Real Life Recipes

Easy Pot Pies
As prepared by Chef Mike Benninger of Thyme Management

Easy Pot Pies (makes 4-6 ramekin sized pies)

1 cup each cooked "left-over" peas, diced carrots and cooked
chicken/turkey/duck
1 cup white sauce (see below)
1 sheet store-bought puff pastry

Make a basic white sauce (add 2 TBSP plain flour to 1 cup whole milk
along with 1/2 TSP salt and 1/2 TSP pepper and cook until thickened) and
add the cooked left-over's, toss to combine. Fill 4, 6-7 ounce ramekins
full and top with a round of puff pastry and pinch at the edges to seal
as tight as possible. Cook until the puff pastry is cooked to a golden
brown puffed up like a cloud, about 20 minutes.

Serve immediately as a pot pie, or for a neat presentation, cut the top
of the pastry bowl off and tip out the pot pie into the pastry shell as
a bowl...