Chicken pie with the lot!
 
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Nothing better than a home made chicken pie! Use up all your veggie ingredients sitting in the fridge! Add some wholegrain mustard for a yummy sauce.
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Recipe type: Lunch & Dinner & Snack
Cuisine: Modern
Ingredients
  • 600g chicken thigh fillets
  • 2 Tbs rice bran oil
  • 1 Tbs unsalted butter
  • 200 mls good quality stock
  • 1 large leek, finely diced
  • 2 rashes of diced bacon
  • 1 knob of garlic, minced
  • 2 carrots
  • ½ cup peas (fresh is best but frozen are ok)
  • 200g button mushrooms, cut into quarters depending on their size
  • 2 cups cauliflower florets, cut into pieces similar size to the mushrooms
  • 1 Tbs wholegrain mustard, more if you like a kick!
  • 1 Tbs corn flour
  • 2-3 puff pastry sheets, depending on the baking tray
  • egg wash
Method
  1. Clean the chicken thighs by taking off any extra fat, cut into 2 cm pieces.
  2. Heat oil in pan, when hot add chicken thighs and brown, set aside.
  3. Melt butter in pan, add leek and sweat on low heat until it has starts to caramelize.
  4. Add garlic, bacon, carrot, mushrooms, cauliflower. Cook on low heat for approximately 5 minutes. Your mushrooms should start to turn a darker colour.
  5. Add wholegrain mustard to the mixture.
  6. Add corn flour and stir to combine, when the flour has fully incorporated into the vegetable mixture add your stock and chicken thighs. Let the mixture bubble on the stove until it thickens. If you need to add more corn flour do so by mixing it with a little liquid first.
  7. Cut out circles of puff pastry using a round biscuit cutter. Note that the pastry does shrink so you need to cut the pastry top slightly larger, allowing for al least 5 mm extra.
  8. Brush with egg wash.
  9. Bake the pastry top in the oven for approximately 15-20 minutes, until it turns golden brown.
  10. Fill medium sized ramekin dishes with warm chicken pie filling, top with baked pastry top and enjoy with a lovely simple green salad!
Recipe by Finding Feasts at https://www.findingfeasts.com.au/recipe-index/chicken-pie-lot/