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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Chicken pie

This is my mom's recipe, it is a little bit complicated and it takes a while to cook. but it totally worth it. I haven't met a person who didn't like it yet(hope that you will not be that person ;)). So sacrifice your time and you wouldn't regret it. It is really good with goose or any other fat bird.
Note: when you cut pie, cut the upper part(lid) horizontally, so lower part will be like a plate, otherwise all sauce will spread on the plate.


Ingredients:


Dough:
1.5 cup water
3 tbsp plain yogurt(optional)
2 tbsp oil
2.5 tsp salt
5 1/3 cups flour
2.5 tsp yeast

Filling:
4 chicken drums(or any other parts with fat)
4 medium potatoes
4-5 bay leaves
2 medium onion
0.5 can of peas(200 ml)(optional)
salt
pepper

Preparation:
  1. Place all the dough ingredients in order they are listed into a bread maker and choose dough cycle.
  2. Meanwhile prepare filling. Fry onions in excess oil till they get golden color. Cut chicken into 4-5 cm pieces and put them in the bowl, put the bones too. Cut potatoes into semicircles (~1cm width), mix with chicken, add bay leaves, peas, onion with oil, salt, pepper and other spices if you like.
  3. Divide dough into 2 pieces(2/3 of dough for one piece and 1/3 for another) flatten dough till its 1 cm thick and put it into baking dish covering all the wall of the dish, so ~ 2-3 cm of sough come out of the dish. Place filling and 2 tbsp of water inside, open up another dough and cover the dish. Stick ends of 2 pastries together, otherwise it will leak.
  4. Put in in the oven preheated at 220C and bake for 15 minutes. After that decrease temperature to 180C and bake for ~ 1.5 hours. make sure that the top doesn't burn but also do not remove it too early because potatoes will be undercooked. The yummiest part is the bread underneath :)
PS: if all the filling didn't fit into the pastry, place leftovers in refrigerator and when you'll be done with chicken pie mix it with mayonnaise(yes, mayonnaise ;)) and bake it in oven for 30 mins at 180C. Or bake it right away and you'll have 2 different meals :)
Enjoy!

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