Recipe of Award-winning Chicken, leek and mushroom pie

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chicken, leek and mushroom pie. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken, leek and mushroom pie is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chicken, leek and mushroom pie is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken, leek and mushroom pie using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken, leek and mushroom pie:

1. Get 1 onion finely chopped
2. Prepare 2 cloves garlic crushed
3. Make ready 2 large chicken breasts cut into chunks
4. Make ready 1 leek sliced
5. Make ready 250 g mushrooms quartered
6. Make ready 1 tbsp fresh thyme
7. Get 2 bay leaves
8. Get 3 tbsp creme fraiche
9. Prepare 2 tsp Dijon mustard
10. Prepare 170 ml stock (veg or chicken)
11. Make ready 1 tsp cornflour
12. Make ready 1 tbsp flat leaf parsley chopped
13. Get 1 roll puff pastry
14. Make ready 1 egg beaten
15. Take Salt and pepper

Steps to make Chicken, leek and mushroom pie:

1. Heat a tbsp oli over a medium heat in a heavy based pot and fry the onion and garlic for 5 minutes. Then add the leek and fry for another 3-4 minutes until starting to soften.
2. Add the chunks of chicken and toss for one minute, then add the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes
3. Add the bay leaves, thyme, Dijon mustard and creme fraiche and stir. Then add the stock and the cornflour dissolved in a tiny bit of water. (I had a bit of leftover broccoli which I threw in too so as not to waste it). Cool everything in the liquid for 2 minutes until the sauce thickens a little. Then transfer into a pie dish.
4. Leave the mixture to cool for 10-15 minutes and preheat the over to 180 degrees centigrade.
5. Top the pie dish and filling with the pastry. Decorate or not. Prick a few holes in the pastry to let the steam Escape and brush the top with the beaten egg (this is what makes it golden)
6. After 30 minutes in the oven (or when the pastry is beautifully golden), remove, serve and enjoy.

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