Janettes Chicken Pot Pie Recipes

CHICKEN POT PIE IX

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C.)
• In a saucepan, combine chicken, carrots, peas, and celery. Add water to cover and boil for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, drain and set aside.
• In the saucepan over medium heat, cook onions in butter until soft and translucent. Stir in flour, salt, pepper, and celery seed. Slowly stir in chicken broth and milk. Simmer over medium-low heat until thick. Remove from heat and set aside.
• Place the chicken mixture in bottom pie crust. Pour hot liquid mixture over. Cover with top crust, seal edges, and cut away excess dough. Make several small slits in the top to allow steam to escape.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.

JANETTE'S CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• Marinate chicken in 2 cups of the white wine for at least 30 minutes and up to 24 hours in the refrigerator.
• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
• In a large nonstick skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook until the outside turns opaque, about 2 minutes. Add the onion, carrots, and celery and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes more.
• Lower the heat to medium, add the flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes. Stir in the chicken broth and remaining 1/2 cup wine. Stir in mustard and thyme. Let simmer, stirring often, until thickened, about 5 minutes. Add the frozen peas and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Transfer the mixture to a shallow 2-quart baking dish.
• Spray each sheet of phyllo with nonstick cooking spray and layer over the baking dish, tucking the excess pastry into the dish. Bake until the filling is bubbling and the phyllo has browned, about 25 minutes. Let cool slightly before serving.

CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• For the filling: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place chicken breasts skin-side down in a 3-quart saucepot. Add chicken bouillon and 2 cups water. Place on high heat and bring to a boil. Cover pot and reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for 45 minutes.
• Remove chicken from pot with tongs, and set aside. Add condensed cream of chicken soup, celery, onions, butter, garlic powder and black pepper, if using, to pot. Whisk to incorporate and return to a simmer. Simmer uncovered until vegetables are tender, 20 to 30 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Dissolve the flour in 1 cup of water in a small bowl. Stir until smooth and no lumps remain. Whisk this flour mixture into broth in the pot. Bring this all to a rolling boil, then boil for only 15 seconds. Remove from heat and set aside.
• For the pie: Cut shortening with a fork into 2 cups flour in a medium bowl until shortening is pea-sized. Add buttermilk and gently mix just until no dry flour is visible. Turn mixture onto a work surface that has been dusted with the remaining 1/2 cup flour. Knead dough until a firm ball is achieved, about 20 times. Roll out dough to 3/8-inch thickness.
• Shred the chicken into a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Add frozen mixed vegetables and entire contents of saucepot. Stir with a spatula to incorporate all ingredients. Cover pot pie filling with rolled out crust. (Cover only the filling, not the sides of the baking dish.) Drizzle 1/2 cup melted butter evenly over crust. Bake for 1 hour. Let rest for 10 minutes before serving.

CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• For the roasted chicken: Combine the salt, sugar, rosemary, garlic, onion, peppercorns, bay leaves and 1 gallon cold water in a large pot. Bring to a boil; boil for 5 minutes, then turn off the heat and add enough ice to chill the brine.
• Rinse the chicken and spatchcock it (remove the backbone). Submerge the chicken in the brine, cover and refrigerate overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Remove the chicken from the brine, rinse and place skin-side up on a wire rack. Roast until the internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F, about 1 hour 30 minutes. Let the chicken cool enough to shred by hand. Pull the meat from the bones and set aside.
• For the crust: Combine the flour, vegetable shortening and salt in a large bowl. Mix with your hands until marble-sized chunks (diameter of a quarter) form. Add the ice water and slowly mix with your hands until the mixture just binds. Chill the dough for at least 1 hour or up to overnight.
• Remove the chilled dough, dust a surface with flour and roll out to 1/2 inch thick with a rolling pin. Fold the dough into thirds and roll out 1/4 inch thick. Cut the dough into the desired shape and chill for 1 hour.
• For the curry filling: In a large pot, add the carrots, onions, celery, mushrooms, butter, salt and pepper. Cook on medium heat until just tender. Add the flour and curry powder, then slowly whisk in the stock. Cook until thickened. Turn off the heat and add the cream and green peas.
• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
• To build the pot pies, arrange four 12-ounce baking dishes on a sheet pan, fill two-thirds to the top with the curry filling, then add the shredded chicken and top with the crust. Bake until the crust is golden brown, about 20 minutes.

CLASSIC CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
• In a heavy-duty pot, cook the onion, celery and carrot with the butter on medium to high heat until the vegetables are soft. Add the garlic and cook until fragrant (be careful not to burn). Stir in the flour and cook until a paste forms. Reduce to low heat and add the chicken broth, half-and-half, sea salt, sage, pepper, allspice, nutmeg, dry mustard and cayenne. Cook until thickened, periodically stirring. Remove from the heat and add the chicken and peas. (Pot pie filling can be made the day before and chilled, or day-of if using right away.) Portion the pot pie filling into 4 small oven-safe crocks or baking dishes, with at least 1 cup filling per dish. Cut the puff pastry sheets according to the sizes of the baking dishes, enough to cover the top.
• Bake until the puff pastry is golden brown and has risen, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve immediately.

CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• Make the dough: Combine the flour, sugar, salt, thyme and chives in a food processor and pulse a few times to evenly combine. Add the butter and pulse 7 or 8 times until the butter is in pea-size bits. Add the vinegar and 2 tablespoons ice water and pulse just until the dough starts to come together into a ball. (Add 1 to 2 more tablespoons ice water if the dough is too dry.) Form the dough into a disk. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate while you make the filling, at least 1 hour.
• Make the filling: Pile the 2 crushed garlic cloves, bay leaf, lemon peel, peppercorns and coriander seeds on a square of cheesecloth. Bring the corners together to form a pouch and tie with a piece of kitchen twine.
• Combine the chicken, chicken broth and cheesecloth pouch in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce to a rapid simmer and cook until the chicken is cooked through, about 15 minutes. Remove the chicken to a plate using tongs. Strain the liquid through a fine-mesh sieve into a medium bowl; discard the cheesecloth pouch. Wipe out the saucepan; return the strained broth to the pan and keep at a very gentle simmer over low heat. Shred the chicken using 2 forks.
• Melt the butter in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add the onion, carrots and celery and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, 10 to 12 minutes. Add the potato, 1 teaspoon kosher salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper and cook until the potato is slightly softened, about 5 minutes. Add the 3 minced garlic cloves and the thyme and cook until softened, 1 minute. Add the vinegar and cook until the liquid has evaporated, about 1 minute. Stir in the flour until the vegetables are evenly coated. Pour in 1 3/4 cups of the strained chicken broth (save the rest for another use). Bring to a gentle boil and cook until thickened, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Remove the pot from the heat and stir in the heavy cream. Add the shredded chicken, parsley and peas and stir to combine and heat through; season with salt and pepper. Transfer the filling to a 9 1/2-inch deep-dish pie plate and let cool until no longer steaming, about 20 minutes.
• Bake the pot pie: Preheat the oven to 375˚ F. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pie dough into an 11-inch round, about 1/8 inch thick. Place it over the filling. Roll the overhanging dough under itself and crimp the edges with your fingers. Cut vents in the top of the dough. Beat the egg and 1 teaspoon water in a small bowl. Brush the crust all over with the egg wash. Place the pot pie on a rimmed baking sheet and bake until the crust is a deep golden brown, 50 minutes to 1 hour. Let cool 20 minutes before serving.