Thursday, October 25, 2012

(Just) Chicken Pie



Chicken Pie

This is off the charts mouth watering good!  There is nothing in it but chicken - no peas or carrots.  - Carol

From  Cooking Down East by Marjorie Standish, given to me by my good friend from Maine, Callie

9” round
9X13
Ingredients
4 lbs. 
       6 lbs.
Chicken, cup up
2 ½ cups
       1 pint
Water
1
       1+
Carrot
1
       1+
Onion
1
       1+
Celery
3-4 TBSP
       6 TBSP
Flour
Salt and pepper
Pie crust*


*You need a doube pie crust.  If making the 9X13 recipe, 3 single crusts should work.
1.  Cook the chicken

     Rinse chicken and put in pot with water, carrot, onion, celery, salt, and pepper.
     Cook (simmer) until chicken practically falls off bone.
     Remove from water (save the broth!), let cool and remove meat from bone.

2.  Make the broth/gravy

     Strain the broth and cool.
     Mix part of cool broth with flour.  
     Heat and add rest of broth, stirring until thickened*.
         *There is an ideal thickness, close to the thickness of gravy.

3.  Make double pie crust

4.  Assemble pie

     Place large pieces of chicken into bottom pie crust.
     Cover with thickened broth.
     Add top piecrust and vent well.

Bake at 425° for 35 minutes.
Serve hot.

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