Chicken Pot Pie and Simple Fruit Tarts

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about using roast chicken left overs, and since roast chicken and vegies is a weekly occurrence at our place I have come up with lots of ways to use them.  I recently made this with a new pastry that I found at the Maxi supermarket – Borg’s organic puff pastry– which has a really lovely flavour to it.  I always keep little balls of left over pastry in the freezer, and when I have enough little balls I make these simple fruit tarts for dessert.  The tart recipe is one of the first recipes I modified for Oscar on the elimination diet, from the Coles Baby magazine.

Chicken Pot Pie

Serves 4
Prep time 10 minutes
Cook time 30 minutes
Total time 40 minutes
Allergy / Intolerance Artificial Addititives, Artificial Colours, Glutamates, Preservatives, Salicylates
Suitable for RPAH Elimination Diet - Amines Allowed, RPAH Elimination Diet - High Chemical
Meal type Main Dish
Misc Child Friendly, Freezable, Pre-preparable, Serve Hot
A great use for left overs - chicken pot pie.

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon sunflower oil
  • 1 Medium leek (finely chopped)
  • 2 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 2 Stalks celery (finely chopped)
  • 1 bok choy (stem and leaves finely chopped)
  • 1 cup cooked vegetables (chopped)
  • 1/2 cup frozen peas
  • 1/2 cup home made gravy (refer to basics page)
  • 3 cups cooked chicken (roughly chopped)
  • 180ml light evaporated milk
  • Salt
  • 1 sheet butter puff pastry (thawed)

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 190 C and lightly grease a 2-litre casserole dish.
2. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over medium heat and add the leek, celery and garlic. Fry for 2 to 3 minutes until soft.
3. Add the bok choy and fry for another 2 minutes.
4. Add the cooked vegetables, peas, gravy, chicken and evaporated milk and cook until heated through. Season with salt.
5.
Pour into the prepared casserole dish and top with the pastry.
Chicken pot pie before pastry topping
6.
Place a few vent holes in the pastry and cook for approximately 30 minutes, until the pastry is golden brown. Serve with vegetables.
Chicken Pot Pie before cooking

Note

Amines, Moderate Salicylates, Moderate Glutamates

Refer here for Gravy Recipe.

 

Simple Fruit Tarts

Serves 4
Prep time 10 minutes
Cook time 20 minutes
Total time 30 minutes
Allergy / Intolerance Amines, Artificial Addititives, Artificial Colours, Glutamates, Preservatives, Salicylates
Suitable for RPAH Elimination Diet - Low Chemical / Failsafe, RPAH Elimination Diet - Moderate Chemical, Salicylate Challenge
Meal type Dessert, Sweet Things
Misc Child Friendly, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold, Serve Hot
Quick and easy fruit tarts using left over pastry.

Ingredients

  • 1 sheet butter puff pastry (thawed)
  • 3 pears (peeled and thinly sliced)
  • 1 tablespoon caster sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pear jam (refer to Basics Page)
  • 1 teaspoon water
  • 1 pinch citric acid

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 200°C and line a baking tray with baking paper.
2. Cut the puff pastry into four squares. Moisten the edges with a little bit of water and roll over to create a ridge around the edge of the pastry. If using left over pastry, roll the pastry scraps out to a similar size.
3. Place the fruit inside the ridge and sprinkle with a little bit of sugar.
4. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until golden.
5. Just before the tarts are cooked put the jam, water and citric acid in a small saucepan over low heat stirring until it is runny. Drizzle the cooked tarts with the pear glaze as soon as they are taken out of the oven.
6. Serve with vanilla ice cream, custard or yoghurt.

Note

Low Chemical / Failsafe

Refer to the Basics page for Pear Jam.

Variation: substitute the pear for thinly sliced Red or Golden Delicious apples (moderate salicylates) or peaches or apricots (high salicylates) if doing a salicylate challenge.

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