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Chicken Pot Pie Crumble

This Chicken Pot Pie Crumble is a must try comfort food recipe! You get a creamy chicken and veggie pot pie filling that's finished with tender, easy to make, parmesan drop biscuits. Everyone loves this!
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 5 hours 40 minutes
Total Time 6 hours 5 minutes
Servings: 6
Cuisine: Chinese
Calories: 120

Ingredients
  

Chicken Preparation
  • 20 oz boneless skinless chicken breast halves about 2 large
  • 14.5 oz low-sodium chicken broth 1 can
Crumble Topping
  • 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder
  • 0.5 tsp salt
  • 0.25 tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 0.25 tsp garlic powder use 0.5 tsp for a slightly stronger garlic flavor
  • 0.125 tsp cayenne pepper optional
  • 0.25 cup cold butter diced into small cubes
  • 2 oz finely shredded Parmesan cheese about 0.5 cup packed
  • 0.875 cup heavy cream
Pot Pie Filling
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1 cup peeled and diced carrots about 2 large carrots
  • 0.75 cup diced celery about 2 large stalks
  • 0.75 cup finely diced yellow onion about 0.5 medium onion
  • 0.67 cup frozen peas
  • 3 Tbsp butter
  • 0.33 cup all-purpose flour
  • 0.75 cup milk
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 1.5 tsp dried parsley
  • 0.25 tsp dried thyme or rosemary

Method
 

Chicken Preparation
  1. Place chicken in a slow cooker, pour chicken broth over chicken. Cover with lid and cook on low heat about 5 hours until chicken is cooked through. Remove chicken from slow cooker, dice and set aside.
  2. Strain broth from slow cooker through a fine mesh strainer into a bowl and reserve broth (if you don't have a fine mesh strainer just try to remove the pieces of fat).
To Prepare Crumble
  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. In a mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, pepper, garlic powder and optional cayenne pepper. Using your fingertips, cut butter into mixture until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  2. Stir in Parmesan cheese. Pour in heavy cream and mix just until combined. Break and drop mixture into 1 to 2-inch pieces onto a Silpat lined baking dish. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes until golden. Remove from oven and set aside.
To Prepare Filling
  1. Heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Once hot, add diced carrots, onion and celery. Saute vegetables, stirring occasionally until lightly golden and tender, about 5 to 6 minutes.
  2. Pour vegetables into a bowl and set aside. Reduce heat to medium, melt butter in saucepan (I like to brown it a bit for an extra layer of flavor), then add in flour and cook, stirring constantly for about 20 seconds (it will be very thick).
  3. While stirring, slowly add in milk followed by reserved chicken broth, lemon juice, parsley, thyme and season with salt and pepper to taste. Bring mixture just to a boil, then slightly reduce heat and allow to cook about 1 minute longer until thickened, stirring constantly.
  4. Remove sauce from heat and add sauteed vegetables, frozen peas and diced chicken to sauce, then toss to evenly coat.
  5. Pour mixture into a 9-inch pie dish and sprinkle with baked crumble topping (mine fit perfectly in my pie dish but if yours is coming close to the top edge you may want to sit it on top of a cookie sheet to prevent spills in your oven).
  6. Bake in 400 degrees F oven until nicely golden about 12 to 14 minutes. Serve warm.

Notes

Recipe Source: adapted slightly from Cook's Illustrated