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What’s more romantic than Chicken Pot Pie? Chicken Pot Pie with heart shaped biscuits of course!
I love chicken pot pie, I love anything stew like really… I really appreciate how it’s an all in one meal. Meat, veggies, gravy, and biscuits. No need to cut up bread for dipping. It’s all there!
The biscuit recipe is pretty simple and if, like me, you don’t have a tube of ready made dough laying around—this is a good backup plan. You don’t need any special ingredients.
You can cut the biscuits out to any shape—star, heart, gingerbread man…. sky’s the limit! Of course, circles work too, but that’s no fun.
Chicken Pot Pie and Biscuits
Ingredients
STEW
- 2 chicken breasts
- 1 stalk of celery chopped
- 1 large carrot chopped
- 1 yellow onion chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 yukon gold potato peel and chopped
- 2 cups water
- 2 chicken bouillon cubes
- ¼ tsp pepper
- ¼ tsp basil
- ¼ tsp herbs de provence
- ¼ cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup milk
- ¼ cup frozen peas
- ¾ cup broccoli chopped
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
BISCUITS
- 2 cups flour
- ½ cup butter
- ⅓ cup milk
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp sugar
EGG WASH
- 1 tbsp water
- 1 egg
Instructions
STEW
- Heat oil in a medium / large pot. Add chicken breasts and cook for 5 minutes on each side. Cover the pan and let chicken cook all the way through.
- Remove chicken from the pan and slice into bite sized pieces.
- Add onion, celery, carrots, and garlic to the pot. Saute till onions are translucent, be careful not to burn.
- Sprinkle on cornstarch and stir, let cook for a minute.
- Pour in water and add bouillon cubes.
- Add potatoes, peas, spices and cover pot. Let cook for 8 minutes.
- Mix in milk, cream, and add in cut up chicken. Let simmer for 5 more minutes and make sure potatoes are done.
- Line 9 x 9 casserole pan with chopped broccoli.
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
BISCUITS
- In a large bowl, mix together flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder.
- Cut cold butter into small cubes. Using hands or pastry cutter, smash butter into flour. You could also grate the butter.
- Mix in milk to dough, when dough starts to come together, use hands to work dough into a ball.
- Roll dough out to ½” thickness and cut out biscuits.
- Cover biscuits with damp cloth while waiting to use them.
- Pour stew onto broccoli in the casserole pan. Place the pan on a cookie sheet to avoid spillage in the oven.
- Lay biscuits on top and brush egg wash on top of them.
- Bake uncovered for 18-20 minutes or until biscuits have risen and turned golden.
