Chicken Leek Pie With Filo

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4.17 from 24 votes

A creamy Chicken Leek Pie with crispy filo that's real flavorful and easy to make!

Prep Time40

Cook Time1

Course: Appetizer, Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine: Greek

Keyword: Chicken, cream, Oven baked, pie

Servings: pieces

Calories: 756kcal

Ingredients

For The Chicken:

600 grams / 1 lb + 5 oz chicken breasts (2 large ones)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
¼ lemon zested
1 tablespoon olive oil
salt and pepper

For The Pie Filling:

6 tablespoons olive oil
450 grams / 15.8 oz leeks (2 large) finely chopped
140 grams / 5 oz red onion (1 medium-sized) finely chopped
7 tablespoons all-purpose flour
600 ml milk lukewarm
1 medium-sized egg lightly beaten
100 grams / 3.5 oz Kefalotyri cheese (or substitute with Parmesan or Pecorino Romano) grated

For The Pie:

450 grams filo pastry (1 package) unfreeze in the fridge overnight
80 grams / 2. oz butter melted
10 tablespoons olive oil

Instructions

Roast The Chicken:

Preheat the oven to 250°C / 482°F.
In a mixing bowl combine the lemon juice, lemon zest, and olive oil. Add the chicken breasts season with salt and pepper and rub them to spread the lemon-olive oil mix all over.
Lay a piece of parchment paper on your oven's tray pan or use a sheet pan. Add the chicken fillets flat on top and roast for 20 minutes.
Remove from the oven and place on a cutting board to cool. When they're cool enough finely chop them and add them to a bowl.

Make The Pie Filling:

In a medium-sized cooking pot heat the 6 tablespoons of olive oil over high heat. Add the leeks and onion and drop the heat to medium. Cook stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes. Or until they get completely soft and their original volume drops down by half.
Turn heat to low and stir in the flour using a wooden spoon.
Pour the milk and stir constantly until the cream starts to thicken. Season with salt and pepper.
Once the cream has gotten pretty thick take the pot off the heat. Stir in the cheese. Taste to see if it needs any additonal salt.
Then stir in the egg and the chicken. Set the pot with the cream aside to cool down to room temperature.

Make The Pie:

Preheat the oven to 190°C / 374°F.
Lay open the stack of filo on your working surface. Cover it with a tea towel so it won't air-dry.
In a small bowl mix together the butter and olive oil. Keep it next to you to use for brushing the pan as well as the filo.
Take a round 31 cm (12-inch pan) and grease it well with the olive oil and butter mix.
Lay 6 filo sheets inside the pan in order to cover its bottom and all of its edges all around. Brush each filo you add to the pan with butter-olive oil mix.
Add half of the filling on top and spread it evenly with a spoon.
Take 2 more filo sheets and place them on top of the filling again greasing each one of them.
Add the remaining half of the filling and again spread it and smoothen it with a spoon.
Now add the remaining sheets of filo on top. Ruffle them a bit with your hands in order to fit inside the pan and not hang out of it. Drizzle each one with the oil-butter-mix and tap with the pastry brush to spread it gently.
Overlap the bottom layers of filo (the ones that hang out of the pan) in order to create a ruffled pie edging. Grease the edging the same way you did the top of the pie.
Scar and divide the pie into 8 pieces. Try not to cut the bottom layers of filo.
Bake for about 15 minutes until the pie gets a nice golden brown color on top.
Then drop the temperature to 170°C / 338°F. and bake for another 35 to 40 minutes. Shake the pan to see if the pie moves inside it that means it's baked at the bottom as well.
Let the pie sit at room temperature for at least 30 minutes before serving.

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