Chicken Pie, Traditional South African Style Recipe

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Chicken Pie, Traditional South African Style
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Ingredients
17
Count
Nutrition
5077
Calories
Total time
120
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. * About the chicken: it's hard to get a chicken larger than 3 lbs. Buy a nice chubby chicken, and make up the shortfall with a pack of chicken pieces. We prefer the brown meat, which is more flavourful than breasts).
  2. Defrost the pastry in the fridge or at room temperature, but make sure it stays cool. If you made My Gran's Sour Cream Pastry, keep in plastic wrap in fridge until needed.
  3. Use a large pot, like a soup pot. Add the water, and then the whole chicken, any extra fat removed. Add giblets as well, if available.
  4. Sprinkle over the stock powder or granules: please note that you use the stock powder itself, not a mix made with water!
  5. Put on lid. Bring to boil, turn down heat, keep lid on, and boil chicken gently until almost tender, about 45 minutes.
  6. Then soak the sago granules in a little warm water - they swell a little - and add, stirring it into the water around the chicken.
  7. Simmer with lid on until chicken flesh almost falls from bones, and the sago has turned into translucent little pearls.
  8. Take chicken out of the sauce and leave in a dish to cool down. Leave the sauce in the pot, but give the bottom a good scrape to loosen the bits that stick. Bits of meat can stay in the sauce, just lift out any bones with a slotted spoon: the wing tips often fall off into the sauce.
  9. When the chicken and sauce have both cooled down enough, take all the bones from the chicken, and cut up the meat. This is a messy job, but be careful to remove all small bones. Use ALL meat and skin. Don't cut up meat too finely - bite-sized. Rub soft meat and skin off carcass and wings so you use it all.
  10. Then, with a slotted spoon, remove remaining meaty bits from the sauce in the pot, and add all edibles to the chicken meat, discarding small bones. Don't worry about the sauce in the pot: it will still have bits in it.
  11. Add the flour to the sauce, and whisk in smoothly. A wire whisk usually does the job with no lumps remaining. Add all the flavourings to the sauce, and taste the result - chickens differ, flavourings differ. Adjust to your taste. Be especially careful not to oversalt, so taste before you add the salt. (Some chicken stock powders are salty, others not).
  12. Beat the eggs in a bowl, and add to the sauce.
  13. Now add the chopped chicken to the pot again. Stir through with wooden spoon. Taste again: you might want more seasoning at this stage, and you can also add a touch of chilli, if you like.
  14. Set oven at 220 deg C (425 deg F).
  15. On a floured board, roll pastry out thinner (if necessary) and to fit the top of your dish. Beat an extra egg in a small bowl.
  16. Using a suitable oven dish, scrape the chicken with its sauce into the dish.
  17. Slice up the ham, and scatter over the top. This filling should come up to within 1 1/2 inch, or 3 cm from the top of the dish.
  18. Paint the edges of the dish with beaten egg to help the pastry stick, then cover loosely with the puff pastry. Do NOT stretch: leave a bit of slack, as the pastry will shrink as it bakes. Press the edges neatly with your fingers all around the dish, then cut off excess pastry with scissors or a sharp knife.
  19. Brush the pastry with the extra beaten egg. Put into the hot oven. After 15 minutes, turn heat down to 180 deg C (350 deg F) and bake for about 1 hour or until pastry is puffed up and golden, and you can see the filling sizzling underneath (if using a glass dish).
  20. Suggested side dishes: South African Yellow Rice or roast potatoes, steamed green beans, sweet potatoes, and a tomato salad.
  21. Although the recipe sounds long, it's really worth making and it's a favourite with every age group.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 5077.07 Kcal (21257 kJ)
Calories from fat 1954.99 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 217.22g 334%
Cholesterol 1114.77mg 372%
Sodium 3237.18mg 135%
Potassium 2390.87mg 51%
Total Carbs 57.33g 19%
Sugars 2.39g 10%
Dietary Fiber 3.9g 16%
Protein 218.98g 438%
Vitamin C 40.2mg 67%
Iron 16.7mg 93%
Calcium 233.3mg 23%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 336.8 Kcal (1410 kJ)
Calories from fat 129.69 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 14.41g 334%
Cholesterol 73.95mg 372%
Sodium 214.74mg 135%
Potassium 158.6mg 51%
Total Carbs 3.8g 19%
Sugars 0.16g 10%
Dietary Fiber 0.26g 16%
Protein 14.53g 438%
Vitamin C 2.7mg 67%
Iron 1.1mg 93%
Calcium 15.5mg 23%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 118.9
    Points
  • 82
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • sugar free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Total Fat

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