Crustless Chicken Pot Pie is made with mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, and chicken all blended into a creamy pot pie that can be made as a one pan meal or in individual ramekins.
My sister sent me a Pinterest recipe for pot pie. Her family loved this dinner dish, but she wanted to serve it with fewer calories and fat.
While traditional pie crusts on pot pies are very tasty, they can be high in fat. To reduce both the fat and calorie content, this crustless chicken pot pie recipe uses mashed potatoes instead.
For this pot pie recipe sometimes I make my own mashed potatoes and sometimes I use the box variety. If you feel like making them from scratch it’s super easy.
Kitchen Tip: To make homemade mashed potatoes all you need to do is boil the potatoes, mash them with a masher or fork, add some chicken stock and season to taste with salt, pepper, and garlic.
This recipe uses healthy prepackaged foods to decrease the steps and therefore saves time. You can use leftover chicken from a prior dinner, or grab a whole rotisserie chicken and chop it up. Frozen veggies are a great side to always have in the freezer and come in handy for dishes like this.
Watch the video or keep reading for step by step instructions on how to make crustless chicken pot pie!
How To Make Crustless Chicken Pot Pie:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Prepare mashed potatoes per box instructions or make homemade mash potatoes.
- Melt butter in large oven-safe fry pan.
- Whisk in flour into melted butter.
- Slowly whisk chicken stock into flour mixture, simmer until thickened. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add frozen veggies, shredded cheese, and diced chicken. Over medium heat, bring to simmer.
- Dish into 8 ramekins or leave in your oven-safe pan.
- Top with mashed potatoes.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
In order for our crustless chicken pot pie to hold up to the mashed potatoes, we are going to put on top of the pot pie mixture, we need it to thicken. We do accomplish this by making a roux.
Kitchen Tip: A roux is a mixture of fat and flour used to thicken sauces.
To the whisked butter and flour, slowly add the broth. Whisk and bring the mixture back to a simmer before adding more broth. Repeat until the broth is completely mixed in and the sauce begins to thicken.
If your sauce is not as thick as you’d like, continue to simmer for 5 -10 minute to give the flour time to thicken.
Kitchen Tip: If your sauce is not as thick as you’d like, add 1/4 cup – 1/2 cup of dry mashed potato flakes to the mixture. This will quickly thicken the sauce and add a delicious flavor.
Next, add your diced chicken, vegetables, and cheese.
You can make all kinds of substitutions here if you wanted. You could use canned vegetables over frozen, canned chicken over diced, or swap out the chicken for beef if you’d like. You could try another kind of cheese for a different flavor as well.
Lastly, add the mashed potatoes on top of the chicken mixture. Bake for 30 minutes and dinner is served!
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Crustless Chicken Pot Pie is made with mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, and chicken all blended into a creamy pot pie that can be made as a one pan meal or in individual ramekins.
Ingredients
- 2 cups mashed potatoes (boxed or homemade)
- 1 lb. chicken, cooked and diced
- 2 3/4 cups chicken stock
- 2 cups frozen mixed vegetables
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 3 tbsp. butter
- 1/3 cup flour
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Prepare mashed potatoes per box instructions or make homemade mash potatoes.
- Melt butter in large oven-safe fry pan.
- Whisk in flour into melted butter.
- Slowly whisk chicken stock into flour mixture, simmer until thickened. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add frozen veggies, shredded cheese, and diced chicken. Over medium heat, bring to simmer.
- Dish into 8 ramekins or leave in your oven-safe pan.
- Top with mashed potatoes.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
Notes
Optional: Salt & pepper to taste. Dried parsley for garnishing.
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Erin Marie Sills says
These look so good. I’ll be adding them to our menu. They would probably also be good with tuna substituted for the chicken…I’m always trying to get more Omega 3’s into my family!
Jodi Danen says
That is a great idea, Erin! I am going to have to try that one too. I have one child who likes fish and one who does not. I think this would be a great way to “hide” it! 🙂
Faith VanderMolen says
Such a creative idea! Looks amazing!
Jodi Danen says
Thanks Faith! I need to get creative to get my kids eating foods that are good for them:)
Trish says
YUM! This sounds delicious! I could also make this as a weeknight meal, as opposed to the labor intensive traditional pot pie.
Jodi Danen says
Absolutely Trish! It really was easy and quick to prepare with all the prepackaged items. I hope you enjoy:)
Nicole @ Fitful Focus says
YUM! What a great weeknight meal to whip up! Thanks for sharing!
Jodi Danen says
Thanks Nicole! It is a keeper in my house:)
Tania @ The Cook's Pyjamas says
Yum. I love this idea. The perfect mid-week meal.
Jodi Danen says
Thanks Tania, it really is the perfect mid-week meal:) I hope you enjoy it!
Laura says
LOVE the idea of a crustless chicken pot pie!! YUM!
Jodi Danen says
Thanks Laura! It is so delicious – and my whole family loves it. A keeper 🙂
Melissa says
This is one of my families favorites! I use boxed mashed potatoes most of the time, but on occasion, I will do fresh.
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