Comfort food with a St. Patrick’s Day twist. Individual pot pies with a clover in the middle of a tender, flaky crust, hiding a chunky chicken and vegetable filling in a creamy white sauce.
Also included in this post is a Recipe Round Up. I’ve joined a fun group of bloggers to put together a roundup of recipes on the first day of every month. This month we’re sharing St. Patrick’s Day Recipes.
My mom often cooked frozen pot pies when I was growing up. They were easy, filling and best of all cheap. It wasn’t until after I got married I realized that they really weren’t very tasty.
I switched to the Marie Calendar frozen pot pies, which was definitely a step up, but ever since I started making pot pies from scratch, a frozen pot pie just won’t cut it anymore.
Making them at home is a bit time consuming, but not difficult, and the end result is comfort food at it’s finest. Pot pies are one of my kids’ favorite dinners. Usually, I make a large pot pie in a 9×13 pan, but I decide to change it up for St. Patrick’s day and make individual pot pies.
You need more crust making individual pies, but more crust is never a bad thing in my book.
You can make your pot pies in any oven safe dish. I bought some disposable tins at the grocery store.
In the past, I’ve made them in cute little soup crocks and left the pastry edge unfinished. I like the rustic look and not having to waste any of my favorite part, the crust.
My daughter likes to cook the crust separately while she’s making the filling. She cuts the crust into fun shapes and serves the cut outs on a plate so the kids can top the filling with as many fun shapes as they’d like.
It’s a fun and easy way to get the kids involve if you want to let them help cut out the shapes as well. (And if they don’t like the pie crust, none of it goes to waste!)
You can also make the chicken pot pie filling in the pressure cooker, which is my go-to method on nights I’m not using leftover cooked chicken or rotisserie chicken.
Any way you make it, it’s pure comfort food and your family will ask for it again and again.
Chicken Pot Pie for St. Patrick’s Day
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup butter
- ⅓ cup flour
- ⅓ cup chopped onion
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 1 ¾ cup chicken broth
- ⅓ cup milk
- 2 cups cooked chicken
- 1 cooked potato diced
- ½ cup frozen peas
- ½ cup frozen carrots
Crust
- 2 ½ cup flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup unsalted butter chilled
- ⅔ cup shortening chilled (You get the flakiness from the shortening and the great taste from the butter)
- 5 to 6 tablespoons ice water
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425º.
- Heat butter over medium heat until melted. Add onions and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Whisk in flour, salt and pepper. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth and bubbly.
- Gradually stir in chicken broth and milk. Heat to boiling and boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly. (Add more milk if it's too thick).
- Remove from heat and stir in chicken and vegetables. Pour into individual baking dishes and top with pie crust. Cook uncovered 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool a few minutes before eating.
- Pie Crust
- Combined flour and salt in a bowl. Cut butter into small cubes. Cut butter and shortening into flour mixture until it resembles very coarse meal. Gradually add water. Divide in four equal pieces, form into round disks, and wrap in plastic. Chill for 30 minutes.
- On a floured surface, roll out each crust at least 1" larger than baking dishes.
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teresa
i’ve always really wanted to make my own chicken pot pie from scratch. this looks wonderful!
Cindy Harris
Is the crust just on the top?
Barbara Schieving
Hi Cindy – it’s perfect for pi day. You could even carve a pi symbol if you wanted. Yes, I only put crust on top to save on calories, but if you want to do a double crust, go for it.
gloria
Love these crust!!
Cindy Harris
I want to make chicken pot pies for PI day. This recipe looks perfect. I have some 6 inch pie pans that make two servings–perfect for hubby and me! Thanks for the recipe!
I have cooked chicken in the fridge ready to go.
Sylvia@bascooking
Love all. the crust looks perfect and tasty
Valérie (Franche-Comté)
C’est tout ce que j’aime
Belle journée
Valérie
Angie@Angie's Recipes
The pie looks really pretty, Barbara.
Donna
I love how you left the extra crust hanging over the ramekins. Can’t have too much crust!
Maureen | Orgasmic Chef
I mix butter and shortening too for my pie crusts. Yours look fantastic!
I’ll admit that if I’m busy and I have leftover chicken, I mix the filling and put it in a casserole and top it with a sheet of puff pastry. People seem to think I worked hard on it. 🙂
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Maureen! I think the crust is so much more flaky with a mix of butter and shortening.
I’ve used puff pastry too. It’s a great substitute. So pretty. I like to bake it separately and then top the casserole right before serving so it’s crisp on the bottom too.
angela@spinachtiger
I think chicken pot pie is up there in the top 5 of great comfort foods. Looks so good.
Patricia @ ButterYum
Adorable! This would be perfect for my corned beef and cabbage hating daughter who was born on St. Patrick’s Day. Love it!!
Sandy @ RE
Barbara, that looks fantastic! I NEED for St. Paddy’s Day! 🙂 Thank you for including my stew recipes, too!
Kim
More crust is never a bad thing:) Those look absolutely gorgeous!
Emily
Can you send about 6 over for tonight’s dinner? Thanks.
leslie
Ahhhh . I just love the shamrock cut out!!!!!
Kitchen Belleicious
i love the design you did on the crust. So festive and the pot pie itself sounds delish
Amanda
I so need this. The shamrock in the crust is so cute 🙂
carrian
Everything you makes always looks so perfect and pretty, but the best part is that your food tastes so stinking delicious. Pinning this!
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Carrian! That’s so sweet!
Annamaria
Looks so delicious!
Rosa
A scrumptious speciality! Your pies look very tempting.
Cheers,
Rosa