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The idea of writing a recipe for chicken pot pie is a high-risk endeavor. For many, a comfort food staple such as pot pie means that many a food memory exists for anyone who loves it. And what’s hard is that food memories are nearly impossible to live up to. Instead, the food always seems… off, not tasting like Grandma’s, a favorite restaurant, or Mom’s version.
When it comes to a classic, I find it best to stick to the basic ingredients and make each one shine. Instead of adding new flavors and fusions, it’s always best to make it the best it can be. So this one’s full of nostalgia and good techniques.
I’m always looking for ways to add more flavor whenever possible. And sometimes it’s the simplest methods that add the most flavor, such as roasting vegetables, which is pretty much my weekly go-to routine no matter what I’m making. Under high heat and coated in oil, vegetables gain so much flavor and maintain their texture.
For this recipe, carrots and sweet potatoes are roasted with the chicken. Roasting these denser vegetables before mixing everything together helps cut down on the total time and brings out their natural sweetness.
The definitive feature of a pot pie is the fillings’ thickness. This texture is what draws people in and causes them to make it time and again. The equal parts of flour to butter provide the thickness and without this duality, the ingredients wouldn’t hold together. The rest of the filling is simple: onions and celery mixed with this thickened mixture.
I’ve never been a fan of a crusted pot pie. Instead, I opt for a drop biscuit topping. I know, I know… no matter where you are on this scale, hear me out first. Using the traditional method, the crust needs to be extra sturdy to withstand the filling and it often ends up becoming soggy. I bypass any crust and go directly to biscuits.
Drop biscuits are a total time saver. Since they take away the extra time of making a crust, chilling it, and rolling it out, they end up being super quick. Plus the ingredients are pantry staples. These biscuits will create a slightly more wet and shaggy batter. Once mixed up, they’re scooped into rounds and placed on top of the prepared filling. During the baking, they become golden with a perfectly crispy crust on top. Voila!
Watch how to make this chicken pot pie:
Chicken Pot Pie
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup unsalted butter
- ¾ cup diced onion (about 1 onion)
- ¾ cup diced celery (about 2 stalks)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 lb chicken breast boneless & skinless (about 2-3 breasts)
- 1 ½ cups chopped carrots (about 3 carrots)
- 1 cup diced sweet potato
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- ⅓ cup flour
- ½ cup white wine
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 2 ¾ cups chicken stock
- 1 cup pearl onions
- 1 cup peas
For the biscuits
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tsp sugar
- ½ cup butter diced and kept cold
- 1 ¼ cups buttermilk
- salt on top of biscuits
Instructions
For the filling
- Preheat oven to 425°F. In a 6-quart stockpot, melt the butter and sauté the onion and celery with 1 tsp salt over medium-low heat. Sauté until the onion is soft and translucent but not browned, 6-8 minutes.
- While the onion and celery are sautéing, prepare the roasted vegetables. Place the carrots, sweet potatoes, and chicken breast on a large sheet pan. Drizzle with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Roast in preheated oven until the chicken registers 160°F and the vegetables are tender when inserted with a knife. Remove from oven and set aside.
- Once the onion and celery are soft and translucent, add the flour. Stir and cook the flour until it is slightly toasted and just starting to stick to the bottom of the stockpot, 3-4 minutes. Pour in the white wine, Dijon mustard, and thyme. Whisk until smooth. At first, the flour will be clumpy. Continue to whisk and add the chicken stock until the mixture is smooth and thick. Stir in the pearl onions and peas to warm through, 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the roasted carrots, sweet potatoes, and shredded chicken. Pour into a greased 9×13-inch baking dish and prepare biscuits.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Stir to combine. Add the diced butter and, using a pastry cutter or hands, work into flour until it resembles a coarse grainy texture. Add buttermilk and stir. The dough will be shaggy and almost batter-like.
- Scoop biscuits onto the top of the prepared filling, making approximately 12 biscuits. Sprinkle with salt and bake in the preheated 425°F oven until the biscuits are golden and the filling is bubbling, 30-40 minutes. Remove from oven and cool 10 minutes before serving.
Thank you so much for this recipe! I hadn’t decided what to make for dinner tonight and you inspired me. I had to change a few things but I appreciate you teaching me the process. I had no idea making biscuits was so easy and I loved the drop biscuit idea on top. I have a bad medical condition that leaves me little energy for things I love but this recipe was so simple!
I love seeing your videos, I watch them on Facebook and I have learned so much from you! I admire your knowledge and willingness to share it. You definitely inspire me to garden and when I can get back on my feet, I will. But I love learning it and it’ll make it easier when I do start.
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Anna-Christina Houston
Made it tonight for dinner, delicious!
Hi. I’m thinking the oven should be turned back down to 350 while baking the dish. Not kept at 425 for roasted veggies and chicken. ???
Flavors are perfect as is the biscuit dough. 🤗
VERY TASTY, I did omit the sweet potato and pearl onions. I added about a tsp of ground sage. I cooked everything right in my LeCrueset 5 qt braiser and then transferred to the oven. Love the biscuit recipe.
I loved this recipe when it was hot and fresh out of the oven. I did cook at 425 for 32 minutes and the biscuits were nice and brown. The recipe didn’t say if to turn oven down to cook the pot pie or leave it on the 425 it was set on to roast the chicken and the veggies.
I covered and put in refrigerator. Then next day I heated it up in a glass pyrex pan in the oven at 350 til it was hot throughout and it was really dry. Tasted like all the liquid had been absorbed into the biscuits. Any suggestions for reaheating so I can enjoy this wonderful dish as a left over?
Love this recipe!
Does anyone have a good suggestion for reheating for leftovers and not getting dried out?
I made this recipe because what better comfort food is there than chicken pot pie. I did not put the sweet potatoes in, but the next time I will try it. I was so proud of myself because this is first time I actually made homemade biscuits, and I thought it was a really interesting new way to make chicken pot pie. I will definitely make this again. I also love how the chicken and vegetables get roasted first.
The filling is delicious! The biscuits weren’t done, so I’ve returned it to the oven. Do you bake the biscuits at 425 also?sherry
We made your recipe almost item for item except that we substituted the wheat flour for a gluten free flour. Oh my gosh! This was so delicious! Also, I didn’t have a 9×9″ pan, so I put it in a 13x 9″ pan. It worked out perfectly!!! Thank you for the delicious recipe. I sent it via messenger to my daughter in Virginia. I know she’ll love it as well. Thank you!!! You’re awesome and I love watching you!!!
The pan size is throwing me off i have 8×8 or 9×13 , now i am panicking . I don’t think i have ever heard of 9×9 .
I made this a couple of weeks ago, and my husband is still talking about it.. It was delicious… Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.. 😋😋😋😋😋
What a great recipe! Thank you so much for sharing this one. My hubby loved loved loved it! DELICIOUS!
Excellent Recipe! THANK YOU! thank you! Happy Easter
Just made the filling. Going to make the biscuit when I am ready to bake. Do you think that one can top the biscuits and refrigerate until ready to bake to reduce last minute work?
I loved the idea from another fan – to use the Dutch oven instead of a separate pan!
Also interested about the temp for final bake.
Keep 425? Please answer 😃
You make it look so easy!
I made this tonight and followed the directions to a T. We loved it as is. It is very flavorful. This dish now goes into the winter rotation. Thanks Kaleb!
Looks delicious! I love you and your cooking shows.
Our new favorite pot pie – so yummy!!
So glad to hear that you love it! It’s of course my favorite way to make pot pie and I’m glad you stopped by and made it!
I just made this tonight and this is by far the best pot pie recipe I’ve ever made!
I love this dish but I don’t like celery. I exclude that and put one shredded zucchini instead for the extra veggies. This recipe ends up being enough for my 9×13 pan and sometimes I do 15 smaller biscuits from the same batch.
Please bake it at 350° when you put it in to bake the second time. Mine is done after 30 minutes at 350°. 425° would make the tops of the biscuits nice and black.
This is chicken and biscuits meets chicken pot pie. I love the idea of putting biscuits atop the creamy chicken. I had leftover creamed chicken, added peas and carrots, put it in a casserole dish and made the biscuits. They were the best biscuits I’ve ever made. Love that little sprinkle of salt on the top. This is one of the best suppers we’ve had in a long time. Good Midwest comfort food. I’ve always fussed over making chicken pot pies but never again. This is so much easier and so much better. Thank you, Kaleb. Love your channel.
Delicious chicken pot pie. Especially enjoyed the hint of Dijon mustard and white wine. Can you confirm the oven temp for the 2nd bake (when casserole with biscuits go into oven.). Oven temp is listed at 425 degrees for 1st bake (chicken/vegetables.). I lowered the temp to 350degrees for 2nd bake and while the biscuits were nice and browned, I felt like they could have been cooked thru more. Maybe I should have stayed with the 425 degrees??? I thought the biscuits would burn! Thanks for sharing a great family meal! A nice meal to deliver to friends in need as well! Roseanne in Delaware
I made this chicken pot pie tonight for dinner. Best we’ve ever tasted!! Loved the biscuits on top. It was delicious!
I LOVE your recipes.! I watched you and your Gramma. She loved you dearly and was happy and proud of .you. i am an observant person.Thank u for teaching !!!! You are so good at it. !
I made this last week for my boyfriend and I almost thought he was going to propose marriage. I did marinate the chicken in your favorite grilled chicken marinade for no reason…just for fun…and the recipe was still amazing. Kaleb, you are a breath of fresh air.
This recipe is delicious! Loved it and the drop biscuits the best ones I have ever had! Made it for my 83 year old Mother and she agrees!
I made this recipe because what better comfort food is there than chicken pot pie. I did not put the sweet potatoes in, but the next time I will try it. I was so proud of myself because this is first time I actually made homemade biscuits, and I thought it was a really interesting new way to make chicken pot pie. I will definitely make this again. I also love how the chicken and vegetables get roasted first.
I have made this twice very delicious and simple. My only issue to try it again is I cannot get the biscuits right. They do not fully cook on the bottom and are raw and taste like baking soda. Nice and brown on outside , even left them longer and the whole meal looks amazing but when going to serve the biscuits are raw on the bottom against the casserole and unfortunately not edible. If I can figure out what I am doing wrong I will definately make this again with the biscuits on top.
I’ve made this recipe twice now and ended up cooking for about an hour in order to get biscuits cooked through underneath. Had to cover with foil because they brown on top quickly. Really bummed because it’s a tasty dish!
I have already made this recipe twice! Unbelievably delicious… I feel like I’m eating from a five star restaurant! Actually making it tomorrow night for some guests!
Kaleb you are awesome!.
Made this for dinner on Saturday and my husband’s comment after several mouthfulls was: THIS IS A KEEPER! I have an old family recipe that I have been making for over 50 years. And, although quite delicious, it was quite a s l o w task to put together. Your recipe somehow has the same amazing tastes and textures with much less ado! And I thank you for that. You keep being amazing you and sharing your wonderful self and all your talents with us!
I made this for dinner tonight and it was delicious. I just used Yukon good potatoes instead of sweet since my daughter doesn’t like them. Roasting the chicken and veggies adds so much flavor and the biscuit top is perfect.
I made the chicken pot pie this morning. Added the biscuits before dinner and baked.
This is a KEEPER!! Delicious and easy to make. I followed the recipe just as it is.
Thank you for sharing this recipe.