4 P and 1 C (Puff pastry pot pie, Chicken!)

As mentioned, this Christmas I am assigned to make a main dish for my sister's Christmas gathering, I decided on a pot pie. As we have domestic helper who don't take pork, I made chicken pot pie so that everyone can eat it. I looked at other recipes and came out my own version. I am happy to say that the result was a successful and delicious pie.

For the crust, I resorted to ready puff pastry. Making puff pastry in Singapore is a nightmare! I remembered attending this puff making session whereby this chef showed us the steps. The demo was done in a kind lady's house, who invited us for a food cum demo gathering. The chef needed an aircon environment and a marble top, so that the butter don’t melt too fast. Boy, to get this sheet of puff pastry eventually, we waited for almost 1 hr, to fold, chill, fold, chill and eventually bake. But the effort was worthwhile. The results was a flaky and delicious puff pastry. But I guess I wouldn't try this at home, just the though of getting a marble top will probably freak the husband out!

So back to my pie. It contained frozen veggie, chicken pieces, onion and button mushroom and potato. Wholesome ingredients and great taste! I used the chicken stock that I made for the soup too. Saved me all trouble and also prevented me from using the chicken cube. Here sharing my recipe. For the lattice crust, I referred to this website. Nice. Got lots of good comments from my siblings and sister in law! To me, the pie looked perfect and tasted wonderfully good!




Puff pastry chicken pot pie

Ingredients
1 sheet of puff pastry
1 Cup cooked chicken
4 pieces of chopped bacon
1/2 C mixed vegetable
1/2 C button mushroom, sliced
2 cooked potato, diced
1 chopped red onion
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 C chicken stock
3 tbsp flour
3 tbsp butter
Salt and pepper
Mixed Italian spice(optional)

Method
1. Heat pan and add in butter.
2. Sauté onion and garlic till fragrant.
3. Add in bacon, mixed vegetable, button mushroom, potato and cooked chicken.
4. Cook for 5 min and add in the chicken stock.
5. When ingredients boil, lower heat and add in the flour, tbsp by tbsp.
6. Add salt and pepper to taste. At this juncture, you may add in mixed Italian spice.
7. Dish out and leave to cool.

Assembly
Spread cool pie ingredient into a 9x9 inch container(I used disposable aluminum pan). Cut puff pastry into 9x1inch strips. Make sure you have enough to cover the whole pan. Lattice the pastry and brush egg wash over the whole pie crust. Baked in 200 degree Celsius for 20min or till crust puff up. Enjoy!