Baking Australian most favourite easy meal, a pie with Asian flavours: 
Satay Chicken Pie

About the Pie

Have you tried chicken pie?

I am sure you must have!

There are many kind of pies; beef pie, fish pie, chicken pie and of course my favourite apple pie!

But have you tried Australian chicken pie?

Australian Pies

The only pies I know then was the British pies!
British pies made with short crust pastry.

But Australian pies are made with short pastry bottom and top with puff pastry.

The Australian pies are filled with meat, like steak, sometimes cheese were added.

Being Australia, it has a melting pot culture, hence the pies are varying out of the traditional.

There's a pie shop here that sells from traditional meat  pie to sensational flavours pie.

This is my family favourite pie ~ Satay Chicken Pie!

How to Make Australian Chicken Pie

Prepare the meat for the fillings. 
1) Chicken is the easiest meat to prepare. 


2) You need to spice it up!


3) and not to forget Peanut Butter.  4) Cook as per instruction below.

5) You need at least 2 sheets of each puff pastry and short crust pastry
Let it thaw for a bit. It's easier to cut that way.
But do not leave it for too long, then both pastry, especially puff pastry, will be handful to handle.


6) last but not least, I have Pie maker that makes my life easier!!
I used to make pies in that oval shape pie tins.

How to store Satay Chicken pie?

Keep it in an air-tight container and in the fridge.
But do note that the puff pastry will be limp and lost its crispiness!

Can I freeze Satay Chicken pie?

To be honest, these pies are best eaten when its piping hot!

I have not tried, freezing them as if there are any leftovers, the kids will pack them up for their lunch the next day.













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The writings below was the original post I did back in 2013. 
I do not wish to delete the writings as this will serve as a memoir to what happened back then. 
Google and readers are moving away from "Food that brings out good memories" kind of post.

But I like to keep them here.
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Thank you everyone for the Eid-ul-Fitr wishes.
You have made our Eid celebration a joyous one.
This is our 9th year celebrating Eid, far from homeland. It has been awhile since.

I am hopeful that one day, we'll be able to celebrate Eid with family and friends in Malaysia.




... however this year. we didn't put much thinking and planning like previous years. I was still baking cookies (when everyone else has stop!!) on first day of Eid.
Under "normal circumstances", we'd be busying over the stove to cook something special to feast on the first day, but this year was a bit different.
I was running behind schedule because....




...we had a guest, an exchange student from Japan, staying with us for 10 days.
He was here on D's invite (Uni / Japanese High School arrangement), for D to improve his Japanese speaking skills and for his Japanese guest to learn English.


On the day that D was busy with his laboratory work, his guest was unable to tag along, we decided to take him out to Swan Valley ... and of course, our first stop was my favourite place ~

Bell Rapids.


Most of our visits to Bell Rapids, was either in late Spring early summer or Autumn, never in winter. Water would be trickling down, no sign of rapids anywhere  
But this time... Bell Rapids was at its fullest.
Great place to have a picnic when its not raining or a place to escape and find some peace of mind, except when you happened to bump into a bunch of school kids practising white water rafting like the photo above.



Imagine ...
... sitting by the riverbanks... the sounds of water rushing down at a velocity crashing onto rocks, birds chirping happily, and there you are soaking it all in, with a good book or having a quiet conversation; reflection of the past, plan for the future etc... and not forgetting a little something to bite ...
I could spend whole day here.



Sadly... all those mentioned above, did not take place, no picnic! as both H and I were on our last 2 days of fasting... and our guest had limited time as he was due to fly out the next day!
But we managed to make these Aussie~Malaysian fusion pies, for our guest to taste and remember his visit to Australia, his time with Malaysian family and hopefully, he could imagine himself by the Bell Rapids riverbank, with a good book and a pie in his hand too.