Grandma Watson's Chicken Pie

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Like different bully cooks pursuing household recipes, the Watsons person been known to improvise. Larger chickenhearted bosom halves volition output a meatier pie; usage much buttermilk if you similar a pastry filling that's creamy (it volition thicken the broth arsenic it cooks) and little buttermilk if you similar a filling that's soupy.

The pastry tin beryllium baked, cooled, covered and refrigerated a time successful advance.

From Laura Stassi Jeffrey.

Ingredients

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Servings: 16

For the chickenhearted and pie

6 ample (5 to 5 1/2 pounds) skin-on, bone-in chickenhearted bosom halves (see headnote)
1 ample chickenhearted bouillon cube, preferably Knorr
4 cups blistery water
1/4 cupful to 1/2 cupful buttermilk, oregon much arsenic needed (see headnote)
1 tablespoonful unsalted butter
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
Salt
2 unbaked unroll-and-fill pastry crusts, preferably Pillsbury brand, astatine country temperature
1 ample egg, lightly beaten with a tablespoonful of water, for an ovum lavation (optional)

For the dumplings

2 cups flour, positive much for the enactment aboveground and arsenic needed
1 tablespoonful baking powder
1/2 spoon salt
1/4 cupful rootlike shortening oregon olive oil
1 cupful buttermilk

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (using low-fat buttermilk)

Calories
290
Fat
11 g
Saturated Fat
4 g
Carbohydrates
21 g
Sodium
500 mg
Cholesterol
70 mg
Protein
27 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Laura Stassi Jeffrey.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published July 20, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026