[london.food] [RECIPE] Easy roast chicken pie

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From: KAY WISTOW A15
Subject: [london.food] [RECIPE] Easy roast chicken pie
Date: 12:26 on 22 Sep 2005
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Think I would have sweated off some onion with the mushrooms or even
leeks and thrown in the wine at this stage to get maximum flavour and
evaporate off the alcohol.

I don't like my pastry at all soggy, so I cut the sheet of puff pastry
into triangles, bake and place on top of the hot filling.  Added
advantage being you can pick up a triangle and dunk in to the lovely
juices.

Kay

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From: simon@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
To: london.food@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 11:17:40 +0100
Subject: [london.food] [RECIPE] Easy roast chicken pie

I had The Craving[tm] last night so I made pie. Mmm, pie.

It was easy. I felt compelled to share.

In a frying pan I sauteed off a large handful of button mushrooms and a
large handful of cubed bacon bits. If I was using ham cubes I'd add them
in much later. I added a knob of butter for flavour.

Whilst those were browning nicely I stripped all the meat off one of
thsoe preroasted chickens you can buy from supermarkets. It was a fairly
small chicken but I got a surprising amount of meat off it - enough so
that I can munch on the drumstick and thigh whilst I cooked.

When the mushrooms and bacon were sufficently done I bunged in the
chicken and a medium size pot of cream (about 600ml) which, in
retrospect might ahve been too little. The filling was quite gooey.
Perhaps some wine (white or red) might have helped loosen it up a
little.

I stirred in a generous tsp of wholegrain mustard (dijon or english
would have worked equally well) and then spooned the mixture into two
ordinary bowls.

Meanwhile I bought one of those ready to cook sheets of puff pastry and
cut out two circles slightly larger than the bowl which I scaored with a
cross pattern and brushed with milk. These I put over the bowls and
pressed down the overlap and stuck in a 200 degree oven for about 20
minutes (or until the pastry looked right, really).

Delicious and dead easy. I didn't do gravy but you could. I also didn't
do vegetables but new potatos and mange tout would be delicious.

I was stuffed at the end - the recipe could probably do 3.






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