Budget Meals That Taste Like a Million Bucks

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Classic Chicken Pot Pie Recipe
Today we're going to make chicken pot pie. You'll need five teaspoons of unsalted butter, pound and a half of uncooked chicken, chopped into bite-sized chunks, four celery ribs, thinly sliced, four carrots, about two cups, diet or chopped, chopped, one onion, chopped, one fourth cup of all flour, three and a half cups of chicken broth, a cup of frozen peas, two ounces of cream cheese, one tablespoon of fresh thyme, chopped, and half a teaspoon of salt and a fourth a teaspoon of pepper, and two cups of diced potatoes and a eight ounce crescent roll. I melted one tablespoon of butter in a frying pan. We're going to add the chicken and it's cut up into bite-size pieces. It's about a pound and a half.

Chicken pot pie

5 tsp unsalted butter
1 1/2 lb. chicken boneless breast
4 ribs celery thinly sliced (2 cups)
2 cups carrots diced
2 cups potatoes chopped bite size pieces
1 large onion chopped
1/4c all purpose flour
3 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 cup frozen baby peas
2 oz. cream cheese
1 Tbsp. fresh thyme chopped
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
8 oz. crescent roll dough

Melt 1 T butter in pan add chicken cook until just cooked though about 5 mins
remove from pan
Melt remaining 2 tsp butter in same pan  ,add celery, potatoes, carrots, onions stir frequently,
Until vegetables soften
Reduce heat, sprinkle flour over vegetables ,stir til vegetables are coated.
Stir in chicken broth bring to boil over high heat ,stir occasionally
Reduce heat medium simmer 5 mins  Add peas, cream cheese, thyme, salt, pepper  
simmer stirring occasionally until mixture thickens and vegetables tender (8) minutes
Stir in chicken .
Add mixture to pan of your choice ,place crescent rolls over top.
Bake 11-13 minutes at 400 degrees or until crust  golden brown