It’s getting chilly outside, so it’s time to start hunting comfort food recipes.\u00a0 Annetha, our sales expert and all round favourite person has provided her families favourite chicken pie recipe.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n
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What you’ll need – ingredients<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1.8kg whole chicken<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1 carrot chopped<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1 onion chopped<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2 bay leaves<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2tbs olive oil<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 80g unsalted butter<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2 leeks (pale part only) thinly sliced<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/3 cup (50g) plain flour<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1 cup (250ml) thickened cream<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2 tsp Dijon mustard<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2 tbs chopped tarragon<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 150g Swiss brown mushrooms sliced<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1 egg lightly beaten<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rough Puff Pastry<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2 \u00bd cups (400g) plain flour<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 250g chilled salted butter chopped<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00bd cup (120g) sour cream<\/p>\n <\/p>\n OR<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Frozen puff pastry from the supermarket<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Method<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Place chicken, onion, carrot and bay leaf in a large saucepan, adding enough water to cover chicken. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, skimming off any impurities to rise to the surface. Reduce heat to low and simmer, partially covered for 1 hour or until chicken is cooked.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Turn off heat and set aside for 30mins. Remove the chicken and strain stock, reserving 1 \u00bd cups (375ml) stock (freeze remaining stock for another use).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Heat 1tbs oil and half the butter in a deep frying pan over medium heat. Add the leek, season with salt, then reduce heat to medium-low and cook for 5-6 mins until softened. Add flour and cook, stirring, for 1 min to coat leek, then add reserved 1 \u00bd cups of chicken stock. Cook, stirring, for a further 2-3 mins until thickened. Add cream, mustard and tarragon and stir to combine. Season and set aside.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a separate frying pan, melt remaining 40g butter over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and cook, stirring for 3-4 mins until softened. Shred the chicken, discarding skin and bones, add leek mixture with mushrooms.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cook, then chill until ready to use.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now, you could make the pastry from scratch by dicing the butter, then pulsing with the flour in a food processor until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the sour cream and continue to pulse until the dough starts to incorporate into a ball. Wrap the dough in plastic film and refrigerate for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Roll the chilled pastry out to 5mm thickness and carefully place on top of the pie.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Or you could do what Annetha does and uses frozen puff pastry.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lot quicker, taste just as good and saves time when you\u2019re a busy mum.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease a 3cm deep, 26cmx30cm baking dish.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spoon pie mixture into the baking dish, lay pastry on top and brush with egg white wash.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cook for 45-50 minutes, until the pastry is golden brown and everything has been cooked properly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s getting chilly outside, so it’s time to start hunting comfort food recipes.\u00a0 Annetha, our sales expert and all round…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-inspiration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}