1,599 easy and fully explained recipes, with +66K photos and 77 videos

Chicken pie

Name: Chicken pie
Prep time: 1 h 16 min
Cook time: 1 h 13 min
Total time: 2 h 29 min
Yield: 6 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 4 leeks; 300 g mushrooms; 300 g chicken breast; 1 shallot; 3 tablespoons olive oil; ½ lemon; 3 tablespoons olive oil; 125 g small pieces of bacon; 1 tablespoon goose fat; 1 chicken stock cube; 150 ml water; 5 hard-boiled eggs; 150 g puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée); 20 g beaten egg; Salt; Pepper

Apart from the obvious chicken, this pie's puff pastry "lid" also conceals mushrooms, bacon, hard-boiled eggs and leeks.

139 K 4.5/5 (15 reviews)475470

Duration

2 hours 30 min.

Difficulty

Average

Last modified on: May 10^th 2023

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments Support the site ❤️

For 6 people, you will need:

1 4 leeks
2 300 g mushrooms
3 300 g chicken breast
4 1 shallot
5 3 tablespoons olive oil
6 ½ lemon
7 3 tablespoons olive oil
8 125 g small pieces of bacon
9 1 tablespoon goose fat
10 1 chicken stock cube
11 150 ml water
12 5 hard-boiled eggs
13 150 g puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée)
14 20 g beaten egg
15 Salt
16 Pepper
Total weight: 2,380 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation

1 hour 20 min.

Cooking

1 hour 15 min.

All in all

2 hours 30 min.

Preparation 1 hour 20 min.

Cooking 1 hour 15 min.

When should you start or finish this recipe?

If you start now, at , you will finish around : ?.Change start time

To finish around 7pm, you'll need to have started before: .Change end time

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 20 min.

Prepare 4 leeks.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 20 min.

Prepare and cut into small 300 g mushrooms pieces.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 5 min.

Cut 300 g chicken breast into medium-sized chunks.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 1 min.

Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add 1 shallot chopped, salt and pepper. Leave to cook for 1 minute without colouring.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 10 min.

Add the mushrooms and cook until they are soft.

Stage 6 - ⌛ 1 min.

When the mushrooms are cooked, salt and pepper, then add the juice of ½ lemon.

Set aside.

Stage 7 - ⌛ 5 min.

Using the same pan, heat 3 tablespoons olive oil and add the chopped leeks.

Cook uncovered until they are just done, then salt and pepper.

Set aside.

Stage 8 - ⌛ 7 min.

Use the same pan to fry 125 g small pieces of bacon lightly.

Set aside.

Stage 9 - ⌛ 5 min.

Still using the same pan, melt 1 tablespoon goose fat. When smoking hot, add the chicken pieces.

Fry rapidly until browned all over.

Stage 10 - ⌛ 15 min.

Mix 1 chicken stock cube and 150 ml water to make a chicken stock. Add this to the pan and cook the chicken pieces gently in the stock (this method is called braising), uncovered.

If you can, use the juices from cooking poultry.

Stage 11 - ⌛ 5 min.

Preheat the oven to 430°F (220°C).

Choose a gratin or pie dish and spread a layer of mushooms in the bottom.

Add the bacon on top.

Stage 12 - ⌛ 3 min.

Then add a layer of leeks.

Stage 13 - ⌛ 3 min.

A layer of chicken.

Stage 14 - ⌛ 3 min.

And a layer of sliced hard-boiled eggs.

Pour any remaining chicken stock over the top.

Stage 15 - ⌛ 3 min.

Roll out the puff pastry to make a lid and pierce 2 holes, which will act as vents to let the steam escape.

Stage 16 - ⌛ 5 min.

Trim off the overhanging pastry around the edge and tuck the pastry into the dish.

Stage 17 - ⌛ 5 min.

Use the trimmings to make decorations to stick on the top.

Stage 18 - ⌛ 3 min.

Glaze the pastry.

Stage 19 - ⌛ 30 min.

Bake until the puff pastry is nicely browned.

Remarks

Chicken pie is very good reheated and freezes well.

Keeping: A few days in the fridge, covered with plastic film. Freezes well.

Source: After Gaston Lenotre.

Support the site ❤️

This site has been around for years, with no advertising, no pop-ups, no traps, no information gathering, and I maintain it alone, out of passion.
If you liked this recipe, your support helps me to keep going.
Support cuisine-facile.com

Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	9 g RDI=15 %	27 g RDI=10 %	32 g RDI=44 %	152 kcal RDI=8 %	637 kJ RDI=8 %
Per person	39 g RDI=61 %	107 g RDI=41 %	128 g RDI=176 %	603 kcal RDI=30 %	2,528 kJ RDI=30 %
Whole recipe	237 g RDI=366 %	645 g RDI=244 %	769 g RDI=1,054 %	3,622 kcal RDI=181 %	15,165 kJ RDI=181 %