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CHICKEN, LEEK & TARRAGON PIE<br />
50g butter<br />
3 tbsp plain flour<br />
1 leek, trimmed & thinly sliced<br />
1½ cups chicken stock<br />
½ cup pouring cream<br />
1 tsp dried tarragon<br />
1 pinch white pepper<br />
Salt to taste<br />
1 whole cooked chicken*, deboned, meat chopped<br />
2 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed<br />
1 egg, lightly whisked<br />
1. Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat until foaming. Add leek and cook, stirring until leek<br />
softens (around 5min).<br />
2. Add flour, stirring, for a further 3 minutes or until mixture bubbles. Remove from heat.<br />
3. Gradually add stock, whisking until smooth. Return pan to heat and cook, stirring until mixture<br />
boils and thickens. Remove from heat.<br />
4. Whisk cream, tarragon and pepper into the flour mixture and season with salt. Stir in chopped<br />
chicken and set aside to cool completely.<br />
5. Pour chicken mixture into pie dish.<br />
6. Brush edge of pie dish with egg and top pie with puff pastry. Trim edge leaving 1.5 – 2cm<br />
overhang. Brush edge with egg. Cut 3cm wide strips of pastry from extra sheet and place on<br />
top of pie around outside edge. Pinch both layers of pastry together with fingers**. Cut three<br />
slits in top pastry. With leftover pastry cut out leaves and decorate top of pie and brush whole<br />
top with egg.<br />
7. Bake in <strong>Nu</strong><strong>Wave</strong> oven, on 5cm rack for 30mins or until pastry is golden brown.<br />
* A barbeque chicken can be used for this recipe, however you can cook a chicken in your <strong>Nu</strong><strong>Wave</strong> oven just as<br />
easily and this is more cost effective!<br />
** Join pastry by pinching. To do this, take index finger and thumb of left hand and place about 2cm from outer edge<br />
of pie, (this hand should be pointing to outside edge). Take index finger of right hand and pointing toward center of<br />
pie push outside edge of pie between the fingers of the left hand.<br />
This pie has a delicate taste of tarragon delighting every palate!<br />
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