Dreamy Creamy Chicken Pie

Ingredients:

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• A chicken*; size depends on your family

• Couple of fat carrots, peeled

• Couple of sticks celery

• A decent sized onion, halved and peeled

• Bulb of garlic

• Whatever branch herbs you have around: bay, rosemary, thyme

• Couple of leeks, sliced and washed (chuck the hairy roots in the stock)

• 2 big handfuls of mushrooms, destalked, washed and quartered (chuck the stalks in the stock)

• 1 chicken stockpot tub ie Knorr, organic is better

• 80g butter

• 40g flour

• 1 pack shortcrust pastry (pre-rolled for swiftness)

• An egg yolk + 1 tbsp milk = eggwash

• Salt & pepper

 

*always buy the highest animal welfare you can afford; ideally free-range but anything other than intensive farming is an improvement in their lives (also better flavour too).