Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chicken and ham pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Put the chicken in a large pan with the carrots, potatoes, celery, half the thyme and seasoning. Add stock and bring to the boil. Remove the chicken breasts from the water with tongs and place on a plate.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken and ham pie using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken and ham pie:
- Make ready 2 tbsp butter
- Take 1 onion chopped
- Prepare 3 leeks sliced
- Make ready 2 potatoes cubed
- Take 2 tbsp plain flour
- Take 300 ml chicken stock
- Prepare 100 ml creme fraiche
- Get 2 tsp wholegrain mustard
- Make ready 200 grams ham & chicken cooked
- Make ready 375 grams puff pastry
- Prepare 1 egg
Chicken, peas and ham: If cooking the chicken for the pie, start by placing the chicken breasts in a soup pot. Ham and leek are always a good combination. The saltiness of the ham complements perfectly the sweetness of the leek. Lift the cooked chicken onto a board and, when cool enough to handle, remove the meat in small chunks, putting the skin, bones and herbs from the cavity into a large pan.
Instructions to make Chicken and ham pie:
- fry onions and leeks in butter slowly for 5 mins until soft
- add potatoes, then stir in flour and stock and boil until thickens
- take off heat then add creme fraiche, mustard and meat, season well
- spoon into ovenproof dish and add pastry top, brush with egg, cut slices in pastry to let steam escape
- bake for 30 mins gas mark 6 200°c
Put the pepper, flour and nutmeg into a plastic bag put in the diced chicken and give it a good shake so each piece of chicken is well coated. Strip off the skin from the chicken and tear the meat off the bones and into bite-sized pieces. Place them in a large bowl. Sprinkle the flour on top and toss lightly together. Add the onion and stock mixture, the rest of the water and the crème fraiche.
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