Recipes
Creamy Chicken Pie
Looking to make a delicious creamy chicken pie for lunch or dinner? This recipe is perfect—give it a try!
Ingredients
- •3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- •250g margarine
- •1/2 cup water (as needed to bring the dough together)
- •Salt to taste
- •2 eggs
- •1kg cooked, shredded chicken breast
- •300ml chicken cooking liquid
- •1/2 can sweetcorn
- •1/2 can peas
- •3/4 cup tomato sauce
- •1 tomato, chopped
- •1 onion, chopped
- •1 tub requeijão (Brazilian creamy cheese spread)
- •Olives to taste
- •Salt to taste
- •2 garlic cloves
- •Egg yolk for brushing
- •Parsley and spring onions to taste
Instructions
- 1
Heat a drizzle of olive oil in a frying pan. Add the chopped onion, garlic and tomato, and sauté until softened.
- 2
Add the tomato sauce, olives, chicken, sweetcorn, peas, requeijão, parsley and spring onions.
- 3
In a bowl, combine the flour, margarine, eggs and salt using your fingertips. If the dough is too dry, add water until it comes together.
- 4
Line the bottom and sides of a baking tin with the dough, then add the filling. Top with requeijão and grated cheese.
- 5
Roll out the remaining dough to make a lid for the pie. Fit it over the filling, brush with egg yolk and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for about 40 minutes.
- 6
Your chicken pie is ready! Let it cool, then remove it from the tin and serve.