The yellow box of Bisquick baking mix always reminds me of my childhood. Some of my favorite treats came from that box, like strawberry shortcake and coffee cake. As a preteen, those were some of the first recipes I made on my own.
Betty Crocker recently released a new cookbook, Bisquick: Quick to the Table: Easy Recipes for Food You Want to Eat, filled with recipes old and new. With fresh carrots, celery, onion and broccoli waiting to be used, I chose to make the Easy Chicken Pot Pie recipe.
As per Betty Crocker’s suggestion, I took the advice of her kitchen secrets: instead of cream of chicken soup, I had a can of cream of celery soup on hand and used that. And instead of the thawed, frozen veggies, I used leftover cooked vegetables. The chicken pot pie filling was delicious, and the topping, in biscuit form, was a twist on the standard pie crust topping.
Ingredients:
- 1 2/3 cups frozen mixed vegetables, thawed
- 1 cup cut-up cooked chicken
- 1 can (10 3/4 oz.) condensed cream of chicken soup
- 1 cup Original Bisquick mix
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 egg
Directions:
- Heat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
- In ungreased 9-inch glass pie plate, stir vegetables, chicken and soup. In medium bowl, stir remaining ingredients until blended. Pour into pie plate.
- Bake about 30 minutes or until crust is golden brown.
I’ve never come across an easier chicken pot pie recipe!
Other recipes include those for gluten-free sweet treats (using Bisquick’s gluten-free mix), such as Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies, Gluten-Free Chocolate Crinkles, and Gluten-Free Snickerdoodles. More modern recipes include those like Italian Flatbread, quinoa-seed pancakes with mixed berry syrup, and quick lemon-rosemary naan. Oldies-but-goodies are included, too, such as classic pancakes and waffles, drop biscuits, Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie, and, yes, my all-time childhood favorite — Classic Strawberry Shortcakes.
Bisquick: Quick to the Table: Easy Recipes for Food You Want to Eat is available at Whitehall Public Library. You may request it here.
