{"id":988,"date":"2015-02-15T23:35:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T05:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcandres.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2015-11-06T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T17:15:05","slug":"a-chicken-in-every-pot-chicken-rice-pot-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesoupblog.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"A Chicken in Every Pot: Chicken &amp; Rice Pot Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fthesoupblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D988&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;width=450&amp;height=30\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width: 450px; height: 30px;\"><\/iframe><\/div><div id=\"attachment_990\" style=\"width: 409px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chicken-pot-pie2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-990\" class=\"size-full wp-image-990 \" title=\"chicken pot pie\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chicken-pot-pie2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chicken-pot-pie2.jpg 864w, https:\/\/thesoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chicken-pot-pie2-100x52.jpg 100w, https:\/\/thesoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/chicken-pot-pie2-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicken Pot Stool.  No, that&#39;s not it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong> <\/strong>It\u2019s a new year for the soup blog.\u00a0 And a new beginning for my weekly go-round of soup recipes.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness.<\/p>\n<p>Because frankly, after having made a new soup every seven days for the past year, I\u2019m a bit bored.<\/p>\n<p>That, and my family is rebelling against all this forced soup consumption.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s a blogger to do?<\/p>\n<p>Something classic.\u00a0 That\u2019s why I reached into the soup aisle at the local supermarket and stole a soup from Campbell\u2019s.\u00a0 A little something called Chicken and Rice soup.\u00a0 A soup which brings us right back to where I started one year ago.\u00a0 Okay, that was chicken noodle soup, but really, what\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n<p>And I don\u2019t mean the difference between noodles and rice, I\u2019ve go that one pretty well figured out, smart guy.<\/p>\n<p>The difference is that whereas many of my soups from the past year began as classic dishes before I translated them to the soup pot, this dish began as an (ahem) classic soup that I translated back into an entr\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>All right, if you don\u2019t think that Chicken and Rice soup qualifies as a classic, I\u2019m not going to disagree with you.\u00a0 My family never had it when I was growing up.\u00a0 We never even had Chicken with Stars, which, I imagine is the \u201ckid-friendly\u201d version of Campbell\u2019s Chicken Noodle which was pretty darned kid friendly to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I went the pedestrian route to my chicken and rice soup.\u00a0 I used brown rice.\u00a0 Pretty high brow, huh?\u00a0 Perhaps I even used too much of it.\u00a0 Why not? I\u2019ve had bags of the stuff \u00a0lining the bottom of my refrigerator for months.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a very thick soup, partly because brown rice absorbs a fair amount of water, and partly because of the lengthy simmering process I went through to soften up said brown rice.<\/p>\n<p>(Does anyone else have better luck with this stuff?\u00a0 I know brown rice is supposed to be better for me and my family, but I have a hard time cooking it down to a consistency I like.)<\/p>\n<p>So I had a really thick soup.\u00a0 It tasted really good, it was just more pasty than I\u2019d have liked.\u00a0 As my kids would probably have said, \u201cIt\u2019s not really a soup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s when I got my big idea.<\/p>\n<p>Forget about the soup and go for something more substantial.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit of roux, a nice batch of pie crust dough, and thirty minutes in a 400\u00b0F oven later, I had a delicious and very filling Chicken Pot Pie.<\/p>\n<p>In retrospect, I could have used a lot more roux.\u00a0 The filling was far runnier than I would have liked, but that also served as a great counterpoint to the buttery flakiness of the crust (a recipe I stole directly from the Joy of Cooking (sorry, but I have never made any pretenses about this being the pie crust blog.))<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how fertile this new conceit of converting soups into entrees will be.\u00a0 Maybe I\u2019ve tapped it out already.\u00a0 Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>The only thing you can count on is that I\u2019ll be back again next week.<\/p>\n<p>Where else am I going to go?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chicken &amp; Rice (Soup) Pot Pie<br \/>\n<\/strong>(serves 6-8)<br \/>\n1 large onion (8 ounces), chopped<br \/>\n1 \u00bd cups carrots (about 8 ounces), sliced<br \/>\n1 \u00bd cups celery (about 8 ounces), sliced<br \/>\n1 pound chicken, thigh meat, cut into small pieces<br \/>\n1 cup brown rice<br \/>\n\u00bc cup parsley (dried or \u00bd cup fresh)<br \/>\n8 cups stock<br \/>\n\u00bd cup milk or half &amp; half<br \/>\nsalt &amp; pepper to taste<br \/>\n1 T (or up to 4 T)butter or margarine<br \/>\n1 T (or up to 4 T, same as the butter) flour<br \/>\nDough<br \/>\n2 \u00bd cups flour<br \/>\n1 t sugar<br \/>\n1 t salt<br \/>\n\u00bd cup (1 stick) butter (cold) cut into small pieces<br \/>\n\u00bd cup shortening<br \/>\n1\/3 cup plus 1-2 T ice water<br \/>\n1 beaten egg (or \u00bc cup egg beaters)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Add the onion, carrots, celery, chicken, rice parsley stock      and milk to a 5 quart soup pot.\u00a0      Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for about an hour.<\/li>\n<li>As the soup is simmering, melt the butter in a pan,      stir in the flour until fully combined and cook over low heat until it      takes on a blonde color (6-8 minutes). This is called a blonde roux.<\/li>\n<li>In a food processor, combine flour, sugar and salt,      pulsing a few times to blend the dry ingredients.<\/li>\n<li>Cut butter into small pieces and add to the food      processor along with the shortening.\u00a0      Pulse the processor several times until the dough starts to come      together.<\/li>\n<li>Add ice water and process the dough further until it is      pretty well combined.<\/li>\n<li>Empty dough out onto a floured board, roll into a ball,      wrap in plastic, and refrigerate for at least \u00bd hour.<\/li>\n<li>Add the roux to the soup and continue cooking for      another 20 minutes to allow the roux to absorb the liquid and thicken the soup.<\/li>\n<li>(can do this last the next day, if you\u2019d like) Remove      the dough from refrigerator and cut it into two pieces.\u00a0 Roll the first piece out into a circular      shape and place along the bottom of a deep pie pan, casserole or spring      form pan.<\/li>\n<li>Ladle the chicken and rice filling over the bottom of      the crust until it almost reaches the top of the dough.\u00a0 NOTE:\u00a0      You will have a fair amount of filling left over.\u00a0 Make another pie if you\u2019 like.<\/li>\n<li>Roll the second half of the dough into a round and      place it over the top of the filling, taking care to tuck the dough around      the outside of the bottom layer of dough so the pot pie filling is sealed      in.<\/li>\n<li>Brush top layer of dough with beaten egg mixture. Place      pie in a 400\u00b0F oven and bake for about 30 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>May serve immediately or reheat in the oven later for      service.\u00a0 It ain\u2019t soup, but it\u2019s      really good.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Image Credit: <\/em>\u201cChicken Pot Pie\u201d\u00a0 Another ClipArt rebus by the author.\u00a0 <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this still a soup blog if I\u2019m converting my soup into entrees.\u00a0 I don\u2019t see why not.\u00a0 If you disagree, please compile your thoughts and supporting logic into a nicely worded comment.\u00a0 I\u2019d sure appreciate it.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a new year for the soup blog.\u00a0 And a new beginning for my weekly go-round of soup recipes. Thank goodness. Because frankly, after having made a new soup every seven days for the past year, I\u2019m a bit bored. That, and my family is rebelling against all this forced soup consumption. 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