Easy recipe for chicken & leek pie by any chance?

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I really fancy making chicken and leek pie with a ready-made type of pastry top. I've only just begun "proper cooking" since the birth of my baby boy, and after years of snacking, crackers, cup a soups and similar rubbish. So, what I'm saying is, i'm no great shakes in the kitchen. I've started making a few simple meals and feel really chuffed and just lately i've been hankering after a nice golden topped chicken and leek pie. Would anyone have an easy recipe I could use?

\link{http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/chicken-and-leek-pot-pie,1920,RC.html\This looks a bit fiddly}

\link{http://maindish.allrecipes.com/az/54990.asp\This looks easier you just need to convert the american quantitities}

\link{http://maindish.allrecipes.com/az/54990.asp\And by the miracle of the internet, here it is in metric.}

Mine's a bit rough and ready, but soften leeks and garlic in butter or oil. Then make a white sauce by adding flour to the leek mixture and then stirring milk/thickening in usual way.

Pour sauce over chopped cooked chicken (you can poach the chicken in the milk you use for the sauce, if you like, with a bayleaf and some nutmeg) and put pastry or mash on top.

Cook in moderate oven for 30 mins or so. No real quantities, but usually a couple of leeks, 2 chicken breasts and a pint of milk.

And........... if you are only starting out, you could cheat and buy the pastry. ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Thanks for that recipe, it looks like it fits nicely in my current skills set :)

Which one of us has won the prize ???

That was a very ambigous answer.

Delia's is gorgeous. Will try to find.

Thanks singersgirl, i recently learnt how to do a white sauce so that's do-able too. Ladysherlock....the shop bought pastry would have been a given i'm afraid. Still too easily flustered and flapped in the kitchen (blush)

Tinker come back, it was the first one I posted, I think.............Coooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeee

Ah, just found it as well! Yumtastic though.

It really isn't that fiddly and her white sauce method is foolproof

True........ but that list of instructions would put me off, if I was pie virgin.

Right-ho, thanks everyone, gonna soften me leeks & onion and brown the chicken & put in casserole dish with cubes of ham, then proudly add my white sauce & pastry lid on top. This is for someone coming round later in the week so I'll let you know how I get on. Oh, and it'll be with roasted carrot and brocolli - also recently learnt and now being wheeled out with everything

can I recommend crumbling a chicken stock cube over the softening onion and leeks

yes you can twiglett, thank you.

if you soften your leeks and onion in enough butter (big lump) you should be able to make your white sauce immediately over it .. ie when they're soft just add flour and mix then slowly add the milk

dead easy