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Upside Down Chicken, Leek & Mushroom Pie

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Upside Down Chicken, Leek and Mushroom Pie

Welcome back to Upside Down Cooking and we’re sticking with the comfort food this chilly weekend with this Chicken, Leek and Mushroom Pie.

For the cheesy sauce:
• 500ml milk
• 25g flour
• 50g butter
• 100g strong cheddar – finely grated
• 1 tablespoon @paysanbretonuk cream cheese
• Salt and pepper

For the pie:
• 1 sheet of ready-rolled puff pastry, roughly 35 x 23cm
• drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil
• salt and pepper
• 2 sprigs thyme, leaves picked
• 2 breasts pre-cooked chicken – shredded
• 5 mushrooms – quartered
• ½ leek – thinly sliced
• Half the cheese sauce above (the rest will freeze)
• 1 egg, beaten

You will need a large baking tray, roughly 43 x 30cm (I use the Jelly Roll pan from @nordicwareuk ), lined with baking parchment

To make the sauce, place the milk, flour and butter into a pan and whisk with a balloon whisk until melted. Continue whisking until it starts to thicken. This should take about 5 mins. Stir in the cheeses and set aside.

Preheat the oven to 200°C fan/425°F Remove the pastry from the fridge and set aside. Mark out a large rectangle on the baking parchment the same size as the pastry and place it drawn-side down on the baking tray. Drizzle over a little olive oil, then sprinkle with the thyme. Season with a little salt and pepper.

Leaving a 1cm (½in) border, scatter the chopped mushrooms and leeks over the drawn rectangle, then add thee chicken. Ensure you have an even placement of each. Pour over half the sauce.

Roll out the puff pastry and lay it over the top of the chicken and leek pie. Using the back of a fork, press indentations around the edge of the pastry to seal. Score the top in a diamond pattern with a sharp knife and then brush with egg.

Bake for 30 minutes, or until the pastry is golden and puffy. Remove from the oven. Allow the pie to sit on the tray for 5 minutes. Lay a chopping board and carefully flip it over. Peel off the backing paper. Place the pie back in the oven for a further 5 minutes to brown the top and get the cheese bubbling.

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37 Comments

  8. @stormygayle9388

    what a bloody great idea at so many levels.. i’m 75.. been cooking all
    my life.. i don’t see be many novel ideas v but this one i like coz pies can be v heavy with pastry and this is like a pizza/slice with the chicken and leek.. definitely making this.. and will use it for other flavours!! Thk u 🥰🐨👍🏻❤️

  9. @dogcatfamily2476

    Wow ❗😮😳
    Converted❣️😊
    Subscribing if you can make a VEGAN UPSIDE-DOWN PIE.
    🫀WE ALL NEED MORE VEGGIES🌱 LESS DAIRY🐮 AND MEAT 🍖.

  10. @sallymb6356

    Oh god, that looks gorgeous. So much better than done the other way, lots of lovely crispiness.

  14. @SapphireDragon_

    would it be possible to replace the mushrooms in this recipe with chestnuts? I am deadly allergic to the shrooms

  17. @PinkyBFox

    Good lord, that's positively sinful! Thank you for the inspiration, now I know what to cook this weekend. 🙂

  20. @janwheeler87

    That is absolutely beautiful! I've been cooking for 50 years and have never seen such a unique dish, will definitely be making this!!

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