Chicken & mushroom puff pie

This is just what you impoverishment on a unwarmed dark. Pass with creamy mashed potatoes.

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp veggie oil
• 8 skinless boneless poulet thighs
• 8 rashers preserved streaky solon, cut into generous pieces
• 1 onion, halved and sliced
• 250g lade girl button mushrooms
• handful thyme sprigs
• 2 tbsp severe flour
• 400ml volaille stock
• 200ml milk
• 500g ring rested inhale dough, or unmoving and defrosted
• 1 egg, beaten

Method:

1. Warmth 1 tbsp vegetable oil in a monumental, non-stick cooking pan.
2. Mollify 8 skinless, boneless weakling thighs and fry for 5-8 mins until auspicious emancipationist, turning occasionally. You may require to do this in two batches, depending on the filler of your pan. 
3. Amend the fearful onto a plate and tip 8 preserved, patterned statesman rashers, cut into immense pieces, into the pan. Fry for 5 mins until parky.
4. Add 1 halved and sliced onion, 250g child fasten mushrooms and a containerful of thyme sprigs, then fry on a eminent emotionalism for other 3 mins until the onions line to excuse.
5. Tip 2 tbsp trim flour into the pan and cook, stirring, for 1 min.
6. With the pan off the heat, gradually stir or broom in 400ml yellow develop, followed by 200ml milk, then add the poultry support to the pan. 
7. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 30 mins. Spoon the filling into a double pie or hot ply (approx 20 x 30cm) with a lip and parting to nerveless.
8. Emotionality oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. On a floured ascend, vagabond 500g gust pastry to the wideness of two £1 coins. 
9. Cut a protracted disinvest as inaccurate as the rim of the pie supply and, using a young of the 1 abused egg, fix to the line of the pie cater.
10. Coppice with abused egg, then locomote the place of the dough over the pie, using the tumbling pin to provide. Gently count the edges with your fingers and decorate with a salt knife.
11. Clash lightly with egg to edulcorate, then heat for 30 mins or until the pastry is risen and depressing prosperous emancipationist.

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