Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade Use-up Chicken & Leek Pie

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, use-up chicken & leek pie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook use-up chicken & leek pie using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Use-up Chicken & Leek Pie:

1. Prepare carrot, diced
2. Prepare Salt
3. Take frozen peas
4. Get large knob butter
5. Make ready leek, finely sliced
6. Prepare plain flour (plus some for dusting pastry)
7. Prepare milk
8. Prepare chicken stock cube (I use a Knorr Stock Pot)
9. Make ready Roast chicken, diced
10. Take Ground black pepper
11. Get readymade shortcrust pastry (I used JusRol chilled)

Steps to make Use-up Chicken & Leek Pie:

1. Boil the carrot in salted water, adding the peas for the last 3-4 minutes. Drain and set aside.
2. In a wok or largish frying pan fry the leek until softened in the butter. Remove from heat, stir in the flour, add the stock pot/cube and very gradually add the milk, stirring continuously to prevent lumps forming. Return to heat to thicken the sauce, still continuously stirring. Remove from heat.
3. Add the cooked vegetables and chicken and stir well to mix. Season to taste.
4. Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 6 or electric equivalent (Circotherm 170C).
5. Split the pastry block two-thirds/one-third and grease a pastry dish.
6. Roll out the larger pastry piece and use it to line the pastry dish base. Fill with the chicken etc. Then roll out the smaller pieces and use it to top the pie. Crimp the edges to seal and make two or three small slits in the centre to allow the steam to escape.
7. Heat in the oven for 40-45 minutes or until the pie is cooked. 1. Serve with your choice of vegetables. We had new potatoes and French beans today. A little Dijon mustard goes well.

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