Chicken Pie with Homemade Pastry


A complete meal by itself, a favourite among many and is easy to make even for beginners. Here I will show you how I make my version of chicken pie with homemade pastry crust.
To make this delicious chicken pie, click on the video tutorial and print out the recipe below.
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- 1 kg plain (all purpose flour)
- 500 g unsalted butter
- 4 eggs large
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoon caster sugar
- 8 tablespoon ice water
- 1 whole egg + 1 teaspoon water for egg wash
- Marinate for Chicken
- 6 chicken legs deboned and skinless
- 2 chicken breast deboned and skinless
- 1 knob of ginger 6 to 8 cm (- to taste)
- 5 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoon light soya sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon white pepper
- 2 tablespoon chinese rice wine
- handful of cilantro coriander leaves ( - add more if you like)
- 2 tablespon cooking oil
- 2 large onions chopped
- 3 large carrots diced
- 1 kg potatoes diced
- 2 - 3 cans Cream of Chicken
- 15 spice cloves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- Add baking powder, salt and sugar into a bowl of flour and mix well.
- Cut cold butter into the flour and rub with fingers until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
- Add eggs and mix thoroughly until it all comes together.
- Add ice water a little at a time and mix well until it forms into a dough.
- Divide the dough into quarters and wrap it up in plastic bags and press it flat.
- Refrigerate for at least an hour.
- Cut chicken into bite sized pieces and put in a container for marinating.
- Add grated fresh ginger and grated garlic into the chicken and mix well.
- Add light soya sauce, sesame oil, white pepper and rice wine and mix well.
- Chop cilantro finely and add to chicken mixture, mix well and set aside in the fridge for at least 2 hrs.
- Fry chopped onions, cloves and cinnamon sticks until fragrant.
- Add in the marinated chicken and stir fry until chicken meat turns partially white.
- Add diced carrots and potatoes and stir fry evenly.
- Pour cream of chicken all over and mix thoroughly.
- Let it simmer until potatoes and carrots soften.
- Taste and add more seasoning, as required.
- Remove from wok to cool down.
- Remove pie dough from fridge and roll it flat.
- Cut to required size and press cut out dough into a tart mould to shape. Trim excess dough and poke holes in the base with a fork.
- Fill each mould with pie filling and cover the top with cut out dough. Seal edges with a fork and poke holes on top.
- Arrange pies in a baking tray and brush the tops with egg wash.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180C until golden brown, for about 20-30 minutes.