Chicken Broccoli Pie Recipe

I am sure that almost every family has a favourite Chicken Pie Recipe. My Chicken Broccoli Pie Recipe was handed down by my great grandmother's best friend. I added the Feta cheese ingredient as an experiment ad it worked well so I kept it in. It's a Chicken Pie that's rich and full of flavour. A sure hit on a cold winters evening.

Chicken Broccoli Pie Recipe Ingredients

Pastry

• 750g cake flour
• 3ml salt
• 3ml paprika
• 250g (1/2 lb) butter, cubed
• 500ml (1/2 litre) sour cream

Chicken Pie Filling

• 500ml water
• 1 large onion
• 2 carrots peeled
• 1/2 celery stick, chopped
• 2 leeks, chopped
• 3 thyme sprigs
• 6 skinlesss chicken breasts
• 400g broccoli, cut into florets
• 125g butter
• 2 cloves of garlic, crushed
• 1 onion, chopped
• 75ml cake flour
• 450ml stock
• 100ml fresh cream
• 50ml fresh thyme, finely chopped
• 50ml fresh parsley, finely chopped
• salt and pepper to taste
• 200g feta cheese

Chicken Broccoli Pie Recipe Instructions

To make the pastry, pulse the flour, salt and paprika in a food processor. Add the butter and process until crumbly. Mix in the sour cream to form a dough. Lightly knead the pastry and chill for 20 minutes.

Make a stock with the water, onion, carrot, celery, leek and thyme. Poach the chicken breast in the stock liquid for about 15 minutes. Remove the chicken rom the stock, strain the liquid and cool, then slice the chicken.

Blanche the broccoli in boiling water for 3 minutes, drain and plunge into ice-cold water to cool. Drain and dry well.

Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the garlic and onion and fry until soft. Add the flour and mix to a smooth paste. Stir the stock into this and cook until thick. Stir in the cream, herbs and seasoning. Allow to cool.

Roll enough pastry to 3mm thick and line a 24cm pie tin. Mix together the chicken, broccoli and sauce and place this on the pastry in the pie dish. Sprinkle the feta over this and then roll out the remaining pastry to cover the filling. Crimp the edges to bind and let the pie stand for 20 minutes. Then bake at 190 C for about 45 minutes until the pastry is golden brown.

I think this Chicken Broccoli Pie Recipe goes very well with mash and maybe a gravy although you don't want to take away from the flavours of the pie filling.