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Chicken Pot Pie

List of Ingredients




If you want a chicken meat pie you are in the wrong place. This is Chicken Pot Pie. You can make it with Beef and with Ham too. Both are wonderful. Note this is the fancy version. You can strip out all but the chicken and the basic seasoning for a simple dish.

serves 6 to 8

3 quarts water
1 3 to 3-1/2 pound chicken
1 celery rib
1 medium onion
1 medium carrot
Salt and pepper to taste
2 medium onions, thinly sliced
2 celery ribs, thinly sliced
2 medium potatoes, cut into 1/4-inch slices
Potpie dough (see below)
1/4 cup chopped parsley
3 tablespoons flour blended with 1/4 cup cold water (optional)

Cook chicken in water with 1 celery rib, carrot, 1 onion, salt and pepper until tender. about 1 hour. Remove chicken from broth. When cool enough to handle, remove chicken from bones, discard skin, and pull apart or cut into bite-size pieces. Strain the broth and skim off most of fat. Taste broth for seasoning and add additional salt and pepper if desired. Reserve 2 quarts for remainder of recipe. (Any extra broth can be frozen for several months and used in other recipes.)

Bring 2 quarts of reserved chicken broth to a boil in a 4-quart pot. Add the sliced onions, celery and potatoes. Reduce heat and simmer until tender, about 25 minutes. Add the reserved chicken. Bring back to a boil. Gradually place the potpie dough squares into the boiling liquid, one-by-one, gently pushing down each layer until covered with the broth. Reduce heat and cover pot. Simmer, stirring gently on occasion to prevent dough from clumping together, until dough is thoroughly cooked, about 20 minutes. Stir in parsley, cover and simmer an additional 5 minutes. Add flour and water paste to thicken broth, if desired. Serve immediately.



Recipe



POTPIE DOUGH

2-1/2 cups unsifted all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
1 tablespoon cold water


Mix 2 cups of the flour with the salt, eggs and water. Work in enough of the remaining 1/2 cup flour to make a stiff dough. Knead about 10 minutes. (Can be mixed and kneaded in processor or electric mixer.) Roll dough on a lightly floured surface into as thin a sheet as possible. Cut into 2-inch squares. Set aside until needed.