How to Prepare Perfect Creamy Chicken, Ham and Leek Pie

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook creamy chicken, ham and leek pie using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Chicken, Ham and Leek Pie:

1. Prepare Filling
2. Prepare 2 Large chicken breasts
3. Prepare 2 Leeks, washed and sliced
4. Get 50 grams Plain flour
5. Prepare 450 ml Chicken stock
6. Make ready 2 garlic cloves, crushed and chopped
7. Take 150 ml Double cream
8. Get 200 ml Milk
9. Take 150 grams Carved ham
10. Get 3 tbsp White wine
11. Make ready 1 Salt, to taste
12. Get 1 Pepper, to taste
13. Take 25 grams Butter, for frying the leeks
14. Get 50 grams Butter
15. Make ready Pastry
16. Make ready 350 grams Plain flour
17. Get 200 grams Butter or Lard
18. Take 1 Large egg, beaten
19. Make ready 1 Egg, beaten, to glaze

Make our comforting chicken and leek pie with a flaky puff pastry crust. Bursting with seasonal flavours, this easy pie recipe is perfect for entertaining. Heat the butter and oil in a large frying pan and fry the bacon until crisp. This creamy mushroom chicken recipe combines my monthly cravings to combine more and more seasonal ingredients—like January's ombre colored leeks and earthy brown mushrooms—into our meals with one of the ingredients I most often am asked for more cooking options for.

Steps to make Creamy Chicken, Ham and Leek Pie:

1. For the pastry, in a bowl, mix together the flour and butter until fine breadcrumbs are formed.
2. Add the egg and mix until a ball of dough is formed. Wrap in clingfilm and place in the fridge to cool.
3. In a pan, add the chicken stock and bring to a boil. Add the chicken breasts and reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes.
4. In a separate pan, melt 25g of the butter and add the sliced leeks. On a low heat, fry for 2 minutes, then add the garlic and cook a further 1 minute. Tip into a bowl and put aside.
5. Remove the chicken breasts from the stock pan and put on a plate. Pour 200ml of stock into a jug and put to one side.
6. In a pan, melt the remaining 50g butter. Once melted, add 50g of flour and stir constantly. This will form small, dough like balls. Add the milk slowly, stirring well between additions. Slowly add the 200ml stock and wine and cook on low heat for 3 minutes, stirring. Remove from heat and stir in the cream. Once done, place in a bowl and cover the surface with cling film to prevent a skin forming.
7. Preheat the oven to 200c/180c Fan/Gas 6. Remove the pastry from the fridge and split into 2 pieces. On a lightly floured surface, roll out so that the pastry is a few cm bigger than the pie dish. Place in the dish and push down to remove any airbubbles.
8. Chop the chicken into small chunks and add to the leeks. Stir in the sauce and add salt and pepper to taste. Place the mixture into the pie dish. Roll out the second portion of pastry. Beat an egg and brush around the pie edge. Place the pastry pie lid on top and slice carefully around the edge to remove any excess. Pinch around the edge and glaze with egg wash. Pierce a hole in the centre of the pie with a small knife.
9. Cook in the centre of the oven for 35-40 minutes. Enjoy!

Heat the butter and oil in a large frying pan and fry the bacon until crisp. This creamy mushroom chicken recipe combines my monthly cravings to combine more and more seasonal ingredients—like January's ombre colored leeks and earthy brown mushrooms—into our meals with one of the ingredients I most often am asked for more cooking options for. Chicken and leek pie that is creamy, flaky and filling all in one! Use shortcrust or homemade pastry, if preferred. This pie freezes really well, too.

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