Best Lazy Chicken Pot Pie Recipes

LAZY WOMAN'S CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Line pie pan with one of the crusts. In separate bowl, combine vegetables (as many as you would like), soup and chicken. Stir until everything is coated in soup.
• Transfer from bowl into crust in pan, cover with other pie crust. Pinch the sides all the way around the pan so it seals the pie.
• Cook for about 30-40 minutes or until top is golden brown. You can also beat up an egg and glaze the top of the pie if you'd like but it's not necessary. This comes out just like the ones you buy in the store except you know everything that is put in it. Enjoy. :)

LAZY CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• NOTE: I don't add salt to this recipe because most of the ingredients are canned. Adjust to your tastes accordingly. Open and drain mushrooms, using juice to reconstitute dried onions. (See notes in step #13 for reconstitution instructions if desired.)
• Remove pie crust from refrigerator/freezer and allow to come to room temperature by step 8. (I have been known to microwave my crusts when I forgot to do this part. Just be careful not to "cook" them. See notes in step #13 for detailed instructions.)
• Preheat oven to 425° F.
• Open and drain remaining cans (except the soup which should NOT be drained), discarding juice. *(see note in step #14)
• Dump all vegetables into microwave safe bowl. Chop chicken and add to bowl.
• Add rosemary (or other herbs), parsley, black pepper, and re-constituted onion bits and combine gently until thoroughly mixed.
• Lightly cover bowl and microwave filling until nicely warmed (or even hot) throughout (about 8 minutes, depending on the wattage of your machine) stirring at 4 minutes.
• While filling is warming, line a deep dish pie pan with bottom crust. Do not trim.
• When filling is warm, spread evenly over bottom crust, tamping it down to eliminate air bubbles.
• Top with second crust, tucking edges of top crust under/behind bottom crust. Using fork, press together folded edge of top and bottom crusts around rim of pie pan. Cut or poke holes in top crust to allow venting of moisture.
• Place pie in oven and tent foil over top. Bake 45 minutes at 425° F. Remove foil and bake additional 15 minutes or until top is toasty brown. (See detailed notes in step #13.)
• When done, carefully remove pie from oven and allow to rest a minimum of 10 minutes. Slice and serve hot.
• NOTES: Step 1 => To re-constitute onions, pour juice from mushrooms into cup and stir in onions. Allow to soak until onions have absorbed nearly all moisture, maybe 15 or 20 minutes. Step 2 => If pie dough is still too cool to be flexible by the time you need it, bring it to room temperature by microwaving both packages together for 15 seconds on high; if still too cool, microwave in 5 second intervals until room temperature is reached. Do not allow to crust to become truly warm. If this happens, allow it to cool to room temperature before using, otherwise crust will stretch too easily while you are trying to place it. Step 5 => Cut chicken while it's still in the can, being careful not to dig knife into can (this dulls the blade and can shave bits of the can's lining into your food). Step 8 => When lining the pie pan with the bottom crust, there should be little, if any, crust overhang. If there is, your pan is smaller than mine and you won't have room for all this filling; so don't over-fill your crust when the time comes. There IS a lot of filling and it just fits the pan I use. Step 11 => When tenting foil, be sure none of the crust edges are exposed to direct heat (you don't have to wrap the sides-just make sure the top is covered), otherwise that part will burn. However, if you do accidentally burn a portion of the crust during the first 45 minutes, you can cut it away before returning the pie to the oven for the last 15 minutes. Step 11, part 2 => I use a 9" Pampered Chef deep dish stoneware pie pan; additionally, I bake in my table-top convection oven without pre-heating. Cooking times and temperatures may vary for glass or metal pie pans, so watch this dish the first time you bake it in case you need to make adjustments. Step 11, part 3> "Toasty brown" is slightly darker than golden brown. Of course, you don't have to bake it that dark if you don't like it that way, but I feel the darker color adds an extra depth of savory flavor.
• Note from step 4: * In the interest of frugality, juice from the canned vegetables can be used in other savory dishes as flavor and salt in place of water. Drain juice into a container and store covered in refrigerator until needed, for up to a week. (Canned vegetables are high in salt [which is why no salt is added to this recipe] which acts as a light preservative allowing the juice to remain viable the entire week.)

LAZY DAZE - SEMI HOMEMADE CHICKEN POT PIE

Steps:

• Preheat Oven to 400º F. Butter a 9" square baking dish and set aside.
• In large skillet, melt the butter; add the onions and celery; cook until tender. Add the flour and stir to make a paste. Slowly pour in the chicken broth and the milk. Add the thyme, sage, ground black pepper and salt, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and comes to a boil.
• Add the cubed, cooked chicken, carrots and peas; stir to mix and heat through.
• Pour thickened mixture into baking dish.
• On a floured board, cut each thawed biscuit in half...roll into a ball and flatten into a disk. Place cut and flattened biscuit dough on top of the chicken-vegetable mixture to form a crust.
• Sprinkle with shredded Parmesan or Romano cheese.
• Bake 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

LAZY GIRLS CHICKEN POT PIE WITH DRESSING OPTIONAL

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 400°
• Dice the canned potatoes, onions and celery. If you use garlic from a jar, no messing with that. If you have to use fresh, peel and mince 1 clove of garlic.
• Heat butter in a large saucier and saute the onion and celery until onion is translucent and celery softened, add the garlic and cook a minute more.
• While that is cooking mix together in a bowl the chicken, potatoes, all veggies, gravy, seasonings.
• Add veggies and chicken to sauteed onion mixture and bring everything to a nice hot bubbly temperature. If you think it is a little thick, thin with some chicken stock.
• Cut pie crust to fit your pie pans, with a little overlapping.
• If you want to use dressing, divide it between the casserole dishes, and pack to compact a little.
• Divide chicken filling evenly between 4 to 6 pie pans, cover with crust, seal edges. Mske 3 slits in the top middle of crust to vent.
• Bake for 30 to 40 minutes or until crust is golden and filling bubbly.