Hookery Cookery Home > Christmas Recipes > Chicken and Mushroom Vol-au-vent
Description/Notes:
An equally delicious supper or party dish you can serve hot or cold; the little extra effort needed in making this dish will more than compensate for it’s vastly superior flavour to the cardboardy tasting ready-made alternative
Ingredients:
Cooking Instructions:
- Put the chicken and giblets into a large saucepan then add bay leaves, salt, pepper, onion and carrots
- Add water, cover the saucepan and cook over a gentle heat for one and a half to two hours or until the chicken is tender
- Heat the oven to 450F, Gas Mark 8, 240C
- On a lightly floured surface roll out the pastry to half to three quarters of an inch (1-1.5cms) thick
- Cut out an 11 inch (28cm) round and put on a baking sheet
- Cut a 9 inch (23cm) round in the center of the pastry, this time only cutting nearly through the pastry and brush the trop with milk
- Cook in the middle of the oven for about 45 minutes, until the pastry is well risen
- Allow to cool on a wire rack then cut out the lid
- Carefully scoop out the uncooked pastry from the middle
- Take the chicken out of the stock and cut the meat into manageable chunks
- Save half a pint(285ml) of chicken stock for the filling
- Place the butter in a saucepan and heat gently until it melts
- Add the flour, stir and cook for about 2 minutes then stir in the chicken stock and milk
- Crumble the chicken stock cube, add to the pan and bring to the boil while stirring
- Reduce the heat, add the mushrooms and stir for a further 10 minutes before stirring in the chicken and cream
- Place the vol-au-vent casing on a serving plate, fill with the chicken and mushroom filling and gently replace the lid