15Mins Prep Time |
3Mins Cook Time |
ModerateSkill Level |
4 people
Ingredients
- 1 kg Diced chicken
- 3 White Onions
- 3 cloves garlic
- 2 carrots
- 2 Celery Sticks
- 15 Mushrooms
- Fresh Rosemary A few sprigs
- Rapeseed Oil
- 2 tbsp Plain Flour
- 500 ml Beef Stock
- 170g All-butter puff pastry
- 1 Free-range egg Large
Cooking Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190ºC/375ºF/gas 5.
- Peel and chop the onions, garlic, carrots, and celery, slice the mushrooms, and pick and finely chop the fresh rosemary.
- Heat some oil in a large pan, add the onions and fry gently for about 10 minutes until softened, stirring occasionally.
- Turn the heat up, add the garlic, carrots, celery and mushrooms, then mix everything together before stirring in the chicken, rosemary, and a pinch of sea salt and 1 level teaspoon of black pepper.
- Fry fast for 3-4 minutes, stir in the flour, when mixed, pour in just enough stock to cover.
- Bring to a simmer, cover the pan with a lid and place in the oven for 2½ hours.
- Meanwhile, roll the pastry out to the thickness of a pound coin.
- Place the pastry over the top of the pie dish pinching or folding and tucking in the edges to seal, then lightly score the surface with a criss-cross pattern.
- Beat the egg, then brush over the top of the pie and bake directly on the bottom of the oven for 45 minutes at 160ºCuntil the pastry is puffed and golden.
- Serve with a selection of seasonal veg.