A creamy chicken mix that when served with mash is comfort food in a bowl but also makes a lush creamy chicken and vegetable pie when enclosed in pastry
Submitted by Felicity Barnett
Creamy Chicken and Vegetable Pie Filling
A creamy chicken mix that when served with mash is comfort food in a bowl but also makes a lush creamy chicken and vegetable pie when enclosed in pastry
Ingredients
- 1kg Chicken thigh fillets
- 6 rashers Bacon, diced
- 2 large Carrots, diced
- 1 Swede, diced
- 250g Sweet Potato, diced
- 1 1/2 cups Corn
- 1 large Zucchini, diced
- 250g Mushrooms, sliced
- 2 Spring Onions/Scallions, chopped
- 4 Garlic cloves, finely diced
- 1 tspn Chicken stock powder
- 2 tspn Thyme leaves
- 2 Bay leaves
- 100g Spinach
- 1 cup Cream
- 1- 2 tblspns Cornflour, depending on how much liquid is produced
- Cracked Pepper
- Salt
EXTRAS for Pies
- Mashed Potato/Sweet Potato if doing Shepherd's/Cottage pie
- Pastry for regular pies
NOTES
- We use Zymil cream for lactose free
Instructions
- Place all ingredients EXCEPT spinach, cream, cornflour, pepper and salt in slow cooker bowl
- Cook on LOW for 5-6hrs (Contempo 5.5L sc)
- With approx 1hr remaining add spinach, season with salt and pepper to taste and cream (see NOTES) into chicken mix and stir through
- When filling is ready prepare pies or serve with mash
PIES
- To make Shepherd's/Cottage Pie: transfer to an ovenproof dish and cover with mash, place in oven/under grill until top has browned/crisped
- To make regular pies using a pie maker: Prepare pastry for pie maker, line pie maker with pastry, add filling and top with pastry
- Cook until golden
- To make regular pies using an oven: Line pie dish with pastry, add filling, top with pastry lid.
- Cook in 180°c oven until golden
NOTES
- Depending on how much liquid has been produced mix 1 or 2 tblspns of cornflour into the cream before adding cream to chicken mix
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With my daughter recently starting a low fodmap diet meal planning has been tricky. Thank you slow cooker central for this delicious recipe. Gluten free and lactose free was brilliant. I did leave out the onion and substituted with the green part of the spring onion to cater to my daughters dietary requirements. Yum yum yum family hit!!!
Well, this is a keeper!! So simple to prep, I used a bag of frozen stew veg instead of swede, onion and carrot and didn’t have any spinach so didn’t add that at the end. Even my 4 year old who yucks everything gobbled it up! I’ve frozen loads for pie, pasta, mashed potato or rice. An absolute stable thank you