Recipe: Perfect Chicken pies

Chicken pies. Chicken pie is proper comfort food for a family dinner. We have lots of recipes whether you like puff pastry, potato-topped or a light filo-wrapped version. Get the perfect chicken pie whether you opt for crisp puff or buttery shortcrust pastry.

From easy chicken and mushroom pie to spectacular pithiviers. Made with a creamy curry sauce topped by a layer of mashed potatoes, it is the ultimate comfort food. Loads of delicious chicken pie recipes for classics like chicken and leek pie, chicken and mushroom pie, as well as tasty ideas like curried chicken puff pastry parcels. You can cook Chicken pies using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken pies

1. Prepare 400 g of Chicken fillets.
2. It's 1 kg of potatoes.
3. You need 1 of leek.
4. Prepare 1 of red onion.
5. Prepare 4 of carrots.
6. It's 1 pack of shortcuts pastry (I made my own).
7. Prepare 1 pack of puff pastry.
8. It's 1 pack of bacon lardons.
9. It's 1 of small tub of chive Philadelphia.
10. You need 1/4 tsp of Garlic salt.
11. Prepare 1/4 tsp of onion salt.
12. Prepare 1 tbsp of chicken seasoning.
13. You need 1-2 tbsp of cornflour.
14. It's 100 ml of water.
15. It's 400 ml of milk.

Among these are the chicken pot pies I made from Ina Garten's beloved recipe six years ago, and somewhere, my friend Ang is gasping because these are, to date. Chicken and mushroom pie is a common British pie, ranked as one of the most popular types of savoury pie in Great Britain and often served in fish and chips restaurants. The outside is usually a full top and bottom crust. A traditional chicken pie will contain plenty of fabulous fresh vegetables including carrots, peas, leeks or onions.

Chicken pies step by step

1. Chop the onions and lightly fry them with the Bacon same with the leeks, peel and Chop the carrots and potatoes and put them in a saucepan to par boil. Put the Bacon, onions and leeks in a bowl and then use the same frying pan sear the chicken pieces which I cut into for each fillet..
2. You can make the pastry 1st if not roll out on a lightly floured surface and put into either a pie pan or any oven proof dish. (I used a butter spray so as it doesn't stick).
3. Drain the carrots and potatoes and cut smaller if desired. Put all the carrots potatoes onions bacon lardons and leek in the frying pan with the chicken. Mix well then add the stock of choice (I mixed mine. Chicken and Vegetable together) milk and cornflour into the frying pan. Stir until a nice consistency in the sauce. Add the chive Philadelphia and stir until all gone. Add the the pie pan. Roll out the puff pastry and use milk to each side and top. Press down around the edges..
4. Put them in a pre heated oven on 180°c - 150°c fan. Depending on your oven. I slowly baked them. Around an hour. Or until golden on top of the pies. Enjoy!!.

Nowadays, you can add almost anything to your chicken pie, for example mushrooms. This Chicken Pot Pie recipe is made by poaching uncooked chicken in stock and milk which is then used as the broth for the creamy filling. Homemade chicken pot pie might just be one of the most comforting dishes of all time. While it might require a little extra time and effort, we promise this chicken pot pie will be worth it! This is the double-crusted chicken pot pie I grew up with, based on my mother's recipe and updated with Daniel's techniques for cold-poached chicken and basic chicken stock.