Chicken & Onion Pie

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Bake this as a pie, or steam it as a pudding

Prep Time15

Cook Time30

Total Time45

Course: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course

Cuisine: English

Other: Freezes Well

Servings:

Calories: 513kcal

Author: Thrifty Lesley

Metric - US Customary

Put the oil and flour in a bowl and add most water bit by bit until you have a soft dough.
200 g self-raising flour, 100 ml vegetable oil, 100 ml up to this amount, you may not need it all
If you have time, the pastry will benefit by being left to rest for a few minutes. How to make pastry using oil hints. You need to add the water, otherwise, the pastry will be impossible to roll

Finely chop the onion
200 g onion
Finely chop the chicken
100 g cooked chicken
Sauté the onion in a little oil until soft.
10 ml vegetable oil
Mix the stuffing mix as per packet instructions and form into 3 balls, or use 3 balls leftover from roasting a chicken
28 g stuffing mix
Add gravy left from roasting the chicken if you are following the series on how to make a chicken last a week. Otherwise, mix the 15g flour with 100ml water and add to the pan. Stir around until thickened.
gravy left from roasting a chicken, 15 g OR flour, 100 ml water
If not using leftover gravy, season
Stir in the chicken
Leave to cool a little if you can. If you have no time, I have put hot fillings into a pastry case without too many problems

Roll out half of the pastry and use to line a flan dish etc
Pile in the filling mixture
Distribute the stuffing balls over the filling, maybe crumble them a bit if that works better
Top with the remaining pastry

Bake the pie at 180C/160 fan/Gas 4 for about 30 minutes until golden and serve immediately

If you have some, gravy would go well with this. This is a good base for a pie and once you have mastered it, it has many variations.

What changes can I make?

If you like steamed puddings, this can be done exactly the same, but use a pudding basin and steam it for 2 hours. I would do that in a slow cooker to save the fuel. For an authentic flavour, use suet to make the pastry
Any meat can be used in place of the chicken.
- turkey
- pork mince
- bacon
- corned beef
Use salmon and prawns instead of chicken
Use leeks in place of the onion
Add other vegetables to the mix
- diced carrot
- a handful of peas
- or sweetcorn
- some cooked mushrooms (they need to be cooked first as they give off a lot of water)
Add some fine chopped herbs to the mix
add curry paste or powder
add soy sauce and/or fish sauce
if you don't have roast chicken gravy, add tomato sauce, brown sauce or tomato paste
Add flavourings to the pastry, a tblsp of mustard, a handful of cheese, some fine chopped herbs
Or line the flan dish with half the pastry, pile in the mix and bake as an open topped bacon and sweetcorn tart.
Or make individual 10cm pies or tarts.

Roast chicken, 400g chicken, gravy, with stuffing, 4 portions
Risotto, 140g chicken, onion, half the the stock, some vegetables butter and parmesan, 4 portions
Pizza, 117g chicken, tomato sauce, maybe some stuffing, 4 portions
Spicy Pasta Bake, white sauce, 120g chicken, onion, spices, stuffing, 4 portions
Tart, 100g chicken, onions, sweetcorn, couple of eggs, no cheese, stuffing, 4 portions
Pie, 100g chicken, some of the gravy, onion, maybe some sweetcorn or mushrooms, maybe some stuffing, 4 portions, this recipe
Soup with the remaining half of the stock, red lentils, onion, spices, 4 portions, this recipe

Poached chicken
Spaghetti with olives, sultanas and lemon 140g chicken
Oaty, nutty, seedy chicken and mushroom crumble 140g chicken
Chicken and rice salad – red peppers from a jar, peas, gherkins, raisins 140g chicken and some of the stock
Chicken and something Pizza, sweetcorn, onion, red pepper, mozzarella and cheddar 140g chicken
Coronation Chicken Jacket Potato – 140g chicken
Red Cabbage Waldorf with apple, walnut and dressing – 140g chicken
Chicken Tart with Butternut Squash, Lemon Zest & Parmesan 140g chicken

this comes out at a total of 28 portions, which is amazing!