Chicken Pot Pie

This is my half cheated chicken pot pie! >>> Story begins... I actually used Leelee's recipe for the crust but my 'Kong Fu' (skill) too lousy, couldn't handle the dough well... found it too soft and couldn't hold at the side of the tin/pan. End up... I used ready made unbaked pie shell for the bottom part and half of the dough for the top.

Thanks Leelee Shifu! Hmmmmmm... The top crust was good, we both like it! That's another recipe which I'm interested and have listed under my next to do list. ;) It is Linnish's Chicken Pot Pie. For Lin... it's called CHICKEN POT PIE!!! Thanks Lin for the enlightenment.

(Credits: Recipe from Leelee)

Ingredeints:

(Pastry)

• 200 gm Butter
• 250 gm Plain Flour
• 110 gm Plain Yoghurt
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• A pinch of salt

(Filling: What I used...)

• 1 Large Potatoes, diced
• 1 Large Onion, diced
• 1 Carrot, diced
• 1/2 Frozen Green Peas
• 1 can Mushrooms, sliced
• 350 gm Chicken Meat, diced
• 200 ml Heavy Cream
• 1/3 cup (80 ml) White wine
• 1/2 cup Chicken Stock
• 2 tbsp corn starch mixed with another 1/2 cup Chicken Stock
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

1. For the Crust: Put all the ingredients into the mixing bowl except yoghurt, and mix to a crumble. Add in yoghurt and mix to a dough. Dough will be very soft so need to keep it refrigerated for at least 30 mins.
2. For the Fillling: Boil potatoes and carrots until semi cooked; Add in frozen green peas, and continue to boil for another 10 mins; Drain and set aside.
3. Heat about 2 tbsp of oil in wok and fry diced onion until transparent; Add chicken meat and mushrooms, fry for a while to break up chicken; Add in boiled vegetable in Step 2, first 1/2 cup chicken stock, heavy cream and white wine; Stir-fry for a few mintues.
4. Add in the remaining chicken stock with corn starch mixture; Stir until the sauce has thicken. Set aside for later use.
5. The steps for the chicken pie will be as per normal. You can either do big pie or mini pie. Just need to roll out the dough, cut the size required and place in a pie dish. Poke hole on the base using a fork and place ingredients on top. Cut another piece of dough to cover the top. Poke a few more times using fork on the cover of the pie and brush with 1 beaten egg. Baked in a preheated oven at 180 °C for 30 mins.