"Chicken" Pie

Chicken Pie!

Since I have a fair bit of time on my hands while I am looking for work I thought I would make something a bit more time consuming than usual. I wanted to make a pie because Quentin loves pastry, but this pie is also healthy because it has so many vegetables.

Inside the pie is "chicken" fillets made from soy protein, onion, celery, carrot, garlic, potato, sweetcorn, peas, mushrooms, vegetarian oxo cubes, soy sauce, some cheese sauce granules to thicken the sauce and water. I cooked the vegetables first for awhile before adding the stock etc and then cooked it for longer until the potato was tender.

Then I popped it in the pie dish with the puff pastry top and brushed the top with milk and fan baked it. I thought about making smaller pies with pastry on the bottom as well as the top but I don't have all my kitchen stuff here and I haven't bought any yet (apart from this pie dish) because I have to wait until I get a job!

This pie was big enough to be our dinner for two nights, I just popped it in the oven to reheat on the second night. The pastry was totally still good.

You could put other things, or less vegetables in the pie if you wanted, I just used basically every vegetable I had in the house because I had bought too many groceries. Because I chopped up all the veges really small and the sauce was quite creamy it would be good for kids, fussy eaters, or non-veges as well I reckon.

Next time I think I will try a mince and cheese pie, although I might wait until I get the individual pie dishes so Quentin can have more pastry.