Scrappinren's Cozy Cottage: What's For Dinner Wednesday

Canned Chicken -or- Turkey Potpie

This recipe is so incredibly easy, it's one I've been making for over 20 years and it's also a quick go-to dinner for a fast, yummy meal!

The reason it's called Canned Potpie? Because most of the ingredients come from a can!!! That's right, a can!

Today, instead of using 2 cans (tubes) of biscuits, I used my own bisquick - type of mix and made a top. Super easy and quick to do, and I'll show you how to make this also. But, I usually use the cans of biscuits.

This is one of those meals where you can literally open up some cans, put them in the pan, and walk away for 30 minutes...then, come back to a meal that's done! Who doesn't love that!?

Here is what you need:

2 cans of mixed vegetables

1 can of potatoes - cut up (or buy diced)

1 can of cream of chicken soup

1 can of chicken broth

1-2 cups of cooked chicken

poultry seasoning (optional)

2 tubes of canned biscuits

Open, drain and pour your mixed vegetables in the bottom of a cake pan.

Open and pour in can of soup. Mix well.

Now, open the broth, and mix 1/2 - 3/4 of the can in the mixture. You don't want to make this a soup in the pan, just a moist mixture that isn't a runny mess.

I sprinkle a bit of poultry seasoning on top, and mix well. This is totally optional.

I take my pre-cooked chicken (you can use turkey also), cut-up, and add this to the pan. Mix well.

Here is where I would open up the 2 cans of biscuits. Open them up, seperate the biscuits, flatten them out with your hands, and lay them on top of the ingredients in the pan....overlapping slightly. I use 2 cans, because that's what it takes to cover the whole cake pan.

I don't have a picture of this, because I used my own homemade mix to make a topping tonight

For the topping I made, you can use Bisquick, it's the same as what I used only I make my own mixes.

What you need for the topping I made in the picture:

2 Cups Bisquick

1 1/2 C. milk

Mix well.

Here is the best part of using this mixture! Pour this over the potpie filling in the pan. Yes...just pour it right over. As it cooks, it will make it's own top.

It doesn't need to look pretty. It will be when it's done, trust me. And be delicious, too!

I like to sprinkle on some parsley from the garden, to give it some color.

Now, cook at 350* for 1/2 hour - 3/4 hour.

Just until the biscuit top (or the Bisquick top) is golden brown.

Look at that topping! Mmmmm....

Here is a closer look at the potpie broth bubbling out under an edge...

Here is a picture after some pieces were taken out of the pan. I just wanted to show you what the broth looks like after it's cooked, and the inside of the pie. Notice that I don't make mine too runny, but you can totally make yours more runny (or juicy rather), by adding the whole can of broth when making this!