Hen Pot Pie with Biscuits

When you do that rooster pot pie with biscuits, you’ll by no means return to the traditional pie crust topping once more. My recipe comes collectively in underneath an hour, is totally from scratch, and is nice for meal prepping (many of the parts will be prepped upfront!). Features a video tutorial.

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One in every of my prime 5 consolation meals, rooster pot pie with biscuits is a hearty, warming and oh-so-cozy dish that’s a whole meal in and of itself, no aspect dishes wanted.

What’s to Love

• Nice for making upfront. I like to make the parts upfront, then simply toss every little thing collectively and drop it within the oven for a simple weeknight dinner. If you wish to make every little thing in a single go, you’ll nonetheless be capable of end it inside an hour.
• It’s a full meal. Whereas a salad on the aspect wouldn’t damage, that is actually a filling and full meal by itself. You’ve obtained your meat, veggies, and biscuits multi function pot.
• Created from scratch. After all you need to use canned biscuits should you should, however this recipe is written so you may make it fully from scratch.
• Versatile. Swap in your favourite veggies or swap out the heavy cream for no matter dairy (or non-dairy) milk is in your fridge.

This recipe can also be tremendous nostalgic to me. I’ve so many heat recollections of my grandmother making an enormous batch of rooster pot pie with biscuits after which sharing it for dinner by the wooden range (adopted by her cream puffs or apple dumplings for dessert!).

I’m unsure how the climate is the place you’re, however there’s a chill within the air right here and I’m hungry, so let’s learn to make rooster pot pie with biscuits.

What You Want

Let’s speak a little bit bit concerning the substances we’re utilizing:

• Biscuit dough. I’m utilizing a barely scaled up model of my biscuit recipe. I initially simply used the recipe as written however Zach determined he wanted extra biscuit, so right here we’re. In a pinch, positive, you might substitute a type of tubes of store-bought biscuits, however my suggestion is from scratch. You’ll want flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, milk, and butter to make these at dwelling.
• Hen. You’ll want pre-cooked rooster for this recipe (it’s nice when you’ve got leftovers it’s worthwhile to use!). You should buy and decide a rotisserie rooster, cube some cooked rooster breast, or you possibly can shred your rooster within the slow-cooker or within the instantaneous pot. You possibly can substitute turkey when you’ve got that, however I do have a turkey pot pie I desire that fits that meat higher!
• Veggies. I take advantage of recent onion, potatoes (russet are my choice, although nearly any would work) and recent carrots, in addition to frozen combined veggies.
• Butter and flour are used to thicken the sauce (we’re making a easy roux).
• Hen broth. Today I’ve been making my rooster inventory from scratch, however store-bought will work simply nice. You may additionally use vegetable broth.
• Heavy cream. This provides physique to the rooster pot pie with biscuits and a refined creaminess (with out making it too wealthy). You should utilize heavy cream, whipping cream, double cream, and even half and half or milk, simply take into account these will make the sauce a bit thinner.
• Spices: Salt and pepper, I listing quantities however all the time taste-test and modify as wanted, as your rooster or broth might have roughly taste than mine. Smoked paprika is my secret ingredient for the most effective taste (it’s not a conventional pot pie ingredient however it’s so good, I additionally use it in my rooster and rice soup!), floor mustard, and only a sprint of dried thyme

That is simply an summary of the substances I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the put up!

Methods to Make Hen Pot Pie with Biscuits

Make the Biscuits

I prefer to make the biscuit layer in my meals processor. This makes fast work of issues, is much less messy, and can also be the method I take advantage of for making my scones (trigger it’s simply so darn simple). For those who don’t have a meals processor or simply don’t wish to lug yours out, I’ll embody notes within the recipe card to make this layer with out one.

1. Mix the dry substances. Simply toss every little thing within the basin of your meals processor and provides it a number of pulses.
2. Add the butter. Chilly butter is strongly advisable. Reduce it into cubes or slices and scatter it over the dry substances, then give it a number of pulses till you could have pea-sized items remaining.
3. Add the milk. Pour this evenly overtop, then pulse once more till the dough clings collectively.
4. Type right into a disk. Then wrap in plastic wrap and chill within the fridge when you make your filling.

SAM’S TIP: Be at liberty to make and use my sourdough biscuits as an alternative — yum!

Make the Pot-Pie Filling

1. Soften butter in a big pot or skillet, then add the onion and cook dinner till softened.
2. Add flour and stir till it’s been absorbed by the butter and onions. Prepare dinner one other minute longer to assist toast the flour a bit and develop the flavour. This step is your roux, which provides physique to the pot pie filling.
3. Add broth, spices, and veggies and convey every little thing to a boil. You’ll need the potatoes to be tender when pierced with a fork earlier than you proceed.
4. Add the rooster. Stir so it’s nicely distributed.

This filling layer is similar to how I make my rooster pot pie soup, simply clearly a lot thicker!

Assemble and Prepare dinner

1. Cut the biscuits and assemble over your filling. You should utilize a biscuit cutter, a cookie cutter (ensure it’s no less than 2″ in diameter) or simply use a knife to chop into squares. For those who’d like, brush the tops of the biscuits with an egg wash to encourage them to brown within the oven.
2. Bake. A lot of the substances we’ve used are already cooked by way of (just like the rooster and veggies) however shifting our rooster pot pie with biscuits over to the oven permits the filling to thicken a bit and cooks the biscuits, after all.

SAM’S TIP: When slicing your biscuit dough, all the time press straight down (whether or not utilizing a knife or a biscuit cutter) reasonably than sawing into the dough. This ensures that the biscuits will rise straight up reasonably than leaning.

Your entire total home goes to odor superb the entire time you’re cooking this. Yum.

Regularly Requested Questions

Ideas for Making Hen Pot Pie with Biscuits

• Plan forward for a simple weeknight meal. The parts will be made forward of time so you are able to do the prep work and simply toss every little thing collectively whenever you’re prepared for dinner. I embody detailed notes for this within the recipe and within the FAQ above.
• You possibly can substitute store-bought biscuits (unbaked, assume just like the Pillsbury canned model) for the from-scratch ones I made right here.
• You possibly can swap half-and-half, entire milk, or a nut milk for the heavy cream known as for. Be aware that any of those swaps will make a thinner filling, however it nonetheless works fairly nicely.
• Be at liberty to swap out the veggies for no matter you could have available. Candy potatoes work nicely right here along with the russets known as for, and personally I actually like lima beans in my pot pie.

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Recipe initially revealed October of 2020, I’ve up to date the put up to incorporate new suggestions and notes however the recipe is unchanged (it was excellent as-is!).

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