Recipe: Chicken & Broccoli Pie

Make this easy Chicken & Broccoli Pie today and find your new favourite meal!

INGREDIENTS

Filling

• 4 Deboned chicken fillets, cut into chunks
• 1 Broccoli head, cut into florets
• 1 Medium-sized onion, roughly chopped
• 250 gr Punnet mushrooms, chopped into quarters
• 1 cup Frozen peas
• 1 tbsp Cooking oil
• Pinch Salt
• Pinch Pepper
• 2 cloves Garlic, grated

CHEESE SAUCE

• 1 1/5 cups Grated Cheddar Cheese
• 3 tbsp OK Cake Flour
• 125 gram Butter
• 1lt Full cream milk
• 1 tbsp OK Mayonnaise
• 1 tsp Ina Paarman’s Potato Spice
• To taste Salt
• To taste Pepper

PIE TOPPING

• 150 ml Cooking oil
• 150 ml Milk
• 2 Eggs
• 15 ml OK Baking powder
• 500 ml OK Cake Flour, sieved
• Pinch of Salt

METHOD

FILLING

• In a large deep pot, add oil and fry grated garlic, chicken, onions and mushrooms until slightly browned.
• Transfer to a large casserole dish.
• Add frozen peas to the casserole dish.
• In another pot – steam or boil broccoli florets until just cooked al dente and then transfer the cooked broccoli to the large casserole dish.

CHEESE SAUCE

• There is no need to wash the chicken pot. Use this same pot to make the cheese sauce.
• Melt the butter, add the flour and cook for 1 minute.
• Add milk slowly, a little bit at a time, until all milk is incorporated.
• Remember to whisk the milk continuously and continue to add all the milk until you have a white, smooth sauce.
• Once the sauce has begun to thicken, take it off the heat, and add mayonnaise, salt, pepper and cheese. Mix well until cheese is completely incorporated into the white sauce.
• The sauce must not be too thick, as it will continue to thicken in the oven.
• Pour the sauce over the chicken. (You really want lots of sauce.)

PIE TOPPING

• Sift flour, salt and baking powder into large bowl.
• Mix egg, oil and milk together
• Add egg mixture to flour.
• Mix until smooth should resemble dumpling type mixture.
• Pour over the chicken and cheese sauce.
• Bake in 180 degree oven for 30-35 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.

Serve warm with a fresh green salad.