Chicken and Mushroom Pie with Bacon

Published March 7, 2019 , Up to date Mar 5, 2019 By Nicky Corbishley 4 Comments

My chicken and mushroom pie is appropriate ease and comfort meals. Encased in buttery puff pastry, and produced additional particular with a sprinkling of sausage, it’s a family group mealtime favorite.
Seemingly it’s British pie full week (fourth-10th March).

Began by Jus-Rol in 2007, this in one of those particular national time I will entirely fall behind. Nonetheless, I actually do have got a bone tissue to pick along Jus-Rol.

Why the heck will you only market pastry linens in rectangles? Rectangles which can be a bit too small to get a typical cake dish.

a. I have got to Frankenstein two bedding jointly

meaning that:

b. We have a seam working straight down the middle of my cake

c: I have got to trim lots of pastry away from the ends

which leads to:

d. Pastry getting disposed of

e: I cook the shreds of pastry just so Chris and so i can greedily remain and take in it in the kitchen!

If Doctor Oetker can certainly make spherical, prepared-rolled icing for muffins, you are able to surely make rounded ready-rolled puff pastry for pies (although I do like rectangular/rectangle pies also. So don’t cease doing the regular items). Ok, rant around.

So I’m making use of 3 bedding of pastry for this particular pie. One particular-and-a-half to the base of the pie (Chris can feel simple-transformed if my pie just has a pastry lid) and one-and-a-50 % for the top of the my cake.

The satisfying is a lovely rich and creamy poultry and mushroom stuffing with bacon. Not too a lot marinade – adequate that it preferences saucy, without the whole thing collapsing whenever you try and serve it.

First we sightless make the pastry base. While that’s baking we seal chicken breast parts in the pan, then take away through the pan and soften some red onion in butter. Add more flour, salt, pepper, and thyme and blend to jacket the red onion. Put in stock a bit at any given time whilst stirring, then stir in milk and allow the sauce thicken even though mixing usually:

After that we portion up mushrooms and include them in to the pan with all the sealed poultry and several cooked sausage. Blend inside a press of lemon juice to equilibrium the flavors, and table spoon the chicken breast mix out into the cooked pie casing. Brush the edges with ovum clean and best with pastry, then ovum wash the very best and pierce a couple of pockets to permit steam escape:

Cook for approximately 25 a few minutes right up until gold dark brown:

Something I adore regarding this pie is no-one else within my residence likes fresh mushrooms. In order we’re sitting down throughout the dinner table, I recieve all of the mushrooms transferred to my platter.

I did so provide them with the option of having something else for tea (my cake!). But it’s pie.