Chicken Pot Pie - Fast

I decided to have an easy and fast meal tonight - I just didn't feel like cooking today.

The ingredients for my fast version of Chicken pot pie are as follows. Cream of Chicken soup; milk (not shown); Olive Oil; Garlic Powder; Onion Powder; Pepper; Roasted Red Pepper and Garlic Seasoning (not shown either); Frozen Mixed Vegetables; and cooked boneless chicken pieces. Preheat oven to 450.

I poured 2 Tbsp of Olive Oil into a bowl that contained 4 cups of mixed veggies and put it onto a parchment lined cookie sheet. I sprinkled a very little salt over all the vegetables and then placed them into a 450 oven.

  The purpose is to pre-heat the veggies and give them some extra flavour; or you can omit the Olive Oil and mix the frozen veggies with the chicken directly. While they are warming, cut up the cooked chicken about 3 cups and place into a bowl. You can heat the chicken in the microwave for 2 minutes if you desire.  Remove the veggies from the oven and dump into the bowl with chicken.  Here is a picture of what that should look like.

Next, open the Cream of Chicken Soup and empty into chicken and vegetable mixture.  Now use the soup can and fill it to half with milk (you can clean out the rest of the soup from the can) and pour into chicken mixture.  Add: 1/4 tsp Garlic Powder; 1/2 tsp Onion Powder; 1/4 tsp Black Pepper and 1 tsp of Roasted Red Pepper and Garlic Seasoning.  (You can change the amounts and seasoning to suite your tastes if you so choose.) Mix together until all ingredients are combined and pour into a greased casserole dish of your choice, or a 9x13 pan which is what I used. Press the mixture evenly into the pan and sprinkle a little Roasted Red Pepper and Garlic Seasoning over the top.

For the topping, I just used a Drop Biscuit Recipe which will follow, but you can use any drop biscuit recipe that you like.  I added the biscuit dough on top, and then was asked to make it a an even layer, so I compromied, half was evenly spread out and the other half was left as drop biscuits. (When I do this again, I will spread it out evenly - it cooks faster).  I then sprinkled some Garlic Powder, Onion Powder; Paprika and Dried Parsley Flakes over the top for taste and decoration.

This was put into a 450 oven for 15 minutes or until the biscuits were cooked and browned.  I let the whole thing sit for 5 minutes or so before I put it onto the table. To note, when I make this again, I will probably use more pepper.  The girls suggested that I make it spicy, to do this I would use Cayenne pepper in place of Black Pepper. 

This amount should feed 4. 

However, when I noticed that the layer of chicken was only about an inch (not enough to feed 6),  I dumped everything back into the bowl and added: 2 more cups of chicken and frozen veggies, I increased the pepper, onion powder, garlic powder by 1/4. The layer of chicken was now 1 1/2 inches deep before I topped it with the drop biscuits.

I served it with plain Romaine lettuce leaves into which and one girl put the chicken mixture and wrapped it in the leaf and she did ENJOY!