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5 from 2 votes

Cheesy Biscuit Chicken Pot Pie

This cheesy biscuit chicken pot pie has a light and fluffy biscuit topping that tastes great with the chicken pot pie mixture underneath it.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time40 minutes
Course: Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine: American, Dinner, main course
Keyword: Chicken, Dinner, Kids Favorite, Vegetables
Servings: 6 people

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 3 stalks of celery - diced
  • 1 small onion - finely diced
  • 1 - 12 ounce bag of frozen vegetable mix or 2 1/2 cups - carrots peas, corn and green beans
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/4 teaspoons black pepper
  • dash cayenne pepper
  • 3 tablespoons flour
  • 1 teaspoon Italian herbs
  • 2 - 14 ounce cans of chicken stock or 4 cups
  • 2 cups cooked chicken breast
  • 1/2 cup cream or milk
  • for cheesy biscuits:
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 2 tablespoons baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 8 tablespoons butter cold and cut into chunks
  • 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese
  • 3/4 cup milk

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 F.
  • In a large pot, add olive oil, onions, celery and frozen mixed vegetables along with salt, black pepper and cayenne pepper.
  • Sauté for about 5 minutes on medium-high heat or until vegetables start to soften and sweat some of their moisture.
  • Sprinkle on the flour to the tops of vegetables and stir for about 1 minute.
  • Add chicken stock, Italian herbs, cream or milk and cooked chicken breast.
  • Cook until mixture starts to thicken.
  • Pour chicken mixture into a 9 x 13 baking dish.
  • To make the biscuits; in a large mixing bowl, add flour, baking powder and salt.
  • Stir together.
  • Add cold chunks of butter and work into the flour with fingers or pastry cutter until butter is in pea sized chunks.
  • Add cheddar cheese and toss in the flour with your hands or a spoon.
  • Add milk and stir together until a dough forms.
  • If you need, add a little more flour for the dough to pull together or more milk to form a dough ball that isn’t too dry or sticky.
  • Add dough in chunks on top of the chicken filling.
  • Bake for 25 minutes or until the tops are slightly golden and the biscuits are cooked through. You can stick a tooth pick into the center of the biscuit and if it comes out clean they are done.
  • Cool slightly before serving.