Chicken Pie Cheap And Cheerful Recipes

Steps:

• This pie does not have a lining of pastry only a lid on the top.
• Skin the Chicken and take out any bone - this should leave you with at least 500 grams of meat. cut into chunks.
• Dice the Carrots, celery and Onions. Crush garlic into the onion.
• Flour the diced chicken and seal half in a skillet with a small amount of oil pan until it changes color, repeat until all the chicken has been done. place in a bowl.
• Add some oil into your skillet or non stick frying pan, and slowly sauté the onions, garlic, carrot and the celery for at least 5 minutes.
• Add the Stock Cubes, seasoning and hot water, bring to the boil, and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the chicken to the vegetables and simmer for a further 15 minutes. a few shakes of Cayenne pepper does bring the flavor out - use sparingly.
• Add The frozen peas and parsley, and stir. the filling should not need thickening.
• Place in a pie dish and roll out the pastry and place on top.
• Cook in a Hot oven for approx 30 minutes.
• You can make a smaller pie and freeze the other half of the filling.
• Serve with Garlic mashed potatoes and a vegetable of your choice.

Steps:

• Strip carcass of chicken, cutting meat into large pieces. If you prefer you can buy uncooked boneless chicken but you would need to pre cook it at this stage.
• Saute leek (or onion), bacon and mushrooms in the butter and oil. When soft, add flour.
• Add stock, stirring continuously then add the milk so that the sauce is rich and creamy. If the sauce is a little thick, add more liquid.
• Add the pre cooked chicken, and stir carefully until meat is completed coated and empty contents into a large pie dish. Again if you prefer to make this like a more traditional pie you can line the pie dish with the rolled out short crust pastry before putting in the filling.
• Cover with pastr chosen pastry, making a vent in the pie top, and brush with milk.
• Bake in oven on a high temperature (200C/400F/gas 6) for around 25mins or until golden.
• Tip:
• With the stockcube and bacon, there is no need for extra seasoning however, you could substitute some of the stock with a little leftover white wine.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to biscuit cooking temperature Mine was 350 degrees.
• Heat butter in pretty large skillet on med temperature.
• Add chopped celery, french fries, carrots, and sweet peas.
• Saute until tender the potatos will be soft but that is ok, trust me.
• Add chicken and saute until heated through, I added more butter here -- that is a personal taste. You don't need to.
• At this point your oven should be ready to cook your biscuits so go ahead and cook those to ALMOST done -- explained later.
• Transfer the sauted mixture to a seperate bowl
• Add gravy and chicken soup to your hot skillet and heat till warm.
• now add your cream -- this is to taste. I like it really creamy and you need to make sure you have enough cream sauce -- so its up to you.
• Add some pepper and the thyme now and pour saute mixture back into your skillet.
• You can use whatever cooking dish you like for your pot pie, I used my 9 inch cast iron skillet -- one dish meal -- it really doesn't matter. Use what you have.
• Now, cover the top with biscuits and put in the oven. Heat until bubbly.
• I would guess it took about 7 or 8 minutes in the oven -- this is the reason the biscuits are not fully cooked already. But, soggy biscuits are gross so you want to make sure they are mostly done -- mine where barely golden on the egdges when I put them on the top of the pie and baked it. By the time the dish was bubbly the biscuits were golden and perfect.
• NOTE: the baking time is approximately it made me put something there and that is a total time for pre-baking your biscuits before you put them on the pie and finish the baking. Your cooking time may be different.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Put the chicken in a 2-quart casserole dish. Combine the broth and soup in a medium saucepan and bring the mixture to a boil. Pour the broth mixture over the chicken. In a separate medium bowl, mix the flour with the pepper. Stir in the melted butter and the buttermilk. Pour this mixture over the casserole and smooth the top; do not stir. Bake the casserole until the crust is brown and the filling beneath is hot and bubbly, 45 minutes.