Chicken pot pie -cheap style
On 5/31/2012 12:12 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2012 23:54:19 -0400, Cheryl wrote:
>
>> I had some leftover chicken and some broccoli in the fridge to use up.
>> I braised them with a can of cream of broccoli soup until all was
>> tender. Then I flattened out half of a can of crescent rolls into a pie
>> pan. Poured in the broccoli-chicken-soup and sliced strips out of the
>> rest of the can of biscuits and laid them on top in a lattice.
>>
>> There you go. Trailer trash hotdish. LOL! Actually I know it will be
>> good. And a good quick use of leftover grilled chicken and broccoli that
>> was going to "go" in a day or so.
>
> Did the bottom crust cook OK or was it mushy? I almost used a can of
> french bread to do something similar last week but I thought better of
> it.
>
> =sw
It had some mushness but what touched the pan was crunchy I didn't
butter the pie pan but I'd bet if you did, it would be crustier. The
top was great. The crunchiness was why I tried to get the canned
biscuits as thin as possible. It was all about the filling but the
crunch was nice.
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