Chicken Pie

It's funny how a certain thing must taste as our mind thinks it must taste. How a certain mashed potato should taste, how a certain bbq rack of rib must taste, how a potato salad must taste etc... to me, even Christmas has it's certain unique "taste"! One day, the "taste" of Chicken Pie was so strong on my tongue that I had to run out to the place known best for it's Chicken Pie in Kuching - Aloha delicatessen during lunch hour and gobbled up one immediately in the car. But sadly, despite being really good, the pie didn't meet the "taste" that I had in my mind.


So, woo to me, I had to make the pie myself.... I've been longing to make this for ages, but, the pastry puff dough part put me off. I knew that there's ready-to-use pastry dough easily available but being the typical baker I thought I am, I didn't want to succumb to using this easy way out. Ya, ya.... very action I know ;)


Given that thought, when I saw Jane churned out beautiful puffs, I quickly put aside my baker pride and quickly grab the pastry puff and made these right away. Well, right away after figuring out how to use the puff pastry dough that is!


Apparently, ours didn't come with a plastic separator in between the pastry sheets and ours turned into a big slab of dough! so some rolling was needed (along with lots of head scratching trying to figure out the dough). But we ended up with some gorgeous scrumptious chicken pie that tasted the way it should (in my mind that is!)


We had about 12 chicken pies to last us for a couple of days and though it was great, I think it will be a while before I use the other slab of dough now stuck in my freezer ;)