Recipe: Delicious Chicken and tarragon pie

Luke Malone
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Recipe: Delicious Chicken and tarragon pie Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Chicken and tarragon pie. Stir in the chicken mixture, ham and tarragon. Add onion and cook until soft, then add mustard, sour cream and milk. Place on top of chicken mixture until completely covered.

Add the cream, tarragon and lemon zest, warm through.

Transfer pie mixture to a bowl and cool in the fridge.

Back in the same frypan or in an oven safe dish, add pie mixture then top with the pastry.

You can cook Chicken and tarragon pie using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken and tarragon pie

  1. You need of puff pastry.

  2. You need of butter.

  3. It’s of garlic, finely sliced.

  4. You need of banana shallot.

  5. It’s of chicken breasts, 1cm diced.

  6. It’s of mixed mushrooms, chanterelle, girolles and chestnut.

  7. Prepare of madeira.

  8. It’s of chicken stock.

  9. Prepare of tarragon.

  10. Prepare of double cream.

  11. You need of egg yoke.

My mom always made great pot pies when I was growing up. . . every roast dinner almost guaranteed a pot pie made from the leftovers within a day or two.

Melt the butter with the oil in a large frying pan over a low heat, then add the onion and the crushed garlic.

Tarragon has a slightly licorice-like flavor, and fresh tarragon can be a little hard to find.

Using premade pie crust, gravy mix, and a store-bought rotisserie chicken cuts a lot of steps from this comforting chicken pot pie.

Chicken and tarragon pie instructions

  1. Heat big frying pan and add butter untill foaming..

  2. Add shallot and garlic, fry for several minutes..

  3. Add chicken and fry till coloured all over..

  4. Add mushrooms and fry on high for 3 minutes, or until soft..

  5. Add madeira and flambe..

  6. Add chicken stock and simmer, add tarragon and cream and simmer for 5 minutes..

  7. Season and taste..

  8. Transfer to a pie dish and cover with puff pastry, brush with egg yolk..

  9. Cook in oven, gas mark 6 for 20 minutes..

Stir in the mustard and tarragon.

Mix the ham and tarragon into the chicken filling, then spoon this into the dish.

Dampen the top of the pastry strip and place the pastry round on top.

Trim the edges and press down gently.

This delicious chicken and tarragon plate pie with baby carrots uses half-fat crème fraîche instead of cream for a lighter take on a family favourite.