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Chicken Pot Pie

By:Nagi
Published:22 Oct '18Updated:13 Mar '22
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Everybody will fall in love with this easy Chicken Pot Pie!! With a creamy chicken and vegetable filling lightly infused with herbs, this Chicken Pot Pie made with puff pastry lids can be served in individual pots or made as one big pie.

This Chicken Pot Pie recipe is made by poaching uncooked chicken in stock and milk which is then used as the broth for the creamy filling. Or speed things up by using cooked chicken!

Close up of Chicken Pot Pie in a ramekin with puff pastry topping, made from scratch with uncooked chicken.

Chicken Pot Pie

Chicken Pot Pie was a staple in my 20’s. When I was an ambitious lass in the corporate world juggling university in the evenings, Chicken Pot Pie was a handy one-dish freezer-friendly meal that I could cram loads of extra veggies into.

So while fellow uni students were living on instant ramen and cheap sausages, I was making Chicken Pot Pie.

How very homely of me…. Some might even say daggy! 😂

I like to make Chicken Pot Pie in POTS – for maximum pastry to filling ratio!

Side shot of Chicken Pot Pie in pots with puff pastry lids

What goes in Chicken Pot Pie

Here’s what goes in Chicken Pot Pie. Nothing unusual here – but just a couple of comments on some of the ingredients:

  • Stock powder – this adds more flavour in the creamy white sauce. I like to use Vegeta which is a vegetable stock powder, but any stock powder will do – vegetable or chicken;

  • Parmesan adds umami (which means savouriness and depth of flavour) rather than cheesiness into the sauce. If you don’t have parmesan, use about 1 1/2 cups of your favourite cheese (cheddar, Colby, Monterey Jack, tasty); and

  • Peas are missing! 🙂

Chicken Pot Pie ingredients, made using uncooked chicken

There’s no definitive way to make Chicken Pot Pie. While some choose to make it like a traditional pie with a pastry base and shortcrust topping in a pie dish, I have always – and will always – make Chicken Pot Pies in POTS with puff pastry lids.

Let me emphasise that in case you missed it – I make Chicken POT Pie in POTS. 😜

Truthfully though, the way I make it has nothing to do with the name. I make it in pots because it’s quicker and easier, and I love draping the pots generously with puff pastry so that the golden flaky lid is fitted tightly on top and around the pots, rather than just a round piece floating on top.

How to make Chicken Pot Pie

There’s nothing really ground breaking in this Chicken Pot Pie recipe, but there are two little things I do that is a bit different to the usual:

  1. Poach chicken and use poaching liquid to make the creamy filling. Most recipes bake the chicken. I prefer poaching so I can use the poaching liquid which becomes infused with extra flavour from the chicken; and

  2. Parmesan in the creamy filling. Not for parmesan or cheesy flavour, for seasoning. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that I use parmesan cheese regularly in recipes. It’s because it adds salt as well as umami to recipes, just giving dishes an extra something-something that makes it so good!

How to make Chicken Pot Pie Filling using uncooked chicken

Tips for making Chicken Pot Pie

This is a pretty straight forward recipe, especially when made you make individual Chicken Pot Pies like I’ve done. I only have 2 tips to ensure you nail The Pot every single time:

  • Thicken filling to desired consistency before putting it in the pots. The sauce won’t thicken at all once the lid is on. So keep cooking until the sauce is a nice creamy consistency and not watery. Nobody likes a watery pie filling!

  • Cool filling before topping with puff pastry. Hot filling = melts butter in pastry that creates layers = less puff.

How to make Chicken Pot Pie

That moment with this Chicken Pot Pie comes out of the oven, all golden and puffed up, and you know that under that buttery lid the creamy filling is bubbling away with the tender chicken and the vegetables and it just smells so amazing…

….and THEN you crack through that almost impossibly flaky crispy puff pastry to reveal the piping hot creamy filling, and you blow furiously on it, trying to cool it down as quickly as you can so you can shovel a huge spoonful in your mouth without giving yourself 2nd degree burns….

I shouldn’t even joke about that. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve burned my mouth with Chicken Pot Pie. 😂 – Nagi x


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Chicken Pot Pie

Author: Nagi
Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 1 hr
Total: 1 hr 15 mins
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4.95 from 100 votes
Servings4 – 6 people
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Recipe video above. Everybody’s favourite Chicken Pot Pie! A creamy chicken and vegetable filling with a hint of thyme, topped with puff pastry. The smell when this is baking is SO GOOD! Makes 4 large, 6 medium or 1 large pie. Brilliant freezer standby meal.

Ingredients

Chicken & broth:

  • 600 g/1.2lb chicken breast (or boneless thighs)
  • 2 cups milk , any fat % (Note 1)
  • 1 cup chicken broth (stock)
  • 2 tsp chicken or vegetable stock powder (Note 2)
  • 2 sprigs thyme , optional

Chicken Pot Pie:

  • 1 large onion , chopped
  • 2 large carrots (3 small). chopped
  • 3 celery ribs , chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves , minced
  • 50g / 3 tbsp butter
  • 1 tsp dried thyme
  • 1/3 cup white wine (sub more chicken stock)
  • 1/3 cup flour
  • 1/2 cup grated parmesan
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1 cup frozen peas , no need to thaw
  • 2 sheets puff pastry (enough to cover pots, with drape)
  • 1 egg , lightly whisked

Instructions

Chicken:

  • Place milk, broth and stock powder in a large saucepan. Bring to a very gentle simmer over medium heat, add chicken and thyme.
  • Place lid on, simmer gently on medium low for 15 minutes (do not boil, can make milk split).
  • Remove chicken, shred or dice (don’t worry if inside a bit uncooked). Cover pot and set poaching liquid aside.

Chicken Pot Pie:

  • Melt butter in a large pot over medium high heat. Add garlic and onion, cook for 2 minutes. Add thyme, carrot and celery, cook for 3 minutes or until carrot is softened.
  • Add wine. Stir, scraping the bottom of the pot, and cook for 1 1/2 minutes or until wine is mostly evaporated.
  • Add flour and stir for 1 minute.
  • Add about half the reserved poaching liquid and stir until all flour is incorporated – it will be a thick sludge.
  • Add remaining milk broth, parmesan, pepper. Stir.
  • Add chicken and peas, stir.
  • Once mixture is heated (you’ll see steam), cook for 3 minutes to thicken the sauce, stirring regularly. (Note 3)
  • Remove from heat. Spoon into oven proof pots – 4 large or 6 small (Note 4). Cool in fridge at least 30 minutes. (Note 5)

Assembly & Baking:

  • Meanwhile, remove puff pastry from freezer to partially thaw. Then use a bowl as a guide to cut rounds from the pastry about 2.5cm / 1″ wider (all the way around) than the pots – be generous!
  • Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
  • Brush edge of pots with egg. Top with puff pastry, folding down the edges.
  • Brush pastry with egg. Cut a 2cm / 2/3″ slide in the middle with a small knife.
  • Bake 35 – 40 minutes until deep golden.
  • Serve immediately!

Recipe Notes:

1. Cream option – if you’d like to make it even richer, reduce milk by up to 3/4 cup and swap for cream. But DO NOT ADD when poaching chicken, stir it in when the poaching liquid is added into the pot after adding flour.
2. Stock powder – I like Vegeta which is a vegetable stock powder. Or use 2 x chicken bouillon cubes, crumbled.
3. Sauce thickness – whatever the sauce thickness at this stage is what it will be when the pies comes out of the oven.
4. Pot Sizes – Use 4 large about 2 cups / 500 ml / 16 oz capacity (about 11 – 12 cm wide) OR 5 to 6 smaller ones about 375ml / 1.5 cups / 12 – 13 oz (~10cm wide). Or one large pie dish / skillet – 8 cups / 2 L / 2 quarts.
5. Cool Filling  – hot filling will melt the butter in the puff pastry dough, resulting in less puffing. As long as the surface of the pie filling is cool(-ish), that’s good enough.
6. Pie Base – A number of readers have asked how to make this using puff pastry as a pie base. Here’s how: Spray pots with oil or grease with butter. Line pots with puff pastry with excess to drape over the edge, then place in oven at 180C/350F. After 10 minutes or whenever the partially cooked base starts to puff up, just push it back down. Repeat once more or as required to stop the puffing (it doesn’t take much). Then once the pastry is golden, remove from oven and let cool. Fill with COOLED filling. Brush egg across the pastry rim then top with puff pastry lid. Bake per recipe, turn out of pots. 
7. STORAGE: To freeze or refrigerate uncooked, cool filling completely. Then top with pastry, egg wash, cut slit. Freeze 3 months or refrigerate up to 2 days. Thaw overnight (if frozen) then bake per recipe. Note: Thawed then refrozen puff pastry as well as thawed then refrigerated puff pastry does not puff up quite as much but the difference isn’t significant.
Cooked Chicken Pot Pies will keep in the fridge for up to 4 days. Best reheated in the oven covered in foil so the pastry can crisp up slightly, 20 minutes at 180C/350F.
8. Nutrition per serving.

Nutrition Information:

Calories: 588cal (29%)Carbohydrates: 36g (12%)Protein: 47g (94%)Fat: 26g (40%)Saturated Fat: 11g (69%)Cholesterol: 144mg (48%)Sodium: 1191mg (52%)Potassium: 1152mg (33%)Fiber: 4g (17%)Sugar: 12g (13%)Vitamin A: 6245IU (125%)Vitamin C: 22.4mg (27%)Calcium: 344mg (34%)Iron: 2.9mg (16%)
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341 Comments

  1. Helen says

    January 12, 2023 at 5:18 pm

    5 stars
    Wow wow wow!!!! These pies were amazing!!! I made them last night the whole family loved them!!! I’d like to do them when friends come round. I need to make 8 pies so can i just double the recipe and do exactly the same Nagi? Will the timing be the same? Thank you for another fabulous recipe!!!😋😄

    Reply
  2. Lauren Bernard says

    December 8, 2022 at 11:33 pm

    Hi Nagi, could I use the shortcrust base/puff pastry top combo for this, like in your Family Meat Pie? Looking forward to trying it out, my family loves your recipes

    Reply
  3. Michelle says

    December 2, 2022 at 6:37 pm

    Obsessed! These are so yum. I stockpile mini versions in the freezer for a quick meal

    Reply
  4. Montanna says

    November 27, 2022 at 11:54 pm

    5 stars
    Omg what an adventure!! First of all, recipe is so easy to follow and the result would have been absolutely amazing had I of paid attention…
    – I got carried away looking in the new Dinner book for tomorrow nights tea when I was poaching the chicken therefore I ended up boiling it and the milk split!! When I realised, the chicken was cooked but milk curdle was all up the pot! Chucked out the broth but saved the chicken.
    – Made new broth in an absolute panic but ended up putting TWO TABLESPOONS of vegetable stock powder in it. Ruined. Didn’t realise until I pulled it out of the oven and wondered why it tasted so dang salty/weird. Looked at the bench and realised my tablespoon was covered in stock rather than teaspoon 😂😂
    Note to self: only focus on tonight’s dinner rather looking ahead to tomorrow nights…. 😂
    Can’t wait to remake it this week!

    Reply
    • Montanna says

      December 15, 2022 at 8:17 pm

      5 stars
      I made it again!!! It’s perfect!!

      Reply
  5. Tamika Taylor says

    November 22, 2022 at 6:36 pm

    Hi there. Just wondering if you have changed this recipe ? I don’t remember it having the cheese, wine and so much milk? Unless I’m confusing with a different recipe

    Reply
  6. Holly says

    October 11, 2022 at 9:35 pm

    5 stars
    Hi Nagi. First time I made a pie and it was delicious. I used home made stock and the sweetness came through so well. Also added in some leek. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

    Reply
  7. Kylie says

    September 14, 2022 at 6:59 am

    Can I use corn flour instead of regular flour for GF option?

    Reply
  8. Mel B says

    September 10, 2022 at 4:25 pm

    Another fantastic recipe Nagi!

    I just made a batch of these and followed your recipe to the letter with only 1 exception – being a pastry lover and a little bit lazy 😂 I liked the idea of lining the pie dishes with pastry and pre baking the base before adding the filling, but I couldn’t be bothered. (I’m sure they’re awesome made this way though!)

    Instead of doing that I made a double lid – cut two pieces of pastry for each lid, stick them together with egg wash and then pop them on. Pastry and pot pie HEAVEN!!!!

    Reply
  9. Denise says

    July 20, 2022 at 10:58 am

    Hi Nagi
    Just wondering what type of wine & red wine you use as mine the other day was off in the cupboard and my dish wasn’t the same without the wine
    Cheers Denise

    Reply
  10. Mel says

    June 27, 2022 at 3:00 pm

    Hi Nagi! What brand of ramekin did you use for this recipe? I’m having a hard time finding one that’ll hold a hearty serve, and that is neither too shallow nor deep (also a fan of perfect pastry-to-filling ratio!)

    Thanks 🙂

    Reply
    • Yvonne Quilenderino says

      July 21, 2022 at 9:08 am

      CorningWare has some. Just research 16oz ceramic baking cups/pots/dish.

      Reply
  11. Julie says

    June 16, 2022 at 6:26 pm

    4 stars
    This chicken pot pie was very nice and is on the “have again” list. I altered it a little by topping it with mashed potatoes and dotted it with butter before I put it in the oven. I’ve tried quite a few recipes on this site and have been thrilled with the results. Hands down my favourite site for recipes.

    Reply
  12. Cath says

    June 10, 2022 at 6:55 pm

    This recipe is an absolute winner!!!
    I find it hard to feed my 85yr old mum who is extremely fussy with food now, but she ate every bite.
    Only change I made was using a different dish rather than a ramekin that was more like an everyday pie. (Shallower).
    Thankyou!!

    Reply
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