Exotic chicken pie

Name: Exotic chicken pie
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 rounded teaspoons mustard seeds; 3 large garlic cloves, chopped; 1 carrot, scraped and chopped; 250g (8oz) curd cheese; 175g (6oz) cold butter, cut into small pieces; 3–4 cardamom pods; 2 fresh red chillies; Sea salt; 2.5cm (1-inch) piece of fresh root ginger, chopped; 875g (1¾lb) skinless chicken breasts, sliced thinly; 250ml (8 fl oz) water; 1 teaspoon ground coriander; 2 tablespoons very cold water (approximately); 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; ½ teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons ground turmeric; 1 onion, roughly chopped; 275g (9oz) strong plain flour; 50g (2oz) butter; 25g (1oz) ground rice; 175g (6oz) chestnut mushrooms, sliced thinly; Juice of 1 lemon

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Almost Vegetarian Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1999

About

This pie might have been put together by an Anglo-Indian cook during the British Raj in India.

Ingredients

For the Pastry

275g (9oz) strong plain flour
25g (1

Europe
United Kingdom
Main course
Spicy

Method

To make the pastry, put the flour, ground rice, salt, turmeric and coriander into a bowl. Mix the ingredients together. Add the butter pieces to the flour mixture and rub the mixture with your finger tips until it resembles rough bread crumbs. Add just enough of the very cold water, stirring with a knife, until the pastry just begins to stick together. Gather up the dough into a ball. Wrap the