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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

"Chicken Pie" (فطيرة الفراخ)

This is a very delicious recipe, which contains lots of nutritious ingredients.
It contains vegetables, chicken, milk, and cheese.
Let us see how we can prepare such a dish.




This dish is prepared on 3 stages:
  1. Boil the chicken, after cleaning and washing it using flour and salt.
  2. Prepare the bechamel in a big nonstick pot.
  3. Boil the vegetables for 15 minutes on high heat (don't overcook it).
  4. Prepare the dough.

Ingredients needed for the stuffing:

250 gm of mixed vegetables (the frozen bags which contains, peas, corn and carrots).
1 boiled Cornish hen.
1/2 of a small can of sliced black olives.
1/2 of a small can of sliced green olives.


Ingredients needed for the bechamel:

5 overfilled tbsp flour.
4 cups milk.
1/4 cup grated romano cheese.
1 overfilled tbsp Ghee.
Salt & pepper.

  • Directions of preparing the bechamel is in the "Macaroni Bechamel recipe".
  • Ingredients and directions of the dough are in the "Pizza recipe".
  • Both are found in our blog!
Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
  2. After preparing all previous, remove bones and cut the chicken into medium thick slices.
  3. Strain the boiled vegetables.
  4. Add the chicken, vegetables, black and green sliced olives to the bechamel and stir.
  5. Divide the dough into 2 equal parts. One will be used as a bottom and the other as a top for the pie. Spread both parts.
  6. Brush the oven dish (stone or pyrex dish)  with oil and spread the bottom part in it.
  7. Pour the bechamel mix over it (don't overfill it).
  8. Then cover it with the other dough part on top.
  9. Heat about 2 tbsp oil on high heat then brush the surface of the dough with it.
  10. Put in oven in a lower rack for 20 minutes.
  11. Then transfer to the middle rack for 5-8 minutes until the surface becomes golden brown and fully baked.
  12. Check by inserting a knife in the dough, if it comes out clean then it's done.






It's a recipe with many steps, but once you taste it, you won't regret doing that delicious pie!
Enjoy.

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