Chicken Casserole With Leek And Vegetables Recipes

JOOLS' SIMPLE CHICKEN & VEG STEW

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºC/gas 5.
• Trim, wash and slice the leeks 1cm thick, scrub and cut the carrots into rough chunks and finely slice the celery. Peel and finely slice the garlic, pick the thyme leaves, discarding the stalks, and finely slice the bacon.
• Heat a lug of oil in a large casserole pan on a medium heat, then add the bacon. Scatter in the thyme leaves and fry for a few minutes, or until the bacon is golden.
• Next, add the leeks, carrots, celery and garlic and cook for around 10 minutes, or until the leeks start to soften, stirring regularly. Meanwhile, peel and roughly chop the celeriac and parsnips, then roughly chop the potatoes.
• Add the chicken, celeriac, parsnips and potatoes to the pan. Stir in the Marmite, add a good grinding of black pepper and stir to coat.
• Pour in the hot stock, bring to the boil, then turn the heat down to low. Crumple up and wet a piece of greaseproof paper, then open it out and place on top of the stew. Cover with a lid and pop in the oven for 1 hour, or until the chicken is super-tender.
• When the time's up, gently break the chicken up into the stew, then serve up in bowls. I like to serve this with broccoli on the side. Sometimes I top it with puff pastry or I stir it through pasta for a really tasty sauce.

CHICKEN, LEEK, AND MUSHROOM CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Season chicken on both sides with salt and pepper. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a medium saute pan over medium-high heat. Add chicken, and cook until golden brown on 1 side, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip, reduce heat to medium, and cook until cooked through, about 10 minutes more. Transfer chicken to a plate, and return pan, with drippings, to medium heat.
• Heat remaining 3 tablespoons oil in pan. Add leek, celery, mushrooms, and a pinch of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are golden brown and tender, 8 to 10 minutes. (Reduce heat if vegetables brown too quickly.) Stir in flour, and cook, stirring often, for 2 minutes. Add sherry, stock, milk, and bay leaf, and cook, scraping up browned bits from bottom, until thickened, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Discard bay leaf.
• Arrange bread on bottom of a 2-quart oval baking dish, overlapping slices slightly. Spoon half of the vegetables and sauce over bread. Slice chicken crosswise, 1/2 inch thick, and arrange on bread. Top with any accumulated juices from chicken. Spread remaining vegetables and sauce over chicken, sprinkle with parsley and Parmesan, and bake until golden brown and bubbling, 25 to 30 minutes. Let stand for 15 minutes before serving.

CHICKEN CASSEROLE WITH LEEK AND VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Cook chicken pieces with tablespoon oil in pan and brown on both sides. Remove from pan and drain on paper towel.
• Remove any excess fat from pan, add 1 tbsp of butter and cook potatoes, sweet potato, celery and carrots for 1 to 2 minutes and remove.
• Cook mushrooms for 1 minute in 1 tbsp butter, remove.
• Add 2 tbsp butter to pan with 1 tbsp oil, add sliced leeks and garlic and cook for 1 to 2 minutes until soft. Remove.
• Add 2 tbsp butter to pan, add flour and cook for 1 minute or until butter is absorbed. Slowly add chicken stock stirring between additions until you have a smooth "gravy". Add additional stock or water if too thick. Add thyme and cook for 1 minute.
• Put all ingredients into slow cooker or casserole dish and mix well. Slow cook for 6 hours or until meat is thoroughly cooked. If cooking in oven, chicken should be cooked in 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
• Serve as is or with mash or noodles.
• If you are cooking this in the oven, you may want to reduce this recipe in half to accommodate standard casserole dishes. I have a hungry family to feed so we cook enough for two dinners.
• Leftovers can also be put in pie.

EASY CHICKEN CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large, flameproof casserole. Season chicken pieces and brown all over for 10min. Remove and set aside. Drain fat from the pan - there should be around 75ml (3fl oz). Pour just 1tbsp oil back in to the pan and discard the rest. Preheat oven to 200ºC (180ºC fan oven) mark 6.
• Add the onion, garlic, celery, carrots, leeks and potatoes to the pan, and cook, stirring, for 5-10min. Stir in the flour, cook for 2min, then pour in the stock. Season well, then return the browned chicken to the pan. Add the rosemary, squeeze over the juice from the lemon half and pop the squeezed lemon half into the pan. Cover and bring the casserole to the boil.
• Cook in the oven for 25-30min until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce is piping hot and thickened.

BAKED LEEK CASSEROLE

Steps:

• preheat oven to 375*F (190*C).
• butter baking dish.
• place cooked, chopped leeks in bowl with beaten eggs, mix together, incorporate flour.
• add paprika, nutmeg and milk, season well, mix together with whisk.
• pour mixture into baking dish and bake for 40 minutes in oven.
• slice and serve.

EASY SLOW COOKER CHICKEN CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Chop the leek, carrot, onion and potatoes into small amounts. If using new potatoes I tend to cut these into 8 pieces.
• De-skin and de-bone the chicken thighs and chop these into small pieces as well
• At this point you can fridge the ingredients and put the slow cooker on in the morning, with the meal ready for when you get home or you can go ahead and cook now
• Add leek, carrot, onion and potatoes to the slow cooker
• Add the chicken to the slow cooker with the ingredients then pour over the chicken stock as slowly and as evenly as possible. Then mix in 4 tablespoons of vegetable gravy to thicken it up. We like the sauce nice and thick but reduce the amount of granules if you prefer a runnier casserole.
• Switch the slow cooker to low and leave to cook for a minimum of 4 hours, however I tend to cook for 8 as I put this on before I go to work; ready to eat when I get home.

CHICKEN AND LEEK PASTA

Steps:

• Use a vegetable peeler to peel zucchini and carrot into fine slices. Cut slices lengthwise into thin ribbons, similar to the tagliatelle; set aside.
• Melt butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Add chicken and fry until seared, 3 to 4 minutes. Add leeks and continue to fry until softened, about 3 minutes.
• Add 1 cup chicken broth, cream, white wine, and pepper. Bring to a simmer and cook until sauce thickens, 6 to 8 minutes. Keep warm.
• Meanwhile, bring remaining chicken broth to a boil in a saucepan. Add vegetable ribbons and tagliatelle. Cook at a boil until tagliatelle is tender yet firm to the bite, about 8 minutes.
• Drain tagliatelle and serve, adding warm chicken-leek mixture on top.