Chicken pot pie recipe

Posted by spots (Singapore, Singapore) on 20 November 2008 in Food & Cuisine and Portfolio.

It's been so horribly rainy these past few weeks. So I've been in the mood for some warm comfort food. Chicken pot pie. Yums.

After reading several versions of making this, I decided to go with this:

6-7 Chicken thighs, deboned & cubed
125g streaky bacon, each piece cut into 4 or 5 pieces
1 carrot cubed
About 350g shell pasta, boiled and drained
250ml whipping cream
400ml chicken stock
5 ts (slightly heaped) corn flour
1 puff pastry (Pampas brand)
2 boiled eggs, each halved

1. Preheat oven at 180 degrees C. Heat some butter in a pan. When hot, add bacon. Sizzle and smell the kitchen!

2. After a short while, add the chicken and stir it all up and soak up the bacon juice! If the chicken is getting a bit dry, add a bit of the chicken stock to keep it moist.

3. When the chicken is just about cooked, throw in the carrots and pasta, mix well. Then pour in all the chicken stock and all the whipping cream. This is now a good time to put in the cornflour, since the liquid temperature is not hot and the flour won't congeal. Dump the cornflour in & stir everything. Bring to boil, then lower fire, stirring once in a while. Watch the cornflour thicken everything into a stew. Taste it -- amazingly, it'll taste great, even though you haven't added salt, soya sauce or anything. (It's the bacon! And it you're using Swanson chicken stock, which is salted, that adds to it too!)

4. Pour the chicken and pasta cream stew into a 9 inch or 10 inch bowl. Place the halved boiled eggs on top. Rip out your puff pastry and lay out on top, covering everything. Use a beaten egg as egg wash and then bake for 20-25 minutes.

I did not realise making a cream sauce was so darn easy! (Just whipping cream, chicken stock & corn flour). Some recipes say whipping cream can be replaced by cow's milk! Even better!

Daniel & husband loved this dish. (The picture shows an individual portion I made for husband who came back late--there was extra stew that did not fit into the 10 inch bowl, so I put it in a small bowl for him when he came back!) Most pot pie recipes don't call for shell pasta -- but I added it in, cos then it becomes a nice pasta-y meal for the kids. You can also add peas, onions, potatoes, if that works for you! Cheers!