Chicken and mushroom pie
Chicken and mushroom pie

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chicken and mushroom pie. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

This comforting, creamy chicken pie uses ready-made pastry for a quick and easy mid-week meal. Stir in the chopped parsley and pour the sauce over the chicken and mushroom mixture. Mix well, then spoon into a pie dish and leave until completely cool.

Chicken and mushroom pie is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chicken and mushroom pie is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken and mushroom pie using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken and mushroom pie:
  1. Prepare 3 leeks, washed, whites sliced, green tops saved for stock (or compost!)
  2. Get 250 g mushrooms (I use whole brown button)
  3. Get 150 g bacon, thinly sliced
  4. Prepare 250 g leftover roast chicken, chunks
  5. Take 500 ml chicken stock, fresh or stock cube
  6. Get 1 piece shortcrust pastry or 4 pieces of filo pastry
  7. Take 3 heaped tbsp of plain flour
  8. Make ready Few sprigs of thyme, leaves removed
  9. Make ready Knob butter
  10. Prepare Trickle of oil
  11. Get Egg to glaze

Encased in buttery puff pastry, and made extra special with a sprinkling of bacon, it's a family mealtime The filling is a lovely creamy chicken and mushroom filling with bacon. Not too much sauce - just enough that it tastes saucy, without the whole. Chicken and mushroom pie is a common British pie, ranked as one of the most popular types of savoury pie in Great Britain and often served in fish and chips restaurants. The outside is usually a full top and bottom crust.

Steps to make Chicken and mushroom pie:
  1. Add the oil to a large, hot pan and fry the bacon until brown (not burnt!) and the fat has rendered down.
  2. Remove the bacon out of the pan, leaving a little fat and add a knob of butter. When melted, add the leeks and sweat on a low heat for 5-10 minutes until they are soft and collapsed.
  3. Add the mushrooms and turn up the heat to get all the water out of the mushrooms and stir occasionally so that the leeks can’t stick. When the water has evaporated after 5 or 6 minutes, brown slightly, then add the bacon back to the pan.
  4. Add the flour, stir, and cookout for a few minutes. Add the stock and stir to make a lovely gravy. Add the thyme, chicken (any other leftovers bits from the roast like pigs in blankets or stuffing!) and simmer for 10-15 minutes until thick and heated through.
  5. Place a sieve over a medium pan and place the chicken mixture into the sieve, so as to extract the gravy into the pan. Lightly press your chicken mixture to get most of the gravy out, so that it isn’t too wet and make the pastry soggy.
  6. Move the chicken mixture to your pie dish. Leave to cool slightly or completely if you are preparing ahead of time.
  7. Take the pastry out of the fridge and lay it out. Cut a few strips of 1cm thick pieces of pastry off the edges of the pastry sheet (if using shortcrust). Wet the edge of the pie dish with water and stick the strands to the dish as a base to set the lid on. Press gently to fix.
  8. Brush these bits of pastry on the dish with water and place the whole piece of pastry on top. Press down gently. Use a knife to cut off the excess pastry and if you want, save the extra bits to make jam tarts!!
  9. Crimp the edge of the pie with the end of the knife. Brush with beaten egg, and poke 2 holes in the top to let the stream out.
  10. Place in a preheated oven (180 degrees) for about 25 minutes (35 if the mixture was cold), being careful that the top doesn’t brown too quickly. It will sit quite happily for 10 minutes on the work surface when cooked.
  11. Reheat the gravy, dish up the pie with seasonal greens and enjoy!

This chicken and mushroom pie is a great comfort food option all year round. Although I have adapted and changed it over the years, I'm still using the same basic method. Looking back at it today I noticed the recipe was. Just take out of the fridge, divide between ramekins, top with the pastry lids and bake as directed in the recipe. Chicken and mushroom is a delicious ingredients combination but it may seem more familiar to many people as a pizza topping rather than the filling in a pie.

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