It has been awhile since I blogged about my cooking. Some days I don’t cook tasty enough dishes to blog about and some days I just assume the food will not taste good and didn’t take any photos of it.
Lately I have been very diligent at taking shots of my cooking and hopefully that will start me off blogging about what I cook again.
My favourite dish this week – Chicken Pie with Asparagus and Mashed Potatoes. My first attempt at making this type pie and it taste delicious!
This dish is not all that difficult to make. You first cook the pie filling, fill them into a remekin, top it off with filo sheets and bake!
Pie Filling
Olive oil
Yellow onion – chopped
Chicken meat – cubed
Mushroom – sliced
Peas
Carrots – diced
Heavy cream
Half & Half
White wine
Chicken bouillon
Pepper
Dried oregano
First some olive oil to fry the onion. Once the onion is soft, add chicken pieces. When the chicken starts to turn brown, add white wine.
Allow the wine to evaporated a little, add the mushroom, peas and carrots. Once the vegetable is half cooked, add heavy cream, half & half and chicken bouillon. I like my chicken pie creamy, so I have more heavy cream than half & half. Stir them well, add some black pepper and dried oregano and let it simmer for about 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and fill the remekins.
Cover the remekins with fillo dough, one sheet at a time. Melt some butter, have a brush at hand and get ready to cover the pie.
Cut fillo sheets into the size required. Place one sheet on the remekin and brush some butter on the sides to help seal the remekin and then on the rest of the sheet. I repeated this step 4 times for each pie but some recipes online has 8 sheets of fillo, so I guess it’s entirely up to you.
When ready, put the pies into a 375F oven and bake for 15 minutes or until crust is brown.
Asparagus
Asparagus
Butter
Pepper
Preparing the asparagus is very simple.
Boil some hot water in a pan, once water is boiling hot put the asparagus in. When the asparagus turn into a beautiful green colour, remove from water.
Place some butter in a bowl and put it into the microwave for about 45 seconds or until butter has melted. Add some pepper into the melted butter and pour it over asparagus.
This is easy to make, tasty and very filling. I like the idea of being able to prepare the filling ahead of time so that when Adam is home from work, I don’t have to spend too much time in the kitchen.
I am not a fan of puff pastry which is why I used fillo. I don’t really like the taste of the fillo and I would like to try making some sort of crust the next time I give this pie another try. If you have any suggestions for the crust, please let me know.
