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Quick quick advice- chicken pie
attentionseeker1
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Hi all
Just need some v quick advice. Am supposed to be making chicken pie for dinner tonight. Have HM thin stock and roast chicken from freezer and pre-bought pastry but after a shocking day at work can barely face it!
Is there any way I could heat stock with double cream to make the 'sauce'? Or do I need to do some sort of floury roux type thing to make it thick? Can't face making a mess... :-(
Just need some v quick advice. Am supposed to be making chicken pie for dinner tonight. Have HM thin stock and roast chicken from freezer and pre-bought pastry but after a shocking day at work can barely face it!
Is there any way I could heat stock with double cream to make the 'sauce'? Or do I need to do some sort of floury roux type thing to make it thick? Can't face making a mess... :-(
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A tin of cream of mushroom soup could be your friend
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I don't think cream would be thick enough tbh. A roux isn't too difficult just mix flour and butter/marg into a paste and whisk into the sauce while its on the hob. Mix it all in thoroughly and let it thicken for a few minutes.
Alternatively in the past I've just made up a really thick bisto chicken gravy, added some tomato puree and seasoning and its made a more than passable sauce.
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Thanks both. I have resorted to simmering some cubed potato in the stock to thicken it and will then bung in some cream and that will do.
I know a roux isn't too difficult but any flour based sauces just go lumpy on me if I don't pay proper attention for some reason. Soooo putting tinned soup on the menu for future emergencies though! Used to make a good tinned soup pasta bake when I was at uni...
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I use the condensed soup in a pie.
HTH"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us" Alexander Graham Bell0 -
Same here - works well!Yes it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
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When I make chicken pie I add two spoons of flour to the pan after cooking the chicken and veg, I stir to coat then pour in a little milk to loosen it. Once bubbled up and with some stock added it makes a great sauceThey have the internet on computers now?! - Homer Simpson
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