Puppy Chicken Pot Pie
These Puppy Chicken Pot Pies turned out SO cute! These are very easy to make and will only take about 5 to 10 minutes extra to make the puppy face.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 2 pie crust recipe or 9" unbaked pie crust
- 1 lb chicken cubed (frozen or fresh)
- 1 cup carrots chopped
- 1/2 cup green peas frozen
- 1/2 cup celery sliced
- 1/3 cup onion chopped
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 tsp celery seed
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1 can chicken broth
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 pie crust recipe or two 9" unbaked pie crust
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C.)
- Chop up your celery and carrots. Put your chopped veggies, peas, and diced chicken in a large pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside. Save about 8 carrot slices and 8 peas for the puppy face.
- Roll out your pie crust. We used 4 (6oz) souffle dishes. Place the souffle dish on the crust and cut a circle with a inch or so beyond the dish.Place the bottom crust in the dish and press on the bottom and sides. There should be some of it sticking out around the top. Save the pie dough scraps to make the face and ears.
- In the saucepan over medium heat, cook onions in butter until soft. Stir in flour, salt, pepper, and celery seed. Slowly stir in chicken broth and milk. Simmer over medium-low heat until thick. Remove from heat.
- Place the chicken mixture in bottom pie crusts and pour the flour/milk mixture over the top.
- Cover with the top crust, seal edges, and cut away excess dough. Press down on the sides a bit to prevent any of the mixture from coming out. We pinched ours to make it look like puppy hair. We made 2 small holes in the top where the eyes would go and the nose to allow steam to escape.
- Roll out the dough scraps and cut out 4 smaller circles for the nose. Cut out 1 ear and use that as a guide to cut out the rest. Poke a few holes on each side of the nose cut out and cut a slit down the middle. Place the saved carrots on for the nose and tongue. You could also cut a heart out of the carrot for the nose (I thought of that after we already made them). Put on the peas for the eyes and place the nose cut out on the face. Press on the ears. Some will hang off the side.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly. We did cover ours with foil in the middle of baking to prevent over browning.