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This is a great quick pie recipe, I just bought a whole BBQ chicken and removed the meat. I only had puff pastry in the fridge so I used that instead of filo pastry, I also added chopped bacon rashers, sliced mushrooms and some crushed garlic cloves to the spring onion and cooked it all off before adding. It turned out excellent with a wonderful flavour and hardly any fuss always a bonus. If you want to read more reviews click here.
Ingredients
60 g butter
2-3 spring onions (finely chopped)
2 Cloves garlic, crushed
5 Bacon rashers, chopped finely
150g Sliced mushrooms
1/3 cup plain flour (50 grams)
1 cup milk (180ml)
1 cup chicken stock (250ml)
4 cups chicken meat (cooked and shredded or diced – 400 grams)
2 1/2 cups frozen mixed vegetables (350 grams)I used peas and corn.
1/4 cup parsley (fresh loosely packed and then coarsely chopped)
4 sheets filo pastry (I used puff pastry)
cooking spray
Method
1. Preheat oven to 220 degree celcius (200 for fan forced ovens).
2. Mix milk and stock together.
3. Melt butter in large saucepan, cook spring onion (or leek if using could need 1 to 2 minutes), stirring until softened. I added bacon, mushrooms and garlic to this stage and cooked them all together.
4. Add flour, cook, stirring until mixture bubbles and thickens.
5. Take off the heat and gradually whisk in milk and stock mix until smooth. Return to heat and continuously mix until mixture boils and thickens.
6. Add chicken, vegetables and parsley, stir until heated through.
7. Spoon chicken pie filling into a shallow 1.5 litre (6 cup) ovenproof dish.
8. Place one sheet of pastry over filling; spray with cooking oil spray. Repeat this process with remaining pastry sheets, overlapping pastry around dish. Roll and fold pastry inwards towards centre around edge of dish (forming a roll around the edge). Spray top of pastry with cooking oil spray.
9. Bake uncovered, in hot oven for 10 minutes. I baked longer as I used puff pastry.
All photos taken by me unless otherwise stated.
This is a wonderful super quick, healthy meal, well I suppose the hollandaise is not the best but the fish is:) I must say I prefer this with salmon as I find trout quite full of fine bones, when I went to the supermarket to get the fish for this recipe, trout happened to be on special, so take your pick. This is a very different tasting hollandaise with quite a more citrus flavour than regular, I enjoy it but I know that it would not be every ones taste. If you are not used to cooking with these ingredients, please try, but just know they are quite different in taste, people that do cook with them will know what I mean. I think this hollandaise adds a wonderful twist on traditional and I love the citrus flavours paired with the fish, I served mine over spinach, but you can serve it with wild rice or any vegetable you choose.
Ingredients
10cm Stick fresh lemon grass. chopped finely
3 Fresh kaffir lime leaves, shredded thinly
2 Limes, zest and juice of
3 Egg yolk
200g Unsalted butter. melted
3 Fresh kaffir lime leaves, chopped finely
4 Trout or Salmon fillets
Method
Hollandaise
1. Combine lemon grass, shredded lime leaves, rind and juice in a saucepan, bring to the boil, reduce heat simmer, uncovered, until liquid is reduced to 1 Tablespoon.
2. Strain through a fine sieve into a medium heatproof bowl, cool 10 Min’s, discard solids.
3. Set bowl over saucepan of simmering water, do not allow water to touch the base of the bowl, add egg yolk to juice mixture, whisk over heat until thickened.
4. Remove bowl from heat, gradually add melted butter in a thin, steady stream, whisking constantly until sauce has thickened. (If sauce is too thick a tablespoon of hot water can be added.) stir in finely chopped kaffir lime leaves.
5. Meanwhile, cook the fish on a heated oiled grill or fry pan until cooked as desired, serve with hollandaise. I prefer to cook my fish skin side down first and really get a nice crisp skin on it.
All Photos taken by me unless otherwise stated.
