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Chicken, Bacon & Leek Pie with Buttery Mash and Proper Chicken Gravy

Name: Chicken, Bacon & Leek Pie with Buttery Mash and Proper Chicken Gravy
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 110 min
Total time: 130 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 1 Whole chicken; 1 Lemon; 1 Whole bulb garlic; 1 bunch Fresh thyme; Olive oil; Fine sea salt; Black pepper; 200 g Smoked streaky bacon; 2 Leeks; 1 Onion; 3 Garlic cloves; 60 g Unsalted butter; 60 g Plain flour; 1–2 tbsp Dijon mustard; 1 handful Flat-leaf parsley; 1 handful Fresh thyme leaves; Salt; Black pepper; Roasted chicken carcass and bones; Olive oil; 1.5 litres Water; 2 sheets All-butter puff pastry; 2 Egg yolks; 1 tbsp Double cream; Flaky sea salt; 1 kg Maris Piper potatoes; 175 g Unsalted butter; 50–75 ml Whole milk; Salt; Black or white pepper

I'm an absolute sucker for a chicken pie. It's the ultimate comfort food to me. But there are a few steps which if you can be bothered, can really up your game! Here's how i do it.

Prep

20m

Cook

1h 50m

Total

2h 10m

Chicken, Bacon & Leek Pie with Buttery Mash and Proper Chicken Gravy

I'm an absolute sucker for a chicken pie. It's the ultimate comfort food to me. But there are a few steps which if you can be bothered, can really up your game! Here's how i do it.

Prep

20m

Cook

1h 50m

Total

2h 10m

Ingredients

Method

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Step 1

Heat your oven to 200°C / 180°C fan. Pat the chicken dry, drizzle generously with olive oil and season really well inside and out with salt and black pepper. Stuff the cavity with the lemon, garlic and thyme.

For

6

M

I

For the roast chicken

1

Whole chicken, around 1.6–1.8kg

1

Lemon, halved