Ingredients
Pastry
500g plain flour
250g soft butter
10g salt
20g egg yolk
125g water
10 g soft butter (to brush ring)
1 egg yolk ( to brush pie )
For the filling
75g flour
75g butter
750 ml chick stock
50 ml double cream
10 chicken breast cooked
500g button mushroom (cut in half and cooked)
500g leeks (cut 1 cm dice and cooked)
50g chopped tarragon
Salt and pepper
Introduction
Creedy Carver Chicken is St Pancras Brasserie’s signature dish and true representative of One Planet Plate’s campaign pillars. Reared in small flocks and fed on corn and vegetable protein, the chickens at Creedy Carver are regarded with huge emphasis on bird welfare and sustainable farming. It is a dish that champions our local produce and celebrate seasonality. At St Pancras Brasserie by Searcys we also use all of the animal including the bones for the stock.
Method
For the pastry, mix flour and soft butter, add salt, mix egg yolk and water together. Mix all ingredients together to form pastry, roll out and line buttered ring and cut out a top.
For the filling, melt butter in pan, add flour cook for 1 minute then add chicken stock
Simmer for 20 minutes, add double cream.
Pick chicken and add all cooked ingredients to sauce, add tarragon and check seasoning.
Place ingredients into lined pie ring until full. Place lid on and egg wash. Cook 200C for 20 minutes and serve.
