Russian Salmon Kulebyaka Recipe | Coulibiac (Кулебяка)

Hello everyone, welcome to my channel. Today I'm going to show you one of my favorite recipes of all time and it has been requested so many times. It's going to be Kulebiaka with salmon and dill. So basically this is a homemade crusty pie with your own pastry stuffed with fresh salmon, dill, rice, egg filling and then covered in pancakes and then covered in the dough. I can't explain how amazing this is. And today I'm collaborating with Fishbox. I have already unwrapped the box. I'll show you in the video when we start what I've done. But yeah, I absolutely love this company. I order fish from them all the time. So it's a fresh fish that's been caught within two to three days of catching it in Scotland. And then they deliver that to your door in the next few days. It's really delicious. you also get a bunch of recipe cards inside which again I'll show you in the video once then I wrap the box and I'll be actually posting several of my own recipes which will be delivered to your houses if you do order from them. So it's really exciting because I'll post all my favourite super easy and quick recipes. This one is a bit more complicated and I think this is the perfect one for Easter so that's why I decided to do it today for those of you who like to challenge yourself and try something else. It's kind of I would say on intermediate difficult level but it's not hard i'll take you step by step how to make it but now let's get inside and wrap this box and see and every week uh if you order the box you get different ingredients different seafood and fish so it's kind of like a surprise it's exciting i mean i love it because i don't like to cook the same thing every week so it works out for me now let's check this out so the box arrives nice and big and blue and it tells you when it's upside down so I decided to unwrap it first and I'm just going around and unpacking it then you just easily take that out it's like a plastic container and it's got ice pack in the middle so we're just gonna flip it around and here are the recipe cards that I was talking about earlier look at those you have all the recipes for everything that you have in that box which is great because you don't have to think about it then just gently open the box and here we go I've got loads of stuff in there. I've got some mussels, some oysters, scallops, sea bass, sea bream, monkfish, smoked salmon. And guys, I have a discount code. If you want to order your first box, the code is fishboxuk. I will list the full code promotion down below and you can get 10% off your first medium or large box. so make sure you use it, guys, because it's amazing. You get so much fresh fish and seafood, and it's always just an incredible surprise. So we're going to use salmon. We're going to start with preparing our salmon, so take your fillets. We're going to need about two of these fillets, and we're just going to cut them into nice, thin strips, just like that. And you can tell how fresh it is. It just cuts through so easily. Once you've prepared your salmon, just set it aside. Next we're going to make our dough. In a small bowl add your sugar, your fast action dry yeast and warm milk. Mix it all together and we're going to leave this for about 15 to 20 minutes in a warm place to rise. In your stand mixer add your egg, pinch of salt, your milk and yeast mixture with sugar, then melted butter and I'm going to mix this for a few seconds until it's all combined. Then I'm going to add my sifted flour and then mix everything together. I'm using a dough hook on just a medium speed. So mix everything until it becomes nice and doughy. This will take a couple of minutes from five to six minutes until your dough is nice and soft and elastic and it should come off your dough hook quite easily. Just pinch it down. Add some flour onto your surface and we're We're going to knead the dough for a few more minutes by hand. So just keep adding flour on top and on the bottom and you will see how easy and soft this dough is. It's just a pleasure to work with. Then we're going to add some olive oil into a bowl and add our dough inside. Roll it a few times around and coat it from both sides. Then place a damp towel around and leave it in a warm place to rise or double in size. we're going to make our blinis or crepes or pancakes whatever you want to call them add your eggs into the bowl with sugar and salt and whisk everything together for a few minutes until combined then we're going to add milk and sift our flour and just mix everything again with your whisk the mixture is nice and smooth then add some oil and mix everything together add butter into your pan you can also use oil and we're gonna add about one ladle of our mixture and just move it about and around to make sure it's nice and even and we're gonna cook our pancakes or crepes for about one to two minutes on each side and just flip them around and make sure you do all of them and then set them aside to cool down next we're going to make our egg filling so I have boiled two eggs in advance. I'm just going to chop those up into nice small pieces and then add your eggs into a bowl. Next I'm going to chop my greens. I'm using parsley and dill and again I'm doing fine chopping and we're going to mix this together with our egg mixture. Next we're going to make our mushroom filling. We're going to start off with cutting our onions nice and fine. So chop the onions into small pieces. I'm using one large onion. Add oil into your pan. You can also add butter if you like. And then we're going to add our onions and fry them until they're nice and golden for about 5 minutes. Keep mixing them about so they don't burn. And then start chopping your mushrooms. And we're going to add our mushrooms into our onions. We want everything to be nice and cooked together, all the water to evaporate, so the onion and mushroom mixture is done. Then we're going to set it aside as well to cool down. Add salt and pepper or any other spices that you like and mix everything together until it's ready so right here i've got everything ready my blini my salmon my mushroom filling my egg filling and my boiled rice next we're going to prepare the pastry so the dough has risen and doubled in size and this is the second time that it happened you can prove it once but i do recommend you try and prove this twice as it will be much softer and more delicious so we're just going to punch the dough a couple of times and you can see how soft and elastic it is. Add flour onto your surface and we're just gonna roll the dough out. I have pinched a little bit of the dough to use for my decorations but the rest we're just gonna roll it out into a nice square as much as you can. Just keep rolling that out and stretch out the pastry. Then I'm gonna place the pastry onto my baking sheet. I'm using just parchment paper. it will be much easier to use and work on it later just add that inside next we're going to assemble the pie which is my favorite part i'm going to add blinis so start adding blinis on each side we're going to add about three blinis on each side we want to cover the sides and the pastry as much as we can and make sure that the blinis are also in the pastry inside in the middle So you'll need about six blinis or so. Then we're going to add our egg and green filling. So just add that as a first layer, right in the middle, and we're going to use all of it. Then we're going to add our mushroom and onion filling, just on top. Then we're going to add our rice. Again, we want to make sure everything is in the same square, so just keep adding the mixture until everything is finished and lined up. Lastly, I'm going to add my fresh salmon and I've chopped it into more cubes. You can leave the stripes if you want to. And just add salmon. You can add more salmon if you really, really love salmon. Just add it on top everywhere. Then we're going to season it with salt and pepper. You can use other spices if you like, but this is traditional. And we're going to start wrapping the pie with our pancakes first. just using the crepes just wrap around from both sides and make sure it's kind of sealed or as much as you can seal it then we're gonna move our pastry this is why it helps using parchment paper because it's quite easy and we're gonna seal all the ends together and we're gonna go over the pancakes so the pastry might be a bit tender on the edges but that's fine just as long as you can seal so there are no edges or holes so just press it down and make sure it's nice and sealed. Then I'm going to add our pie onto a baking tray and using both hands just gently flip it around so it doesn't break and we want to turn it around this way. Now I'm going to use the rest of the dough to cut out decorations. Now I love playing around with dough and creating different forms and shapes so use your imagination and do whatever you like. I have used some of my cookie cutters for different decorations like stars and flowers and lucky charms I guess I don't know sure which one that is called if you know leave the comment down below let me know once your decorations are done just place them on top of your pie you can use a little bit water so they stick to the pie and just decorate as you wish I'm using egg wash which is just egg yolks with some water and I'm gonna make sure that the whole pie is covered. So just lightly dip it and cover the pastry in the beautiful egg wash. Once it's done, we're going to make two cuts at each end of the pastry and this is to ensure that the steam can come out when the pie is baking. We're going to bake our pie for about 30 to 35 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius or 400 Fahrenheit. If you see that your pie is starting to burn, you can always add some foil and just keep cooking. Once your pie is done leave it to cool down for 15 minutes cover it with a towel and then it's ready to eat look at this beautiful golden salmon pie with fresh ingredients homemade pastry let's check it out how it looks inside you can see all the layers perfectly wrapped in a pancake and then in the dough this pie is so delicious it's perfect for easter it's perfect for anybody who likes salmon or wants to try something completely different and i hope you make this pie enjoy well guys that was it i really hope you enjoyed this video make sure you check out the links all below which i'll post in the description box and also i've included some e-cards as well if you do want to order a fish box to your house which is great and absolutely love this product i just like that it's really fresh and natural and there's nothing added to it and you've got everything sorted recipes freshly delivered to your house and if you obviously don't eat something you can always freeze the fish and check them out make sure you like them as well on social media i love their products so i hope you enjoyed this video as well and happy easter everyone i will see you in my next video bye