Leftovers for the win. This is a perfect recipe to put your holiday meal leftovers or leftover rotisserie chicken to use. Any kind of meat would work — turkey, chicken, lamb or even duck. Some people might call these meat pies or english pasties– and most definitely a residue recipe from the British colonialism of the Indian subcontinent. And the Bangladeshi version of these meat pies are called Patties (paat-tees).
And chicken patties is one of my absolute favourite snacks. [Along with fuchkas I mean, haha.]
This is a super easy recipe with a very satisfying result.
Ingredients
- 1 cup shredded chicken
- 1 chicken bouillon cube
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 and 1/2 corn starch
- 2 puff pastry sheets (1 box)
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon butter
Directions
- Put the oven at 400° and in small bowl/container add in corn starch 1/4 cup of water and make a slurry.
- In a non-stick pan add in butter and then add in the shredded chicken to the melted butter and bring up to temperature. Grate in the garlic and stir to incorporate properly. (Be careful not to burn the garlic.)
- Pour in the corn starch slurry in the mixture and the bouillon cube — cook until it turns into a slight thick mixture of the shredded chicken and stock mixture. Add in 1/4 of water of water if the mixture starts to look dry.
- Set the chicken aside to cool and with a cookie cutter cut out three inch circles out of the puff pastry sheets. (Make sure you have an even number of circles.)
- Place puff pastry circles on a sheet pan and brush egg wash on half of the circles. (The other circles will go on top of the other ones.)
- Put a teaspoon worth of chicken mixture in the middle of the egg washed circles and put on the other puff pastry tops on them. And with your fingers make sure the puff pastries make contact with each other. (Hack: use a blunt smaller circular object over the patties to make sure they have no gaps between the pastries.)
- Brush on another layer of egg wash on top of the patties and put them in the oven for 12 to 15 minutes.
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