Smoked Mini Chicken Pot Pies
Do you like chicken? Do you like pie? How about chicken pot pie? Adding smoke to this mix creates a backyard flavor I didn’t think we could find in a pot pie!
YouTube Instructional: https://youtu.be/WyPdRSvCDWA
Ingredients:
1 3/4 Cups Smoked Chicken
3/4 Cup Chopped Onion
3/4 Cup Chicken Broth
3/4 Cup Milk
1/2 Tsp Hot Sauce (Franks)
1 Tbsp White Flour
1/2 Cup Chopped Carrots
3 Tbsp Salted Butter
1/2 Cup Frozen Peas
3/4 Cup Blanched and Cubed Potatos
1 Egg
4 Premade Pie Crusts
Wet Brine:
4 Cups Water
4 Tbsp Kosher Salt
2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
1 Garlic Clove
Step 1: Wet Brine the whole chicken
Mix the water, salt, and sugar together and throw in the crushed garlic clove.
Fully submerge the chicken, breast side down for 12 hours or so
Step 2: Smoke the chicken
Completely rinse the brine off of the bird.
Beer can the chicken (or spatchcock for faster cooking) and put on the smoker at 250 degrees
Also add in the butter in a pan onto the smoker
When the chicken reaches 150 degrees, begin basting the chicken with butter and bump the temp to 350
Pull the chicken when the thickest part is appx 160-165 degrees and allow to rest and cool off
Step 3: Saute the Onions
With some butter in a cast iron skillet, saute the onions until tender
Step 4: Thicken mix
When the onions are softened, add in the flour and salt until the butter thickens
Then add in broth and milk, and allow to reduce
Step 5: Add vegetables and chicken
Add in hot sauce, peas, carrots, and blanched/cubed potatoes and then thinly cut up chicken
Step 6: Fill up Mini Dutch Ovens
OPTIONAL: fill the interior sides of the dutch oven with dough
Scoop the pot pie mixture all the way to the top of the oven
Step 7: Cover the pot pies
Cut a circle into the pie crust just larger than the opening of the Dutch oven.
Drape the cut crust over the Dutch oven and poke several holes into it with a fork.
Step 8: Smoke the pot pies until brown
Bump the smoker to 350
Smoke the Pot pie for appx an hour
At the half hour mark, brush an egg on top of the pot pies
Pull when they look good and golden
LET THEM REST (they will be hot as the surface of the sun)
Enjoy!
