Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken, leek and mushroom pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pour the milk over the chicken and, if you need to, top up with water to make sure the chicken is covered. Using a slotted spoon, remove the chicken and keep to one side. Add the finely sliced leek and the baby button mushrooms.
Chicken, leek and mushroom pie is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Chicken, leek and mushroom pie is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken, leek and mushroom pie using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken, leek and mushroom pie:
- Take 1 onion finely chopped
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic crushed
- Get 2 large chicken breasts cut into chunks
- Get 1 leek sliced
- Make ready 250 g mushrooms quartered
- Get 1 tbsp fresh thyme
- Get 2 bay leaves
- Prepare 3 tbsp creme fraiche
- Make ready 2 tsp Dijon mustard
- Make ready 170 ml stock (veg or chicken)
- Prepare 1 tsp cornflour
- Prepare 1 tbsp flat leaf parsley chopped
- Get 1 roll puff pastry
- Prepare 1 egg beaten
- Get Salt and pepper
The onions and garlic, I chop finely. Add herbs and stock and bring to a simmer. Mix cornflour to a smooth paste with a little of the milk. Add to pan with remaining milk and stir over heat until lightly thickened.
Steps to make Chicken, leek and mushroom pie:
- Heat a tbsp oli over a medium heat in a heavy based pot and fry the onion and garlic for 5 minutes. Then add the leek and fry for another 3-4 minutes until starting to soften.
- Add the chunks of chicken and toss for one minute, then add the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes
- Add the bay leaves, thyme, Dijon mustard and creme fraiche and stir. Then add the stock and the cornflour dissolved in a tiny bit of water. (I had a bit of leftover broccoli which I threw in too so as not to waste it). Cool everything in the liquid for 2 minutes until the sauce thickens a little. Then transfer into a pie dish.
- Leave the mixture to cool for 10-15 minutes and preheat the over to 180 degrees centigrade.
- Top the pie dish and filling with the pastry. Decorate or not. Prick a few holes in the pastry to let the steam Escape and brush the top with the beaten egg (this is what makes it golden)
- After 30 minutes in the oven (or when the pastry is beautifully golden), remove, serve and enjoy.
How to make a Chicken, Leek and Mushroom Pie Fry up your chicken until browned, remove from the pan, then add your leeks, garlic and mushrooms and fry until they take on colour and soften. Add flour and slowly stir in your stock and cream until lump free. Add chicken back in and add your mustard and seasonings. Transfer to a bowl using a slotted spoon. Home » Recipes » Chicken » Easy Chicken and Leek Pie.
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