Saturday, June 16, 2012

Chicken n Biscuits Pot Pie


This is a meal that I used lots of prepped food that I did at the beginning of the week. For example, I cooked lots and lots of chickpeas and then froze them in 2-cup portions; I cooked lots of chicken, shredded it and froze it, and made chicken broth with the leftover bones and random vegetables (I keep a bag in the freezer and put the ends of carrots, pieces of onion, ends of asparagus spears, etc., in it to use when I make broth). So, that's where some of these ingredients came from.

Start with a Tablespoon of butter. Melt over medium heat and stir in 1 to 2 Tablespoons flour. Whisk in 2 cups chicken broth. Add diced carrots, green beans, and frozen corn (the kernels, not the cobs. A corn cob would not be pleasant to bite into while eating chicken pot pie).When the veggies begin to get tender, add some cooked, shredded chicken.

Meanwhile, place 2 cups chickpeas, 2-3 cloves minced garlic, a teaspoon of cumin, and some salt into the food processor. Whiz it together, adding enough chicken broth to make it creamy. Stir into the chicken and vegetable mixture. Transfer to an oven-safe dish and top with...

Biscuit dough.

Mmmmmmmmm.

Mix 2 cups flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp sugar in a bowl. Cut in 3 Tablespoons of something fatty...coconut oil works GREAT and is a good alternative to butter. I have also used canola oil or any combination of oil/butter. Stir in 3/4 cups milk (I use almond milk). Knead to make it all come together.

Now you can either spoon the dough over the pie like dumplin's (What??? There's supposed to be a "g" on the end of dumplin? I don't believe you.) Or you could roll the dough out to roughly the size of your baking dish and make it like a little roof. A little biscuit roof. That sounds lovely.

Bake in a 400 degree oven for 30 minutes.


Enjoy!

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