Chicken Pot Pie Amongst Roasted Vegetables Too Puff Pastry | Dorsum To School

 

I intend chicken pot pie got a bad wind after years of frozen versions made it to the table.  This version, made amongst roasted vegetables as well as chicken topped amongst flaky puff pastry* is non anything similar the sometime TV dinner... it is truly a treat.  This recipe receive got simply xxx minutes to laid upward from start to complete AND it is relatively healthy.  I serve it amongst a truly fresh as well as crunchy salad to consummate the meal.

*I ever maintain puff pastry inward the freezer.  I purpose it for making quick caramelized onion as well as caprine animal cheese tarts, cinnamon pecan gummy buns, as well as easy appetizers... it was definitely my hole-and-corner weapon every bit a caterer as well as political party planner.

This is a neat Back-to-School dinner because it tin all live made inward advance, as well as hence baked amongst the puff pastry when you're ready to serve it. 

Back to School Guide : 

Chicken Pot Pie amongst Roasted Vegetables as well as Puff Pastry

2 chicken breasts, separate amongst os as well as peel on

iv carrots, 1-inch dice

8 modest cherry-red potatoes, 1-inch dice

2 tbs of olive oil

1 tsp of body of body of water salt

1/2 tsp of pepper

1 canvas of puff pastry*

iv tbs of butter

iv tbs of flour

1/2 loving cup of chicken stock

1/2 loving cup of half-and-half

1 loving cup of frozen peas

Step 1 : Roast the Chicken & Vegetables

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees (F).  Start past times placing the chicken thorax inward the pump of a baking sheet.  Add the carrots on ane side as well as the potatoes on the other.  Drizzle the vegetables as well as chicken amongst olive oil, tabular array salt as well as pepper.  Toss the carrots as well as potatoes to coat.  Roast them inward the oven for xx minutes.  The cooking fourth dimension may vary depending on thickness of the chicken breast.

Step 2 : 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 arrive at for close 1 minute.  Whisk inward chicken stock as well as proceed 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 maintain it from burning on the bottom.  When it is thick, plow off the heat.

Step three : Combine

When the vegetables as well as chicken receive got finished roasting, allow them cool for 3-5 minutes.  Remove the peel as well as bones from the chicken as well as chop it upward into 1-inch cubes.  Add the chicken, carrots as well as potatoes into the cream sauce.  Add the peas.  The warmth of the cream sauce as well as vegetables should thaw the peas.  Avoid over heating them, every bit they volition larn bland as well as starchy.  Pour the mixture into 2 oven proof bowls.  

Step iv : Puff Pastry

Turn the broiler inward your oven on low.  *Cut canvas of puff pastry into iv pieces.  Reserve 2 of the pieces for after - y'all tin set them dorsum into the freezer.  Place the pastry on top of the 2 bowls filled amongst the chicken mixture.  Brush the top of the pastries amongst a piddling melted butter or olive crude as well as sprinkle them amongst tabular array salt & pepper.  Place them nether the broiler for 2-3 minutes, or until they receive got puffed as well as are brown.

**If y'all are preparing this earlier hand, pour the chicken, vegetables as well as sauce inward the bowls, wind them inward plastic wind as well as refrigerate.  Bake them at 350 degrees for fifteen minutes, as well as hence top amongst puff pastry, tabular array salt & pepper.  Place them nether a high broiler for 2-3 minutes until the pastry is puffed as well as flaky. 

The chicken breasts (only 1 pictured here, I made plenty for 2 instead of 4), carrots as well as potatoes larn onto ane baking canvas to roast inward the oven.
Make the sauce past times melting butter over medium depression heat, as well as hence adding flour...
Then adding chicken stock as well as half-and-half... stirring to brand a creamy sauce.  The sauce volition thicken every bit it cooks over medium depression heat.  Be careful non to burn! 
Puff Pastry is the perfect topper.  It is flaky, buttery as well as puffs upward inward simply a pair of minutes nether the broiler.  It is flora inward the freezer department - I purchase extra as well as maintain it inward the freezer for final infinitesimal everything... cinnamon rolls for breakfast, caprine animal cheese as well as caramelized onion appetizers, etc.

It is Back to School Season!  I've set together a Back to School Guide that volition brand the start of the schoolhouse twelvemonth to a greater extent than fun (and manageable!).  These brand ahead dinners, slow breakfast recipes as well as uncomplicated desserts volition larn an A+ from your kids... as well as volition run past times the nurture sense of savor test, too!

Click hither to larn conduct to my Back to School Guide!

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