Comfort Food: Chicken Pie

Who doesn't love chicken pies, perfect comfort food.

I used homemade pastry (recipe at the end) but you can use store-bought, ready to use pie crust also. You will find it in frozen section you can use roll-out puff pastry (short crust pastry or ready to fill pies).

Choose whatever is easily available.

I use a 13x7 oven proof glass dish for the pie I make and it is good enough for 4-6 people.

Ingredients:

2 sheets thawed puff pastry.
Minced Chicken
Carrots, Bell peppers, Mushrooms, Corn, Onions.
1 beaten egg
Butter.
Cheese optional.

How To Make: 

Pre-heat oven to 200 degrees C. 

Grease the dish you will use with butter.

Meanwhile cook your chicken with salt, pepper, veggies and a splash of vinegar and soy-sauce. Do not over-dry the chicken. 

Next line pie plate with one sheet of pastry, fill with chicken mix and top with another pastry.

Press around edges to seal. Also make 6-8 slits with knife, to let steam escape.

Brush with egg and bake for 30 minutes (less or more according to your oven and pastry baking instructions). Until the pie is brown on top. 

Serve immeediately with mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables.

A good shortcrust pastry recipe is from BBC-food, if you are into baking and want to bake your own homemade pie crust, try this Shortcrust Pastry Recipe and increase ingredients as needed.

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Weekend Bites

Eating out in Riyadh is itself an activity. Weekend comes and there is either a dinner with friends around the corner if not then we plan a family dinner. I am always on hunt for new places and delicious food. Have been to The Noodle House before and went there yet again to enjoy the cosy place and food.

Located in Centria Mall, this place is perfect for a family night out or with friends. There are no partitions and cabins like most restaraunts in Riyadh. The waiters and staff is friendly. The service is quick and the food is good.

Excuse the picture quality as photography in public (especially in Saudi Arabia) is not allowed.

We started off with soups and Prawn bags with chilli sauce. The Chicken Corn Soup was amazing and not full of corn flour like we usually get in restaraunts here. Rayyan enjoyed it a lot. There was no kids menu but they say they will be starting a Juniour's menu soon, too.





My favourite drink wherever I go is a lemon-mint refresher. I just love it.



The options for the main course are not many (atleast for me, I feel the options are limited). They offer Dim Sum too. There specialities include: Beef teriyaki, chilli prawns, salmon, Thai chicken green curry, thai red prawn curry etc.

I like Singapore noodles with chicken & prawns.




My husband ejoyed Beef with fried rice.




You can enjoy Noodle House in Dubai, Muscat Doha, Riyadh, Kuwait, Cyprus & Lahore.

How has your experience at Noodle House been? :)

Tweet! Tweet! It's Thursday!

Our weekend in the desert has started. After a very busy trip to Dubai and a hectic week of parties (thanks to all dear friends for the yummy breakfasts and lunches!)

Iam planning to just rest. Had a late breakfast (cinnabons-to be precise-I know bad! bad!). Watched a movie while Rayyan made a mess of his room. The room is full of cars and crayons. I am not even going there! It is "only sit back & relax" day for me. Just the other day cleaned up the whole place and got hold of stuff I didn't even know were in the house. Note to self- no more shopping for mama...(ahem!ahem!)

Lots of stuff lined up including my first Travel Post (the only time I get to type in peace is 12am....sigh!) and few recipes. Soon, Soon.

Hope all of you have a great day with your families, friends & loved ones.

Name Change Guys!

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