CHICKEN, MUSHROOM AND BACON PIE
 NIGELLA
Photograph by Lis Parsons
INGREDIENTS

3 rashers streaky bacon, cut or scissored into 2.5cm strips
1 teaspoon garlic oil
125g chestnut mushrooms, sliced into 5mm pieces
250g chicken thigh fillets cut into 2.5cm pieces
25g flour
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 x 15ml tablespoon butter
300ml hot chicken stock
1 x 15ml tablespoon Marsala
1 x 375g (23 x 40cm) sheet all-butter ready-rolled puff pastry
Serving Size : Serves 2
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METHOD

1.Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7. In a heavy-based frying pan, fry the bacon strips in the oil until beginning to crisp, then add the sliced mushrooms and soften them in the pan with the bacon.
2.Turn the chicken strips in the flour and thyme (you could toss them about in a freezer bag), and then melt the butter in the bacon-and-mushroom pan before adding the floury chicken and all the flour left in the bag. Stir around with the bacon and mushrooms until the chicken begins to colour.
3.Pour in the hot stock and Marsala, stirring to form a sauce, and let this bubble away for about 5 minutes.
4.Take two 300ml pie-pots (if yours are deeper, don’t worry, there will simply be more space between contents and puff pastry top) and make a pastry rim for each one – by this I mean an approx. 1cm strip curled around the top of each pot. Dampen the edges with a little water to make the pastry stick.
5.Cut a circle bigger than the top of each pie-pot for the lid, and then divide the chicken filling between the two pots.
6.Dampen the rim of the pastry again and then pop on the lid of each pie, sealing the edges with your fingers or the underneath of the prongs of a fork.
7.Cook the pies for about 20 minutes turning them around halfway through cooking. Once cooked, they should have puffed up magnificently.



REVIEWS

So so so nice! Love this pot pie!

ilana78

This is such a quick and easy recipe, and tastes fabulous!

cremebrulee

This is fantastic- such an easy way to make a gorgeous sauce and easy to scale up and make a larger pie to feed several people-brilliant!

PaulaS

Best home made pot pie EVER!

Laluz

So easy and so very yummy... the kids loved the fact that they got their own little dish to themselves!!

emj23

Its Friday night and I'm having this pie. Its delicious. Great with mashed potato. Make sure you take the lid off and air the pie as it will burn your mouth it is so hot. Be warned!

Antonietta

This is the dinner my little boy will remember when he is grown and in need of some comfort food. I produce it just the way it looks in the picture (puffed, golden, footed bowl) but use large cookie cutters for various tops. Thank you, Nigella.

Lindberg

What's marsala? What can I use instead if it's not available for me?

reemos

Love the pie. Any idea where to get the pie pot??

annieperks

Simply delicious! Thank you Nigella. x

mimi_75

I'm making the pie tonight. I'm sure that they're going to taste delicious. I can't wait to try it, lol : )

nachos

I saw it on Nigella Express instant calmer and I wanted to eat it right away!!

leofeast

I make a vegetarian version of this with quorn pieces and bacon. Probably sounds mental to a carnivore but it truly was good.

Angiefelangie

This pie is delicious comfort food :-) I didn't have chicken so I used pork instead. Can't wait to make it again. I did'nt have individual pots, which probably will improve the presentation, but the flavour was fantastic. Thank you Nigella

betzy

Absolutely delicious and easy to make. I do double all the ingredients (except the pastry) to make it enough for two for dinner.

joost

Delicious cold winter supper. First made this during a typical Canadian snow storm and now it is the first thing I think of at the first sign of snow

Liz1993
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