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Chicken & Mushroom Pie

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Pie lovers behold! This is one succulently juicy & moist pastry parcel. It's delicious served as a dinner with veg and gravy and equally devourable cold from the fridge.

Thinking of the week ahead, I always make sure there is plenty of left over meat from the Sunday roast, so I can make an irresistible dish or two for the coming days. Today I have a chicken to finish, so I'll make two dishes: chicken & mushroom pie with leeks and a wholesome chicken soup, as the nights are drawing in and the weather is slowly turning colder. All the skin and bones are going into making the stock for the soup and I have a whole breast, one leg and a wing to go into my pie. I should call it fat chicken pie! :¬P

It's going to be a busy day in the kitchen!

Click the Method tab below to see a step by step guide with pictures.

chicken amd mushroom pie plated

ingredients

Here's what you need :¬)

serves 4 to 6

    for the lid

  • 320g pack of ready-rolled puff pastry

for the pastry base

  • 200g flour
  • 125g cold butter
  • 2 Tblsp cold water
  • A pinch of salt

for the filling

  • 2 large leeks - white ends cleaned & sliced
  • 250g chestnut mushrooms sliced
  • A knob of butter
  • A pinch of salt
  • A pinch of freshly ground black pepper

left overs

  • Roast chicken meat
  • Onion sauce
  • chicken gravy

method

So, I have half a roast chicken to break down, it's best if you do this before you put it in the fridge, the meat comes off the bone far easier than when it's cold. I'm also using shop bought puff pastry for the pie lid, it might seem like a cheat, but the quality of ready-made pastry these days is excellent, and puff pastry is a real faff to make! Just try to get an 'all butter' pastry as the taste is far superior. I prep my ingredients first, so that I have everything ready to build the pie.

Turn the oven on to pre-heat to 180c

Prepare the ingredients:

  1. Pull the chicken meat off the bone
chicken meat
chicken leftovers
gravy & onion sauce
gravy onion sauce
leeks & mushrooms sliced
leeks & mushrooms

make the pie

  1. Fry the leeks & mushrooms in a little butter until soft
  2. Sift the flour & salt into a large mixing bowl
  3. Using cold fingers, rub the butter into the flour

You should have a fine breadcrumb consistency

  1. Add the water & combine gently into a dough
  2. Roll into a ball, cover with food wrap
  3. refrigerate for 1/2 hr
  4. Grease a 20cm diameter x 5cm deep pie dish with butter
  5. Lightly dust a chopping board with flour
  6. Roll out the pastry base so that it'll overlap the dish
  7. Prick the bottom of the pastry all over
  8. Line with grease proof paper
  9. Fill with uncooked rice or baking beans
baking paper & rice
pie baking paper rice
  1. Put in pre-heated oven @ 180c for 10 mins
  2. Pull out the baking paper & rice
  3. Put the pie base back in the oven for another 10 mins
blind baked pie base
pie base blind baked
  1. Spread the onion sauce into the pie base
  2. Layer the chicken meat on top of the onion sauce
  3. Add a layer of leeks & mushrooms
  4. Add another layer of chicken
  5. Pour the gravy over the chicken
  6. Layer with the rest of the leeks & mushrooms
add the chicken
add chicken
  1. Tip the left over gravy onto the chicken
add the gravy
add gravy
  1. Cover with sliced mushrooms & leeks
add leeks & mushrooms
add leeks and mushrooms
  1. Roll out the pastry lid, a circle bigger than the dish
  2. Dampen the top edge of the base with egg wash
  3. Roll the lid over a rolling pin
  4. Place the lid onto the pie dish
  5. Press the lid down all around the edge of the dish
  6. Use a pastry brush & paint egg wash on top of the pie
  7. Add a twist of salt over the top
ready for the oven
oven ready pie

don't trim the edges!

  1. Pop the pie back into the oven @ 180c for 30 to 45 mins*

*Check the pie is golden brown and piping hot in the middle

  1. Trim around the edge with a sharp knife
  2. Allow to cool slightly
  3. Carefully turn out onto a plate
chicken & mushroom pie with leeks
chicken pie cooked
dinner plated
pie veg gravy on plate
serving suggestion

Broccoli, new potatoes & gravy

so good I made another :-)

chicken & mushroom pie with leeks
chicken pie cooked

The pie is mine :-P