Mimi’s Chicken Pot Pie

Start with the chicken:

Option 1: I often use meat from a rotisserie chicken, Sam’s has the best ones. Just pull the chicken off the bones, discard the skin, and chop into bite sized pieces.

Option 2: Use chicken thighs or breasts and boil in salted water until cooked through. Then, remove chicken from the pot and chop into small pieces. 

Option 3: We love to brine and roast a whole chicken AND it is not much more work to make two. We often eat one for dinner and use the second one for another meal. Whether it’s for a pot pie, soup, quesadilla’s, etc, it is worth the extra effort to make two! The meat can be precut and portioned out and frozen for later use 🙂

Boil the veggies for the filling:

Roughly chop up one carrot, one celery stalk and one potato into cubes. Boil in salted water along with one half small can of English peas, corn, and green beans. Be sure to rinse the canned veggies before cooking to improve the flavor.

While that boils:

Make the filling by sautéing about 1/2 medium onion in 6 Tbsp of butter. Stir in 1/2 cup of flour and 1 tsp. of salt, and 3 cups chicken broth. Whisk until the sauce is boiling and starts to thicken. (You can use two cans of broth or 3 cups of water with 3 chicken bouillon cubes)

Once veggies are soft:

Remove veggies and drain. Add to the thickened broth/filling. Add the chicken. Taste to make sure it has enough salt. It often needs quite a lot more. Plus, some pepper. 

Assemble the pie:

Divide the filling into pie pans. I usually make two or three from one batch. You can cook one that night and freeze the rest for later. If you think you might want to give some away, assemble the extra pot pie’s in toss away aluminum foil containers. 

Add pie crust to the top, bake at around 350-400 until hot and bubbly. Cover the edges of the crust with aluminum foil if they start to brown too fast.