Creamy chicken and vegetable family pie

Name: Creamy chicken and vegetable family pie
Total time: 7200 s
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 650 g shortcrust pastry dough; 100 g diced bacon; 4 chicken thighs with bones; 1/4 tsp fresh ginger paste; 1/2 tsp black pepper; 1 tsp salt; 2 tbs corn flour; 1/2 tsp smoked paprika powder; 2 tbs cooking oil; 2 tbs butter; 1 large red onion diced; 1 leek diced; 1 tbs tomato paste; 3 medium size carrots diced; 1 cup chicken stock; 1 cup milk cream; 2 cups mushrooms sliced

fay Chege @faychege

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This is the pie I cook for my family on most festive season. It's easy to make yet so delicious and creamy.

fay Chege @faychege

#festivedishescontest#
This is the pie I cook for my family on most festive season. It's easy to make yet so delicious and creamy.

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Ingredients

2hrs

6 servings

650 gshortcrust pastry dough
100 gdiced bacon
4chicken thighs with bones
1/4 tspfresh ginger paste
1/2 tspblack pepper
1 tspsalt
2 tbscorn flour
1/2 tspsmoked paprika powder
2 tbscooking oil
2 tbsbutter
1large red onion diced
1leek diced
1 tbstomato paste
3medium size carrots diced
1 cupchicken stock
1 cupmilk cream
2 cupsmushrooms sliced

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Steps

2hrs

1

Grease a pie tin. Roll out the short crust pastry and transfer on pie tin, gently pressing to fill edges and sides. Refridgerate 15 min poke at the bottom with a folk. Blind bake the short crust in a preheated oven at 180°c for 15min. Remove the weight brush with lightly beaten egg bake a further 5 to 7 min. Remove.
2

Remove chicken meat from bones. Place bones in a sauce pan 2 cups water and boil. Cut chicken into 1/2" pieces, add salt, black pepper, paprika and corn flour mix to coat the chicken pieces
3

In a saucepan on high heat, add oil add bacon let it brown stir. Add chicken pieces add butter. Fry to caramelise. Add red onion and ginger paste. Cook to soften onion.
4

Add leek and carrots cook 5 min.
5

Add green peas and mushrooms cook 3 min. Add chicken stock and milk cream. Check salt let it boil, reduce and thicken.
6

Pour into the baked short crust. Roll out the left pastry and cutout design to top your pie, brush with egg and bake for 8 min or until golden brown.