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I’ve been looking for ways to thicken sauces without flour or starch. This recipe uses onions and cauliflower to make a thick sauce to hold the filling for my pie – and I get a bonus serve of vegetables too! Chicken, peas and carrots are some of my favourite pie fillings and I’ve used a sweet potato mash as the topping.
Chicken and Vegetable Pie
A chunky chicken and vegetable pie with a white sauce and sweet potato mash. The Thermomix does most of the heavy lifting here. Use the oven to crisp up the mash.
Ingredients
- 2 onions peeled and quartered
- 2 cloves garlic peeled
- 10 g light olive oil
- 500 g cauliflower florets
- 160 g reduced fat milk
- 1 tbsp Thermomix vegetable stock concentrate
- Salt and pepper to season
- 2 cups frozen peas
- 2 carrots peeled and diced into 1-1.5cm pieces
- 1 kg sweet potato peeled and cut into 3cm pieces
- 600 g chicken breast cut into 3cm pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200C (390C) on the broiler setting
- Put onion and garlic into the Thermomix bowl and chop for 6 seconds | Speed 5
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl, put oil into the Thermomix bowl and sauté with the measuring cup (MC) off for 3 minutes | Varoma | Speed 1
- Put cauliflower into the Thermomix bowl, close the lid and chop with the MC on for 5 seconds | Reverse | Speed 5
- Add 60g of the milk, stock, salt and pepper into the bowl
- Put potatoes into the bottom of the Varoma and spread out evenly
- Cut a piece of wax or baking paper to fit the Varoma tray, scrunch it up and lay it on the Varoma tray
- Put chicken on the Varoma tray, season with salt and pepper, assemble the Varoma and place it on top of the Thermomix
- Cook for 10 minutes | Varoma | Speed 2
- Put peas and carrots into the Thermomix basket, take off the Varoma and sit the basket into the Thermomix bowl
- Reassemble the Varoma on top of the Thermomix and cook for a further 10 minutes | Varoma | Speed 2
- Remove the Varoma and basket, then blend the cauliflower into a sauce with the MC on; going slowly from Speed 1 to Speed 9 for 1 minute
- Add peas, carrots and chicken into the bowl and stir to combine with the sauce; pour into a rectangular roasting dish
- Quickly rinse the Thermomix bowl, put the potatoes into the bowl, add 100g of milk and cook with the MC off for 9 minutes | 100C | Speed 1
- Add salt and pepper, add butterfly and mash for 20 seconds | Speed 3
- Layer mashed potatoes on top of the chicken filling, use a fork to rough up the top of the potatoes and bake in the oven on the middle shelf for 20-30 minutes or until the top is browned
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[Last updated: February 2, 2014]
