Mom's Chicken Pot Pie

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 pie shell (pre-made, frozen, or homemade)
• 1 chicken breast (2 if you like a lot of chicken)
• 8 ounces peas
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 (10 1/2 ounce) can cream of chicken soup
• 8 ounces sour cream
• 1 cup creole seasoning (more if you like)
• 1 (8 ounce) can chicken broth or 1 bouillon cube
• 1/4 cup butter
• 8 ounces mild cheddar cheese, shredded
• 16 ounces half-and-half cream (you won't use all of it)
• all-purpose flour

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 in pan, melt butter on medium high.
• 3 when melted, add flour to fully cover all of the butter on the bottom of the pan.
• 4 stir with a wisk and lower the temperature to med-low.
• 5 it should start to have a cookie dough-like consistency.
• 6 constantly wisk so that the dough/sauce never browns or burns.
• 7 slowly add cream and stir with wisk.
• 8 add more and more cream, untill it has a creamy sauce consistency. when creamy, add shredded cheese slowly and wisk.
• 9 in a seperate pan add the butter and chopped seasoning. let it cook down into the butter.
• 10 while waiting, cut up the chicken breasts and cook in a separate pan.
• 11 in a pot, add can of condensed cream of chicken soup and seasoning mixture.
• 12 reduce it to a more liquid form, by adding chicken broth.
• 13 add the chicken, peas, and sour cream.
• 14 let it cook and simmer, but stirring all the time so the cheese does not burn.
• 15 precook the pie shell in a glass pie dish until it is firm - not brown.
• 16 pour in the contents of the pan into the warmed pie shell.
• 17 if using a top, cut around glass pie dish and press with fingers. if not, just place in oven.
• 18 cut slits in the top for venting the pie.
• 19 cook for 30 minutes or until shell is light brown.