Stretch a Chicken (5) Chicken & Sweetcorn Recipe for a tart
Part of a series to get max portions from one medium chicken
Servings: 4
Calories: 403kcal
Cost: 38p
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- rolling pin
- pan to fry in
- 20cm quiche or flan tin or dish
- small sharp knife
- large mixing spoon
Ingredients
- 70 g chicken use a little more if the chicken is raw
- 3 stuffing balls 1/6 value pack, optional
- 200 g onion sliced
- 100 g sweetcorn frozen or tinned
- 3 eggs beaten
- pinch salt
pastry
- 150 g flour self raising, value flour
- 75 ml oil use rapeseed oil if you can. NB oil does not weigh the same in grams as it measures in ml.
- 47 ml cold water
Metric - US Customary
Instructions
Pastry - made with oil
- Prepare the pastry using the oil method . To do this, put the flour in a bowl, tip in the oil. Then add the water. You may need a little more, or a little less, all flours are different.
- Simply stir gently with a tablespoon, and it will come together in a few seconds to make a soft dough, don’t over mix, or the pastry will toughen. If it is looking a little dry while you stir, add a little more water. If too wet, add a little more flour.
- Flour the worktop and roll out the pastry to the size of your dish. Line the pie dish being careful not to stretch the pastry.
Filling
- For the filling, slice the onion and sauté in a little oil until transparent
- If the chicken you have is raw, cook it for a few minutes in with the onion. This is to get rid of the water that raw chicken will give out when cooking.
- Once the chicken is cooked, chop into pea-sized pieces
- Put all filling ingredients in a bowl, except the stuffing balls and mix well.
- Pile the filling into the lined pie dish and place the stuffing balls, if using, evenly round.
- Bake for about 35 mins in a medium oven - 180°C Fan, 200°C, Gas 6, 400°F -until the filling is set.
- Good served hot, warm or cold
Notes
The tart could be used hot or cold, as packed lunches or for picnics, as well as for a main meal.
You could use turkey instead of chicken, and other things could be used to pad it out instead of the onion and sweetcorn. I would use a medium onion instead of the very large one, and then….
You could use turkey instead of chicken, and other things could be used to pad it out instead of the onion and sweetcorn. I would use a medium onion instead of the very large one, and then….
- Potato and olive;
- carrots and peas;
- frozen mixed veg, straight from the packet;
- potato and frozen spinach.
- If you don’t have any onions, you could leave that out and just use something else.
- You could add some rosemary, thyme or marjoram if you have any.
- You could flavour the onion with bay by gently frying the onion and bay together before putting in the tart filling.
All the recipes in this series on making a chicken last a week
- 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, this recipe
- Pie, 100g chicken, some of the gravy, onion, maybe some sweetcorn or mushrooms, maybe some stuffing, 4 portions
- Soup with the remaining half of the stock, red lentils, onion, spices, 4 portions
There is also a series starting with a poached chicken
- 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
Nutrition
Calories: 403kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 13g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 129mg | Sodium: 56mg | Potassium: 229mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 257IU | Vitamin C: 5mg | Calcium: 37mg | Iron: 3mg
