Sometimes when I want warm comfort food, I don’t want to spend a lot of time or energy making it. Chicken (or turkey) pot pie is a great dish on these occasions. It is one of those dishes that you can make totally from scratch that day, use some items you’ve pre-made, use mostly store-bought ready-made ingredients, or a combination of the three.
I use a combination of all three. I cooked a whole chicken in advance in my pressure cooker and stored the meat in my refrigerator for a couple of days (I freeze it if I’m not going to use it for a few days or weeks). However, I could have bought a rotisserie chicken at my local club or grocery store and used it instead.
I used store-bought packaged stock and biscuits. I could have still had a quick chicken pot pie if I had made my own stock and pie crust in advance and froze them.
When making this recipe you can easily intermix whatever from-scratch and store-bought ingredients that suit your needs and add ingredients that suit your taste.
Quick and Easy Chicken Pot Pie
Ingredients
- 3 Tbsp. butter (4 if using fresh onion)
- 1 med. onion, diced (or dried equivalent)
- 3 Tbsp. all-purpose flour or Wondra
- 1 qt. chicken stock, homemade or low sodium
- 2 – 3 c. cooked chicken, shredded or cubed
- 10 – 12 oz. frozen mixed vegetables
- 1 c. +/- sliced or small mushrooms, sauteed (optional)
- salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
- 1 tsp. herbs de Provence or equivalent thyme, rosemary and/or sage
- 1 can flaky biscuits
Instructions
- In a large heavy skillet, Dutch oven or other pot, melt butter over med. heat. Add onion (if using fresh) and cook until translucent and tender (do not brown. Then, stir/whisk in flour. Cook for an additional 2 to 3 minutes.
- Stir/whisk in stock.
- Add onion (if using dry), vegetables, and chicken.
- Bring close to a boil.
- Stir in some cornstarch slurry (cornstarch and water or potpie liquid mixed) to thicken, if chicken/veggie mixture is too thin. (Mixture will thicken more as it cooks in oven).
- Add herbs, salt, and pepper to taste.
- Cook until hot and thickened.
- Place mixture and a buttered baking dish.
- Top with biscuits that have been divided in half or thirds.
- Bake in preheated 400 degree F oven until biscuits are baked and browned, usually a couple of minutes longer than biscuit package directions.
