Leeky Chicken Pie
Recipe Details
Servings: 6
Recipe Category: Lunch/Dinner
Difficulty Level: Medium
Cooking Times About 120 minutes (including cooling times)
Tools: Pie Dish, Brush, Baking Beans
It’s British Pie Week and the sisterz at MBSS have been busy baking their favorite pie recipes. The recipe below is for ‘Leeky Chicken Pie’, which was named that as the recipe is full of shortcuts and may not be considered authentic by pie connoisseurs! I love cooking and baking by using as many shortcuts as I can. In this recipe, I brought precut leeks (as I was running short on time), used the Williams Sanoma spice mix (blend of fennel seed, oregano, kosher salt, smoked paprika), and canned soups (celery soup and cauliflower cooking soup), that provided my pies with a punch of flavor in a short amount of time! You can use the flavor profiles that you like, and mix and match the soups and the seasoning mixes. I love the taste of celery soup and it is a staple in my pantry! I used fondant decorating tools/cookie cutters that can be found in any craft store.
I made the filling first, but you can make the pastry first so you can start making the filling whilst the pastry is cooling.
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What you’ll need
Pastry
33 oz all-purpose flour
9 oz cold butter
9 oz crisco shortening
15 tbsp ice water
Filling
1 lb chicken breast
1/2 cup butter
1 onion sliced up
1 tsp crushed garlic
1 potato peeled and cubed
1 can campbells celery soup
1 can campbells cauliflower cooking soup
8 oz bag of leeks ( i brought a bag of cut leeks from Wegmans)
1 cup milk
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp white pepper
2 tsp flat-leaf parsley
1 tsp mixed spice ( I used a William Sanoma mix that included a blend of fennel seed, oregano, kosher salt, smoked paprika)
Egg yolk to glaze pie
DIRECTIONS
Filling
Melt butter
Add in onion and cook until they are soft
Add in the garlic (cook for 1 minute)
Add in the cubed potatoes
Add in the chicken
Add in the leeks
Add in the spices, salt, and pepper
Brown the chicken
Add in the soup tins and milk
Cook for another 10/15 minutes until the chicken is cooked
Pastry
Add the flour, butter, and shortening into a food processor
Pulse until the mixture resembles bread crumbs (all the fat and flour should be mixed up)
Add in the cold water until you see a dough foaming
Shape into a ball
Cover with cling film and store in the refrigerator for 30 minutes
Beautiful sweetie pie tray (10 inches) from Great Jones that holds up to 1 quart.
Baking the pie
Preheat oven to 375 degrees
Roll out the pastry and put into a 9/10 inch pie pan
Add in baking beans/pie weights ( I got mine from amazon)
Bake until pie crust is golden, which is around 25 - 30 minutes
Add in the filling to the pan
Roll out and cut out pastry sheet to cover the top of the pie
Create shapes and designs and add them onto the top of the pie
Brush with egg yolk
Cover the edges with a foil or pie edge cover
Bake at 400 until pie crust is golden, which is around 25 - 30 minutes
Take a fork and dig in!!
