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Chicken Pie with dairy-free Gravy filling recipe to make at home

by Sports Benches

If the McDonald’s style/rectangular apple and other sweet pies isn’t enough, why not make a savoury version when you can have your own chicken pie with dairy-free gravy at home! For the crust/pastry, you can add a cup of flour as well as a few drips of oil to cover onto a bowl, some salt and sugar and either a few tablespoons of rice milk or water will do as you would want to knead it until your hands are no longer sticky. Put that into the fridge for at least an hour while you go make your own filling by cutting a quarter of chicken of your choice (raw or already frozen) into many pieces, then mix a a tablespoon of dairy-free gravy mix with on a saucepan before you turn the heat up closer to medium and throw the shredded chicken in there also for a few minutes. Once it’s cooked leave the filling until it’s cold for a while, take the pastry out of the fridge after the resting phase and you want to cut the pastry in half to fit a serving of two and leave the other half to save it for next time.

You wanna roll the pastry out with a couple of drops of flour on your chopping board (not too thin) so it doesn’t keep on sticking before you take some chunks out of the pastry in order to make it a perfect rectangular shape for your McDonald’s rectangular style chicken pie. That’s when you can put a good amount of chicken gravy in there, cover the pie up nicely and mix it up with another few drops of flour to stop the pie from sticking out while cooking. Speaking of cooking, put two pies into the air fryer, add a bit of rice milk or oil as your eggwash alternative & fire it up at 185 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes while flipping it to the other side at the halfway mark. And done, cool these pies down for at least 30 minutes as they come out really hot before it’s all ready for you to eat. See it for yourself when you can make your own McDonald’s rectangular style chicken or savoury pies if you like at home as I’m sure you will love this homemade recipe at your own kitchen.

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Avocado oil pastry you can make at home

by Sports Benches

I had the chance to try & get the best out of my pastry making skills over the weekend when it comes to these home made apple pies or any other savoury pie filling you like (e.g. chicken or potato pie).

Ingredients:

  • 2-4 cups of flour
  • A few tablespoons of rice milk/water
  • 1/3 cup of avocado oil
  • Some sprinkles of salt and sugar
  • And any filling you like to fill it inside & cover up the pastry dough before baking

All you have to do is pour 1/3 cup of avocado into a bowl followed by some pinches of salt & sugar before adding 2 cups of plain flour, as well as few tablespoons of rice milk or water for a start. Then mix it up using your hands or through a food processing machine for a few minutes while adding a few more tablespoons of rice/milk at a time, so they can end up sticking together (not too sticky!) & finish it off onto a rectangle or disk shape layout on your pastry dough.

After that, cover the dough with a medium to large freezer bag nice & tight with a bowl into the refrigerator for at least an hour. Once the dough has been rested, get your rolling pin out & roll it out to the desired thickness & shape you want, then leave it out onto the sausage roll maker machine nice & flat by adding your favourite filling before closing the pastry nice & tight ahead of the cooking process.

It will take 30 minutes to get the job done where you will have to flip one side at the halfway mark (15 min). Once it’s been cooked & also cooled down for a few minutes, the natural avocado oil pastry got there will be crispy & golden on the outside while you can see the awesome saucy filling on the inside – How good!!

Final Thoughts

For the best results of making such homemade pastry, I would make two pastry doughs to cover both sides well with the filling in between since there’s no puff pastry sheets that is margarine-free from the supermarket freezer shelves.

It can be tricky to find a dairy & egg free equivalent of these ready-made frozen pastry sheets that doesn’t require a lot of work, especially when some may contain milk as they’re all processed within the one equipment from the factory. 

However, making them at home is a better, cheaper & safer option – so you can eat it naturally & also healthier too! See it for yourself with the avocado oil pastry recipe that is egg & dairy free to make at home.

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Apple Pie recipe to make at home

by Sports Benches

I wanted to make a homemade version of McDonald’s apple pie and it ended up tasting better than their pies. Here is the recipe for a serving of four.

As always, you can either use the ready-made pastry from the supermarkets if you’re not allergic to dairy or else look at my Avocado Oil pastry recipe here that is dairy-free. If you want to know how the homemade pastry is done, all you have to do is mix 1/3 cup of avocado oil, 2 cups of flour, some sprinkles of salt and sugar and mix it up together to make sure it doesn’t end up being dry & crumbly (you don’t want a collapsible pastry in there) by adding a few teaspoons at a time with rice milk or water – make sure you rest that homemade pastry dough once it’s done for at least an hour in the refrigerator.

While you’re waiting, it’s time to make the sauce of your homemade Apple Pie recipe that goes inside the foldable avocado oil pastry crust. I first peeled off the skin of a whole apple (doesn’t matter which size) before chopping them into small squares & put it onto a small saucepan filled with water where you will boil them in a low-medium heat for 8-10 minutes. Once the apples are soft after some time, put them onto a small bowl with a skimmer utensil while draining the boiled water from the saucepan away in a kitchen sink. Then mix some 1-2 teaspoons of corn starch & some lemon in a saucepan until there’s no lumps on the corn starch before heating it up again (low-medium setting) for another 2-3 minutes. After that, add the boiled apples onto the saucepan again and mix it up together with the sauce by turning off the heat where you now got your Apple Pie filling ready to go.

Now that the apple pie filling is ready alongside the rested pastry after an hour, roll the pastry dough to a decent thin size on your work bench before you add the apple filling in and fold the pastry dough by sealing it nice and tight where you will be placing it on a sausage roll maker machine for 30 minutes by flipping it over at the halfway cooking process. Once the pastry is nice and golden, cool these apple pies down for another 10 minutes so you don’t get a burnt tongue and they’re all ready to eat – how good!!

See it for yourself when you can go make your own McDonald’s style apple pie recipe that is dairy-free & delicious to eat at home.

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