Chicken Pot Pies and Homemade Calzones

Found a really good Chicken Pot Pie Recipe on the All Recipes Website. 
It used just boneless chicken breasts, celery, carrots, onions and some seasonings.

I made a double 10 inch pie crust recipe and put it in a casserole dish to have plenty of room. 
The above picture is ready to put it into the oven.

Here is the nicely browned bake pie.
This was really good and easy. 
Recipe Follows:

1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cubed

1 cup sliced carrots

1 cup frozen green peas

1/2 cup sliced celery

1/3 cup butter

1/3 cup chopped onion

1/3 cup all-purpose flour

• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon celery seed
• 1 3/4 cups chicken broth
• 2/3 cup milk
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• 2 (9 inch or 10 inch) unbaked pie crusts

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C.)
In a saucepan, combine chicken, carrots, peas, and celery. Add water to cover and boil for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, drain and set aside.
4. In the saucepan over medium heat, cook onions in butter until soft and translucent. Stir in flour, salt, pepper, and celery seed. Slowly stir in chicken broth and milk. Simmer over medium-low heat until thick. Remove from heat and set aside.
5. Place the chicken mixture in bottom pie crust. Pour hot liquid mixture over. Cover with top crust, seal edges, and cut away excess dough. Make several small slits in the top to allow steam to escape.
6. Bake in the preheated oven for 30 to 35 minutes, or until pastry is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.

One day I also made sausage calzones.
Browned the mild Italian sausage first and set aside to cool.

Diced up some onions and green pepper to saute and soften.

Here is the dough all risen and ready to go.  I only let it rise once and then I formed the calzones.
Following is the recipe:
Homemade Calzone or Pizza Dough
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 package active dry yeast
3 1/2 cups flour
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar

In a large bowl add together yeast and warm water, let sit for 10 minutes.  Then add in olive oil, salt and sugar and mix well.  Add the flour and mix together with large wooden spoon or mixer.

Put two tablespoons of flour on the counter and dump the dough out on it scraping the bowl.  Put a little flour on top of the dough and start kneading it until smooth and elastic. 

Clean out the bowl and then rub some olive oil on the sides.  Put the kneaded dough in the bowl and turn over to have oil on both sides of the dough.

Cover with a wet towel and let rise in a warm place till double. 

Also thawed bread dough from the grocery store will work fine.

Along with the green peppers, onions and sausage I have mozzarella cheese, prego sauce and pepperoni.  It's ok to add anything you would like also. Make it your own for sure!

I pulled off a piece of dough the size of a softball.  Spread it out on some flour till it looks like this.
Add your ingredients.

Fold over and seal, the dough expands easily.
Put the calzones on a sprayed cookie sheet and bake at 400 degrees for at least 30 minutes until the tasty bunches of goodness look brown enough for you. 
I added a little melted butter on top after bringing them out of the oven. 



Wha Lahhh- got a thumbs up from the family.

Hope you give them a try.