Chicken Pot Pie Again

This is an alternative town earlier recipe for chicken pot pie. In recipe below, the pie crust takes front and center. The crust is very high fibre mixture using whole grain flour and ground oatmeal cereal. 

   

The High Fibre Pastry

This pastry is half whole grain flour and half oatmeal breakfast cereal. The whole wheat flour is ground red wheat and the oatmeal was ground oatmeal breakfast cereal. The flour and oatmeal was placed in a mixer and chicken broth was added and mixed until we had dough. The dough was rolled by hand until it was about 1/4 inch thick This is about twice as thick as normal pie pastry. 

The Pie Filling

Ingredients

3 cups chopped grilled chicken

2 cups chopped carrots

2 cups celery

2 cups green peas

2 cups chopped onions

1 cup ham slices chopped into 1 inch squares 

3 cups chicken broth

2 cups of milk

1 can condensed chicken soup 

2 cups dried potato flakes

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon celery seed

1 teaspoon Italian spices

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon ginger powder

1/4 cup olive oil

Directions

Place the olive oil in the saucepan or Dutch Oven, add the chicken and ham and use medium heat to brown mixture. When the chicken starts to brown add the onion and saute the mixture. 

Add the rest of the ingredients, except for the potato flakes, and simmer for 40 minutes

Use a pot as a cutter to prepare the pastry for each pot. The pots I use are rather large and hold three cups of the pie mixture.

Place the mixture in the pots and set the pastry on top. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and bake for 40 minutes. When the pastry is brown, remove. With a sharp knife cut the pastry into quarters and serve.

The combination of mixture ingredients and the high fibre crust makes a very healthy and delicious complete meal.

You have an option. Before you add the potato flakes you half the mixture and add one cup of potato flakes to one half and use the rather thick mixture for the pot pies. The other half could be served at a later date as an excellent chick soup.