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Chicken Pot Pie

Course Main Dish
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb. chicken tenderloins cut into ½ inch cubes
  • 1 cup sliced carrots
  • 1 cup frozen green peas
  • ½ cup sliced celery
  • 1/3 cup chopped onion
  • 1/3 cup butter
  • 1/3 cup flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon pepper
  • ¼ teaspoon celery seed
  • 2/3 cup milk
  • 1 package refrigerated pie crusts

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
  • In a large saucepan or covered skillet, combine chicken, carrots, peas, celery, and onion. Add enough water to cover and boil for 15 minutes.
  • While you wait, press one of the pie shells into a deep 9 ½ inch pie plate.
  • Drain the chicken mixture, reserving the cooking liquid. Dump the drained chicken mixture into the prepared pie shell.
  • Meanwhile in the same saucepan, over medium heat, melt the butter. Add the flour, salt, pepper, and celery seed. Slowly add in 2 cups of the reserved cooking liquid and the milk, stirring well, and continue cooking and stirring until the sauce thickens.
  • Pour the sauce over the pie filling, then top with the remaining pie shell. Cut some slits in the top to let the steam escape.
  • Bake, on a cookie sheet, for 30-35 minutes until the crust is golden brown.
  • Filling will firm up if you wait 10 minutes before serving, but I always cut into it immediately.