Rustic Chicken & Mushroom crumbly pie
- 3 cup plain flour
- 1 1/2 cup butter
- 1 salt
- 1 tbsp cold water
- 1 black pepper
- 2 tsp sage
- 1 tsp chopped parsley
- 2 tbsp sunflower (or vegetable) oil
- 1 large onion halved and thinly sliced
- 3 large chicken breasts cut into 1" chunks
- 1 cup chunky cut mushrooms
- 2 oz butter
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- 300 ml milk
- 1 tsp dried sage
- For the base and topping - you can prepare this as early as you like
- Put flour into large bowl and chop butter into the flour using a wide bladed knife
- Add salt
- Rub the fat into the flour with fingertips until mixture resembles crumbs
- Remove 1 1/2 cups and place into another bowl
- To the first bowl add cold water and using the knife stir until the mixture starts to stiffen then bring together with your fingertips and gently knead into a ball of dough
- Wrap in cling wrap and place in the refrigerator to rest
- To the second bowl of crumb mixture add 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 tsp sage and a good shake of black pepper and stir through.
- Put to one side.
- For the filling use a large frying or saute pan with a close fitting lid.
- Heat oil on a low to medium heat and add onions cook until they soften
- Add cubed chicken and slightly raise the heat.
- When chicken has started to colour all over, put the lid on the pan and cook for a few minutes.
- Push chicken and onion mix to outside of pan and add butter to the centre.
- When butter has just melted add flour and stir into the melted butter
- Now stir through the rest of the mix and start adding the milk a little at a time stirring thoroughly each time until the mix is a thick gravy.
- Add a little more milk if the gravy is too thick for you but this pie is meant to be eaten hot or cold so you don't want it too runny.
- Add seasoning and sage and lastly the mushrooms stir in and turn off the heat.
- Water will seep out of the mushrooms and loosen the gravy whilst cooking.
- Now to assemble.
- Prepare an 8" x 2" tin by greasing well (i use a spring form round tin) Roll the pastry out quite thinly on a floured surface
- Line tin with pastry.
- As it is a large, deep tin the pastry may break as it is quite rich.
- Don't worry about this, just patch it all together as you're going to be creating a rustic look
- Spoon filling into pie, sprinkle over crumb mixture then fold the excess pastry over the crumb or trim
- Place into centre of oven and bake for 30 minutes
- Leave pie to cool for at least 30 minutes before attempting to cut as it will collapse and the filling will ooze out.
- I prefer my pie cold
flour, butter, salt, water, black pepper, sage, parsley, sunflower, onion, chicken breasts, mushrooms, butter, flour, milk, sage
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/362597-rustic-chicken-mushroom-crumbly-pie (may not work)