Chicken Pie Recipe
Chicken Pie with Leeks and CreamThis Chicken Pie Recipe is a bit of a cheat's method because you get to use ready-made puff pastry. Of course you are welcome to make your own pastry. This is a very simple pie recipe with not too many ingredients and for those who don't like mushrooms, well there are none required for this pie recipe. The main ingredients are leeks and spring onions and these give the pie filling a lovely flavour. Chicken Pie Recipe Ingredients
How to Make Chicken Pie Preheat the oven for the baking time to 200 deg C or 400 deg F (Gas mark 6). Melt the butterin a pan and fry the leek, spring onion and garlic until the leek is soft. Do not brown the leeks.Remove the pan from the heat and sprinkle in the flour, mix well. Return to the heat and keep stirring for about 1 minute. Pour the chicken stock in gradually, still stirring well until the mixture is thick and smooth. Stir in the cream and the cooked chicken and then add your seasoning as per your prefered taste. Pour the mixture into a shallow 20cm (8 inch) pie dish and set asideto cool. Cut a cirlcle out of one of the sheets of puff pastry to cover the top of the pie. brush around the rim of the pie dish with a little milk. Lay the pastry on topof the filling in the pie dishand seal firmly around the edges. trim off any overhanging pastry and decorate the edge with the back of a fork. Make a few small holes in the top of the pastry to let out any steam and brush the top of the pasrty with milk. bake or 25 - 30 minutes or until the pastry is goldenbrown and crispy.
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