Friday, May 22, 2009

Pantry pot pie

This one cleans up the pantry/fridge/freezer. Folks!

Ingredients:
  • Left over meats or whatever you have in freezer.. any meat works.
  • Favorite fresh, canned, or frozen veggies
  • brown gravy mix (or poultry gravy mix if using poultry)
Directions.
  1. Cut meat into bite size pieces.
  2. Brown in with a little oil.
  3. If you are using HARD fresh veggies, add them now: potatoes, carrots, turnips, etc
  4. Add water until just covered and simmer until tender, adding water as necessary.
  5. Whisk together 1 packet brown gravy mix into 1/2-1 cup of cold water (how saucy do you want it?) and add to pot.
  6. Simmer until thickened.
  7. Put into baking vessel (pie crust or pan)
  8. Pour POT PIE BREAD CRUST (recipe below) evenly over the top of the filling and bake at 13x9 = 425 for 30-35 minutes or pie plate 350 for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
Bread Crust Topping
Adding a 1/2 recipe and an original so you have what you need depending on your pan size.

Half recipe/One pie shell -- (Full recipe/13x9 pan)
  • 1/4 c + 2T melted butter -- (calls for 3/4 c butter)
  • 3/4 c milk -- (calls for 1 1/2 c milk)
  1. Whisk above together briskly.. will look odd because you're adding cold to warm
  2. Combine in small bowl
  • 3/4 c + 2T Flour -- (calls for 1 3/4 flour)
  • 1/2 t salt -- (calls for 1 t salt)
  • 3/4 t pepper -- (calls for 1 1/2 t pepper)
  • 1 1/2 t baking POWDER -- (calls for 3t baking soda)
  1. Whisk milk/butter mixture in.. will be almost corn bread consistency or thinner
  2. Pour evenly over the top of the filling and bake at 13x9 = 425 for 30-35 minutes or pie plate = 350 for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
NOTE: Add dry herbs to flour mixture for added zing!
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