Showing posts with label Mini Chicken Pot Pie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mini Chicken Pot Pie. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Toddler Size Chicken Pot Pies

I don't have an actual recipe for you today, just a technique! 

I don't know about you but I often need a quick lunch for Gabby and sometimes a lunch that I can take for me when I go out with the girls, etc.  Being Gluten-Intolerant is sometimes a problem but if have something to take along then, well, it's no longer a problem.  I can just add a drink and take one of these little pies and my own salad and I'm good to go.


Here's the pan I used.  I also use these pans to make sandwich buns for myself. This would also make perfect individual sweet pies and I plan to try this tomorrow.

MAKE YOUR PIE CRUST

Use the pie crust recipe you use for any pie you make.  I refrigerate mine for at least an hour.

MAKE YOUR CHICKEN GRAVY MIX

You can use any left-over chicken you have, chicken you've picked off the bones when you make stock or just a couple of legs cooked up in some water (make broth for the recipe by adding a couple carlic cloves, some onion, the leaf ends of a couple stalks of celery).  Dice up the chicken.



I used some left-over peas and carrots and a bit of left over mashed potatoes that helped to thicken the broth.  I put some coconut oil in the bottom of a pan added some finely diced Broccoli stocks (if you are like me you want to use those stalks some how...you paid for them), 2 green onions that needed used up, and a diced cheek from a large red pepper although you can use green (a pepper has 4 cheeks, just slice one off and dice it reserving the rest).  You can also use corn but I tend to have issues with corn so I leave it alone.  Cook up the raw veggies until tender then add some flour of your choice whisked in some chicken broth and make the gravy.

Roll out the dough.  I used the top of a wide-mouth quart jar to cut out the pie crust and tops and it worked perfectly.  Add a couple tablespoons of gravy after you put the bottom in the pan and add the lid.  I baked these for about 20 minute at 350 degrees.

Serve them hot today, let them cool and put the remainder in the freezer for a quick lunch.

Gabby loved them!  She gobbled it up then she gave me one of those great big GABBY SMILES!