Pie

Chicken and Butternut Squash Pie

Prep45 min
Cook75 min
Total120 min
Serves6
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Method

Make it happen

  1. 01

    Rub the butter into the flour and salt, leaving a few pea-sized pieces. Add cold water gradually to bring the dough together. Roll into a rectangle, fold in thirds twice and chill for 30 minutes to make a quick rough-puff pastry.

  2. 02

    Roll pastry to 4 mm thick, large enough to cover a 24 cm pie dish.

  3. 03

    Roast squash with half the oil at 190°C fan for 20 minutes until almost tender. Meanwhile brown chicken and onion in the rest of the oil.

  4. 04

    Sprinkle over flour and paprika, gradually add stock and cook until chicken is done and gravy thickens. Stir in roast squash and parsley and cool.

  5. 05

    Heat the oven to 190°C fan. Transfer the filling to a 24 cm pie dish and let it cool enough that it will not melt the pastry. Lay on the rolled pastry, press around the rim and cut two small steam holes.

  6. 06

    Bake for 35 minutes until the homemade pastry is puffed, deeply golden and cooked through. Rest 10 minutes before serving.