Chicken Curry pie

This Chicken Curry Pie is a pie of fabulous retro flavours. The Chicken Curry of my childhood. A cross between almost a boil in the bag chicken curry and incredible coronation chicken. The pastry too is super delicious. Pair it with new potatoes and petit pois for the grown ups and chips and beans for the kids. A feast for all the family.

Chicken Curry Pie.

Chicken Curry Pie

But quickly first….

This morning I called my child a swear word………..
Oh the parenting shame, the guilt. How can I make it right? How can I make him completely forget it has ever happened ? What if it scars him forever? What if he thinks I don’t love him all day at school? What if he calls someone else it? Cluck, what if he tells his teachers?
I knew I was up against it at 8 a.m. I wasn’t where I should have been in the schedule. At 8 a.m I am normally just sweating the small stuff, but this morning at 8 a.m I was nowhere near. I felt the first knot of anxiety grab hold of my plexus and give it a big builder’s hand squeeze. Of course it was  school photo day and obviously both school jumpers had yoghurt or gravy or some other crud blobbed Picasso stylee over the fronts and my daughter desperately wanted an up-do……… WHATTTT???? It’s ok, it’s ok I can do this I thought…I’m fabulous at multi tasking let’s bring this bad boy home (seemingly I was on the bridge of the Star Ship Enterprise).

Sometimes when I adopt this positive, cheesy attitude it works but this morning it just did NOT. No matter how I tried to move like a ninja it just kept going pear shaped and as it did so my anxiety rose with it like a little dog fervently dry humping my leg. I could almost see the damn thing thumping madly away………………….and so of course, it inevitably came to pass that on my final run up to getting them out the front door (I was so, so, close), my son argued back one last motherclucking time and I snapped. Terribly and ashamedly I went for it…………

Guilty as charged. What’s the moral of my confession? I could say I should be more organised, I could say no T.V until you’re ready for school, I could say I need to take more me time. All of these things I do try to stick to and most of the time I manage it and I am totally a smug ass as I calmly saunter back to the car, passing parents frantically trying to find parking spaces as the kids stare wild eyed and panicked, trying to claw their doors open before the cars have actually come to a stop. But this time it just all went t.ts…….I lost the Mummy plot and I did the shameful deed……All I can say in the final summing up for the defence is that I am hugely remorseful for my sins and I sincerely and determinedly pledge to keep my mouth tightly shut whenever I feel like my head is about to explode and I’m being dry humped from school run stress ……..”Imagine if you had a real job” my husband counselled………K.ob.
For my community service I shall serve a 100 hours of baking whatever the little TYKE likes. I shall do my time with a heavy heart but full stomach. Winner Winner Chicken Dinner….literally

Chicken Curry Pie Recipe

This is a 1970’s Chicken Curry Pie.There is not a tomato or vegetable in sight (well just a little onion but don’t tell him).It’s a pie that is perfect for adults served with new potatoes and petit pois but my son will prefer chips and beans and I obviously won’t deny him. I absolutely adore the retro curry powder flavour and find it’s super delicious in this pie. I roast a whole chicken which is more than is needed but I just add a little mayonnaise to what’s left and hey presto I have a bowl of home-made Coronation Chicken in my fridge. Who’s a clever, if a little blasphemous, mummy?

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Chicken Curry Pie

This is a retro Chicken Curry Pie, perfect with new potatoes and petit pois or chips and beans to suit the kids. The pastry is based on a Paul Hollywood shortcrust and it is delicious.

Course Main Course

Cuisine English

Keyword Chicken Curry Pie

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 50 minutes

Servings 6 adults

Calories 538 kcal

Author applytofaceblog

Ingredients

Chicken Curry

• 1 medium roast chicken
• 1 large onion
• 500 mls chicken stock
• 2 heaped tsps mild curry powder
• 2 cloves garlic
• 25 grams cornflour
• 3 tbsps mango chutney

Shortcrust Pastry

• 275 grams plainflour
• 1 pinch fine salt
• 135 grams unsalted butter cubed
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1 large egg beaten
• 1 egg beaten for egg wash.

Metric - U S Customary

Instructions

1. Roast a Chicken and when cool pull all the meat from the bird and set aside.
2. Chop the onion and garlic up finely or whizz in the processor-my preferred lazy-bird option.
3. Fry in a medium saucepan for five mins in some olive oil until softened. Add the curry powder and fry gently for a further couple of mins.
4. Pour in the stock and bring to a boil. Stir the cornflour in a cup with about double the water(enough that all the cornflour dissolves completely). Add to the simmering curry liquid whilst stirring with a whisk(curry).Keep stirring with the whisk until it thickens. Add the mango chutney.
5. Continue simmering and season to taste.
6. Add the chicken and set aside to cool.
   
7. To make the pastry put the butter, flour and salt in the bowl of a food processor or mixing bowl. Either whizz or rub in by hand until breadcrumbs are formed. Add the egg,lemon juice and a splash of water and whizz or use a knife to mix until it just comes together. Give it a couple of kneads into a disc and cover in clingfilm and refrigerate for 30 mins. Pre-heat the oven to 190 C
8. When ready to get this show on the road then dust your work surface with flour and cut 1/3 of the pastry dough away. Roll out the remaining 2/3 to line a pie dish about 20 cm and 5 cm deep or round about ish. Trim off excess pastry.
   
9. Fill it with the cooled chicken mixture. Brush the edges with egg wash and roll out the remaining dough to fit the top. Crimp the edges and trim again if needed.
   
10. Make two steam holes in the middle of the pie and brush all over with egg wash. Bake for about 50 minutes. Watch the top does not start to burn. I make tin foil hats and cover the pies as soon as they start to darken.
    
11. Apply to shamed face.
    

Nutrition Facts

Chicken Curry Pie

Amount Per Serving

Calories 538 Calories from Fat 279

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 31g 48%

Saturated Fat 15g 75%

Cholesterol 233mg 78%

Sodium 276mg 12%

Potassium 521mg 15%

Total Carbohydrates 16g 5%

Sugars 7g

Protein 44g 88%

Vitamin A 14.4%

Vitamin C 4.3%

Calcium 4.6%

Iron 14.5%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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