Mini Chicken Pot Pies

Picky-picky hubby loves chicken pot pies, but they definitely  accept non been on my "quick fix" listing until now. This "recipe" is almost a cheater recipe, because y'all tin skip the filling recipe below as well as but role your favorite leftover chicken as well as gravy to build
these. 

They were thus tasty that picky-picky hubby went dorsum for seconds!! With this quick as well as slow technique, I tin encounter nosotros volition live on having mini chicken pot pies a lot to a greater extent than often.



2 potatoes  cubed fairly small
1 loving cup favorite veggies(I role a frozen pea-corn-green edible bean mix)
1/2 stalk celery chopped fine
1 tablespoon onion chopped fine
1 carrot sliced thin
1 COOKED chicken thorax pocket-sized cubed
1 underground of fridge rolls (see banking concern annotation virtually brand)
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
2 1/2 cups chicken broth (see note)
2 teaspoons chicken bullion
pepper to taste

In a large sauce pan, saute the onion as well as celery inwards a lilliputian butter until soft. Add the chicken broth, potatoes, veggies, bullion as well as pepper (DO NOT ADD THE CHICKEN MEAT AT THIS STAGE). Boil virtually 5-8 minutes or until potatoes as well as carrots are fork tender.

Drain but SAVE THE BROTH!! In a medium size sauce pan, melt iii tablespoons of butter as well as then add together iii tablespoons flour as well as stir, (cook for virtually a infinitesimal to ready out the raw flour taste).  Add the saved chicken broth (whisk similar crazy when y'all add together the broth). Cook until the mixture thickens, as well as then position the cooked veggies dorsum in. Remove from oestrus as well as laid aside. Note: If the "gravy' seems a lilliputian thick, but add together a distich tablespoons to a greater extent than chicken broth.

Spray a Texas size muffin pan lightly alongside vegetable spray (even if it is a non-stick pan). Roll out each fridge biscuit rattling sparse as well as house i inwards each muffin cup.

Then role your fingers to press the thinned out biscuit upward the sides as well as to the overstep of each cup.

NOTE: If y'all don't accept a Texas size muffin pan, encounter banking concern annotation below.

NOTE: We telephone telephone underground fridge biscuits "whomp rolls" because of the audio they build when y'all "whomp" them on the border of the counter to opened upward them. I've tried several brands as well as they volition ALL work, but the rattling best i (for these mini pot pies) is a Kroger build biscuit called JUMBO butter biscuits (our Fred Meyer sells them).

Place pieces of cooked chicken inwards the bottom of each lilliputian pot pie as well as and then spoon the veggies as well as gravy over it (almost to the top).

Place the muffin pan on a cookie tray (in example you've filled them likewise much) and bake inwards preheated 375 oven for xx minutes or until golden dark-brown as well as bubbly.

Remove from oven as well as allow sit for iii or iv minutes BEFORE taking them out of the pan; this volition actually help.

Don't worry, they remain hot forever!! Use a butter knife to assistance y'all inwards lifting these out of the pan.

NOTE:  If y'all don't role chicken bullion, you'll accept to add together a lilliputian tabular array salt to the sauce.

NOTE: On occasion, I purchase Pillsbury Grands fridge biscuits, but they don't move good for this recipe (too bready). The Kroger build of Jumbo Butter Biscuits scroll out overnice as well as sparse as well as they bake into a sparse crusty-buttery shell.

NOTE: I don't mean value this recipe will move rattling good inwards a criterion cupcake pan unless y'all chop everything VERY pocket-sized as well as role alone one-half of a fridge biscuit (but I've never tried it).