26.09.2023 **“Waiter, there’s something in my…” 26.09.2023 ** event is hosted by Cooksister and calls all cooks to make pie, a closed pie. The filling must be invisible when the pie is served. Germany is not a classic “pie”-country. The only German pie-like dish I know is “gedeckter Apfelkuchen“, made of pastry which completely contains a filling of apples and other ingredients. I decided for a “one-crust-pie” to participate this month’s WTSIM. The filling is placed in a dish and covered with a pastry top before baking.
Crumbly chicken & mixed vegetable pie
Condition met: No filling visible. My children chose a mixture of frozen beans, carrots, peas and cauliflower florets for the dish.
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| Title: | Crumbly chicken & mixed vegetable pie |
| Categories: | Pie |
| Yield: | 4 to 6 Servings |
Ingredients
| 1 | Onion | ||
| 40 | grams | Butter | |
| 100 | grams | Button mushrooms | |
| 40 | grams | Plain flour, plus extra for dusting | |
| 400 | ml | Milk, warmed | |
| 1 | Chicken stock cube or 400 ml fresh chicken stock | ||
| Pinch nutmeg | |||
| Pinch mustard powder | |||
| Bay leaf | |||
| 250 | grams | Cooked chicken | |
| 200 | grams | Mix of sweetcorn, peas, chopped, peppers, | |
| — broccoli, carrots or other veg | |||
| 250 | grams | Shortcrust pastry | |
| 1 | Egg, beaten or milk, for glazing |
Source
| Good Food Magazine, March 2007, p.44 | ||
| Edited *RK* 02/25/2007 by Ulrike Westphal |
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Directions
1. Heat oven to 200 °C/fan 180 °C/gas 6.
2. Peel and chop the onion as finely as possible. Melt the butter in the pan over a medium heat. Add the chopped onion and leave to cook for 5 mins, stirring occasionally.
3. Finely slice the mushrooms and add them to the pan with the onions.
4. When the onions and mushrooms are almost cooked, add the flour to the pan and stir to make a thick paste called a roux. Crumble the stock cube in and stir well.
5. Continuously stir the roux over a low heat for 2 mins to cook out the flour. This stops the sauce from having a starchy taste.
6. Slowly add the warm milk to the pan, stirring all the time. Once all the milk has been added, stir in the stock, season with salt, pepper, nutmeg and mustard powder. Add the bay leaf and bring to the boil, stirring all the time to stop the sauce becoming lumpy.
7. When the sauce has thickened, place on a very low heat. Chop the cooked chicken into even-sized pieces and add to the sauce.
8. Add your veg and pour into the pie dish.
9. Put the pastry on a clean, floured surface. Make sure you also dust the rolling pin with flour. Roll out the pastry, trying not to make any tears. Measure the pastry against the pie dish and once the pastry is slightly larger than the top, lift it carefully over the dish. It might be helpful to use the rolling pin to help you move the pastry.
10. Trim off the pastry hanging over the edge of the dish. Press the outside edge of the pastry with a fork or your fingers to make a nice pattern.
11. Brush the top of the pie with beaten egg or milk. Make a small hole in the centre of the pastry top to allow the steam to escape. You can use any leftover pastry to decorate the top of the pie with pastry shapes if you like.
12. Place the pie in the oven for 25 mins. It is ready when golden brown.
:PER SERVING 583 kcalories, protein 27g, carbohydrate 48g, fat 33g, saturated fat 15g fibre 3g, sugar 9g, salt 2.11g
:EASY
:PREP 30 mins
:COOK 45 mins
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Ulrike, your pie looks delicious! I adore chicken pie!
REPLY:
da läuft einem ja wirklich das Wasser im Munde zusammen! Ich hab hier schon so viele leckere Rezepte entdeckt – jetzt bräuchte ich nur noch Zeit um das alles nachzukochen.
Aber das Wochenende kommt bestimmt !! :)
Sieht gut aus, Dein chicken pot pie !
Oh wow Ulrike – that filling looks sooooo good and creamy! I’m a total sucker for chicken pie and this one looks particularly good. And I’m impressed that your kids like so many vegetables ;-)
Thanks for participating in WTSIM and hope to see you again next month.