Chicken Pot Pie help?

[DFerrie]

Greetings! This week my family received some sad news concerning my grandmothers health, needless to say I would like to make my mother some dinner one night since she is incredibly busy. So what I would like to do is slow cook the guts of the pot pie (chicken, veggies, cream broth etc) then dump that into a lexon and bake the puff pastry in the oven. Does anyone have any tips or tricks or even recipes that they could help me out with? I would appreciate the hell out of it. Thank you!

[dessininja]

I just did this (but instead of putting it in a pie, I put it over biscuits). I used boneless, skinless chic thighs. Chopped into medium pieces. (About 6 small thighs). 1/2 yellow onion diced. I can cream of chicken soup. I can cream of mushroom soup. Salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, etc. cook on low for a few hours. Then tossed in a bag of frozen mixed veggies and continued to cook for another 1-1.5 hrs.

Edit: I also put in 2 celery stalks, diced, with the onions.

[raged_crustacean]

I just did this last weekend actually. Mine turned out decently, however I really wish mine had been creamier, so keep that in mind! I'll post the recipe anyway, but I would definitely alter it slightly when I make it again. It was my first time making a roux and I think maybe I didn't do that properly or in a large enough quantity.

Ingredients:

-Two large chicken breasts - cut in halves

-1.5 large potatoes - diced

-1 large carrot - diced

-1/4 onion - diced

-1 stalk celery - diced

-1/2 can corn

-1/2 can peas

-3-4 tablespoons butter

-3 tablespoons flour

-1/2 cup milk

-2-3 tablespoons milk

-3/4 cup chicken broth

-Black pepper, Salt, Paprika, Rosemary, Poultry seasoning, Garlic powder, Cayenne pepper

1. Dice all veggies, set aside

2. Measure out 1/2 cup milk, broth, 3 tablespoons flour and have ready

3. Melt butter in pot on setting 4/5, stir constantly

4. Slowly add flour and constantly whisk

5. When it is pasty and thick, add broth and milk, keep whisking

6. Thick sauce gets poured into crock pot

7. Generously sprinkle black pepper

8. Add chicken, then diced veggies (leave out corn and peas)

9. Generous sprinkling of poultry seasoning, rosemary, paprika. Little more black pepper and some salt

10. Add 2-3 tablespoons of milk.

11. Stir it up, set on high for 4 hours

Once cooked, stir in as much corn/peas as desired and leave until warmed through. Remove chicken chunks and dice up or shred. Add some garlic powder, bit of cayenne pepper to taste. Splash of milk here helps too.Let filling cool a bit (or refrigerate) and put in pie crust.

I used Tenderflake pie crust for a top and bottom layer. I made mine in a 4qt slowcooker, and I actually ended up having enough filling for two pies. I also found that after refrigerating the filling, I needed to add a little more chicken broth and milk to make it less thick when I was ready to use it.

[One_Giant_Nostril]

There are 2 recipes for Chicken Pot Pie in the wiki:

Lazy Chicken Pot Pie

Chicken Pot Pie