Chicken Pot Pie

What a crazy adventure in the kitchen this was today. I have never ate a pot pie nor made one. I was pretty certain that I had all the ingredients to make this. So I started cooking chicken, peeling potatoes, chopping carrots and onions, making the Roux and go to grab chicken broth, no broth. OK..lets try chicken bouillon and there was NONE! Hahaha!! Soo..I had like half a minute to do this so I took lipton chicken soup mix and sifted all the bouillon out of the packets!! Haha..oh my..didn't know what it was going to taste like..but hey I don't even know what a pot pie should taste like. This whole thing was new. So I whipped up this bouillon based broth, made the thickening gravy, threw together the pie and what happens..I am out of pie crust and I made enough filling for two pies! So the series of events continue to take place and I have to make biscuits by hand from scratch to top these bottom crusted Pot Pies. Then it spilled into my oven and smoke alarm goes on. What a disastrous kitchen but with heck of a pot pie!!

Chicken Pot Pie

6 Boneless, Skinless Chicken thighs (boiled)
1 medium Onion (chopped)
1 Tbsp. Garlic (minced)
3 medium White Potatoes (peeled and diced)
3/4 c. Peas
1 c. Diced carrots
1 stick of unsalted butter
3/4 cup Flour
3 Sage leaves (minced)
1 1/2 tsp. dried Thyme
3 cups of Chicken broth..or be like me LITERALLY think outside the box of a lipton chicken soup mix!
1 1/2 c. Milk
Salt & Pepper to taste..easy on the salt

1. Boil chicken and chop up. Dice and chop carrots and potatoes, put in pan with enough water to subtly cover. Bring to boil and simmer boil for 6-8 minutes. Drain.

2. Make Roux. Melt better, saute onions and garlic for 2 minutes on low, add sage, thyme pepper, mix well, add flour and cook until absorbs butter and gets pasty like..not cooked! Add broth stir that well until roux breaks up. Add milk and bring to a simmer boil. May salt at this point.

3. Add chicken, peas, carrots and potatoes. Mix everything well together off heat. Add to two pie crust and bake @ 400 for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile.......

Biscuits

2 cups Flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2tsp Sugar
4 Tbsp Shortening
3/4 milk

1. Mix dry ingredients. Add shortening and I mixed with my hands then added milk. Knead by hand in bowl then turn out to floured board. Should be soft. Roll out and make biscuits.

After 20 minutes of Pie baking....

Place raw biscuit dough on pies. It didn't completely cover surface but I liked it like that. Looked more rustic. Baked for another 20-25 minutes. Voila! Its done..and hope your smoke alarm doesn't go off too from gravy leaking over the edge of your sheet pan.

I was impressed this turned out. I enjoyed it and it was quite filling!! Comfort in a hot mess of a pie....as far as that goes..no more cooking for me until Sunday!