Chicken and Leek Pie

Ingredients:

• Olive oil – 1 tbsp
• Chicken breasts (large and cubed) – 4
• Butter – 1 tsp
• Large leeks (washed and cit into 1 cm thick rounds) – 3
• Plain flour – 1 tbsp
• White wine – 125 ml
• Chicken stock – 200 ml
• Philadelphia Light Cream Cheese – 100gm
• Parsley (chopped) – 1 tbsp
• Olive oil – 1 tbsp
• Filo pastry – 2 sheets

Method:

You need to olive oil in a frying pan which is sturdy and then you have to cook the chicken till you see that it becomes tender. This will take around 10 minutes; you will have to stir quite often while you cook. Then you remove it from the pan and then you leave this on a side. If you use cooked chicken then you can overlook this stage.

Then you have to add 1 tbsp of butter to the pan and then soften your leeks with this. Make sure that it doesn’t change color. This is going to take 5 minutes. Then you sprinkle the flour over this and cook it. Keep stirring all the time for another 2 minutes.

Then you have to stir the wine in along with the chicken stock. Then you have to bring this to a simmer and cook this for around 5 minutes, till you see that it has gotten lightly thick. Then you add the Philadelphia and stir this till you see that it has melted and formed a sauce. After this you need to add a dash of water if you see that it looks thick.

After this you need to bring the chicken back to the pan and then you add the parsley to this. Then you spoon the mixture into a shallow pie dish which h is of 1 liter and is oven proof and you let this cool. Then you have to brush the edge of the pie dish with the olive oil. Then you unroll the filo pastry and lay one of the sheets of this pastry over the pie dish.

Brush it with the olive oil again and repeat the process with the other sheet. The overhanging pastry should be scrunched up and then folded onto the surface of the pie and finally you have to brush olive oil on it once again. You then bake this in a pre heated oven which is at 190 degree Celsius for around 30 minutes. Till you see that it turns golden and you serve it from the dish.