Quick Chicken & Chorizo Pie

Serves: 5

Time: 45 minutes

Ingredient

  • 600g chicken (preferably thigh meat), diced 1cm wide strips
  • 250g chorizo, sliced into coin shapes
  • 5 spring onions finely chopped chopped
  • 2 normal leeks
  • 1/2 tub (100ml) crème fraiche
  • 200ml approx vegetable stock (or chicken I guess)
  • 1 to 3 tbsp flour to thicken
  • 1-2 tbsp olive oil for frying
  • Some button/chestnut mushrooms sliced
  • 250g ready-rolled all-butter puff pastry
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • freshly ground black pepper

 

Method

  • Heat olive oil & fry chicken & Chorizo for about 2 minutes until chicken is slightly cooked on outside and Chorizo has coloured the oil.
  • Add onions, leeks, mushrooms & flour and cook for a further 2-3 minutes.
  • Add Crème fraîche & stock liquid. Simmer till thickened and season to taste.
  • Put into pie dish (20 x 10 cm approx) and cover with thin-ish layer of puff pastry. Egg wash optional.
  • Put in 190 deg C oven for 20-25 mins until pastry is cooked.
  • Serve with mashed potato, braised carrots & green veg.