Chicken Pot Pie

These things are so easy to make.  The most time-consuming part is if you make your crust from scratch.  (Notice I said time-consuming, not difficult!)  But either homemade crust or store-bought crust works well with this recipe.

Ingredients:

Vegetables,cubed/sliced--of your choice (I used carrots, potatoes, frozen corn and frozen peas)
Chicken, cooked and cubed (can also use beef or any other meat)
Onions, chopped--to your taste
**White sauce plus 1 c. chicken (or beef) broth and reserved veggie broth **Read directions below before making the white sauce as there are a few additions to the recipe.
Pie crust (homemade or store bought)

Slice up your vegetables and place them in a small saucepan along with water.  Turn stove top on medium heat, cover, and allow the vegetables to cook for about 10 minutes, or until tender.

In another sauce pan, melt the butter as directed in the white sauce recipe, but also add in the chopped onion and saute in the butter until translucent.

Add in the flour, salt, and pepper per the white sauce recipe.  Then add the milk along with 1 c. broth.  By this time your veggies should be soft and you can drain them, but reserve that liquid and pour it into the white sauce as well.  Cook the sauce until it begins to thicken and comes to a nice consistency.

At this point, you will add the chicken and the veggies to the white sauce and stir them all together.  My chicken looks a little funny in this picture; normally I would use cubed chicken, but I have a bunch of pre-cooked, chopped chicken in my freezer ready to throw into a variety of recipes, so that's what I used here to save some time.

Pour the filling into your waiting pie crust.

Carefully cover with 2nd pie crust.  Cut slits in the top crust to allow the steam to escape during baking.  (You may want to place a cookie sheet underneath the pot pie while it bakes in case any liquid cooks out of the pie.)

Bake for at least 45 minutes, until the pie crust turns golden brown.

Allow pot pie to rest for about 10 minutes before slicing into it.  The longer it sits, the more the sauce thickens up.  Cut into pieces, serve, and enjoy!