Homemade Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuits

This homemade chicken pot pie with biscuits is the ultimate comfort food! Delicious, nutritious, and easy to make, this chicken pot pie with flakey biscuits will become your family favorite!

I love the fall season! It brings much welcome cooler weather and a wealthy of comforting recipes. Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuits is one I probably make most frequently.

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Why you will love this recipe

Homemade chicken pot pie with biscuits is simple to make and comforting! This meal includes nutritious items like bone broth and lots of vegetables, to help your family eat better.

Also, by using biscuits as the topping for the recipe, you cut down the normal cooking time for pot pie. I enjoy that it makes it easier for me to get supper on the table a little more quickly, and also makes it that I don’t accidentally serve soggy crust on my homemade chicken pot pie.

You can choose to make fresh that day, but I find that if need to make it ahead of time, I stick it in the refrigerator the day before I need it. Then, I just pop it in the oven and have a warm, comforting meal for my family!

What is chicken pot pie filling made of?

The filling I make from scratch for my family includes:

Chicken Bone Broth – To give my family as much nutrition as possible in the cooler months, I love to incorporate bone broth in as many recipes as possible and chicken pot pie with biscuits is one recipe I use it! You can use regular chicken broth as well, but I always opt for bone broth that I make myself or find organically in the store.

Vegetables – To make my homemade chicken pot pie with biscuits as filling as possible, I include a bunch of vegetables! Potatoes, carrots, peas, onion and celery are the ones I normally add. If I have some left over sweet corn or green beans in the refrigerator, they might also make it in.

Chicken – I like to plan to make chicken pot pie for my family after we’ve had a whole chicken beforehand. I usually have leftover chicken in my refrigerator, and this dish makes it easy to use that up! You can also freshly cook 1-2 chicken breasts or any of the dark meat to go in here. I either shred my chicken or cut it up into small diced pieces.

How do you thicken pot pie filling?

In making my pot pie, I cook my vegetables first in the bone broth until they are soft and then I thicken it by adding in some flour. I make sure it is well mixed in so there are no clumps of flour in the filling mixture before continuing with the recipe.

To make sure you don’t have any flour “clumps” in your filling, you can make a mixture I call a slurry with the flour and 1/2 cup of water. Mix it together first to remove any clumps, and add the slurry to your chicken pot pie filling to thicken it.

Cornstarch or arrowroot powder could be a thickener for homemade chicken pot pie as well. However, corn starch has double the thickening power than that of flour. To substitute it for this recipe, you would need only 2 1/2 Tablespoons of cornstarch to thicken your homemade chicken pot pie with biscuits.

Supplies

• Large mixing bowl
• Large pot
• Mixing Spoon
• Liquid & Dry Measuring Cups
• Measuring Spoons
• Pastry Blender
• Biscuit Cutter
• Rolling Pin

Ingredients

• Flour
• Baking Powder
• Salt
• Pepper
• Butter
• Onion
• Garlic
• Celery
• Carrots
• Potatoes
• Chicken
• Chicken Broth or Bone Broth

How to make Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuits Step by Step

Prepare the vegetables by cutting, peeling and dicing the potatoes and carrots. Next, chop up the onion and celery, and mince the garlic.

To a large pot, add your butter and melt it over medium heat. Once melted, add your onion, celery and garlic.

Saute until onions are turning slightly clear, and then add your potatoes and carrots.

Stir the potatoes and carrots around for a minute, before adding your chicken broth to the pot.

Add in the salt, pepper, sage and parsley with your chicken broth and vegetables. Cover the pot, and turn up the heat to medium high.

Bring broth and vegetable mixture to a boil, until potatoes and carrots are cooked (fork tender). Reduce the heat to medium.

Add in your peas and chicken.

To thicken the pot pie filling, mix in your 5 Tablespoons of flour and stir in until filling is thickened.

Pour chicken pot pie filling into a 9 x 13 pan and prepare your biscuits to put on top.

Biscuits: Preheat the oven to 450 degrees

Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl.

Add your butter to the bowl. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender, until butter pieces are the size of small peas.

Make a well in your ingredients, and add in the milk.

Combine the milk with the dry ingredients, until the flour is just incorporated.

Lightly flour your countertop surface, and turn out your biscuit dough onto it. Knead 1-2 times before patting it into a rough rectangle. Fold into a letter shape, turn half a turn, and pat into a rough rectangle again.

Repeat the letter folding and patting two more times. After the third time, roll your biscuit dough out to 1/2 inch thick.

Cut out the biscuits with a biscuit cutter, and place on top of the chicken pot pie filling.

Bake at 450 degrees for 12 minutes.

Serve and enjoy!

Notes

1. To prevent any possible flour lumps when adding it to the chicken broth mixture, you can make a slurry first by mixing it with 1/2 c. water before adding it in.
2. To make ahead of time, you can freeze or leave in the refrigerator for 1-2 days before biscuits become too soggy.

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