Family Chicken Pies for Breakfast

Sick and tired of making breakfast daily!

It is always toast bread, sanwiches, oatmeal and ham bread!

Kids had been complaining of lack of appetite due to boring breakfast.

SO, I decided to prepare pies in advance, freeze them in bulk so that I could heat up in the microwave oven in the morning for them to have for breakfast.

Sure glad that I did made some Family Chicken Pies that my good old friend had shared with me.

She told me that kids and teens are more likely to love Chicken pies rather than breads because of the ingredients.

Yes, I agree that chicken meat with sweet corn kernels, covered with mashed potatoes were heavenly, just like those pies that are served in Western cuisine restaurants.

Some called it Baked Chicken Pie because it is baked in the oven.

Doesn’t matter, really.

As long as my kids stop complaining of boring breakfast and don’t skip off breakfast, I am willingly to make these pies in advance.

Next time, I am going to put them into individual pie cups for convenience.

They can even bring this Family Chicken Pie to school for lunch!

Family Chicken Pie Recipe

Ingredients

• 700g chicken meat-cubed
• 1 large onion, thickly sliced
• 200ml chicken stock
• Salt and pepper
• 25g butter-melted
• 175g buttom mushrooms from the can ( discard the water)
• 25g plain flour
• 225g sweetcorn kernels from the can (discard the water)
• 2 tsp chopped fresh parsley
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 4 tbsp thick cream
• 1kg potatoes
• 115ml hot milk ( powdered milk mixed with hot water)
• 85g grated cheese ( Cheddar)
• 25g potato crisps ( Tidbits)

How to prepare Family Chicken Pie:

• Cut the chicken meat into cubes. Remove any skins or fats.
• In a saucepan place the chicken cubes, onions, wine, chicken stock together.
• Heat up until low heat, allow to cook for 20min until chicken cubes turn tender.
• Drain the liquid and reserve it as the sauce.
• Bring a pan to heat. Melt the butter in the pan.
• Cut the button mushrooms into thin slices.Gently fry the mushrooms
• Stir in the flour, add in the reserved liquid, stir quickly so that the flour doesn’t burn.
• Stir in the cooked chicken mixture, sweetcorn kernels, chopped parsley, lemon juice and thick cream together.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• In a pot with water, bring to boil with peeled potatoes, cut into wedges.
• Boil until the potatoes had soften.
• Drain the cooked potatoes, transfer to a flat plate.
• Use the back of a fork to mash the cooked potatoes.
• Transfer the mashed potato to a bowl, add in milk and 1/2 cup cheese, mix well .
• Season the mashed potato with salt and pepper according to taste.
• In a heatproof dish, transfer the chicken mixture into the dish.
• Then cover the top with the mashed potato. Even the surface.
• Crush the potato crisps with your hand, sprinkle over the top and garnish with grated cheese after that.
• Bake in the oven for 20min until the top turned golden brown.
• Cut the Family pie into 6-8 portions, serve hot with side dishes such as vegetable salads and tasco.

Written by peachpurple

Photo taken by pixabay

Article checked by plagium

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