Chicken & Chive Biscuits Pot Pie

We've had a duet of Fall-ish nights as well as mornings that are actually getting me inward the mood for cooler weather. It is non quite "Back to School" for Emma nevertheless - a duet to a greater extent than weeks to larn - simply the feeling is definitely inward the air. Pot Pie is ane of those meals that remind me of schoolhouse nighttime dinners - alone I mean value they accept a bad reputation. This ane is amount of season amongst roasted vegetables, chicken as well as a creamy sauce.

I've ever made Pot Pies amongst Puff Pastry, simply I was inspired past times a Barefoot Contessa recipe (shocking, right?) to accommodate my master pot pie recipe to ane topped amongst biscuits instead. The flaky, buttery biscuits were amazing on spill out of the creamy stew - a huge striking for both Mike as well as Emma. I can't await to crusade these inward private bowls amongst a unmarried biscuit on top.

Chicken & Chive Biscuit
Pot Pie

makes 1 pie, four servings

ii chicken breasts, dissever amongst os as well as peel on

four carrots, 1-inch dice

8 minor cherry-red potatoes, 1-inch dice

ii tbs of olive oil

1 tsp of bounding main salt

1/2 tsp of pepper

four tbs of butter

four tbs of flour

1/2 loving cup of chicken stock

1/2 loving cup of half-and-half

1 loving cup of frozen peas
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1 1/4 cups of flour
1/2 tablespoon of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 tablespoon of chives
1/2 stick of butter
1 egg, beaten
1/4 loving cup of milk

Step 1 : Roast the Chicken & Vegetables

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Start past times placing the chicken breasts on a baking sheet, drizzle amongst olive oil, as well as then common salt & pepper. On around other canvass pan, house the carrots as well as potatoes as well as besides drizzle amongst olive oil, common salt as well as pepper, as well as then toss to coat. Roast them inward the oven for 20-25 minutes. The cooking fourth dimension may vary depending on thickness of the chicken breast.

Step ii : Make the Cream Sauce

In a saucepan, melt butter on medium-low oestrus stir inward flour, whisking until smooth. Let the flour as well as butter fix for close 1 minute. Whisk inward chicken stock as well as function along to whisk over depression oestrus until smooth.

Add inward the half-and-half. Whisk until smooth. Cook over medium-low oestrus for 5-10 minutes until thick as well as bubbly - whisk constantly, or at lease every infinitesimal to hold it from burning on the bottom. When it is thick, plough off the heat.

Step three : Combine

When the vegetables as well as chicken accept finished roasting, allow them cool for 3-5 minutes. Remove the peel as well as bones from the chicken as well as chop it upwards into 1-inch cubes. Add the chicken, carrots as well as potatoes into the cream sauce. Add the peas. Pour the mixture into a pie plate or other oven proof dish.

Step four : Make Biscuits

In a mixer, combine flour, baking powder, chives as well as common salt using the paddle attachment. Cut the mutual depression temperature butter into 1/2 inch pieces. Add the butter to the dry out ingredients as well as mix on depression until the butter is mixed inward as well as is the size of peas. In a separate bowl, mix together egg as well as milk amongst a fork. Turn the mixer on depression as well as slow add together the milk as well as egg mixture. Turn off the mixer ane time added.

Put around flour on the counter. Turn the dough out onto the floured surface. Add around flour onto the spill out of the dough, as well as then curlicue it out into a disk - close 1/2 inch thick.