$10 Worth of Chicken - What to do with it? Why...Make Pies Of Course

Its worth looking for specials when you are at the supermarket and throw into the freezer
for later. Last week there was a special on chicken drumsticks, so I grabbed 3 packets
Cost...Just cents over $10

So I threw them into a roasting pan along with a carrot, on its last legs in the fridge and a pile of spring onions, that were looking a little sad
Seasoned them with some Vegeta Chicken Stock Powder, and some freshly ground black pepper Threw on a good slosh of Olive Oil and about a cup of Hot water

Toss well and into the oven 200C
After 15 minutes, take them out and baste them with the tasty juices
They took about 25-30 minutes to cook

I let them cool and then removed the meat from the bones

Add the bones, plus all the juices into a reasonable size pot
Rinse the roasting pan, with some boiling water and scrape all those good bits off the bottom

Then top up with enough water, to cover the bones
Bring to the boil and simmer for about 30 minutes
Taste and add some salt and pepper if it needs it

Voila… Chicken stock
Now we can make the Pie Filling

3 tablespoon butter
1 onion peeled and chopped
1/2  red pepper chopped
1 stick celery chopped
1 cup frozen corn, you don't need to thaw
Sea salt and Freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup white wine

3 tablespoon flour
1 cup hot chicken stock
Chicken meat chopped
Frozen Puff Pastry
1 egg beaten with a tsp water for glazing 

Melt the butter in a pan
Add the onions, season with S & P
Sauce gently till soft
Add red pepper and celery, season
When they are soft
Add corn
Toss well
Add wine and let reduce right down

Add flour cook for a few minutes to cook the flour out

Add hot stock, stir well and cook till thickened
About 4-5 minutes
You do need it reasonably thick
It’s a pie filling after all
But if too thick, just add a little more stock
Taste and re-season if needed

Put aside to cool

AND there was stock left over
Its was beautiful, all jellied.

Maybe a risotto, some soup.
There will be a use for it

Now this amount of filling, was enough for 14 pies
Into the freezer they went
Still some filling left over,
so I put it into a ovenproof dish

Made some Mashed Potato
1 large potato peeled, large chopped
Cook in boiling salted water till tender
Drain and mash with a little milk and good knob of butter
Set aside

Spread that over the top of the filling
Chicken Pot Pie
and that also is in the freezer
waiting for another day

So all up, I made all that Food for under $20
Not bad for half a days work