How many times we have some leftover baked/cooked chicken. In my house always after Clear Chicken Soup/making chicken stock/roasting whole chicken or even just chicken tights we have leftovers. Not always a lot, but always something.
As u all know already I really hate wasting the food.
Here is some little tip, what to do with leftover chicken meat.
Take small food container, that can be use for freezing, put the leftover cooked, peeled, chopped and cooled meat inside. Label the date on the lid and freeze. U can add to this more and more chicken, as long as its cold and cooked thru. It doesn't matter if it's from completely different diners. Its even better!! Just make sure you use within 3 months from the label date.
When coitaner is full/3 months anniversary is fast approaching make a beautiful pie!!
The Leftover Chicken Pie
Ingredients:
Chicken meat (about 2 to 3 mugs of Chopped mixed cooked chicken meat)
500g of muchshrooms
2 large leaks
3 large carrots
Half of mug of frozen peas
Half of mug of frozen sweetcorn (u can use peas and sweetcorn form the tin)
Large single cream (or more)
3 tablespoons of white flour
Ready rolled puff pastry
Splash of oil and few knobs of butter
Salt, pepper, nutmeg, chopped parsley
Egg (for egg wash)
How to make it:
To preaheted large frying pan add splash of oil and butter. Sweat chpped leeks, add chopped mushrooms seazon with pinch of salt and cook them, they will half the size.
When the water form mushrooms will disappear add meat and grated carrots, fry for a while. Add sweetcorn and peas. When there will be no water of the pan, add flour and stir well. Now its time for cream.
Cook for a while and seazon well with salt, pepper, few pinches of freshly grated nutmeg and handfull of chopped parsley.
It should be thick but still a bit runny.
Transfer it all to ovenproof dish.
Beat one egg for egg wash. Cover the dish edges with it and place pastry on top. Make sure it stick to the dish.
Put egg wash on top of pastry. Pirce with knife in few places so the steam can come out.
Bake for about 40 minutes, until pastry is nicely golden brown in preheated oven. Gas mark 6 (190/200C).
Nice midweek family dinner.
