Festive Chicken Pie!

Name: Festive Chicken Pie!
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 125 min
Total time: 135 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 1 Chicken; 1 Lemon; 1 bulb Garlic; 1 bunch Fresh thyme; 50 g Unsalted butter; Olive oil; Fine sea salt; Black pepper; 250–300 g Waitrose pigs in blankets; 2 Leeks; 1 Onion; 3 clove Garlic; 60 g Unsalted butter; 60 g Plain flour; 100 ml Double cream; 120 g Mature Cheddar; 1–2 tbsp Dijon mustard; 1 handful Flat-leaf parsley; 1 handful Fresh thyme leaves; Salt; Black pepper; Chicken carcass; Chicken bones; Olive oil; 1.5 l Water; 750 ml Chicken stock; 750–1000 g All-butter puff pastry block; Unsalted butter; Plain flour; 2 Egg yolks

For this festive pie, we're taking everything I love about a proper chicken and leek pie and giving it a little Christmas twist. Rather than just throwing some chicken breast into a creamy sauce, we're roasting a whole chicken with lemon, garlic and thyme, pulling off all that juicy meat and using the carcass to make our own intensely flavoured stock. Then we're adding golden pigs in blankets, sweet buttery leeks and mature Cheddar to create a wonderfully rich, velvety filling, all encased in crisp, golden all-butter puff pastry. Served with buttery mash and proper homemade chicken gravy, this is my idea of festive comfort food. You can also swap out the chicken for leftover turkey if you fancy!

Prep

10m

Cook

2h 5m

Total

2h 15m

Festive Chicken Pie!

For this festive pie, we're taking everything I love about a proper chicken and leek pie and giving it a little Christmas twist. Rather than just throwing some chicken breast into a creamy sauce, we're roasting a whole chicken with lemon, garlic and thyme, pulling off all that juicy meat and using the carcass to make our own intensely flavoured stock. Then we're adding golden pigs in blankets, sweet buttery leeks and mature Cheddar to create a wonderfully rich, velvety filling, all encased in crisp, golden all-butter puff pastry. Served with buttery mash and proper homemade chicken gravy, this is my idea of festive comfort food. You can also swap out the chicken for leftover turkey if you fancy!

Prep

10m

Cook

2h 5m

Total

2h 15m

Ingredients

Method

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Step 1

Heat the oven to 200°C / 180°C fan. Pat the chicken dry, rub all over with softened butter and a little olive oil, then season generously with salt and pepper. Stuff the cavity with the lemon, garlic and thyme. Roast until cooked through, checking from around 60 minutes depending on the size of your bird, until the thickest part reaches 75°C. Leave to rest until cool enough to handle.

For

For the roast chicken

Chicken, whole; around 1.6–1.8 kg

Lemon, halved

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Daniel P

3 days ago

Hey Sam, can’t wait to make this mate. Looking forward to make a bunch of these recipes Question, where did you get your pie dish from?

Samuel Kelly

3 days ago

Hey mate! I just got mine from Amazon, I can send you the link :)) Zenker Enamel Round Pie Dish,... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09J58WKDC?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Daniel P

3 days ago

Legend mate! Thank you