Chicken and leek pie

A super simple pasty filled with chicken and bacon in a creamy mustard sauce.

By Nigel Slater
From Nigel Slater's Dish of the Day

Ingredients

  • 4 pieces chicken (thighs and legs)
  • 8 peppercorns
  • ½ onion
  • 1 bay leaf
  • milk(enough to cover chicken pieces)
  • 6 rashers of smoked streaky bacon, cut into postage stamp-size pieces
  • 30g/1oz butter
  • 2 leeks, sliced into ½ inch discs
  • 3 tbsp plain flour
  • 3 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 2 x 375g/13oz packs of puff pastry
  • 1 egg, beaten, for glazing
  • parmesan, grated, for topping