Chicken Potato Pot Pie (Or How To Use Leftover Turkey!)

This chicken potato pot pie is perfect for people who love a good pot pie, but aren't a fan of mixed vegetables... corn, potatoes, and carrots star in this chicken pie! Oh, and if you have leftover turkey from thanksgiving, this is the perfect leftover turkey recipe, too!

It’s been a few years since I made my very first homemade chicken pot pie. I had been tackling pie crust using my great-grandmother’s no-fail pie crust recipe, and wanted to branch out from apple and peach. My first few attempts came out pretty similarly to store-bought, but then I noticed a crazy trend. I’d make the chicken pot pie, everyone would rave about it, and then there’d be a smattering of peas, green beans, and lima beans on everyone’s plate at the end… I needed an alternate plan to make sure half of our filling wasn’t going uneaten, which meant asking my family about the produce they preferred… and that’s how my chicken potato pot pie was born!

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