Cheaty chicken pies

Making pies sounds like a lot of hard work - but when you take a few cheaty shortcuts, they are totally doable even as a mid-week meal. These individual chicken pies will be a hit with kids and adults alike. Yum.

Ingredients

  • 500g chicken thigh or breast fillets

    no skin, fat trimmed off, cubed

  • ¼ cup leek

    finely chopped

  • 1 420 gr can chicken condensed soup

    98% fat free

  • 1 water

  • 1 cup mixed vegetables

    corn, carrots, peas and beans

  • 1 glass white wine

  • 5 medium sized mushrooms

    sliced

  • Pepper

    to taste

  • 100g frozen shortcrust pastry

Equipment

  • 1 frypan
  • 1 ramekin dishes
  • 1 fork

Instructions

  1. Take out pastry from freezer and leave to defrost on bench.
  2. Preheat oven to 200C.
  3. In a frypan, saute the leek in white wine, add chicken and cook through.
  4. Add soup, and then an extra can of water, mixed vegetables, mushrooms and simmer until thickened.
  5. Use ramekin dishes and trace around to cut out tops, fill with mixture, roll out the pastry circles to make a little bigger and seal on ramekin, and make some venting holes with a fork on top.
  6. You can choose to brush with egg wash (1 egg beaten with a little milk).
  7. Bake for 30 mins or until golden brown.

Notes

Tip
Using condensed chicken soup is a great shortcut that is low in calories and saves time.
Storage
These pies are perfect for the freezer.

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