“As it should be, my mother, Inez Espost’s chicken pie, is the best I have ever tasted. I can hardly remember a Sunday lunch, birthday, Christmas, christening of family gathering where her chicken pie was not one of the big talking points around the table. ”
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Serves 6
'); googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('dfp-300x250-2'); }); document.write(''); }1 Put the chicken in a large saucepan. Add the spices and bay leaves and season with salt. Add the vinegar, onion, carrots and water.
2 Let the chicken cook gently, you should barely be able to hear it simmer. The chicken will announce when she is ready – that’s when the meat falls off the bones after about an hour or even more. Take the meat apart and remove pieces of bone and carcass. Remove the cloves.
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4 Melt the butter in the saucepan. Add the flour and stir until smooth. Add 1½ c of the chicken stock. Cook for 3 minutes. Add to the chicken.
5 Roll the dough out. It should be a few centimeters larger than the bowl. Line the bowl with it. Cut an extra strip of dough and place around the perimeter – paint the bottom with a little cold water to help it stick. Spoon the chicken filling in and cover with rolled out dough.
6 You can decorate the edge and top layer with your own creativity. My Grandma made leaves and daisy patterns.
7 Prick a few holes in the dough to help the steam escape. Paint the dough with egg (1 egg mixed with 1 tbsp. water)
8 Bake for 15 minutes at 200 ° C to cook the dough and then turn down to 180 ° C for another 20 minutes until cooked and golden brown. A pale chicken pie is a raw chicken pie.
– As told by Errieda du Toit
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