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Chicken and Yellow Pea Pie

Here's how you make Chicken and Yellow Pea Pie
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 55m
    • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 250 grams chicken thighs (boneless fillets)
  • 1/2 brown onion
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1 carrot
  • 1/2 celery rib
  • 6 sage leaves (chopped)
  • 1 cup dry split peas (yellow)
  • 500 ml chicken stock (2 cups)
  • Olive oil
  • Salt (to taste)
  • Pepper (to taste)
  • 2 shortcrust pastry sheets
  • Milk (for basting)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: In a saucepan, cover the yellow peas with the stock, bring to the boil then simmer for 30 minutes (check now and then, to make sure it does not run out of stock and burn and top if necessary).

  • Step 2: Dice the chicken, onion, garlic, carrot and celery.

  • Step 3: Splash olive oil into a frying pan and bring up to the heat and toss in the chicken, vegetables, sage and the yellow peas (drained of excess fluid) and then season with salt and pepper and cook for 5 to 8 minutes and then allow to cool.

  • Step 4: Line loaf tin with pastry, overlapping slightly and then fill with the chicken mix and then fold pastry in and brush with milk.

  • Step 5: Score the second sheet of pastry in a diamond shape and place on top as the lid.

  • Step 6: Brush with milk and season with salt.

  • Step 7: Bake in a preheated oven at 190C for 20 minutes.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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