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French recipe: Sweet & Savory Chicken Pie

November 10, 2020

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Un-Brie-lievable Pie

This French recipe is a sweet and savory twist on a classic French chicken pot pie. Named the Un-Brie-Lievable pie and truly Brie-licious is the invention of my friend Hannah and I when she was visiting Paris one chilly October a few years ago. I had just gotten back from a trip to the French countryside where I had cultivated and preserved wild figs, bringing back with me plenty of jars of homemade fig jam.

We were craving comfort food on a chilly Parisian evening. We love eating Brie cheese and jam over a fresh baguette from the bakery. And somehow we came up with the idea of mixing those ingredients in with chicken in a tarte, or pie.

It’s a French twist on a chicken pot pie, perfect for the start of fall or the dead of winter. Making and eating this pie will give you the comfort you need for the enduring winter months while inspiring a little bit of the French countryside!

Bon appétit !

SERVES 4 (1 quarter of the pie per person)

Tip: You can double the recipe, making two pies for left overs.

☆ Download the PDF recipe here ☆

Kitchen Tools You’ll Need:

Pan for sautéing

Pie mould

Wooden spoon

Cutting board

Cutting knife

Three small cooking bowls

Oven or toaster oven big enough for your pie mould

Ingredients*:

Poultry

Rotisserie chicken thighs stripped off the bone x 2 (~ 300 g) 10.58 oz

(Chicken breasts work too, but I’ve found the thighs have more flavor)

Veggies

Mushrooms (Portobello, white or dark brown mushrooms work well) – (100 g) 3.5 oz

Sun dried tomatoes preserved in oil – (100 g) 3.5 oz

Onion x about 1/2 onion – (50 g) 1.7 oz

Spinach – 2 generous handfuls – (~ 100-150 g) 3-4 oz

1 Garlic Clove

Dairy Products

Pie dough – x 2 – store bought is fine

Brie cheese – 1/2 full round wheel (250 grams) 9oz or 1 1/2 triangles (250 grams) 9 oz

Butter (or extra virgin olive oil for a more healthy option) – (50 g) 1.7 oz

Heavy cream – 1 full container (20 cl) 6.7 fluid oz

Les Restes

Fig jam or preserves of your choice – for the bottom filling of the pie mould – (~ 75-100 g) 2.6-3.5 oz

Salt & pepper – Pinch for seasoning

*Although organic or fresh-from-the-market ingredients are best, you can get away with non-organic ingredients. You can cook the chicken in the oven yourself, if you can’t buy fresh rotisserie chicken for this recipe.

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Pre-Step (if needed)

If cooking the chicken yourself, you can do this in advance of prepping. Cook the chicken thighs in the oven until no longer pink on the inside and browned and crispy on the outside. A crispy chicken skin can add flavor, you want to keep this for your pie.

Prep

1. Drain the sun-dried tomatoes from the oil

2. Dice the mushrooms, onion and sun-dried tomatoes. Set aside in a cooking bowl for later.

3. If you have chicken with bones, strip the meat off and set aside in a cooking bowl.

4. Dice half of the wheel of Brie. Set aside for later in the last cooking bowl

5. Take the pie dough out of the fridge so it softens before being laid out onto the pie mould. Don’t let it get too warm or it can be difficult to work with. If your kitchen starts to heat up, stick it back in the fridge until ready for laying out onto the pie mould.

6. Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit). If your oven has a setting to bake the bottom of the oven, set it to this, the bottom pie crusts takes longer to cook through. Then you can switch to a toasty setting to finish off the top if needed.

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Cooking

1. Heat up a pan on medium heat. Drizzle olive oil in the middle.

2. Once the pan is warm enough for sautéing, add the mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, and onion.

3. Let this cook for approximately 7 minutes or until the mushrooms are soft.

4. Add the chicken to the mixture. And stir for an additional 2-3 minutes while the chicken browns.

5. Lower the heat to a low/medium setting. And add the box of heavy cream slowly while you stir. Let this thicken over a slow heat for an additional 5-7 minutes. While this is simmering, prepare the pie mould.

Pie

1. Butter up your pie mould.

2. Unroll the bottom layer of the pie dough in the mould. If the dough overflows, you can later fold it over itself or cut the edges.

3. Add the a thin layer (no more than a cm) of figue jam to the pie dough surface.

4. Add bits and pieces of Brie on top of the jam. Save some for the top of the filling.

5. After your chicken and veggie mix has mixed in and has thickened up, add this to the pie as your filling. Spread it evenly in the pie.

6. Add the rest of the Brie over the top of the filling.

7. Unroll the 2nd pie dough oven the mould. Trim the edges so that you have a nice even pie crust. And pinch the edges of the two pie crust layers so your filling doesn’t leak out.

8. Prick a few holes through the top of your crust to allow air to pass through so that your pie doesn’t bubble up in the oven.

9. Pop the pie in the oven for approximately 20-25 minutes or until the bottom and top crusts are golden. Check on it regularly to make sure the bottom pie crust is cooking evenly.

10. Take out of the oven for 5 minutes to cool before cutting.

11. Serve with a French red wine, I prefer Bordeaux or a Côte de Rhone. They match perfectly with the flavours in your Un-Brie-Lievable Pie.

Although this French recipe has many ingredients, it’s pretty straightforward to make once all the ingredients are mixed in. You pour it over the fig jam and brie and pop it in the over for a delicious mélange of sweet and savory French cooking. Finally, enjoy with your favorite French wine.

Bon Appétit !

☆ Download the PDF recipe here ☆

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French recipe: Sweet & Savory Chicken Pie

Un-Brie-lievable Pie

We were craving comfort food on a chilly Parisian evening. We love eating Brie cheese and jam over a fresh baguette from the bakery. And somehow we came up with the idea of mixing those ingredients in with chicken in a tarte, or pie.

It’s a French twist on a chicken pot pie, perfect for the start of fall or the dead of winter. Making and eating this pie will give you the comfort you need for the enduring winter months while inspiring a little bit of the French countryside!

Bon appétit !

SERVES 4 (1 quarter of the pie per person)

Tip: You can double the recipe, making two pies for left overs.

☆ Download the PDF recipe here ☆

Kitchen Tools You’ll Need:

Pan for sautéing

Pie mould

Wooden spoon

Cutting board

Cutting knife

Three small cooking bowls

Oven or toaster oven big enough for your pie mould

Ingredients*:

Poultry

Rotisserie chicken thighs stripped off the bone x 2 (~ 300 g) 10.58 oz

(Chicken breasts work too, but I’ve found the thighs have more flavor)

Veggies

Mushrooms (Portobello, white or dark brown mushrooms work well) – (100 g) 3.5 oz

Sun dried tomatoes preserved in oil – (100 g) 3.5 oz

Onion x about 1/2 onion – (50 g) 1.7 oz

Spinach – 2 generous handfuls – (~ 100-150 g) 3-4 oz

1 Garlic Clove

Dairy Products

Pie dough – x 2 – store bought is fine

Brie cheese – 1/2 full round wheel (250 grams) 9oz or 1 1/2 triangles (250 grams) 9 oz

Butter (or extra virgin olive oil for a more healthy option) – (50 g) 1.7 oz

Heavy cream – 1 full container (20 cl) 6.7 fluid oz

Les Restes

Fig jam or preserves of your choice – for the bottom filling of the pie mould – (~ 75-100 g) 2.6-3.5 oz

Salt & pepper – Pinch for seasoning

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Pre-Step (if needed)

If cooking the chicken yourself, you can do this in advance of prepping. Cook the chicken thighs in the oven until no longer pink on the inside and browned and crispy on the outside. A crispy chicken skin can add flavor, you want to keep this for your pie.

Prep

1. Drain the sun-dried tomatoes from the oil

2. Dice the mushrooms, onion and sun-dried tomatoes. Set aside in a cooking bowl for later.

3. If you have chicken with bones, strip the meat off and set aside in a cooking bowl.

4. Dice half of the wheel of Brie. Set aside for later in the last cooking bowl

5. Take the pie dough out of the fridge so it softens before being laid out onto the pie mould. Don’t let it get too warm or it can be difficult to work with. If your kitchen starts to heat up, stick it back in the fridge until ready for laying out onto the pie mould.

6. Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees celsius (356 degrees Fahrenheit). If your oven has a setting to bake the bottom of the oven, set it to this, the bottom pie crusts takes longer to cook through. Then you can switch to a toasty setting to finish off the top if needed.

☆

Click here to get your FREE PDF

All Things Parisian

Bucket List 2021

☆

Cooking

1. Heat up a pan on medium heat. Drizzle olive oil in the middle.

2. Once the pan is warm enough for sautéing, add the mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, and onion.

3. Let this cook for approximately 7 minutes or until the mushrooms are soft.

4. Add the chicken to the mixture. And stir for an additional 2-3 minutes while the chicken browns.

5. Lower the heat to a low/medium setting. And add the box of heavy cream slowly while you stir. Let this thicken over a slow heat for an additional 5-7 minutes. While this is simmering, prepare the pie mould.

Pie

1. Butter up your pie mould.

2. Unroll the bottom layer of the pie dough in the mould. If the dough overflows, you can later fold it over itself or cut the edges.

3. Add the a thin layer (no more than a cm) of figue jam to the pie dough surface.

4. Add bits and pieces of Brie on top of the jam. Save some for the top of the filling.

5. After your chicken and veggie mix has mixed in and has thickened up, add this to the pie as your filling. Spread it evenly in the pie.

6. Add the rest of the Brie over the top of the filling.

7. Unroll the 2nd pie dough oven the mould. Trim the edges so that you have a nice even pie crust. And pinch the edges of the two pie crust layers so your filling doesn’t leak out.

8. Prick a few holes through the top of your crust to allow air to pass through so that your pie doesn’t bubble up in the oven.

9. Pop the pie in the oven for approximately 20-25 minutes or until the bottom and top crusts are golden. Check on it regularly to make sure the bottom pie crust is cooking evenly.

10. Take out of the oven for 5 minutes to cool before cutting.

11. Serve with a French red wine, I prefer Bordeaux or a Côte de Rhone. They match perfectly with the flavours in your Un-Brie-Lievable Pie.

Although this French recipe has many ingredients, it’s pretty straightforward to make once all the ingredients are mixed in. You pour it over the fig jam and brie and pop it in the over for a delicious mélange of sweet and savory French cooking. Finally, enjoy with your favorite French wine.