Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Chicken and smoked bacon pie
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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Chicken and smoked bacon pie is Serves: 4-6/ TOTAL TIME: 1 hour 25 minutes. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.
Just in addition, the time it takes to cook Chicken and smoked bacon pie estimated approx PREP TIME: 30 minutes. COOK TIME: 55 minutes..
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have Chicken and smoked bacon pie using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients and spices that need to be Prepare to make Chicken and smoked bacon pie:
- 1 organic or free- range chicken, about 1.3- 1.4 kg. Jointed
- Sea salt and black pepper
- 4 leeks, trimmed and finely sliced
- 1 bouquet garni (bay leaf, few thyme and parsley sprigs, tied together)
- 1 liter chicken stock(see page 243)
- 30 g butter
- 200 g chestnut mushrooms, trimmed and roughly sliced
- 200 g smoked back bacon, derinded and chopped
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 150 ml double cream
- Small handful of flat- leaf parsley, leaves only, chopped
- 400 g good- quality ready- made- puff pastry
- 1 large egg yolk, beaten with 1 tablespoons to glaze
Steps to make Chicken and smoked bacon pie
- Season the chicken pieces and place in a pan with the leeks, bouquet garni and stock; top up with with water to cover if necessary. Bring to a simmer and skim, then partially cover the pan and simmer gently for 1 hour or until the chicken is tender. Lift out and leave to cool slightly. Transfer the leeks to a large bowl, using a slotted spoon. Boil the stock vigorously until reduced by half, to about 400ml. Chicken into bite- sized.
- Discarding the skin and bones. Add to the leeks.
- Heat a wide pan, add the butter and fry the mushrooms with a little seasoning until golden brown. Add the bacon and fry for a few more minutes until browned. Add the flour and stir over the heat for a few minutes. Pour in the reduced stock, then the cream, and simmer until reduced to a thick coating consistency. Take off heat and mix in the chicken and leeks. Season well, stir in the parsley and let cool.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/Gas 6. Roll out the pastry on lightly floured surface to the thickness of a 1coin. Using a large 1.75 litre pie dish as a template, cut out a pastry lid, slightly larger all round than your dish. Cut 2cm wide strips from the trimmings. Position a pie funnel, if using, in the centre of the Dian and spoon in the filling. Brush the edge of the dish with water and lay the pastry strips on the rim, jointing to fit as necessary;
- Press down lightly. Brush the pastry rim with egg glaze.
- Lift the pastry lid on top of the pie and cut a small steam hole in the middle. Press the pastry edges together to seal, trim off the excess and knock up the edges. If you like, decorate the pie with pastry leaves cut from the trimmings. Brush with a little more egg glaze. Bake for 40-50 minutes until the pastry is golden brown.
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