine the flour, diced cold butter and sugar. Grind everything into crumbs. You can grind the dough into crumbs and hands, but I have been using a blender for these purposes for a long time - so much faster.

Divide the chilled dough into two unequal parts. Roll most of it into a circle.

Place in a baking tin (Ø 20cm) and form high sides. Put the filling on the dough and flatten.

Roll the second part of the dough into a circle equal to the diameter of the mold and cover the filling. Pinch the edges. In the center, make a round hole for the steam outlet.

Sprinkle the top of the pie with streisel. Bake the cake in the oven preheated to 180 ° C for about 30 minutes. The exact timing of baking depends on your technique.

Remove the finished cake from the tin and cool. Then cut into pieces and serve. Enjoy your meal!