Chicken and Mushroom Pot Pie with a Mediterranean Touch

It's colder here than it has been in the last few weeks and that has made me crave comfort food more and more.



When I think of fresh flavours I turn to Italian and Portuguese cuisine but when I think of comfort food I inevitably think of British recipes.

These include stews, casseroles and inevitably pies. My favourite in the latter being Chicken and Mushroom Pie.



Traditionally in Britain, this pie has no pastry base and is usually topped off with puff pastry.

It should look something like this:

As always, I was keen to combine British and Mediterranean flavours, so I added 3 non traditional ingredients: White Wine, Pancetta and a touch of Parsley.

These really added an interely new depth of flavours.

I also made a pastry base to help sustain the the juicy filling.



The Italian folk were really impressed with this. They even offered to take pictures, so the final product pics you see here are courtesy of the Italian Folk.

Grazie Mille!

In the meantime prepare your pastry base. Oh and pre heat the oven too lol. I bought ready made pastry as the one they have here is high quality. Line your pastry dish with the pastry





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