Recipe of Favorite Creamy Chicken, ham and leek pie
by Christopher Wilkerson
Creamy Chicken, ham and leek pie
Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, creamy chicken, ham and leek pie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Creamy Chicken, ham and leek pie is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Creamy Chicken, ham and leek pie is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook creamy chicken, ham and leek pie using 17 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Creamy Chicken, ham and leek pie:
Take For the filling :
Get 450 ml chicken stock
Prepare 3 chicken breasts, skinned
Take 75 g butter
Prepare 2 leeks, trimmed and cut into 1 cm slices
Prepare 2 , garlic cloves, crushed
Get 50 g plain flour
Get 200 ml milk
Get 3 tbsp white wine
Prepare 150 ml double cream
Prepare 150 g piece thickly carved ham, cut into 2 cm chucks
Take Sea salt flakes
Prepare Ground pepper
Make ready For Pastry:
Take 350 g plain flour
Get 200 g butter
Prepare 1 large egg with 1 tbsp cold water, plus 1 egg beaten to glaze a
Steps to make Creamy Chicken, ham and leek pie:
Heat the chicken stock in a lidded saucepan. Add the chicken breast and bring to low simmer. Cover with a lid and cook for 10 minutes. Remove the chicken breast from the water and place on a plate. Pour the cooking liquor into a bowl.
Melt 25 g of butter in a saucepan over a low heat. Stir leeks and fry for 2 minutes.
Add garlic and cook for 1 minute.
Add remaining butter and stir in the flour as soon as the butter has melted. Cook for 30 seconds.
Slowly pour the milk into a pan, little by little. Gradually add 250 ml of the reserved stock and the wine.
Stirring until the stock is smooth and thickened slightly. Bring to a gentle simmer for 3 minutes.
Season the mixture. Remove from the heat and stir in the cream. Pour into a large bowl and cover the surface of the sauce with cling wrap to prevent a skin form. Set aside to cool.
Preheat the oven to 200 C. Put a baking trays in the oven to heat.
For the pastry, put the flour and butter in a food processor and blend until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the beaten egg and water and blend until mixture form a ball.
Portion off 250 g of pastry for the lid.
Roll the remaining pastry out on a lightly floured surface, turning the pastry frequently until around 5mm thick and 4 cm larger than the pie dish.
Press the pastry firmly up the sides, making sure there are no air bubbles. Leave the excess pastry overhanging the sides.
Cut the chicken breast into 3 cm pieces. Stir the chicken, ham, leeks into the cooled sauce.
Pour the chicken filling into the pie dish. Brush the rim of the dish with beaten egg. Roll out reserved pastry for the lid.
Cover the pie with the pastry lid and press the edges together firmly to seal. Trim any excess pastry
Make a small hole in a centre of the pie. Glaze the top of the pie with beaten egg.
Bake on a preheated tray in the centre of the oven for 30 - 40 minutes or until the pie is golden brown all over and the filling is pipping hot.
Enjoy
So that’s going to wrap it up with this exceptional food creamy chicken, ham and leek pie recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m confident you will make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food in home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!