28/10/2026
Homemade Chicken, Ham Hock & Leek Pie 🤍
The ultimate comfort food! Golden, flaky pastry filled with tender chicken, slow-cooked ham hock, leeks and a creamy sauce. So simple and absolutely delicious!
For the filling:
* 2 ham hocks – boiled until tender, then shredded
* 1 whole chicken – roasted and shredded
* Leeks – gently fried in a pan with a little oil
For the creamy sauce:
* Butter
* Plain flour
* Chicken stock (I used homemade, but a stock cube works just as well!)
* Onion
* 1½ tsp wholegrain mustard
Melt the butter, add the flour and gradually stir in the chicken stock, onion and mustard. Keep stirring until you have a lovely thick, creamy sauce.
Combine the shredded chicken and ham hock, add the cooked leeks, then pour over that gorgeous sauce and mix everything together.
For the pastry:
* 1 sheet of ready-rolled puff pastry from Marie Finnegan .pastry
* 1 egg for brushing – mine were from 🥚
Add the filling to your pie dish, top with the puff pastry and brush with beaten egg for that beautiful golden finish.
Pop into the oven at 180°C for around 15–20 minutes, or until the pastry is puffed up, golden and cooked through.
And there you have it… homemade comfort food at its best!
