How to Make Chicken Pot Pie Casserole

One of our family’s favorite dinners is chicken pot pie. The downside to this dish is that this involves several hours of time by the time you refrigerate the dough for the pie crust and make the filling. Hopefully someday, I can share that full recipe with you because, despite the time, it is SOOOO delicious! This particular night, I didn’t have the time or the energy for this endeavor, so I set out to create a Chicken Pot Pie Casserole of sorts.

Upon completion, our family affectionately dubbed it “Chicken NOT Pie,” and we found it to be a highly acceptable quicker alternative to the real deal! Get ready to dig in because you’re going to love the flaky layers of this yummy Chicken Pot Pie Casserole!

Things You’ll Need

• 2 quart Casserole Dish (Mine is 7×11)
• Skillet or Dutch Oven
• Measuring Cups and Spoons
• Liquid Measuring Cup
• Pizza Cutter
• Sharp Knife
• Mini Chopper
• Wooden Spoon
• Stand or Hand Mixer
• Rolling pin

Ingredients for Chicken Pot Pie Casserole

Filling:

• 4 Tbsp Butter (I used salted)
• 1 small onion
• 3 medium carrots
• 2 stalks of celery
• 2 Tbsp organic minced garlic OR 2 cloves garlic
• 1/3 cup organic flour
• 1/2 tsp. Thyme
• 1 tsp. Parsley
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. pepper
• 1 3/4 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 cup organic heavy cream
• 2 -3 cooked chicken breasts, cubed (about 3- 3 1/2 cups) Note: I just cooked mine in my Instant Pot with some salt, pepper, and garlic powder. You could use any leftover chicken you have or even a rotisserie chicken.
• 1- 10 oz. bag of frozen peas

Top “Crust”

• 2 cups organic flour
• 1 Tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. aluminum-free baking powder
• 1/2 Tbsp Non-GMO Yeast
• 11 Tbsp butter, softened
• 3/4 cup warm water

Note: This “crust” recipe is really double what you will need to top this casserole. I went ahead and cut the remaining half of the dough into crescent rolls (shown in the photo below) that I served with it. If I am just making crescent rolls, this is not my preferred recipe, but it was fine as a side with this dish. Additionally, you could refrigerate the other half of the dough, rolled out and rolled in parchment paper to use as you would refrigerated crescent roll dough. You could also just half this recipe if you don’t want to have to mess with the extra dough.

Instructions for Chicken Pot Pie Casserole

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Next, let’s go ahead and mix up the dough for the top crust. Add all dry ingredients to the bowl of your mixer. Mix well.

• Add in the butter and warm water and combine well. Mix with a dough hook until dough comes together in a ball. The dough will be sticky. Cover with a clean towel and allow to rest for 30 minutes while you work on the filling.

• Chop Onions, Celery, and Carrots.

• Melt Butter in Dutch oven.
• Next, add Onions, Celery, Carrots, Garlic and cook over medium heat until all veggies are tender (This will take some time. Probably 20-25 minutes. Covering will shorten this process a bit)

• Stir in flour, seasonings, and chicken broth. Stir and continue cooking until it begins to thicken. Add heavy cream. Reduce heat.

• Add in cooked chicken and frozen peas. Cover and cook for an additional 5 minutes or so on low. Stir frequently to prevent anything from sticking.

• Remove from heat and place filling in the casserole dish.
• Back to our “crust”! Roll dough out flat. This dough is extremely sticky so you will need to flour it well to prevent it from sticking to your rolling pin. Think roughly the thickness of refrigerated crescent roll dough.

• Finally, divide dough in half (I like to use a pizza cutter to cut dough-makes it super simple). Use half of the dough to place on top of the casserole. (See note under the ingredients section) Tuck in the edges, so to speak, around the casserole. This doesn’t have to be super pretty! Bake for 20 minutes until the dough appears done. I melted some butter and spread it over the top at this point and turned my oven broiler on for 2-3 minutes (watch this like a hawk or it can burn!) to brown the crust slightly.

Final Thoughts

And there you have it! An easy Chicken Pot Pie Casserole the whole family will enjoy! It’s a hearty food that warms you from the inside out.

Give This Chicken Pot Pie Casserole a Try!

Please give this recipe a try and let me know in the comments how it you liked it! I’d love to hear from you!

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