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Showing posts with label puff pastry. Show all posts

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Chicken Pot Pie

Adapted from Joy of Cooking and the comments at Chow.com... It was basically successful, but a little too runny and needed quite a bit more seasoning.

3 Chicken breasts (about 1.3 lb)
1 Onion
2 Garlic Cloves
2 Potatoes (Yukon Gold, but only because the red potatoes at the grocery store were sprouting)
1/2 lb Green Beans
2 large Carrots
2 1/2 Cups Chicken Stock
1/2 Cup Flour
3 TB dry Marsala (I had a choice between sweet sherry and dry marsala... dry sherry would likely be the optimal choice)
6 TB butter
1 Sheet Puff Pastry
1 Egg

Began by poaching the the Chicken in the stock + water. Chop the potatoes and parboil them briefly. Sautee the onion and garlic in butter, add flour. Pour in 2 cups of Poaching liquid, strained. Add the veggies and the Marsala and cook briefly. Pour into baking dish, cover with Puff Pastry, brush with beaten egg and bake @ 400 for approx. 30 minutes. We had about 4 servings remaining for leftovers.

Note: Check the size of pastry with the size of dish before you get too far along... Maybe use more flour to keep it slightly thicker; cornstarch also might help. It filled out the dish pretty well, could maybe have added a cup or two additional veggies and still be manageable.