Pot Pies!

[nodmicks]

Polly , I practically drooled reading about your making homemade pot pies. It is one of the foods I have missed the most since being told I couldnt have gluten years ago. I even drool over the frozen ones at the grocery. I'd say if you were closer I'd love to come help but I would drool and mess up your pie

[pollypurebred39]

I would love to have your recipe. I have never made pot pie. I am a little nervous because it sounds difficult to do!

This is my FAVORITE pot pie when I'm making just one recipe. I hope you like it as much as I do. You can use a rotisserie chicken, and a ready crust. It does not have to be ALL homemade. Might take the difficult out of your first time.



About This Recipe
"I watched Paula Deen and her guest, Rodney Henry, make this and it looked soooo good! Plus they had such a good time making it. LOL I know there are quite a few good chicken pot pie recipes out there, but when I have the time, I love to roast this chicken and make this home-made pie crust. Otherwise, using a store-bought chicken and pie crust works just fine. From Food Network. Hope you enjoy! UPDATE: I meant to correct the measurements of the crust, I have done so now. Sorry for this mishap."


Ingredients
3 whole carrots, peeled and chopped
2 vidalia onions, quartered
1 (3 lb) whole chickens
1/8 cup kosher salt, can use more if needed
fresh ground black pepper
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 sprigs fresh rosemary
2 sprigs fresh sage
Filling
1 cup sliced carrots
4 red potatoes, sliced thin
3/4 cup corn
1/2 cup peas
2 1/2 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
Crust
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface
1/2 tablespoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/2 cups vegetable shortening
Page 2 of 3Savory Chicken Pot Pie Paula Deen (cont.)
Ingredients
1/2 cup ice cold water
1/2 cup butter, melted
Directions
For the chicken:.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.



Stuff onions and carrots into the cavity of the chicken. Rub salt, black pepper and butter into skin of chicken. Place rosemary sprigs under the skin and place into a roasting pan. Place sage on top of chicken and roast for 1 1/2 hours.
Remove the chicken from the oven. Transfer to a cutting board and allow to cool.
For the filling:.
Place carrots and potatoes on sheet pan and season with salt and pepper. Place into the preheated oven and roast until caramelized.
When chicken has cooled, discard the onions, carrots, sage and rosemary.
Pull the chicken meat off the bones and cut into 1/2-inch pieces.
Place into a large bowl with chicken juice from roasting pan along with potatoes, carrots, peas, corn, heavy cream and flour.
Mix together well. *Cook's Note: Filling will be thick.
For the crust:.
Knead all ingredients together in a large bowl, slowly adding the water.
Divide into 2 pieces and roll out on a lightly floured work surface. One will be the bottom crust, the other the top.
Place 1 piece of dough into the bottom of a 9-inch pie dish. Add filling and top with the other piece of dough.
Crimp the edges together with a spoon or a fork.
Brush the top crust with melted butter and bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes.

[oheoh's momma]

Yummy and I would come to pot pie making party and bring a bottle of wine ... to just help talk and laugh. doesn't that sound like a fun day...

[tripleb]

Love pot pies!! Getting really hungry now!

[pollypurebred39]

Polly , I practically drooled reading about your making homemade pot pies. It is one of the foods I have missed the most since being told I couldnt have gluten years ago. I even drool over the frozen ones at the grocery. I'd say if you were closer I'd love to come help but I would drool and mess up your pie

Oh I missed your post before Sorry.

My youngest is GF too. But I make sure he gets his pot pie fix. I make this recipe, but I use frozen GF pie crusts from the health food store, and corn starch to thicken. Yes, it's expensive, but if you only make them every once in awhile.....Go ahead, make one.

[bunnys]

Good Lord that Paula Deen recipe looks like a lot of work.

I make a vegetarian chik'n pot pie with Morningstar Farms Chik'n Strips and it is a lot of work. The only thing I don't prep is the frozen peas and I do make the pastry crust.

I can't IMAGINE how much work it would be to make 15 one day and God knows how many more of another flavor the next day.

Lonely or not, it sounds GRUELING.

[nodmicks]

Oh I missed your post before Sorry.

My youngest is GF too. But I make sure he gets his pot pie fix. I make this recipe, but I use frozen GF pie crusts from the health food store, and corn starch to thicken. Yes, it's expensive, but if you only make them every once in awhile.....Go ahead, make one.

No need to be sorry There is a such thing as GF pie crust????? I shall have to investigate!!!!!!!!!! Now I am drooling more

[pollypurebred39]

Oh My Gosh, YES! My youngest loves them. They have several different kinds at our health food store. Can be a be temperamental, so I carry them out of the store in my hand, no bag.

We even have GF free pies. Huge ones filled with apples, or cherries. Not that fake pie filling in a can stuff. He loves those. Surprisingly cheap for GF, only $7. But still, it needs to be an occasion for one of those.

[nodmicks]

I shall have to do more checking it sounds like! I have never looked for GF at the health food store. The grocery stores choices are few and very expensive. I would totally pay for a pie crust once in a while though. I don't miss bread. I can make GF cookies but I do miss pie crust. Thanks so much for sharing Polly!

[pollypurebred39]

Oh my dear, you should see what's out there. Before we did frugal grocery shopping we bought DS2 tons of stuff every week.

They have doughnuts, soft pretzels, fruit pies, cakes, pizzas, dumplings, frozen dinners, pitas, tortillas, hoagie rolls, loaves of bread, breakfast muffins, hot dog rolls, ravioli, and on and on. Every once in a blue moon he still gets something, and the freezer case just has more and more selection every time we go. You never know, there may be something you'd really like every once in awhile. It's good to treat yourself every now and then.

[cmu]

I LOVE CHICKEN POT PIES! I have a "Comfort Foods" cookbook and I combined 2 different recipes into 1, the result was a Chicken Pot Pie that has a thick broth and tastes just like KFC's Chicken Pot Pie....hmmm, might have to make one this weekend ......... hmmm ..... takes a while to make it, better make it two...wonder how well they freeze?

[nodmicks]

Yes it very well may Polly!! I have never looked at the bigger stores. Our local grocery is teeny tiny and has zippo. I'm pretty happy GF 99% of the time but on occasion I want that stuff.

[wunsagin]

last night I was reading an article about individual savory pies using LO's, she topped them with mashed potatoes, pie crust, biscuits or corn bread, cover and froze and when she had enough they would have 'pie' night.

[Aqua Blue]

I believe the blog, Mennonite girls can cook has a recipe for gluten free pie crust. I haven't tried that one, but other gf recipes have been good.

[bookwormpeg]

I want to know what time they will be ready to eat....got to give me time to get there