Nanny's Chicken Pot Pie
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 20
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 3 -4 chicken breasts (with bones and skin removed) or 1 cooked rotisserie chicken (with bones and skin removed)
- 1 teaspoon onion salt (if cooking your own chicken)
- 1 large onion, chopped fine
- 1 cup carrot, sliced
- 1⁄2 cup celery, chopped
- 8 ounces frozen peas
- 8 ounces broccoli florets
- 1⁄3 cup butter
- 1⁄3 all-purpose flour
- 1 3⁄4 cups chicken stock
- 2⁄3 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons dry sherry (optional) or 2 tablespoons white wine (optional)
- 1 teaspoon parsley
- 1 teaspoon dried sage
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 double crust pie crust, for top and bottom
- 1 egg
directions
- Cube or shred cooked chicken and place in bowl.
- If using raw chicken, cook chicken in a stock pot by adding chicken breasts, 1 tsp onion salt, and covering it in water.
- Boil chicken over med heat 15-20 minutes until chicken is cooked through
- Drain water from chicken, let cool and then cube chicken and place in separate bowl.
- Preheat oven to 425.
- In a sauce pan over medium heat sauté onions in butter and cook until translucent.
- Add carrots, celery, and broccoli to the pan and sauté 2-3 minutes more.
- Add the flour stir and cook for a minute
- Gradually add in the chicken stock and the wine if using it.
- Add the parsley, sage, bay leaf, salt and pepper.
- Bring to a boil, stirring continuously and simmer until thickened.
- Turn to med-low heat
- Stir in the milk and heat without boiling for 2 minutes.
- Remove the bay leaf.
- Mix in the chicken and peas.
- Pour mixture into the pie pastry.
- Moisten the edge of the pastry with water, and top with remaining pastry pinch the bottom and top pastry together to seal.
- Make a slits on the top of pie crust to allow steam to escape.
- Beat egg and brush the pastry with it.
- Bake in preheated over for 30-40 minutes, or until pastry is golden and filling bubbly.
- Remove from oven and allow 10 minutes to cool.
- Slice and serve alone or with yummy mashed potatoes for a real treat!
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