by Texas Homesteader ~ 

Looking for a fast supper idea? Chicken Pot Pie from scratch is super fast when you use leftover chicken.

I made the pie crusts & cream of chicken soup from scratch too but you can use purchased crust & soup instead if you like. Fast, easy & DELICIOUS! 

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Leftover Chicken Makes Chicken Pot Pie FAST

When our daughter & grandchildren visited I decided on an inexpensive $5 whole chicken. I wanted to make a delicious Slow-Cooker Chicken, only I’d leave out the spicier spices for the grandchildren’s sake. Our chicken dinner was delicious.

The next day I pulled the meat from the bones & cooked the carcass into healthy chicken broth. (6 pints!) 

Then I sectioned the leftover meat into three hefty meal-sized portions for RancherMan & me. That’s a lot of mileage from one $5 chicken!

With one of the three portions of leftover meat I decided to make some homemade chicken pot pie for supper.

Making A Quick Homemade Oil Crust

I have a delicious Flaky Homemade Crust recipe I use for many recipes. But more often than not I whip  up a simple oil-based crust for my chicken pot pie.

2⅔ cup all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon regular table salt

¾ cup vegetable oil 

5-6 Tablespoons of cold water

The finished dough is soft and pliable. This kind of crust is easiest because I can simply mix it up & press half on the bottom/sides of the casserole dish.

That means I don’t have to roll the crust out and gently transfer to the casserole dish without cracking it. (I suck at that!)

Of course I do still roll out the top crust for ‘pretty’, but at least I cut that chore in half.

So I divided the crust dough in half and pressed half of the dough onto the bottom & sides of my dish. 

Then I chopped up about 2 cups of leftover chicken and laid it over the dough.

I opened up two standard-sized cans of mixed vegetables, drained them and poured the drained vegetables on top of the chicken.

Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup

Now I need to add that chicken soupy deliciousness. You can just use a purchased can of cream of chicken soup to make this chicken pot pie fast.

But I typically make my own cream-of-chicken soup. It’s easy to whip up. There are only 3 Ingredients in my homemade cream of chicken soup:

Chicken broth

Milk

Flour

As soon as it was as thick as I wanted I pulled it off the stove and poured it over the chicken & vegetables. 

NOTE: I made my cream of chicken soup homemade. But you can just use a can of cream of chicken soup here. If you want to make it homemade instead the recipe for homemade cream of chicken soup is included in the recipe below.

Finally I rolled out the last half of the crust and placed it on top making several slits in the crust to allow steam to escape.

With the leftover pastry trimmings I rolled a rope to edge my chicken pot pie, placing shallow decorative slashes in the dough to make it ‘prettiful’.

Mama always told me that half the meal is in the presentation.

So I always try to make it look nice for my handsome RancherMan.

How Long To Bake Homemade Chicken Pot Pie?

Now all that’s left is to put this dish of homemade deliciousness into the oven.

All but the crust is already cooked, so you’re just baking it until the crust is golden brown. 

So bake your chicken pot pie at 425°F for 35-40 minutes, or until the crust is brown to your liking. 

When I brought it out from the oven the aroma was so enticing, there were plenty of ooohs and aaaaahhhhs from RancherMan to go around.

I served it up for supper & he raved about the meal. So I thought I’d share the easy recipe with you today: 

Did you make this Chicken Pot Pie? Please rate the recipe in your comment below!

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