How to Prepare Award-winning Chicken, leek and Chorizo pie

Chicken, leek and Chorizo pie. In the third book in her best-selling Roasting Tin series, Rukmini Iyer conjures up speedy, midweek, one-tin recipes that show how easy it is to create delicious, flavoursome and balanced meals in no time at all. An easy chicken and leek pie that's a real crowd-pleaser for all the family. Pour the mixture into a large ovenproof dish and lay the puff pastry sheet.

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. For the pie filling, place the onion, garlic, leeks, chicken and stock cubes into a saucepan. Just cover with water and bring to the boil. You can cook Chicken, leek and Chorizo pie using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken, leek and Chorizo pie

1. Prepare 2 of leeks, very finely sliced.
2. You need 4 of small free-range chicken breasts, cut into chunks, cooked.
3. You need 120 g of chorizo, diced.
4. Prepare 300 g of creme fraiche.
5. It's 1/2 of juicy lemon, zest and juice.
6. Prepare 1 teaspoon of sea salt flakes.
7. It's of Freshly ground black pepper.
8. You need 1 of free range egg, beaten.
9. You need 1 of × 320g ready-rolled puff pastry sheet.

Once cooked, remove from the stove and lift out the chicken thighs. A hearty chicken and chorizo pie cooked on a bed of creamy leeks and covered with pastry. Roll the pie pastry out large enough to cover the top of the dish, and place over the top. Crimp the sides down with a fork, and trim the excess from the edges.

Chicken, leek and Chorizo pie step by step

1. Tip leeks into a bowl, pour over a kettle of boiling water and steep for 2 mins before draining in coriander.
2. Tip leeks, chicken, chorizo, creme fraiche, lemon, salt and pepper into tin. Mixing well.
3. Brush edges of roasting tin with beaten egg before rolling out and laying pastry.
4. Press edges in against tin, brush surface and cut cross in middle to allow air to escape.
5. Cook until cooked (aka 30 odd mins aka golden brown) and serve hot. Viola!.

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