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The other day, I actually wandered away from Pinterest while looking for a recipe! It was really because I was searching for something so general: recipes with shredded chicken. So I hit up Google, found Mom’s by Heart’s post for 40 Recipes for Shredded Chicken and promptly put it on Pinterest. 🙂 I bought a family-sized flat of chicken drumsticks last week that were about to go bad, so I cooked them all in the crock pot when I got home and then shredded the meat and tossed it in the refrigerator. We’ve been eating out of that for a few days now, and I was running out of ideas. When I saw the recipe for Easy Pot Pie, I knew it was just what I was looking for.
I ended up deviating from the original recipe quite a bit, due to a lack of ingredients and my need to “play” with recipes and make them my own. I am quite pleased with the outcome, and there’s a TON of filling still left over! The boys thought it was cool to eat out of individual ramekins. This will come together in less than 30 minutes and is a great way to get your veggies, too!
Easy Pot Pie
- 2 tbsp butter
- 4 tbsp flour
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 ounces cream cheese
- 1/2-1 cup stock (I used leftover turkey stock from Thanksgiving, but chicken would be fine)
- 1-2 cups shredded chicken
- 1 can mixed peas and carrots
- 1 can new potatoes, diced
- 1/4 cup onion, chopped
- 1 can cream corn
- 1 tbsp garlic powder (I prefer fresh, but I was out, so powder filled in for me) 🙂
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 can Flaky biscuits
- In a large saucepan, combine butter and flour , stirring constantly, until mixed and lightly browned
- Slowly add heavy cream, cream cheese and stock. Continue to cook and stir until thickened.
- Add chicken, peas and carrots, potatoes, onion and cream corn.
- Add spices to taste and cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Spoon into ramekins- don’t overfill, or you’ll have a mess!
- Cut biscuits into strips and weave on top of mixture to make a crust.
- Bake at 350° for 18-20, until bread is golden and mixture is bubbly.
- Note: it will now be as hot as the surface of the sun, so DO NOT hand your kids the ramekins straight from the oven! I popped mine into the freezer for about 5 minutes to make them tolerable. 🙂
As you can see, it’s very easy to adjust this recipe to include your favorite vegetables, change the stock to cream ratio, or choose a different kind of crust. I used cream cheese and cream corn because the recipe from Moms by Heart called for FOUR CUPS of heavy cream and I only bought one. Oops. I was completely satisfied with the creamy consistency of mine, so save yourself some money and some calories, too. 🙂 My husband commented more than once that it was a delicious meal. Winner!
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Jody says
What size ramekins are you using?
Nicole Burkholder says
I went digging through my cupboards and I can’t find them anywhere! They were a pretty standard size- about 3” across and 1 cup of filling could fit inside them with a little room for the topping. Sorry I can’t be more helpful- they were just the typical ramekins you find in the aisle at target 🙂
Chrystal M. says
Pot pie with cream cheese; who knew? Looks simply amazing.
Nicole Burkholder says
That was totally a substitution made of necessity, but it worked!
Christina @ Juggling Real Food and Real Life says
Great recipe Nicole! I just love comfort food and it doesn’t get any more comfort than pot pie. I love how you point out how things can be changed out for variety or to preference. I am always making those kind of changes with my family. Too many different preferences! I really need to quit reading recipes when I’m hungry. I want this now.
Nicole Burkholder says
Well, when you’re talking veggies, you can do anything! I had a bag of frozen mixed veggies, but then I saw that it had lima beans, which I hate. 🙂 So I switched to carrots and peas with the cream corn to make up for the missing heavy cream. 🙂 Actual fresh veggies would be even better, but even in CA, the produce section looks a little sad over the winter 🙂 Frozen or canned to the rescue! Oh, and we ate the filling for leftovers the next couple days, even without the biscuit top!
Tammy @ creativekkids.com says
It looks delicious, but I don’t have any ramekins! Great adjusting!
Nicole Burkholder says
I just got a set for my birthday. I’m surprised how much I use them!
Life with Kaishon says
What a great idea to make or create everything you pin. I haven’t made anything yet. I am coming to follow you right now : ). Nice to meet you via your comment on SITS post tonight.
Jenne says
Love me some pot pie. Never used cream cheese in it.
Nicole Burkholder says
I hadn’t either, but I needed something creamy to make up for my lack of heavy cream 🙂 It was a good choice. Yummmm…
Jessica Fasano (Savory Experiments) says
I love the concept of your page! Just pinned and tweeted! Keep the good stuff coming….
Nicole Burkholder says
Thank you so much! There’s so much out there to try!