Chicken Leek and Bacon Pie
Chicken Leek and Bacon Pie

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chicken leek and bacon pie. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken leek and bacon pie using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Leek and Bacon Pie:
  1. Get 75 grams Unsalted butter
  2. Get 4 Rashers streaky bacon, chopped
  3. Prepare 1 kg Chicken thigh fillets, cut into 2cm pieces
  4. Get 4 Leeks
  5. Make ready 1/2 tsp fresh thyme leaves
  6. Get 1/3 cup flour
  7. Make ready 3 1/2 cup chicken stock
  8. Get 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
  9. Get 1/2 cup Italian, parsley, chopped
  10. Prepare 1 cup grated gruyere cheese
  11. Make ready 1 salt and freshly ground pepper.
  12. Take 1 egg wash

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Steps to make Chicken Leek and Bacon Pie:
  1. Grease 1 large rectangular or 6 x 9cm round pie dish.
  2. Preheat oven 200c.
  3. Melt butter over a medium high heat. Suate bacon until it has just browned and set aside.
  4. Add the chicken to pan and brown the chicken pieces for about 4 minutes. Set aside
  5. Lower the heat, add the leeks and thyme to the pan and cook until softened. Transfer the mix to a bowl and set aside.
  6. Add the flour to remaining butter in the pan to form a Roux. Cook for 2 minutes,stirring constantly. Slowly add chicken stock, 1 cup at a time, to create a thick sauce.
  7. Add the bacon, chicken and the leeks to the sauce. Cook for 20 minutes over a medium heat, stirring occasionally to prevent the sauce from catching. The mixture should be thick enough for the chicken and leeks not to sink to the bootom. Add the mustard and parsley and season with salt and pepper. set aside to cool.
  8. Fill the pastry lined dish to the rim with the chicken filling. top with grated cheese.
  9. Cut the remaining pastry into strips to make a lattice lid for the lid.
  10. Paint the pastry lid with egg wash.
  11. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.

In the chicken, leek and bacon pie though the starch is added earlier on in the cooking process. Here the moisture of the ingredients is caught to prevent it from soaking in the crust too much, but also to create a more indulgent filling. A chicken and bacon pie is the perfect comfort food, a warming meal ideal for family dinners and sure to be a crowd pleaser. Add cream and return chicken to pan. Put the chicken, bacon and lemon zest in a bowl with another quarter of the mustard cream and lightly season.

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