NIGERIAN CHICKEN PIE SPECIAL

Freshly Baked Chicken Pie

1kg Plain Flour
500g Unsalted Butter
1/2 cup Whole Milk + 1/4cup Cold Water
Mix together all the ingredients for the dough with two clean hands adding the liquid gradually until well mixed, making sure dough is properly bind together and allow to rest while you prepare the pie filling.  

                                                   Pie Dough after mixing

Pie filling 

6 Chicken Thighs
2 Large Carrots(chopped into tiny chunks)
2 Large Potatoes(chopped into tiny chunks)
Season chicken with 1 small white onion, 2 cubes of knorr, 1 tsp of thyme, 1 tsp of curry, 1/4 tsp salt and cook for 20 minutes on low heat allowing the chicken to produce its own juice. Leave to cool down, carefully separate the flesh from the bone, place the chicken on a chopping board and cut into small pieces, set aside. Seamer carrot and potato in hot water for 7 minutes, seive and set aside. Place a pan on the stove and add 3 tbs of sunflower oil allow to heat up and throw in the chopped up chicken, stir fry for 2 minutes just to dry up the juice a little bit, add the carrot and potato, mix 1 tbs of flour in 1/4 cup chicken stock/broth(serves as thickener for the filling) and cook for further 2 minutes, taste for salt before adding more as the chicken broth contains salt and seasoning, set aside to cool down. Make an egg and milk mixture for sealing/glazing the pie with 1 egg and 2 tbs milk. On a clean kitchen top/table, spread flour, grab a ball of dough and roll out to 2 cm thick, use a round cookie cutter to cut out 2 circle shapes, add filling, rub the egg mixture on the edges and place the second circle cut out on top, use a fork to press down the edges to help seal properly, brush the egg mixture on pie, place pies on a lined baking tray and bake in the middle oven Gas mark 5 for about 7 minutes, bring out and brush the egg mixture on pie again, put back in the oven and bake till pie is brown all over, leave to cool down and enjoy. We eat chicken pie as a snack with a glass of milk for the kids and Alpro Soya milk for me, breakfast with hot chocolate/tea/coffee or with soft drinks like Coca cola.