Beef and Vegetable Pot Pie/Light

"I found this recipe in Cooking Light mag October/2006 issue. DH loves those fattening pot pies that you buy frozen, this makes a nice low cal alternative."
 
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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
17
Serves:
6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  • Heat 1 1/2 tsp oil in a large non-stick skillet over med high heat.
  • Add beef; cook until browned, stirring to crumble.
  • Drain meat, wipe drippings from pan with paper towel.
  • Heat remaining 1 1/2 tsp oil in pan.
  • Add zucchini and next 6 ingredients (through garlic), saute 7 minutes or until veggies are tender.
  • Return beef to pan.
  • Stir in wine, tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, pepper and broth.
  • Bring to a boil; cook 3 minutes.
  • Combine cornstarch and water in a small bowl; stir with a whisk.
  • Add the cornstarch mixture to the pan and cook 1 minute, stirring constantly.
  • Spoon beef mixture into a 11X7 baking dish coated with cooking spray.
  • Separate breadstick dough into strips.
  • Arrange strps in a lattice fashion over beef mixture.
  • Bake for 12 minutes or until browned.

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Reviews

  1. I'm giving this five stars because it's a good starter recipe you can use to build a good pot pie but I can see where most people will want to tweak it to their personal tastes. I followed the recipe pretty much as written with a couple of substitutions. Added frozen green beans and yellow squash. Instead of beef broth I used beef base because I didn't have beef broth. I did not use cornstarch, I used a some brown gravy mix. For the topping I made a batch of drop biscuits and dropped the batter on top because I don't really like frozen or canned dough. I put the casserole in the oven for 20 min. first and got it good and bubbly, then I dropped the topping on top and returned it to the oven until the topping was browned. I did it this way to prevent the bottom of the dough getting soggy. It was GOOD!!!
     
  2. I made too many subs to really rate this on its own merits, but it was a success. One of the subs was using the refrigerated tube of french bread dough rather than the breadstick dough (none at the store). I just unrolled the "loaf" and draped it over my filling and made some steam holes in it. It was easy and quick, looks impressive, and gives you essentially stew + dipping bread all in one.
     
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Tweaks

  1. I'm giving this five stars because it's a good starter recipe you can use to build a good pot pie but I can see where most people will want to tweak it to their personal tastes. I followed the recipe pretty much as written with a couple of substitutions. Added frozen green beans and yellow squash. Instead of beef broth I used beef base because I didn't have beef broth. I did not use cornstarch, I used a some brown gravy mix. For the topping I made a batch of drop biscuits and dropped the batter on top because I don't really like frozen or canned dough. I put the casserole in the oven for 20 min. first and got it good and bubbly, then I dropped the topping on top and returned it to the oven until the topping was browned. I did it this way to prevent the bottom of the dough getting soggy. It was GOOD!!!
     

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