The Best Chicken Pies - Good Picnic Food

Have just made a delicious pie filling. I keep on going back and tasting it. 

We are off to Matakana for the weekend and I am supplying Friday nights dinner. 

Didn’t think, the kids would like The Baked Salmon Florentine I am going to make, so I decided to whip up some pies for them. 

Chicken Pie Anyone? Yes Please Grandma.

Very simple but so so tasty.

You need to spend some time chopping. You don’t want big hunks of vege.

Particularly for kids, they have to eat those little jewels. They don’t even notice.

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 onion, finely chopped

1 carrot, finely chopped

1 leek, tops removed, washed and finely chopped

1 medium potato, chopped into little cubes

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh rosemary

1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh thyme

1 glass white wine

1 chicken breast, chopped roughly

2 chicken thighs, chopped roughly

2 tablespoons flour

1 chicken stock cube

1 cup hot water

Sauté onions in olive oil in a medium hot pan till soft

Add carrots and leeks and potato

Season with Salt and Pepper and sauté about 3 minutes

Keep an eye on them so they don’t brown

Add herbs and white wine

Raise the heat and reduce the wine

Lower heat again and add chicken

Stir

Add flour and cook about 3 minutes

Keep stirring, it can stick

Dissolve stock cube in hot water

Add to pan.

Bring to boil and simmer about 30 minutes

Let it reduce and thicken

Cool and use to make pies.

 Lucky kids

 Now I didn't think the kids would be thrilled with the addition of parsley so I saved a bit of the filling

Added some chopped parsley and made a couple more pies.

All the food groups, in this pie.

Chicken, vege, greens, (parsley)

Water for juice

Pastry, for the carbs

Butter, to grease the  tins

and Egg to wash the tops and make them pretty.

What more could one ask for?