Easy recipe for busy mums!

 Anyone who knows me will know that I am not all that keen on cooking but quite recently I have decided to take it up. I have never been good at cooking in my life but now we are weaning Alice I decided to start teaching myself how to cook. I have only made three meals so far but they seem to be a success so I thought that I would share with you a quick and easy recipe for busy mums, because lets be honest we haven't got all day to make a five star 3 course meal right?

Recipe: Chicken and bacon pie

Ingredients: 

1. Half a cooked chicken or frozen chicken chunks 

2. Half a packet of bacon 

3. Mushrooms 

4. 1 onion 

5. Vegetable stock cube 

6. A tbsp of olive oil 

7. Frozen pastry (or make your own if you are clever!)

Method: 

1. Heat olive oil in a pan 

2. Prepare and chop the onion and mushrooms

3. Chuck the chicken in the pan (if uncooked) along with the bacon, cook until browned. 

4. Add the vegetable stock cube

5. Throw in the onion and mushrooms 

6. Roll out the frozen pastry into a rectangular cooking dish 

7. When the onion is clear and the mushrooms are cooked spoon out the ingredients into the dish on top of the pastry 

8. Roll out more pastry and lay gently over the top 

9. Put a cross shape over the middle of the pastry with a knife to vent the pie 

10. Heat the oven to about 280 degrees, place the pie in the oven until the pastry is golden on top and slightly browned. 

11. Let pie cool down for about an hour, using a serving spoon dish pie out on to plate with either chips or mash and vegetables its your choice and your done!

Overall this pie takes about 45 minutes to prepare and make therefore making it a quick and easy meal for the whole family! Like I stated before I am not the greatest at cooking but this was very simple to make and didn't take much time at all and tastes delicious so why not give it a go you might be pleasantly surprised.

All the best (has anyone else gone Mrs Hinch mad?)

The Honest Mum 

xox