Chicken Pie, for your nommification
Mar. 6th, 2010 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricAMY AND KAYLOULEE'S SPONTANEOUSLY INVENTED CHICKEN PIE
Ingredients:
Pastry
Chicken
Corn, canned or maybe frozen
Mushrooms
Cheese
Garlic
Thyme
White Sauce (containing: butter or margarine; flour; yoghurt, cream or sour cream or some combination of the three; white wine; milk)
Things you do:
- Have Kayloulee make pastry, or procure pastry by your normal means of pastry procurement. Line some kind of pie dish.
- Chop your chicken into small pieces and cook it, or possibly cook it and THEN tear it into pieces. We used thigh fillets fried with garlic and thyme, but you could conceivably use baked chicken.
- Fry up mushrooms (maybe onions as well?) and if you didn't cook the chicken with garlic and thyme, then add those to the mushroom mix.
- Prepare white sauce. Do this by melting about 1 tbsp of butter in a saucepan, chucking in a couple of tablespoons of yoghurt, sour cream or cream, and then shaking in about 2 tbsp of flour. Mix until you've got gluggy paste (very sludgy if you've got just butter; smoother if you've got yoghurt/sour cream/etc in there). Pour in some white wine, stir until it reduces a bit. Pour in some milk, keep stirring until it gets nice and thick. Chuck more flour in if it won't behave.
- Tip a can of corn into the sauce
- Spread the chicken on the pie base. Spread the mushrooms and maybe onions over top
- Pour sauce and corn over that
- Cover in cheese
- Put a pastry lid on it
- Bake for around 40 min in a moderate oven
NOM.
We served this with mashed potato and a selection of sauteed greens. We felt very grown up, like we had cooked a Real Dinner. Then we realised that this was because for once we'd cooked the sort of thing our respective parents would cook. Except better. My mother never made chicken pie, or put yoghurt or wine in her white sauces.
Ingredients:
Pastry
Chicken
Corn, canned or maybe frozen
Mushrooms
Cheese
Garlic
Thyme
White Sauce (containing: butter or margarine; flour; yoghurt, cream or sour cream or some combination of the three; white wine; milk)
Things you do:
- Have Kayloulee make pastry, or procure pastry by your normal means of pastry procurement. Line some kind of pie dish.
- Chop your chicken into small pieces and cook it, or possibly cook it and THEN tear it into pieces. We used thigh fillets fried with garlic and thyme, but you could conceivably use baked chicken.
- Fry up mushrooms (maybe onions as well?) and if you didn't cook the chicken with garlic and thyme, then add those to the mushroom mix.
- Prepare white sauce. Do this by melting about 1 tbsp of butter in a saucepan, chucking in a couple of tablespoons of yoghurt, sour cream or cream, and then shaking in about 2 tbsp of flour. Mix until you've got gluggy paste (very sludgy if you've got just butter; smoother if you've got yoghurt/sour cream/etc in there). Pour in some white wine, stir until it reduces a bit. Pour in some milk, keep stirring until it gets nice and thick. Chuck more flour in if it won't behave.
- Tip a can of corn into the sauce
- Spread the chicken on the pie base. Spread the mushrooms and maybe onions over top
- Pour sauce and corn over that
- Cover in cheese
- Put a pastry lid on it
- Bake for around 40 min in a moderate oven
NOM.
We served this with mashed potato and a selection of sauteed greens. We felt very grown up, like we had cooked a Real Dinner. Then we realised that this was because for once we'd cooked the sort of thing our respective parents would cook. Except better. My mother never made chicken pie, or put yoghurt or wine in her white sauces.