This is an easy chicken pie recipe for those who have ask me if they can substitute the beef for chicken in my previous beef pie recipe.

Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil

6 (about 600g) chicken thigh fillets, cut into
2cm pieces

1 carrot, peeled, sliced

1 leek, white part only, sliced

1 celery stick, sliced

1 red capsicum, halved, seeded, coarsely chopped

2 tbsp plain flour

1 cup (250ml) chicken liquid stock ( any brand)

1/2 cup (70g) frozen corn kernels

1/2 cup (80g) frozen peas

1/4 cup (60ml) thickened cream

1 sheet (25cm) ready-rolled shortcrust pastry

1 sheet (25cm) ready-rolled puff pastry

1 egg, lightly whisked

Method

Step 1
Heat half the oil in a frying pan over high heat. Add 1/3 of the chicken and cook, turning occasionally, for 2 minutes or until brown all over. Transfer to a bowl. Repeat in 2 more batches with remaining chicken.

Step 2
Heat the remaining oil in the pan over medium heat. Add the leek , carrot , celery and capsicum and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until leek softens. Add the flour and stir for 1 minute or until well combined. Add the chicken and stock and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and sauce thickens. Add the corn , peas and cream and stir to combine. Remove from heat. Season with salt and pepper

Step 3
Preheat oven to 220°C. Line the base and side of a 20cm diameter (base measurement) pie dish with the shortcrust pastry . ( see note below ) Trim the edge. Line with baking paper and fill with rice or dried beans. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove the paper, rice or dried beans and bake for a further 8 minutes, or until pastry is lightly golden. Remove from oven.

Step 4
Spoon the chicken mixture into the pie shell. Place the puff pastry over the top to enclose the filling. Use a small, sharp knife to trim the edge. Lightly brush with egg . Bake in oven for 15 minutes or until pastry is puffed and golden. Remove from oven and serve immediately.

Note
If you prefer instead of 1 large pie dish you can use 4 small pie dishes

 

[Luckyus]

This is an easy chicken pie recipe for those who have ask me if they can substitute the beef for chicken in my previous beef pie recipe.

Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil

6 (about 600g) chicken thigh fillets, cut into
2cm pieces

1 carrot, peeled, sliced

1 leek, white part only, sliced

1 celery stick, sliced

1 red capsicum, halved, seeded, coarsely chopped

2 tbsp plain flour

1 cup (250ml) chicken liquid stock ( any brand)

1/2 cup (70g) frozen corn kernels

1/2 cup (80g) frozen peas

1/4 cup (60ml) thickened cream

1 sheet (25cm) ready-rolled shortcrust pastry

1 sheet (25cm) ready-rolled puff pastry

1 egg, lightly whisked

Method

Step 1
Heat half the oil in a frying pan over high heat. Add 1/3 of the chicken and cook, turning occasionally, for 2 minutes or until brown all over. Transfer to a bowl. Repeat in 2 more batches with remaining chicken.

Step 2
Heat the remaining oil in the pan over medium heat. Add the leek , carrot , celery and capsicum and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until leek softens. Add the flour and stir for 1 minute or until well combined. Add the chicken and stock and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and sauce thickens. Add the corn , peas and cream and stir to combine. Remove from heat. Season with salt and pepper

Step 3
Preheat oven to 220°C. Line the base and side of a 20cm diameter (base measurement) pie dish with the shortcrust pastry . ( see note below ) Trim the edge. Line with baking paper and fill with rice or dried beans. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove the paper, rice or dried beans and bake for a further 8 minutes, or until pastry is lightly golden. Remove from oven.

Step 4
Spoon the chicken mixture into the pie shell. Place the puff pastry over the top to enclose the filling. Use a small, sharp knife to trim the edge. Lightly brush with egg . Bake in oven for 15 minutes or until pastry is puffed and golden. Remove from oven and serve immediately.

Note
If you prefer instead of 1 large pie dish you can use 4 small pie dishes

I'll give it a try albeit excluding the corn.

 

[Suzanne rose]

I'll give it a try albeit excluding the corn.

You can leave out really any of the vegies and add whatever veggies eg zucchini but I would keep it at no more than 4 to 6 vegies

 

[Sethia Soliman]

This looks deliiiish!

 

[JayKay]

Thursday nights were pie nights in our home during winter.
It was pay day for Mum.
She'd go to town after work, make a payment on the house, and buy some pastry from Herbert Adams and some kidneys from the delicatessen in Coles. (If they had a rabbit, she'd buy one of those for Friday night.)
She would have cut the meat the night before.
When she got home, she'd put the meat on, and roll out the pastry and prepare our vegetables.
With the pastry left over, Mum would make a jam tart on a large plate.
What decadence, we felt so spoilt.
I can still smell that meat pie cooking, and hear the jam sizzling on the tart.
Chickens were only once a year, for Christmas Day!

 

[Suzanne rose]

Thursday nights were pie nights in our home during winter.
It was pay day for Mum.
She'd go to town after work, make a payment on the house, and buy some pastry from Herbert Adams and some kidneys from the delicatessen in Coles. (If they had a rabbit, she'd buy one of those for Friday night.)
She would have cut the meat the night before.
When she got home, she'd put the meat on, and roll out the pastry and prepare our vegetables.
With the pastry left over, Mum would make a jam tart on a large plate.
What decadence, we felt so spoilt.
I can still smell that meat pie cooking, and hear the jam sizzling on the tart.
Chickens were only once a year, for Christmas Day!

What a beautiful story. I remember when chicken was expensive and a rare treat. Funny how things change.
Chicken is now one of the cheaper meats

 

[Nana Zorak]

What a beautiful story. I remember when chicken was expensive and a rare treat. Funny how things change.
Chicken is now one of the cheaper meats

We often had chicken before the war, and during the war as well because in England in the era I was born into everyone had a garden to grow their own vegs & keep chooks & rabbitts as we did. We would also collect mushrooms on an early morning walk & blackberries for the jam & pies We also had fruit canes & bushes to help out with variety, I only ever saw oranges or bananas at Christmas though.

 

[Suzanne rose]

We often had chicken before the war, and during the war as well because in England in the era I was born into everyone had a garden to grow their own vegs & keep chooks & rabbitts as we did. We would also collect mushrooms on an early morning walk & blackberries for the jam & pies We also had fruit canes & bushes to help out with variety, I only ever saw oranges or bananas at Christmas though.

What a beautiful time to have lived in ❤

 

[Ezzy]

Thankyou for another great recipe Suzanne rose, even if it was just as small change. The recipe sounds delicious & would satisfy my hunger everytime.

I am sure if we twisted your arm you could share more of your delightful recipes with us. Please.

 

[Suzanne rose]

Thankyou for another great recipe Suzanne rose, even if it was just as small change. The recipe sounds delicious & would satisfy my hunger everytime.

I am sure if we twisted your arm you could share more of your delightful recipes with us. Please.

I'm going to add some great budget recipes tonight I've been with a surgeon all day grrr

 

[Ezzy]

I'm going to add some great budget recipes tonight I've been with a surgeon all day grrr

 

[Ezzy]

Sorry to hear that after what you have already been through with surgeons & judging by your grrr, l guess this did not go well.

I look forward to your further recipes, thankyou.

 

[JayKay]

We often had chicken before the war, and during the war as well because in England in the era I was born into everyone had a garden to grow their own vegs & keep chooks & rabbitts as we did. We would also collect mushrooms on an early morning walk & blackberries for the jam & pies We also had fruit canes & bushes to help out with variety, I only ever saw oranges or bananas at Christmas though.

I remember reading English fiction books many years ago, and the children in the stories would receive an orange for Christmas.
I picked up that an orange was an absolute treat for English children, whereas in Australia, Mum squeezed them everyday for our breakfast juice, and we probably ate one every evening after our tea.
We picked mushrooms from the paddock behind our house, and Mum grew vegetables in the backyard.
I loved Mum filling her apron with peas and beans as she picked them with us littlies helping.
We gathered blackberries by the creek (a tributary of the Yarra River) down the bottom of our street.
Free and easy, healthy living.

 

[Ezzy]

I remember reading English fiction books many years ago, and the children in the stories would receive an orange for Christmas.
I picked up that an orange was an absolute treat for English children, whereas in Australia, Mum squeezed them everyday for our breakfast juice, and we probably ate one every evening after our tea.
We picked mushrooms from the paddock behind our house, and Mum grew vegetables in the backyard.
I loved Mum filling her apron with peas and beans as she picked them with us littlies helping.
We gathered blackberries by the creek (a tributary of the Yarra River) down the bottom of our street.
Free and easy, healthy living.

 

[Ezzy]

Lovely memories indeed. I could visualise each of those memories as l read them.
They were free & easy, healthy living days alright. I remember my mum squeezing oranges too.

I once went to Mandurah ( a holiday location in W.A. ) with my friend & his father, my primary school teacher at the time, to their holiday house. We went to the nearby dairy farm for a billy of milk. While there we had a drink of milk which was still warm & unseparated ( cream & all ). I bet you couldn't do this today.

 

[Suzanne rose]

I remember reading English fiction books many years ago, and the children in the stories would receive an orange for Christmas.
I picked up that an orange was an absolute treat for English children, whereas in Australia, Mum squeezed them everyday for our breakfast juice, and we probably ate one every evening after our tea.
We picked mushrooms from the paddock behind our house, and Mum grew vegetables in the backyard.
I loved Mum filling her apron with peas and beans as she picked them with us littlies helping.
We gathered blackberries by the creek (a tributary of the Yarra River) down the bottom of our street.
Free and easy, healthy living.

You just gave me a memory of my nan and her apron pocket filled with everything.
I grew up with my grandparents in a suburb in Sydney in a fibro house, we had a small backyard but what my grandfather grew was incredible.
I remember nan picking peas and filling her apron and helping her pick them also putting them in her apron.

 

[Ezzy]

You just gave me a memory of my nan and her apron pocket filled with everything.
I grew up with my grandparents in a suburb in Sydney in a fibro house, we had a small backyard but what my grandfather grew was incredible.
I remember nan picking peas and filling her apron and helping her pick them also putting them in her apron.

 

[Ezzy]

Mum always bought peas loose in the pod & l used to put them through the little thing with wheels like the wringers of a Pope washing machine clamped to the table & when squeezed the peas popped out. Not all of these went into the pot of course because there was something tasty about raw, fresh peas. Don't think that is possible today unless growing them yourself. Miss doing that. The other way was to split the seam with a thumb nail & slide the peas out.
The other vegie was green string beans. Cut most of the way through the bean at the stem end, pull this towards the bottom to remove the string & then put them through the bean cutter. All things our children & grandchildren will never experience.

 

[Suzanne rose]

Mum always bought peas loose in the pod & l used to put them through the little thing with wheels like the wringers of a Pope washing machine clamped to the table & when squeezed the peas popped out. Not all of these went into the pot of course because there was something tasty about raw, fresh peas. Don't think that is possible today unless growing them yourself. Miss doing that. The other way was to split the seam with a thumb nail & slide the peas out.
The other vegie was green string beans. Cut most of the way through the bean at the stem end, pull this towards the bottom to remove the string & then put them through the bean cutter. All things our children & grandchildren will never experience.

I love eating fresh peas and beans raw. I make fresh beans alot but sadly not peas.
How good is it the memories that come flooding back just by reading people's post.
I love it but can also get a little sad
I'm going to put a fresh bean casserole recipe up

 

[Ezzy]

I love eating fresh peas and beans raw. I make fresh beans alot but sadly not peas.
How good is it the memories that come flooding back just by reading people's post.
I love it but can also get a little sad