Chicken Pot Pie With Mashed Potato Tops Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. In a medium skillet melt the butter over medium high heat, saute the potatoes, onions, leeks, carrots, and garlic until golden. Add the white wine and simmer for 1 minute. Add the chicken stock and simmer for 20 minutes until the vegetables are tender.
• Mix the flour and milk until smooth and add to the vegetables, and cook until thickened. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper.
• Season the chicken with salt and pepper. In a large skillet heat the oil over high heat and sear the chicken until golden. Cut seared chicken into 1/2 inch chunks and add it, the thyme, and parsley to the vegetables and set side.
• For the topping: Put the potatoes in a large pot and cover with water, season with salt. Over high heat bring to a boil and simmer until tender. Drain the potatoes and let them sit for 5 minutes to steam dry.
• Put the potatoes through a food mill. Warm the cream and stir into the potatoes. Mix in the butter. Season, to taste.
• To assemble the pot pies fill 6 ramekins with 1 cup of filling each and top with the mashed potatoes. Bake for 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Make filling
• In 5-quart saucepan bring 3 quarts water to a boil. Add chicken and simmer, uncovered, 20 minutes. Remove pan from heat and let stand 30 minutes.Transfer chicken to a bowl, discarding cooking liquid, and cool. Discard skin and bones. Cut chicken into 3/4-inch cubes and return to bowl.
• In a 3-quart saucepan bring 2 quarts water to boil and cook onions until tender, 7 to 8 minutes. Transfer onions with a slotted spoon to a bowl of ice and cold water, reserving cooking liquid in pan. Cut root ends off onions and peel. Add onions to chicken.
• Return reserved cooking liquid to a boil and cook carrots and celery until just tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Drain carrots and celery and add with peas to chicken mixture.
• In pan cook mushrooms in 1/2 tablespoon butter over moderate heat, stirring, until soften and golden brown and all liquid they give off is evaporated and add to chicken mixture.
• In pan cook shallots with bay leaf, thyme, and tarragon in remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons butter over moderately low heat, stirring, until soft and pale golden and stir in flour. Cook mixture, stirring, 3 minutes (it will look crumbly) and gradually whisk in wine, broth, nutmeg, and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer sauce 5 minutes, whisking occasionally, and whisk in Sherry. Discard bay leaf.
• Pour sauce over chicken mixture and stir until combined well. Filling may be made 1 day ahead,cooled, uncovered, and chilled, covered.
• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Make mashed potatoes
• Peel potatoes and cut into 1-inch pieces. In a saucepan cover potatoes with water by 1 inch and simmer until very tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Reserve about 1/3 cup cooking liquid and drain potatoes. In batches force potatoes through a ricer or a food mill fitted with medium disk into a bowl and stir in sour cream, chives, salt and pepper to taste, and enough reserved cooking liquid to reach a fluffy consistency. Transfer potatoes to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch fluted tip.
• Spread filling in a 1 1/2- to 2-quart gratin dish or other shallow baking dish. Pipe mashed potatoes decoratively in mounds on filling and bake in middle of oven until filling is bubbling and potatoes are golden on edges, about 25 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Unroll Pie crust and press into 2.5 qt casserole (you may need to use a rolling pin to make it larger to fit the casserole).
• Mix together chicken, soup, milk, and vegetables.
• Pour chicken mixture into casserole.
• Mash potatoes with butter and milk, salt and pepper to taste.
• Spoon mashed potato topping onto pie, and gently smooth it over evenly.
• Bake in a preheated oven for 45-60 minutes.

Steps:

• Saute med potato and carrot in bacon grease until slightly softened but not cooked through.
• Add onion, cook until soft.
• Dissolve bullion in 1 1/2 cup water and add to veggies.
• Add any leftover veggies.
• Saute cubed chicken, add to veggie/broth mix.
• Keep mixture on low heat.
• In another pan melt 2 tbsp butter and slowly mix in flour until a roux is made, cook for 1 minutes, stirring constantly. (will look like yellow paste)
• Slowly add in 1 cup milk stirring constantly until well blended and thickened, making a cream sauce.
• Add cream sauce to veggie/chicken/broth mix and stir well, turn heat to medium and simmer for about 2 minutes, adding salt and pepper and seasonings to taste. Remove from heat.
• In a med mixing bowl combine mashed potatoes, egg and 2 tbsp of butter until well blended. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Spoon veggie chicken filling into individual casserole or pie tins, can even be made in a full size casserole.
• Spread mashed potato mixture evenly on top, potatoes can be cold.
• Place on foil lined baking sheet and bake for 20-25 minutes at 425°F until tops are golden brown.