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Chicken Pastel

Name: Chicken Pastel
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Filipino
Ingredients: 800 g Chicken thighs, boned and cut into 3 cm pieces; 3 tbsp Calamansi or lemon juice; 200 g Chorizo de Bilbao or any smoked sausage, sliced; 250 g Button mushrooms, halved; 2 Potatoes, diced; 1 Carrot, diced; 150 g Green peas; 1 Onion, chopped; 4 Garlic cloves, chopped; 40 g Butter; 3 tbsp Plain flour; 500 ml Chicken stock; 200 ml Evaporated milk; 1 tbsp Fish sauce; 1 tsp Black pepper; 320 g Puff pastry, if baking it as a pie; 1 Egg, beaten, for the pastry

Chicken, sausage and mushrooms in a creamy stew, served as it is or baked under a lid of pastry — the fiesta dish that arrives when a Filipino family is trying to impress you.

Nguồn

Công thức của Filipino home kitchens · 🏺 Truyền thống · Cooking that turns on three levers — vinegar, salt from fish or shrimp, and fat — and a table where sour, salty and rich are balanced by the eater, not the cook.

Philippines · creamy chicken stew or pie — An ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms chicken pastel, also called pastel de pollo, as a traditional stew or pie from the Philippines made with chicken, sausages, mushrooms, peas, carrots and potatoes. The roux ratio, the sausage-fat order and the ladle-at-a-time warning are this book's own.

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Các bước

Toss the chicken with the calamansi juice and 1 tsp salt and leave 20 minutes.
Brown the sausage in a dry pan, lift it out, then brown the chicken in its rendered fat. Set both aside.
💡 The sausage fat is the seasoning. Start with butter instead and the stew tastes like any other chicken pie.
Melt the butter in the pan, soften the onion and garlic, then stir in the flour and cook 2 minutes to a pale roux.
Pour in the stock a ladle at a time, whisking smooth after each, then the evaporated milk.
💡 A ladle at a time. All at once and the roux breaks into lumps you will be chasing round the pan for ten minutes.
Return the chicken and sausage, add the potato and carrot, and simmer 20 minutes.
Add the mushrooms and peas, season with fish sauce and pepper, and simmer 8 minutes more.
Serve as a stew — or spoon it into a dish, lay pastry over, brush with egg and bake at 200°C for 25 minutes until domed and brown.

💡 Mẹo

Pastel is a fiesta dish in Quezon province, where it is baked in a pie; elsewhere it is served as a stew and nobody thinks anything is missing.
Evaporated milk, not cream — it is thinner, slightly caramelised, and it is what Filipino kitchens have on the shelf. Cream makes it heavy.