Herded chicken pie with cheese and peanut crust

Pie with chicken and potatoes under a cheese and peanut crust is prepared quickly, its ingredients are simple, because it is a classic shepherd's pie, which was baked on a fire in field conditions, where there was no time for culinary delights. Despite the simplicity, the dish is worthy of a festive table, as it is very tasty! You need to bring a little creativity in the design and you get a beautiful, delicious, fragrant hot to your home-made feast. Include such a cake in the festive menu, if there is no time or desire to spend the whole holiday day in the kitchen.

For the shepherd's pie, you need a narrow, deep baking dish to make the layer of filling thicker, it will taste better. If you are not a fan of peanuts, take cashews or hazelnuts, and instead of the usual hard cheese, you can sprinkle with mozzarella.

Cooking time: 1 hour
Servings: 6

Ingredients for cooking shepherd's chicken pie with cheese and peanut crust:

650 g of chicken fillet;
150 g stem celery;
80 g onions;
95 g carrots;
500 g of potatoes;
50 ml of cream;
100 g of hard cheese;
100 g peanuts;
50 g butter;
5 cherry tomatoes;
ground paprika, dried thyme, rosemary, pepper, salt;
casting oil.

A way to cook a shepherd's chicken pie under a cheese and peanut crust.

Chicken fillet for shepherd's cake cut into thin strips, sprinkle with salt and ground paprika, pour olive oil. Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a pan, throw the sliced fillet, fry quickly, shift to a plate.

Dice stalk celery, three carrots on a large grater. Chop onions finely. In the same pan, in which the chicken was fried, melt 15 g of butter, add a little olive. We send the vegetables to the heated oil, salt it, then pass 10-12 minutes, until they are soft.

Boil potatoes until tender, knead, add the remaining butter, pour cream, salt to taste.

Lubricate the refractory form with olive oil, spread passerovannye vegetables at the bottom. Chicken fillet sprinkled with dried thyme and rosemary, spread on vegetables.

Then put the next layer - mashed potatoes.

To level the potato layer, it is necessary that it should be everywhere of approximately the same thickness.

Dip cherry tomatoes with tails in olive oil, make small indentations in the potato layer, put the tomatoes in a row in the center of the form.

Flange the blanched peanuts in a dry frying pan, knead with a rolling pin into a crumb, sprinkle potatoes on top.

We rub hard cheese on a fine grater, we pour the top with grated cheese and put the form in the oven on an average level.

Cooking a shepherd’s pie for about 30 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius until golden brown.

Serve the chicken pastry with cheese and peanut crust to the table hot, sprinkle with fresh herbs before serving, for those who like spicy food you can add fresh chilli pod. Enjoy your meal!