Winter Warmer: Chicken and Chorizo Pie

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A good pie is a difficult thing to beat at this time of year. Pie conjures images of labour and time and weekend projects. Pies can be speedy too, and a pie really doesn’t need to be difficult. Most home cooks use shop bought pastry these days, and why wouldn’t they when it is of the standard that it is? I do. Many restaurants use shop bought pastry too, usually the all butter premium ones which can be excellent.
An easy and speedy pie
Chorizo is a favourite of mine, it imparts such loveliness, spice and slippery fat, which coats and livens up the chicken .Chorizo also gives a slow cooked quality to the dish, a deception if you like. It is wonderful in this punchy little pie of chicken and chorizo in a rich tomato sauce, packed full of flavour and moisture. This recipe was one of the ones that made it into my book Comfort & Spice (most of them were new and not from the blog) and it is one of the ones that people message me about. It has proven itself to be addictive.
This pie brings joy to cold and otherwise miserable winter nights. But as with all good things, have it whenever you want, and especially when you feel like it.
This recipe makes two individual pies.
Ingredients
- 500g diced chicken (preferably thigh - it has more flavour)
- 200g cooking chorizo, sliced
- 1 tin tomatoes
- a handful of chopped flat leaf parsley
- 2 fat cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 tsp Spanish paprika
- 1 mild red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
- 15g butter & 1 tbsp olive oil for frying
- 1 egg, beaten
- Shop bought puff pastry - pref all butter and pre rolled as we are being lazy here.
Instructions
Photography from Comfort and Spice by Niamh Shields (£14.99, Quadrille). Photography by Georgia Glynn Smith.
These look so good. Better than some of the pies I’ve had recently in London gastropubs.
lovely! also, great inspiration – i bought 8 mini cocottes about 6 months ago and have never used them. i know what i’ll be filling them with now!
once again, that sounds fabulous!
Mmm, lovely. I spotted your tweets about this pie the other day and had complete lunch envy!
Brilliant typefacing!
Bah, I was trying to avoid pie, but just sounded too tasty not to try.
I have serious pie dish envy. All we have at the moment are wee ramekins. They just won’t do. Particularly for a pie as proud as this..Must rectify. Soon.
This looks yummy and I really like the pastry pie writing! This is an idea I’m going to try.
I am pie eyed now!
Looks to die for! Great idea!
Although I would probably go for a home made pastry, with added truffle shavings into the batter to give it a bit of a strong, rich flavour! Very excited to try that!
Lovely idea but would the truffle go with the chorizo? Nice idea with just chicken though. I like puting truffle slices under the skin :)
You are right, just with chicken sounds more like it! You could even add some chopped green onion, now that the season is approaching :D
What is “cooking Chorizo”? How is it different from normal Chorizo?
It is – cooking chorizo is a fresher more tender sausage. I much prefer it in flacour and texture. If in London, try the one from Brindisa.
Well, I just used regular chorizo, and it was wonderful… I even put the word PIE on top :-)
http://twitpic.com/6wl2s9
Great to hear! I love writing PIE on top too :)
Going out to buy nice dishes now………lets hope I can make the pie look as good as yours!!
Hmmm, good recipe. I love cooking (I’m a man) surprisingly. But when I pressed “Print” above on your page it prints EVERYTHING :-( . You may want to look at that.
Hi Luke. The site is optimised for online only. I am changjng the design so will look into print options. The site is not just for girls obviouslg – that is tongue in cheek :) I have lots of male readers too.
In the short term, if you highlight the text you want to print, you should be able to print just that?