Chicken Dishes - Mini Chicken & Potato Pies

Children like individual portions so I make chicken dishes in three small ramekin dishes. If you like chicken dishes, you can decorate each pie with vegetables to make funny faces.

 

Chicken Dishes

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Ingredients

Two tbsp vegetable oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped
100g (3 ½ oz) leek, washed and sliced

375g (12 oz) potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
30g (1 oz) butter
1 and a half tbsp milk
salt and freshly ground black pepper
200g/7 oz minced chicken or turkey

half stick celery, chopped
1 small carrot (approx 50g) grated
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
100 ml chicken stock

half tsp fresh thyme or pinch of dried thyme

an extra knob of butter

To Decorate
1 leek, washed and sliced
2 baby sweetcorn, halved
1 tomato, sliced
1 carrot
6 frozen peas
basil leaves

 

Method

Heat the oil in a pan and sauté the onion and leek for 5 minutes to soften. Meanwhile, cook the potatoes in a pan of lightly salted water until tender and then mash together with the milk and butter. Season to taste.

Add the minced chicken, celery and grated carrot and cook for about 5 minutes.  Transfer to a food processor and chop for a few seconds to give the mixture a smooth texture, if desired.  Return to the pan, add the ketchup, boiling stock and herbs. Cover and cook for about 4 minutes.

Pre-heat the grill. Divide the chicken between three 10cm /4 “ramekin dishes and top with the mashed potato. Dot the top with a little butter and place under the grill until golden.

 

Information

Makes 3 Mini Chicken Pies

Suitable for freezing

So going to make this for my 3 year old boy has he loves this sort of thing plus he loves all the recipes I have used from your books xxx

 

At what point can you freeze this recipe?

 

made these with turkey mince, brilliant recipe and my little girl of 13 months loves them, will defo be cooking these again.

 

My son loves tomato ketchup and he really enjoyed this meal. I made it with minced turkey only thing I would do next time is cook it a little longer so the mince is more tender or pop in the slow cooker.

 

going to try this one for both of my girls has one is a fussy eater wish me luck