Puff pastry chicken pies
Puff pastry gives a chicken pie a tall, shattering lid and works best on top of a filling rather than underneath it, where it tends to stay soft. Most of the pies here are lid-only for exactly that reason, and many use a good all-butter bought sheet, which is what most professional kitchens do too.
If you want to make your own, rough puff pastry gets most of the way to full puff in a fraction of the time. When the lid comes out flat, why puff pastry does not rise runs through the usual causes.
11 recipes
Weeknight skillet chicken pie
One pan, store-bought puff, and dinner inside an hour.
55 min · Serves 4
Tarragon and crème fraîche pot pie
A lighter filling that leans on fresh tarragon, finished under rough puff.
1 hr 10 min · Serves 4
Rotisserie Chicken Pot Pie
A shortcut pot pie built on a supermarket rotisserie chicken.
1 hr · Serves 6
30-Minute Chicken Pot Pie
A genuine weeknight pot pie: pastry bakes while the filling simmers.
30 min · Serves 4
Chicken and Ham Pie
Poached chicken and chunky ham in a sauce made from the poaching stock.
1 hr 20 min · Serves 6
Chicken and White Wine Pie
Chicken and tarragon in a reduced white wine cream sauce, puff topped.
1 hr 25 min · Serves 6
Leftover Roast Chicken Pie
Turn Sunday roast leftovers into a quick puff topped pie with leeks.
1 hr 5 min · Serves 4
Chicken Pie for Two
A properly scaled small chicken pie, no leftovers and no waste.
55 min · Serves 2
Air Fryer Chicken Pot Pie
Individual pot pies with puff lids, crisped in the air fryer.
40 min · Serves 2
Bakery-Style Chicken Slice
Flaky puff pastry slices with a thick, savoury chicken filling, bakery style.
1 hr · Makes 6
Slow Cooker Chicken Pie Filling with Oven-Baked Lid
All day slow cooker filling served under a separately baked puff pastry lid.
6 hr 45 min · Serves 6
Guides that help
How to make rough puff pastry
Toss cold butter cubes through flour without rubbing them in, bind with ice-cold water, then roll and fold the shaggy dough four times, resting it in the fridge between folds.
Why did my puff pastry not rise?
Puff pastry fails to rise when the oven is too cool, the pastry went in warm, or the layers were damaged.
Puff or shortcrust for chicken pie?
Shortcrust for any pie with a pastry base, puff for lid-only pot pies.
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