Chicken, bacon and Gorgonzola pie

4 servings Prep: 10 hrs, Cooking: 20 mins
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Bursting with flavour, swathed in a blanket of pastry.

By Food24 April 30 2014
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Ingredients (13)

3-4 chicken breast fillets — chopped
200 ml cream — double thick
1 Tbs flour
pepper — grilled, mixed
4-5 bacon — streaku, chopped and fried
1 garlic — cloves, diced
1/2 onion — half-moons
1 fresh chillies — chopped
1 tsp fresh oregano
2 Tbs gorgonzola cheese — or any blue cheese
cherry tomatoes
rocket — handful
readymade shortcrust pastry
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Method:

Preheat oven to 200°C.
Fry the onion, garlic, chilli and oreganum until sweet and slightly
coloured.
Add the flour to the onions and cook for about 2 minutes.
Add
the cream, and season.
Add the Gorgonzola and allow cream to boil and
thicken.
Add the the precooked chicken, bacon and grilled peppers.
Take
off the heat and fold in the skinned, cherry tomatoes or diced whole
tomato.
Add seasoning if needed. Allow to cool.

Roll out pasty.
Fill pie dish(es )with pie filling and top with a
layer of pastry.
Prick a pie hole on the top of each pie and brush with
egg yolk.
Alternatively, make small whole pies: cut rounds of pastry
into about 15cm in diameter.
Fill half with your pie filling, then flop
the other half over so to create a stuffed half-moon shape (like a
Cornish pastie) .

Bake at 200°C for 20mins or until pastry is golden.
Serve with a green salad.

Reprinted with permission of Foodmonger.
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