When I buy a Roast chicken, on the odd occasion as it's cheaper to use a breast, between two (even on a medium) there's always left over chicken. I like to put the chicken into a curry or curry pies. It's very simple and cheap to do and makes your Roast chicken worth a bit more. I buy Puff Pastry from Lidls, pre-rolled, it cost 85p for 375g. I can make two big pasties and one pie with this pastry with a slight bit left over. Tesco offer a block for £1.10 for 500g but I was finding I used too much of it by struggling to guess the amount from the block to do pasties.The Lidls pre-rolled is only 0.7p more expensive anyway.
I simply add a small amount of plain flour to the chicken with some Curry Powder, turn on the heat to the hob and slowly add milk. The milk will thicken with the flour and form a paste. The more milk you add will determine the thickness of the paste/sauce. You don't want it too thick as it will taste floury but you want it thick enough it sticks together. You also have to remember it will cook in the oven so it will thicken more; always make it slightly more milky than you'd like it. Curry powder I buy from Tesco, their own brand spice, £1 for 80g.
You can make big pasties or more smaller ones, sometimes I even make Fajitas styled pasties adding in Mixed Peppers, Tomato Puree and Kidney Beans with a Fajitas mix of spices. It depends how you'd like them to taste. The Fajitas mix obviously gets bulked out more so you can make even more pies/pasties and freeze them for later dates.
Once you've made your pasties you can glaze them (or not). I was told by a Jamaican lady that you can glaze the top with curry powder and egg to give it a darker golden look. She told that the Jamaican pasties you buy from Street food vendors are usually given a spice glaze. You can glaze with both egg and milk but milk will make it darker and harder to tell when it's cooked whereas egg will add a shine.
I usually serve with mash, gravy and vegetables but on this occasion we were out of potatoes and I forgot to turn the carrots on.. so instead it was a full carb meal of chips and beans!
