Chicken Pastel

My friends know me for being a cook aficionada. I haven’t posted anything yet regarding my love for cooking. This is going to be my first post regarding food. I have an old multiply site by the way, where I post all of the things I cooked and baked, but uh-oh, I forgot the site. Anyway, I had this great dish from our canteen; it was a chicken with creamy white sauce. I found out that it was the same dish my sister was telling me about. This was her favorite dish too from our canteen when she was still working there. So I get to know the name of this dish which is Chicken Pastel.

The ingredients were pretty obvious; cream, chicken, veggies, but I still researched on it just to make sure. Chicken Pastel is supposed to be a dish with some crust on top, which should be baked. I used chicken breast. I asked the lady in the market to fillet it and I cut it into cubes. To make life easier, I decided to cook the way our canteen does it. So here are the ingredients I used and the procedures:

1.     Cut the chicken fillet, potatoes and carrots into cubes.

2.     Sautee onion and garlic in butter. Add chicken and season with salt. Wait till it’s cooked (for about 5 minutes) or until the meat turned white.

3.     Add potatoes, carrots, red bell pepper, mushroom, and hotdogs. (optional ingredients). Simmer for about 5 minutes.

4.     Add all purpose cream, and I’ve seen a blog that doesn’t recommend powdered cream of mushroom, but this is what I’ve used since grocery stores are still closed when I got off from work. I didn’t get the exact amount of cream of mushroom but it’s pretty much like 2 tablespoon I think? Let the cream and cook for another 5 minutes.

5.     Season with salt and pepper. Serve hot with rice or mashed potatoes?

So that’s the way I cooked it. Hope this helps! And by the way, this was an experiment.