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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Homemade Chicken Pot Pie!

Crust Ingredients
2 1/4 cups flour
2/3 cups shortening
1 tsp. seasoning salt
10 tbs. cold water

Filling Ingredients
3 chicken drumsticks ( or the equivalent of, can even use leftover chicken or turkey)
3 bouillon cubes
1 mug boiling water
2 tbs. butter
2 tbs. flour
3 carrots pealed and sliced
2 potatoes pealed and diced
1 onion chopped
1 celery stalk sliced
1/2 can peas ( optional )

Start by boiling the chicken until it comes of off the bones. Discard bones and skin. Dice chicken and add to a frying pan with a little bit of oil add vegetables and saute1 minute, In another frying pan add butter and melt then add flour and cook untill forms a ball, add the water with the bouillon cubes dissolved in it and beat with a wire wisk. This will make a gravy. Poor over the meat veggie mixture and simmer.

Make your crust. In a mixing bowl add flour and salt stir together, add shortening and work into the rest with a fork until well cut. Then add water and mix well, you may need to kneed it a little to get it mixed. Then roll out on floured surface. Put down bottom crust in pie pan then add filling then repeat with top crust. Poke 9 holes in top of crust with a fork and tuck under extra dough and pinch crust around the edges. Bake in preheated 450 oven until brown and done.
serve with mashed potato or rice.

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