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Chicken Pot Pie

A baked chicken pot pie.

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The most classic savory pie, this Chicken Pot Pie is made with veggies and rotisserie chicken (or homemade) in a light savory gravy and baked up inside the most tender and delicious double buttery pie crust. Each comforting bite will warm you up from the inside out.

Ingredients

Sour Cream Pie Crust:

  • 2-½ cups (300 grams) all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup (226 grams) salted butter, cold
  • 3/4 cup (180 grams) sour cream

Chicken Pot Pie Filling:

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 small yellow onion, diced
  • 2 stalks celery, diced 
  • 3 medium carrots, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 teaspoons salt, more to taste
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper, more to taste
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme
  • ¼ cup (55 grams) unsalted butter, diced
  • ¼ cup (30 grams) all-purpose flour
  • 3 cups (680 grams) chicken stock, more as needed
  • 3 cups shredded rotisserie chicken
  • 1 cup frozen peas
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice, more to taste
  • 2 tablespoons fresh thyme leaves
  • Egg wash

Instructions

Make the Pie Crust:

  1. Add the flour into a large bowl. Add in the diced butter and toss to coat with the flour. Work the butter in the flour using a pastry blender. Or, using your fingers by squeezing the butter chunks until they're flat and then rub the butter into the flour. Some larger pieces can remain, up to the size of a marble. Continue this until the dough looks shaggy.
  2. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, and add in the sour cream. Using a spatula combine the sour cream in the flour.
  3. Using your hands, knead the dough a few times to help blend the sour cream into the flour, until it just comes together as one large ball. Transfer the pastry to a work surface and divide it into two pieces, each about 12 ounces. Shape into a rough disk shape.
  4. Place each in a piece of plastic wrap and wrap tightly. Using a rolling pin, roll the wrapped dough out until it stretches to the corner of the plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours, but preferably overnight.

Make the Filling:

  1. Heat oil over medium in a dutch oven. Once hot, add onion, celery and carrot and cook for 5-7 minutes, or until they are beginning to soften. Add in garlic, salt, pepper and thyme and cook for 30 seconds.
  2. Add in the butter and flour and cook, stirring, until butter is melted.
  3. Slowly, stir in half a cup of stock at a time, scraping up the bottom, and stirring as you go, to ensure no lumps. Once all the liquid is added, add in the chicken.
  4. Bring the mixture up to a boil, then reduce the heat to simmer for about 15-20 minutes, or until the sauce is thickened and the veggies are cooked through.
  5. Shut off the heat, and stir in the peas, lemon, and fresh thyme. Taste and adjust seasoning, adding in more salt, pepper and lemon as needed.
  6. Transfer the filling to a shallow container and let cool completely at room temperature, or overnight in the refrigerator.

Assemble and Bake:

  1. When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 400ºF.
  2. Roll out one pie dough to a 12″ circle. Fit pastry in a 9” pie plate, making sure to press the pastry into the sides and the bottom.
  3. Transfer the cooled chicken pot pie filling inside of the pie crust.
  4. Roll out the top crust to a 10″ circle and place it on top of the filling. Seal the edges of the pie dough together and crimp as desired. Pierce a few steam holes in the center of the pie, and brush the top with an egg wash.
  5. Bake in the preheated oven on the lower rack for 45-50 minutes, until the crust is light golden brown and the filling is completely heated through (reaching a temperature above 170ºF).

Notes

Have a question or looking for tips? The text written above the recipe is always a great first place to start! There are always loads of explanations, tips and technical advice shared before the recipe.

A pastry blender (or pastry cutter) is a metal tool used to cut butter into flour. It makes quick work of this task, though it is not an essential tool. You can also squish/rub the butter into the flour, though just make sure not to melt the better by working slowly. The heat from your hands can melt the butter if you spend too much time rubbing in the butter.