School holiday recipe for 4 people, takes only 50 mins; recipe has carrot, potato, butter, ham, chicken breast, pea and double cream.
Chicken pie with a carrot thatch
Course: School holiday
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
40 mins
Ingredients
- Chicken Breast: 3 chicken breast fillets
- Carrot: 1 large carrot or 2 small
- Butter: 2 tbsp butter, melted
- Pea: 3 tbsp frozen peas, defrosted
- Ham: 1 slice cooked ham
- Potato: 1 large potato or 2 small
- Double Cream: 4 tbsp double cream
Directions
- Ask a grown-upto heat the oven to 200C/180C fan, then boil the carrot and potato whole for 5 minutes, then put them in a bowl of cold water to cool down. When cold, peel them carefully.
- Grate the carrot and potato (cut them into chunks first if you are using a rotary grater).
- Put the grated carrot and potato in a large bowl, add the melted butter and mix it all together.
- Cut the ham into small pieces using scissors or a small knife, then cut the chicken into pieces.
- Put the chicken and ham in a pie dish with the peas and cream and give everything a stir.
- Spoon the carrot thatch onto the pie and ask your grown-up helper to put the pie in the oven for 50 minutes or until the chicken and topping are cooked through.
