Recipe # 23 Day 23

Day 23 of 30
Chicken Stroganoff Pot Pie

Hmmm............I really wanted this to be a good recipe.  The name of the recipe sounded great, the ingredients all seemed good together but the flavor was overall just bland.  My thoughts are this:  We are all so used to pot pies from a commercial vendor, which has a tremendous amount of sodium.  It tasted so bland because it tasted just like chicken, vegetables and gravy, without the sodium.

I am actually going to work a little with this recipe.  I am going to use fresh cut up vegetables next time (I'm thinking baking potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli, onions, cut green beans, possibly squash and zucchini).  The vegetables were much too mushy at the end of the cooking for my liking.  The topping of the bisquick was good but I think I'll add some type of spice to it, possibly fresh ground pepper and italian seasoning.  I would also add salt to the mixture while cooking.  The absence of salt made it just overall too blah.

I'll post a better version if my alterations produce a better dish.

1 envelope (0.87 oz) chicken gravy mix
1 can (10.5 ox) condensed chicken broth
1 lb. skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into 1-inch pieces
1 bag (16 oz) frozen stew vegetables, thawed and drained
1 jar (4 oz) sliced mushrooms, drained
1/2 cup sour cream
1 tbsp. all-purpose flour
1 1/2 cups Bisquick Original or Reduced Fat baking mix
4 medium green onions
1/2 cup milk
1 cup frozen green peas, thawed

Mix gravy mix and broth in slow cooker until smooth. Stir in chicken, stew vegetables and mushrooms. Cover and Cook on LOW for 4 hours or until chicken is tender.
Mix sour cream and flour. Stir sour cream mixture into chicken mixture. Cover and cook on HIGH for 20 minutes.
Mix Baking mix and onions; stir in milk just until moistened. Stir in peas. Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls onto chicken-vegetable mixture.
Cover and cook on high heat for 45-50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of topping comes out clean. Serve immediately.

In slow cooker now, seems delicious but the smell has fooled me before. We'll see................Update:  the smell did fool me............way too bland.  Needs some alteration...........maybe next time.

Bon' Appetit' (sort of')