How to cook my favorite chicken and leek pie

Ingredients

Remove outside leaves and any brown bits of leeks

Cut in half length ways

Wash!

Slice length ways

Bunch lengths together

Slice into cubes

Melt butter in a frying pan

Once it's bubbling....

Add leeks

Whilst leeks starting to fry get mushrooms sliced

Like this...

Stir leeks occasionally

Once leeks softening, move to outside of pan and add a little more butter

Add mushrooms

Whilst that's all cooking chop chicken up into bite sized pieces

Stir mushrooms and leeks

Season

Add garlic if using

Add stock

Add cream, I'm using clotted cause it's what I have left over. You can use double or single what ever you prefer

Allow it all to melt and come to simmer

Taste!

Season of required! It depends on your stock....

Turn off heat. Add chicken.

Stir in and leave to cool

Turn the oven onto 200c

Lightly grease a pie dish or Pyrex what ever you have that's big enough to contain the filling!

Unwrap puff pastry and roll a little bigger, no rolling pin? Use a cling film roll!

Put pastry into dish

Press gently into bottom

Drain filling and keep "gravy" in a saucepan

Put filling in pastry

Flatten with spoon

Fold over shortest sides first

Fold over rest

Till it looks like this

Brush with egg wash or milk. This is not essential but makes it look good!

Place in oven

Put timer on

If like my oven yours books one side first turn it round

Set timer again

Looks cooked but is it?!

Nope! Bottom needs to be darker

Put it in again, place on lower shelf to ensure top doesn't burn, repeat until nice colour on bottom

Mean while re heat the gravy

If it's too thin, take a heaped teaspoon of cornflour

Add a bit of water

Mix

Add to simmering gravy and stir

Once pastry on side and bottom are golden... Serve!

Enjoy!