Chicken Asparagus Pie

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 carrots, peeled and diced
• 8 boiling onions or 8 pearl onions, peeled
• 1/4 lb button mushroom
• 1 ounce unsalted butter
• 3/4 ounce plain flour
• 15 fluid ounces milk
• 1 lb cooked chicken, cut into strips
• 6 ounces fresh asparagus
• salt & freshly ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons table cream
• 1/2 lb puff pastry
• egg wash

Recipe

• 1 sauté the carrots, onions and mushrooms in the butter, cook for 5 minutes.
• 2 stir in the flour and gradually add the milk stirring until the sauce thickens, boils and is smooth.
• 3 add the chicken, asparagus, seasoning and cream to the sauce.
• 4 pour the mixture into a 1¼-quart pie dish.
• 5 roll the pastry to the same size as the dish, dampen the rim and cover with the pastry.
• 6 brush with egg wash.
• 7 bake at 400°f for 25 minutes until the pastry is golden brown.