Chicken pie with asparagus and broccoli, topped with Parmesan

If you have a lot of ingredients at home that you can't really use for a full meal, like 1 chicken breast or 4 mushrooms or ½ a piece of ham, then make a pie! Easy and good, gets rid of all your leftovers and it's easy on your wallet too.

This is what I used:

Dough

3 dl flour

125 g butter

3 tbs cold water

Filling

6 eggs

6 dl whole milk

thyme

1 chicken breast

½ piece of smoked ham

300 g broccoli

6 mushrooms

asparagus

1 spring onion

2 cloves of garlic

grated Parmesan cheese

salt and pepper

The How: 

Start making the dough as it needs to sit for about 30 minutes in the fridge before pre-baking it in the oven. Cut the butter in small pieces, put in a bowl together with flour and use your fingers to "nip" the dough together. Add the water and mix to a doughy consistency. Put the dough in your pie form and use your fingers to press it out evenly in the form. Use a fork to prick the bottom of the dough and stick it in the fridge for 30 minutes. Set the oven to 225 degrees and while it heats up, start with the filling.  

Cut the chicken into slices and fry in oil until cooked all the way through, add salt and pepper while it fries. Don't cook it too long, you don't want it to get dry! Put to the side for now. 

Cut the ham into smaller pieces, put to the side. 

Cut the mushroom, slice the onion and finely chop the garlic cloves, add salt and pepper. Fry in oil in a pan until soft and until the mushrooms have let out most of their water. Put to the side. 

Cut the broccoli in smaller bunches and break the asparagus to get rid of the thready part. Blanch in salted boiling water and quickly cool down under cold water. Put to the side for now. 

Mix the eggs, milk, salt and pepper in a bowl. Add fresh thyme. 

Take out the pie crust from the fridge and pre-bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Take out of the oven and put the chicken, mushrooms, ham, onions, garlic and broccoli in the crust. Pour in the egg and milk mix and top the pie with the asparagus. 

Bake in the oven for about 50 minutes. You may have to cover the pie with some foil after about 30 minutes so that it doesn't burn. When there's about 10 minutes left, take out the pie and top it with Parmesan cheese. Finish off in the oven. 

Serve with a nice salad!

I realize the HOW looks super difficult, but I promise, it's not. It's just a lot of steps. The prep time is only about 20 minutes and worth it to get a really good pie, bursting with flavor. And you can use whatever ingredients you like, which means that you can minimize the prep time. 

Get going, make use of your leftovers!