Spoonful of Sugar Free

Registered Dietitian

Healthy Comfort Food

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Hello all! Is it still cold in your neck of the woods? I hope so, so that you can make this wonderfully comforting Chicken Pot Pie! (Although I know you would like it any time of year 😉 )!

Sarah from the Smart Kitchen challenged me to make a healthy Chicken Pot Pie. So by golly I made that pie!

Gluten-Free Healthy Chicken Pot Pie

~This Pot Pie is not your typical artery-clogging pastry dish. Gluten-free, Dairy-free, and of course, sugar-free! It can also be made vegan if you omit the chicken.

Ingredients

Crust:

  • 1 cup brown rice flour
  • 1/2 cup garbanzo bean flour
  • 1/2 tsp xantham gum (acts as gluten to stick gluten-free flours together. if you don’t have any, no worries! The crust just won’t stick together as much)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3 Tablespoons olive oil
  • Tablespoons of water as needed

Filling:

  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • 4 carrots
  • 2 celery stalks
  • 5 mushrooms
  • 1/2 cup chopped cabbage
  • 1/2 onion
  • 1/2 cup green peas
  • 3/4 cup chopped/shredded cooked chicken
  • 1/4 cup chicken stalk (or water)
  • 1 Tablespoon brown rice flour
  • 1/2 tsp each of salt, pepper, and thyme

NOTE: The two gluten-free flours I used are both inexpensive compared to most gluten-free flours. They can be used in a wide variety of recipes, too. Examples: Pancakes, cornbread, or socca. However, whole wheat flour can be used instead.

NOTE 2: You can use any mix of veggies you have. This just happens to be what I had in the fridge at the time. Try adding potatoes, squash, zuchinni, broccoli, or any other veggies you have.

Directions:

First, mix the dry ingredients of the crust together. Then add the olive oil and stir. Add tablespoons of water as needed until the dough sticks together to roll into a ball. Refrigerate dough while you prepare the filling.

For the filling, chop all the veggies into bite-sized pieces. In a skillet on medium-high heat, place all the veggies in to brown slightly. Add a dash of water as needed to prevent burning. Next, add the chicken, chicken stock, flour, and spices. Mix and cover for a few minutes.

Pour the filling and it’s juices into a pie pan or a oven-safe dish. I used my grandma’s french oven le-creuset 🙂

Take the dough out of the fridge and roll onto a flat surface. Use extra flour as needed to prevent sticking. Lay the rolled out dough on top of the veggies. If the dough breaks apart, don’t worry! It looks really fun when the crust is laid in pieces. I even took the extra dough and shaped it into a heart for decoration!

Bake at 400* for 20 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the filling bubbles.

Serves 6 hungry people

Best eaten in bowls 🙂

Thought-provoking, mind-prodding question of the day:

What things do you do that make you lose track of time? You know when you get caught up in something you are so engaged in that you forget to look at the clock or think about your “to-do” list?

I sometimes get this way when I cook, or when I am playing my best tennis, or even when I’m writing an essay on a topic I connect with.

P.S. if you ever run out of oatmeal-add ins, look at all the comments on my last post. There are some really great ideas!

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Comments

  1. That looks like a really good dish to bring to a family gathering 🙂 Lol, it has that cozy feeling to it!!
    I’m going to go check out the comments on your last post, I can never have too many oatmeal topping ideas!

  4. that looks REALLY good! I have chicken in the slow cooker as we speak and now I wish it was pie 🙂
    I always get caught up when I
    – blog
    – read blogs OR books
    – cook
    – am at the gym

    argh! thats a lot of things !

  8. Omigod, that chicken pot pie looks soo delicious! I’m so jealous of your cooking skills! =)

    The activities that I do that makes me lose complete track of time would have to be either when I read or when I write. When I read, I can literally walk 20 long city blocks to my destination and not even break a sweat. Of course, all the cars swerve outta my way when they see me with a book in my hand (just kidding, but that would make for a very cool comedy show, no? :-D). When I write, I turn on one song and put it on constant replay as I write one specific scene since the song relates to that scene in some way. I basically take a song and script dialogue as if the song was playing on a TV show and the characters were talking. That makes me lose track of night and day. 🙂

    Btw, I found you through HEAB. I will be catching up on your posts slowly, but surely! Happy blogging!

    • Yeah! I get so lost in my reading, too! I’ll be reading and reading, and people will try to talk to me, and I don’t even hear them talking…..I will also just be reading and then, oops! it is already 11 o’clock at night!

      I am so glad you found (and liked!) my blog 🙂

      Alex

  11. Looks great! Rice flour is very versatile. How do you know the correct proportions of veggies you use? I cook for me , but always have a huge pan of them…could be killing my digestive system ;)…

  12. Oooh, great recipe Alex! So yummy and comforting, I used to use Bisquick but your crust looks so much better and healthier!

  16. Girl! This looks so yummy! I want that crust 🙂 Its getting warmer here- but I will make this anyways. I totally lose track of time when I’m cooking, cleaning or am in the shower and know I have time….

  17. Alex this seriously looks soo good. I really want to make it! But a smaller version so I dont eat the leftovers for weeks on end bahaha! I get so tired of leftovers!

  22. PS Do you have any other fave sugar-free cookie recipes? I made some lower-sugar pb cookiet today but was looking eeeeeverywhere for good sugar-free recipes using stevia and didnt’ seem to come up with as many as I would’ve liked…

    • Hey Nicole!

      Have you checked my recipe dessert page? There is this wonderful sugar-free monster cookie that uses banana for sweetener!

      And if you are looking for a super-easy recipe, I just made some oatmeal raisin cookie things, but you can change them into anything you want. I just used oats, oat flour (blend up oats), chia gel (or you can use an egg or flax and water), little bit of baking powder, raisins, cinnamon. I think that’s it….Then I mix them together in my hands to form little balls (you can flatten them out to make cookie-shapes), and bake @375 for like…10 minutes? You can add stevia if you want, too.

      Then I always have all my “raw” cookies (under dessert section). Chocolate mint, chocolate peanut, gingerbread, orange-spice.

      Good Luck! If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email! And if you have a certain cookie in mind, don’t be afraid to ask me to come up with a “de-sugar-ified” recipe 😉

      Alex

  23. Wow Alex! This looks great! And it’s fairly quick too! I hate how most chicken pot pie recipes have to bake for an hour! Boo!

    I ALWAYS lose track of time when I’m catching up on my blog reading! ALWAYS!

  24. Wow, I am really excited to try this recipe! My mom and I struggle with food allergies, so we are always looking for recipes we can add to our somewhat limited repertoire. Thanks for the posts – I’ll be back for seconds! 🙂

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