Serves:
2-4

Freeze?  Microwave?:
Freeze - yes- I recommend when freezing pastry to only partially cook it first, then when reheating you are actually cooking it the rest of the way..... you can microwave to reheat it, but not to cook it.

Ingredients:
Spring onions (Optional)
Bacon (1 rasher Optional)
Diced light tasty cheese (Optional)
1 clove garlic
1 good thickness (about 1cm thick) slice of light tasty cheese per person
1 teaspoon cornflour
a "splash" of milk (about 1/4 cup.... a bit less..)
1 sheet puff pastry each person
Diced chicken (maybe 1 breast or 2-3 thighs)
4 large mushrooms

Variation - to get some vegies in here:
Finely chopped spinach (I always use frozen, shocking!)
Sweet corn
Slightly mashed cooked pumpkin, broccoli etc.
 

Preparation time:
About 15 mins to prepare and about 15-20 to cook.

Oven Temp:
Reasonably hot..... as you need to cook the pastry.  Because all the filling is already cooked you don't need it in long, just enough for the pastry to cook.

Method:

1). Get the pastry out to defrost.  1 sheet per person.

2).  Fry the chicken, bacon, mushrooms and spring onions.  Then add the garlic, fry until it starts to cook.

3). Put the cornflour into a coffee mug, add the milk and stir until it is combined.  Add just a little of this to the fried mixture to bind it all together.  Set this aside to cool a bit.  if you are adding the cooked vegies, do that now.  I also like to add some small pieces of tasty cheese mixed through (I love cheese)

4).  Cut your cheese slices.  I LOVE cheese, so I like a good size piece of cheese.  If your block is thin, cut 2 and lay them side by side.  You probably don't want to go thicker than a 1cm slice though (unless it's a soft cheese that will melt quickly) - you'll see why later.  Lay this cheese in the centre of the pastry sheet on a diagonal.

5). Place spoonfuls of the chicken mixture ontop of the cheese.  Heap it on....

6). Fold the cornersup to make a square parcel and turn it over.  Poke an airhole in the top of the parcel.  You can brush the pastry with beaten egg or milk, and sprinkle poppy or sesame seeds on for a jazzy effect.  Bake until golden brown .

What should happen is the cheese being at the top of the parcel melts down through all the filling... 

I serve them as one parcel being the whole meal, but if you want a smaller thing to serve with vegies, then you can cut the pastry in 4 and do smaller squares, or cut a sheet of pastry in half and spoon the filling along the middle then fold both sides up as much as they will go and the ends over (which will leave the join open a bit, but that kinda looks cool too).

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