Started by Jus-Rol in 2007, this is one of those national days I can totally get behind. However, I do have a bone to pick with you Jus-Rol. Why the heck do you only sell pastry sheets in rectangles? Rectangles that are slightly too small for a regular pie dish. Meaning that : a. I have to Frankenstein two sheets together which means that: b. I have a seam running down the middle of my pie and: c: I have to trim loads of pastry off the edges which results in: d. Pastry getting thrown away or even worse: e: I cook the shreds of pastry just so Chris and I can greedily stand and eat it in the kitchen! If Dr Oetker can make round, ready-rolled icing for cakes, you can surely make round ready-rolled puff pastry for pies (although I do like square/rectangular pies too. So don’t stop doing the regular stuff). Okay, rant over. So I’m using 3 sheets of pastry for this pie. One-and-a-half for the base of the pie (Chris feels short-changed if my pie only has a pastry lid) and one-and-a-half for the top of my pie. The filling is a lovely creamy chicken and mushroom filling with bacon. Not too much sauce - just enough that it tastes saucy, without the whole thing collapsing when you try to serve it up. First we blind bake the pastry base. Whilst that’s baking we seal chicken pieces in a pan, then remove from the pan and soften some onions in butter. Add flour, salt, pepper, and thyme and stir to coat the onions. Add in stock a little at a time whilst stirring, then stir in milk and let the sauce thicken whilst stirring often: Next we slice up mushrooms and add them into the pan with the sealed chicken and some cooked bacon. Stir in a squeeze of lemon juice to balance the flavours, and spoon the chicken mixture out into the baked pie shell. Brush the edges with egg wash and top with pastry, then egg wash the top and pierce a couple of holes to let steam escape: Cook for about 25 minutes until golden brown: One of the things I love about this pie is that no-one else in my house likes mushrooms. So as we’re sitting around the table, I get all the mushrooms transferred to my plate. I did give them the option of having something else for tea (my pie!). But it’s pie. No-one turns down pie in my house. Like this recipe?
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