Description
What’s better than a chicken pot pie? A chicken pot pie topped with a flaky puff pastry!
Ingredients
- 1 (17.5 ounce) package frozen puff pastry, thawed
- ⅓ cup butter
- ½ medium onion, chopped
- 1 stalk celery, sliced
- ⅓ cup flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ teaspoon celery seed
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 pound cooked chicken breast, cubed
- 1 (12 ounce) package frozen mixed vegetables
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
- Roll out 1 sheet of puff pastry into an 11-inch square. Press into a 9-inch pie dish
- cut off extra pastry
- and prick thoroughly with a fork. Press a sheet of aluminum foil right onto pastry.
- Bake in the preheated oven until pastry is puffed up and golden browned
- about 25 minutes. Remove from oven
- remove foil
- and set aside.
- Meanwhile
- melt better in a skillet over medium-low heat and cook onions and celery until soft and translucent
- about 5 minutes. Add flour
- salt
- pepper
- and celery seed. Cook and stir until mixture is paste-like.
- Slowly add milk to the skillet while stirring constantly
- about 5 minutes. Continue stirring and slowly add broth a little at a time. Cook until thickened
- 7 to 10 minutes
- constantly stirring. Add chicken and frozen vegetables. Cook until vegetables are thawed
- 3 to 5 minutes.
- Pour chicken mixture into pre-baked puff pastry shell. Roll out a second sheet of pastry into an 11-inch square and place on top of chicken mixture. Cut off extra pastry and crimp edges.
- Bake in the preheated oven until pastry is lightly browned
- 45 to 50 minutes.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
Servings: 8