Whole Chicken Pie Recipes

USING THE WHOLE CHICKEN

Steps:

• Poached Chicken
• The first thing to do is to get yourself a good quality, higher-welfare chicken and put it in a large pot. Cover it with water and add any veg you have handy. I like to add some chopped up carrots, a few sticks of celery, and an onion. Then I throw in some herbs; perhaps a sprig of rosemary and a bay leaf. Add a few peppercorns, a teaspoon of sea salt and a couple of crushed bulbs of garlic and you're off. Bring it all to the boil and then simmer for about an hour and twenty minutes. Trust me when I say you are going to get beautifully soft and silky cooked chicken, plus a lovely broth.
• The reason I love this poached chicken is that you can make it into a hearty meal all year round by using whatever seasonal veg is available. For example, after the chicken has been poaching for about an hour, you could add some quartered fennel. This will cook with the chicken for the last 20 minutes. Things like beans and peas should go in five minutes before the chicken is ready to come out as they cook quickly.
• Basically, as long as you know how long your vegetables take to cook, the choices are endless. Below is a list of veg and their timings to get you started. Keep in mind that if it's summer time the seasonal veg will cook really quickly and be light and delicious.
• • Chopped swedes and turnips - 30 mins • Cabbage - 20 mins • Chopped potatoes/ new potatoes - 20 mins • Quartered fennel - 20 minutes • Frozen or fresh broad beans & peas - 5 minutes • Chopped asparagus - 5 minutes • Spinach - 30 seconds
• When your chicken is cooked, take it out of the pot, and use a fork to shred as much meat off the bones as possible. Have a little taste to make sure it's seasoned enough for your liking. Take that torn up beautiful white and dark chicken meat and divide it among some bowls. To finish off, ladle some of the tasty poached broth and veg over it to make a lovely meal of steaming potatoes, greens and peas. This is a great dinner, especially served with a nice dollop of horseradish sauce or mustard.
• The Italians do multiple versions of this dish using shins of beef, shoulders of pork and even poached duck (which is delicious). If you try these, don't forget that different meats take different times to cook. For duck, pork and shins of beef we're talking about 3 hours of poaching, or until the meat is falling off the bone.
• Chicken Salads
• You can also use the shredded meat from your poached chicken to make a really hearty salad. In the summer, toss it in with some cooked new potatoes, mixed salad leaves and herbs. Dress at the last minute with a splash of extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice or balsamic vinegar then serve it up on a big platter. Delicious!
• Tasty broth
• When you make poached chicken you are going to be left with quite a lot of broth. Don't throw this away! There's something really nice about having simple, clean, therapeutic chicken broth. So put it through a sieve, bag it up and freeze it to use later. It will be fantastic as a stock for making risottos, gravy or soups. For an Asian twist, you could add noodles and veg such as sweetcorn, baby corn, pak choi, chilli or sugar snap peas to the broth.
• After a roast chicken
• Because I love roast chicken, and eat it on a regular basis, I am now in a routine where, before doing the washing up, I throw the carcass and any tasty scraps and scrapings from the roasting and carving tray into a pot.
• I cover the chicken with water, add some herbs and bring it all to the boil. This also makes a lovely cloudy broth that you can leave to simmer for an hour or so while you watch a bit of telly in the evening. This broth can be used in the same way as above.
• I hope these ideas are helpful. They are certainly tasty. So give them a try and use up all of that chicken!

CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• Place milk, broth and stock powder in a large saucepan. Bring to a very gentle simmer over medium heat, add chicken and thyme.
• Place lid on, simmer gently on medium low for 15 minutes (do not boil, can make milk split).
• Remove chicken, shred or dice (don't worry if inside a bit uncooked). Cover pot and set poaching liquid aside.
• Melt butter in a large pot over medium high heat. Add garlic and onion, cook for 2 minutes. Add thyme, carrot and celery, cook for 3 minutes or until carrot is softened.
• Add wine. Stir, scraping the bottom of the pot, and cook for 1 1/2 minutes or until wine is mostly evaporated.
• Add flour and stir for 1 minute.
• Add about half the reserved poaching liquid and stir until all flour is incorporated - it will be a thick sludge.
• Add remaining milk broth, parmesan, pepper. Stir.
• Add chicken and peas, stir.
• Once mixture is heated (you'll see steam), cook for 3 minutes to thicken the sauce, stirring regularly. (Note 3)
• Remove from heat. Spoon into oven proof pots - 4 large or 6 small (Note 4). Cool in fridge at least 30 minutes. (Note 5)
• Meanwhile, remove puff pastry from freezer to partially thaw. Then use a bowl as a guide to cut rounds from the pastry about 2.5cm / 1" wider (all the way around) than the pots - be generous!
• Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
• Brush edge of pots with egg. Top with puff pastry, folding down the edges.
• Brush pastry with egg. Cut a 2cm / 2/3" slide in the middle with a small knife.
• Bake 35 - 40 minutes until deep golden.
• Serve immediately!

PROPER CHICKEN PIE

Steps:

• Use a large sharp knife to carefully cut down the back bone of the chicken, cutting it in half. Season with sea salt and black pepper.
• Drizzle 1 tablespoon of oil into a large non-stick frying pan on a high heat. Add the chicken, skin-side down, and sear for 10 minutes, or until golden. Reserve the pan for the cabbage.
• Meanwhile, chop the pancetta into 1cm chunks, pick in the thyme leaves and place in a large shallow casserole pan with 1 teaspoon of oil. Put it on a medium heat so the fat renders out, while you wash and trim the white part of the leek (save the green for making soup) and the celery. Peel the onion and carrot, then roughly chop all the veg into 1.5cm chunks and add to the pan. Cook for 10 minutes, or until softened.
• Stir in 2 heaped tablespoons of flour, cook for 2 minutes, then pour in the cider. Let it bubble away for 2 minutes or until almost evaporated, then stir in the mustard and stock. Add the chicken breast-side down, bring to a simmer, then cover and cook on a low heat for 1 hour, or until the chicken is cooked through and tender.
• Meanwhile, for the pastry, put the flour in a bowl with a good pinch of salt. Grate in the cold butter, then rub with your fingers until it resembles breadcrumbs. Pour in 100ml of cold water, mix with a fork, then bring together with your hands until it forms a dough, adding an extra splash of water if needed. Divide into 2 pieces - you will need ⅓ for the lid and ⅔ for the base - flatten with your hands and chill until needed.
• Finely slice the mushrooms and set aside.
• Transfer the chicken to a plate and shred the meat (discard the carcass).
• Stir the mushrooms into the pan, followed by the shredded chicken and the crème fraîche, mix well and season to taste.
• Strain the chicken mixture through a sieve over a clean pan to catch the liquid, gently pressing to help it along, and reserve for your gravy. Leave to cool.
• Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/gas 5.
• Lightly grease a 30cm pie dish with oil. Roll out the larger piece of pastry between 2 sheets of greaseproof paper to just a few millimetres thick and use it to line the dish - allow an overhang. Press firmly into the edges and up the sides of the dish.
• Fill with the cooled chicken mixture, then carefully roll out and top with the remaining piece of pastry. Beat the egg and brush a little over the edge of the lid then fold over the overhang and press down gently to seal. Egg wash the pie all over, then make a small incision in the centre to let the steam escape and bake at the bottom of the oven for 1 hour, or until the pastry is golden and the pie is piping hot.
• Click off and discard any tatty outer leaves from the cabbage, then cut in half. Halve the core, then finely slice. Roughly chop the rest into large chunks. Place the chicken pan on a high heat, add the cabbage stalks and fry for 2 minutes, then go in with the leaves and a splash of water and cook for 5 minutes more, or until softened and lightly charred. Stir in the mustard, then add a pinch of salt and white pepper with a splash of water, and simmer for 1 minute, tossing a few times.
• Reheat the gravy and enjoy with the pie and cabbage. Delicious served with creamy mash.

WHOLE CHICKEN PIE

Steps:

• Combine onion, carrot, and celery in a bowl. Add garlic, rosemary, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Drizzle in olive oil. Mix stuffing well.
• Trim away the wing tips of the chicken. Season the whole surface and cavity generously with salt. Spoon the stuffing into the cavity, reserving any extra for the sauce later. Tie the legs together with string. Refrigerate until ready to wrap.
• Place dough onto a well floured surface. Sprinkle more flour on top. Roll out into a large circle about 1/8 inch thick. Place chicken, breast-side down, in the center of the dough. Wrap dough over the chicken. Cut off sections of excess dough and patch them over areas with less coverage.
• Beat egg and water together and brush some egg wash over the redistributed dough. Press the rest of dough into the new seams. Continue folding dough over the chicken, brushing with egg wash and patching pieces together as needed, until chicken is fully covered. Do not stretch the dough too thin.
• Flip chicken over onto a baking sheet lined with a silicone mat. Press on the inside of both legs to enhance their shape. Refrigerate until crust is cold, about 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Brush the remaining egg wash all over the chicken. Sprinkle fleur de sel on top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until crust is beautifully browned, about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Transfer chicken to a pie dish and let rest while preparing the sauce, 30 minutes to 1 hour.
• Cut a small hole into the back of the chicken and spoon out 1/2 cup of the stuffing. Place in a saucepan with 1 tablespoon butter. Add a pinch of salt. Cook and stir over medium-high heat until vegetables are tender, about 3 minutes. Add wine and the pan drippings. Cook, stirring occasionally, until reduced by half, about 4 minutes. Add cold butter. Turn off heat and stir sauce vigorously until butter melts.
• Slice chicken and serve with the sauce.

WHOLE GRAIN CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Coat a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray and set aside. (function() { var a="",b=[ "adid=ada-foodhub-3-965857674", "site=ehs.con.ada.foodhub", "size=300x250", "zone=", "mcat1=di13", "mcon1=f49s", ]; for (var c=0;c

ROTISSERIE CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400°F.
• Melt the butter in a medium pot over medium heat.
• Add the onion, carrot and celery and cook until the onion is translucent, about 4 minutes.
• Add the garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
• Add the mushrooms and cook until they have softened and released their liquid, about 5 minutes.
• Add the flour and stir to coat the vegetables.
• Cook until it is no longer white and coats the bottom of the pan, stirring constantly, about 1 minute.
• Add the broth and stir to combine.
• Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, and simmer until the mixture thickens slightly, about 3 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the chicken, cream, thyme, and salt. Set aside to cool slightly.
• Meanwhile, line a 9-inch pie plate (not deep dish) with one pie crust.
• Pour the filling into crust and top with the second pie crust.
• Seal the edges with a fork or decorative crimp, and cut 3 or 4 small vents in the top of the crust.
• Bake on the lowest rack of your own, placed on a rimmed baking sheet, until the crust is golden brown all over, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool slightly before slicing.

HEALTHY CHICKEN POT PIE SOUP (DAIRY-FREE)

Steps:

• To a large dutch oven, melt ghee over medium-high heat. Add onion once ghee is hot.
• Let onion cook for a few minutes, then add garlic. Stir it around for a minute, then add half of the potatoes and all of the stock.
• Lower heat and cook for 15 minutes with lid on.
• After 15 minutes, potatoes should be fork tender. Using a slotted spoon, remove all of the potatoes and add them to a high speed blender. It's okay if the onion comes with it!
• Add coconut milk to the potatoes in the blender and blend until creamy. Let mixture sit.
• Meanwhile, add rest of potatoes, carrots, and celery to dutch oven. Add in salt, pepper, and all spices as well. Stir till combined. Put lid on and let cook for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, add potato cream from blender to pot. Add in chunked chicken and frozen peas as well. Stir until well combined. Let simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
• Start making your biscuits by preheating the oven to 350F and lining a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Mix together almond flour, arrowroot powder, salt, and baking soda.
• In a small bowl, whisk together egg and ghee. Add to dry ingredients.
• Form into biscuit shapes and place on baking sheet. Bake for 15-17 minutes or until golden brown.
• After soup has simmered for 10 minutes, turn off heat.
• Serve and enjoy!

WHOLE WHEAT CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Melt butter and set aside to cool slightly.
• Measure flour into a medium mixing bowl and stir in baking powder and salt. Pour in melted butter and milk and mix until just combined. Set aside.
• Combine cooked chicken and peas/carrots in a square baking dish or 6-cup casserole dish.
• Combine cream of chicken soup and broth in a small bowl, pour over chicken, and mix until well combined.
• Spoon flour/butter/milk mixture on top of chicken and bake uncovered for 50-60 minutes or until browned on top and bubbly around edges. Let it sit for five minutes then serve.

CHICKEN AND MUSHROOM PIE

Steps:

• Dice the chicken breasts, and season them with salt and pepper.
• Heat up one tablespoon of oil in a large pan, and lightly brown the chicken pieces, then remove from the pan and set aside.
• In the same pan, add the remaining oil and butter, and fry the onions until golden.
• Add the mushrooms and garlic, and fry until all the moisture is released and they have a light brown colour.
• Add the chicken pieces back to the pan, pour over the chicken stock, milk and spinach.
• In a bowl, combine cornflour with 2-3 tablespoons of cold water to get a lump-free mixture, and pour it over the chicken filling, then stir until the liquid in the pan thickens into a sauce.
• Season well with salt and pepper, remove from the heat and leave to cool completely.
• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius (390 Fahrenheit).
• Transfer the chicken mixture to an oven-proof dish, then brush the edges of the pan with beaten egg.
• Roll over the puff pastry, removing the excess pastry from around the dish.
• Brush the top with egg and bake for about 20 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown.