Vrai - would you share your recipe for Chicken Pot Pie guts? :love:

Chicken
Chopped carrots
Finely diced celery
Peas
Chopped onion
Chicken gravy, either made or jarred
Crust

You can add diced potatoes, too, but I think it's starchy enough without.

Long method:
Mine starts with a meaty stock made by boiling down leftover rotisserie chicken and carcass with onion, garlic and whatever seasonings I think it should have. Simmer for a couple hours, until everything is falling off the bone. Cool and remove bones, cartilage, and other icky stuff. Bring to a boil and thicken with corn starch, salt and pepper to taste. Proceed to down and dirty method for veggies.

Down and dirty method:
Saute carrots, celery and onion in butter/olive oil until soft. Add cooked frozen peas (not canned) and chopped chicken. Heat through, then add a jar of Heinz Homestyle chicken gravy.

Voila! Pot pie guts!

Chicken
Chopped carrots
Finely diced celery
Peas
Chopped onion
Chicken gravy, either made or jarred
Crust

You can add diced potatoes, too, but I think it's starchy enough without.

Long method:
Mine starts with a meaty stock made by boiling down leftover rotisserie chicken and carcass with onion, garlic and whatever seasonings I think it should have. Simmer for a couple hours, until everything is falling off the bone. Cool and remove bones, cartilage, and other icky stuff. Bring to a boil and thicken with corn starch, salt and pepper to taste. Proceed to down and dirty method for veggies.

Down and dirty method:
Saute carrots, celery and onion in butter/olive oil until soft. Add cooked frozen peas (not canned) and chopped chicken. Heat through, then add a jar of Heinz Homestyle chicken gravy.

Voila! Pot pie guts!

I saw a recipe for Pot Pie Soup yesterday. You could thin this out and call it soup!

Chicken
Chopped carrots
Finely diced celery
Peas
Chopped onion
Chicken gravy, either made or jarred
Crust

You can add diced potatoes, too, but I think it's starchy enough without.

Long method:
Mine starts with a meaty stock made by boiling down leftover rotisserie chicken and carcass with onion, garlic and whatever seasonings I think it should have. Simmer for a couple hours, until everything is falling off the bone. Cool and remove bones, cartilage, and other icky stuff. Bring to a boil and thicken with corn starch, salt and pepper to taste. Proceed to down and dirty method for veggies.

Down and dirty method:
Saute carrots, celery and onion in butter/olive oil until soft. Add cooked frozen peas (not canned) and chopped chicken. Heat through, then add a jar of Heinz Homestyle chicken gravy.

Voila! Pot pie guts!


:yay: My mom has come down with the upper respiratory crud going around, so I'm making chicken soup (with dumplings). I went ahead & got a whole chicken to cook from scratch, but I have a half rotisserie chicken & another bag of parts in the freezer leftover from a different meal. They'll be perfect for the pot pie. OR I could always finish off the leftover soup as you did above & make the pot pie guts from that. :yahoo:

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