Awesome chicken pie~
Ingredients:
Pie filling:
- 1 chicken breast
- 1 can tinned champignon mushrooms
- 2 rashers of bacon
- 2 hard boiled eggs
White sauce:
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 2 tablespoons of flour
- 1 cup of milk
Also needed:
- 1 tablespoon of grain mustard
- 2 sheets of puff pastry (frozen stuff is the easiest)
First off, put one sheet of your puff pasty into a pie dish and DO NOT forget to grease the dish first, or else your pie is going nowhere.
Now make up the white sauce. Melt the butter in a large saucepan (you'll be adding other things to this later) over a moderate heat, then add the flour and a pinch of salt. Make sure to cook the mix for about 5 minutes so it doesn't taste like flour.. I learned this the hard way.
Add the milk and keep stirring constantly until it thickens. Add the grain mustard, stir in, then put to one side off the heat.
The filling is simple. Cut the chicken into thin strips, fry until cooked through, then add to the white sauce.
Cut the bacon into strips or squares, take your pick, then fry and add to the sauce.
Peel the eggs, cut them up and oh my gosh add to the sauce.
Drain the mushrooms, rinse with water to stop them going claggy and gross, then add to the rest of the stuff.
Mix it all up and add salt and good black pepper if you think it needs it.. I think it always needs pepper, so do that.
Chuck the filling into the pie dish on the pasty and put the other layer of puff over the top.
Stab the top layer a few times and brush it with some milk to make it go all golden.. Supposedly. I don't know if it works, but I've always been told to do it. Then just put the pie into a medium-to-hot oven, about 180°C (360°F) until it puffs up and goes nice and goldy-brown, should take about.. 10 minutes?
Serve with mashed potato. Enjoy the glory.
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Sorry it is a bit long, but it really is bloody good.