I tried the HelloFresh meals for a week - here is my version of their Skillet Chicken Pot Pie.
Ingredients:
(as I would make it next time)1.5 cups (187 gram) flour, plus more for flouring work surface
1 tablespoon butter, diced
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 milk (maybe 1/3 cup cream + 1/3 cup Greek yogurt stirred in)
1 - 1.5 cups cut up left over chicken
~16 ounces chicken broth
~1 cups leftover gravy -- (if you don't have leftover gravy, use more chicken broth cooked with some flour to thicken)2 to 4 tablespoons flour
1 or 2 carrots, diced
1 potato, diced
1 large onion, diced
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 stalk celery, diced
1/2 cup peas (or more celery)
~ 1/2 teaspoon fresh thyme (remove leaves from stem, mince a buit)
~ 1 or 2 leave fresh sage (minced)
Instructions:
- Mix up the biscuit topping first.
- Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and salt through a sifter 2 times over a medium bowl.
- By hand, gently stir in milk/cream until a shaggy dough forms.
- Sprinkle work surface with a tablespoon of flour, then turn the dough 3 or 4 times on flour.
- Pat into a small slab about 1/2" to 3/4" thick.
- Wrap in plastic wrap, place in freezer for 15 minutes or so.
- Pre-heat oven to 450 degrees.
- Pre-cook diced veggies - cook potatoes and carrots in shifts on a paper towel in the microwave.
- At the same time, saute onions and celery in 2 tablespoons olive oil in an oven safe pan.
- Mix leftover gravy and chicken broth, add to pan with onions and celery.
(If making sauce from only chicken broth, sprinkle onions & celery with a couple of tablespoons flour, stir and cook for a minute or two. Add chicken broth and cook a couple of minutes to thicken.) - Add pre-cooked potatoes & carrots to pan, peas, and diced chicken.
- Stir in thyme and sage.
(You will cook skillet in oven if you have an oven safe pan, otherwise you should
prepare a 9x13 baking dish sprayed with cooking spray and pour filling into it.) - Take biscuit dough out of freezer, place on floured work surface.
- Cut dough into ~3/4" cubes.
- Scatter biscuits cubes over filling.
- Bake for 10 to 15 minutes to brown biscuits.
Carole's Notes:
This recipe is slightly adapted from HelloFresh. I liked the idea of a biscuit topping - I adapted it by cutting the biscuits into cubes. The biscuits are a bit lighter than the typical pie crust.I think the original recipe took too long for a chicken pot pie. My version listed above starts with leftover chicken or turkey.
Overall - I liked receiving the ingredients in the mail. However, the recipes all seemed to need some fiddling, and basically served two people. I much prefer to have make enough for leftovers. (Doug does too - less pots to wash.) I added my own ingredients to make the pot pie serve 4.
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