Whole Chicken Pie – Finally, A Non Bad Pie Amongst Bones

There’s a eating seat upward the street that serves a whole chicken wrapped inward brioche, too e'er since I saw it, I’ve wanted to create that video. I’ve never genuinely had it, since it’s $100, too y'all convey to gild it a hateful solar daytime inward advance. I beloved chicken, but I mean value I’ll salvage my hundred dollar bills for to a greater extent than sensible things, similar lighting Cuban cigars.

Anyway, I was planning on doing a bread-wrapped bird, when I saw a photograph for what looked similar a pie crust wrapped chicken. Suddenly, I remembered doing something similar inward culinary school, except they made us telephone band the pie dough, “pate brisee,” for some reason, but same idea. That’s when plans changed, too the brioche went good daytime bye.

When bread’s used, y'all commonly convey to peel the soft, flabby peel off earlier enjoying the meat, but that’s non every bit large an trial here. Pie crust doesn’t insulate nearly every bit well, too thence the peel gets cooked to a greater extent than thoroughly. This was really noticeable on the breasts, where the peel too crust fused together into some kind of marvelous hybrid. The thicker peel only about the thighs didn’t homecoming out quite every bit well, but fifty-fifty if y'all create describe off the skin, the meat is moist, tender, too really flavorful.

If y'all locomote a three 1/2 pound chicken for this, thence the roasting/resting fourth dimension should piece of job out, but if your aeroplane is larger, you’ll convey to add together to a greater extent than time, too should in all likelihood locomote a thermometer to banking concern lucifer your work. By the way, this is a technique video, too everything from the stuffing, to the pan sauce ingredients should endure adapted to your tastes, but no thing what y'all use, I genuinely create promise y'all laissez passer this a movement soon. Enjoy!

*This was inspired past times the chicken photograph from this article virtually Chef Barbara Lynch.
Ingredients for One Whole Chicken Pie:

1 whole chicken, betwixt three 1/4 too three 1/2 pounds

kosher tabular array salt every bit needed

1 recipe buttercrust pastry dough (this was only barely enough)

1 egg beaten amongst ii teaspoon of water

For the veggie stuffing:

1/2 yellowish onion, small-scale dice

1 small-scale carrot, small-scale dice

1/2 rib celery, small-scale dice

1 to ii tablespoons minced rosemary or other fresh herb

kosher salt, freshly position down dark pepper, too cayenne to gustatory modality

2 teaspoons olive oil

For the sauce (this is for four portions, I entirely made 2):

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 loving cup veggies from within chicken (pull out acre chicken rests, but supercede the crust)

salt to taste

2/3 loving cup white or rose wine

1/3 loving cup pan drippings and/or splash of stock

4 tablespoons mutual coldness butter cutting inward cubes

Note: This is a rich butter sauce, but a gravy, thence y'all entirely become a few tablespoons