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Dear Koukouvagia
I have to intervene - please use a biscuit crust.!!! It's wonderful, and completes the "comfort food" nature of the dish. You can get any easy biscuit recipe from any cookbook - rub cold butter (and/or or lard) into flour mixed with baking powder (or soda if you use buttermilk or yoghurt) and salt and i like a tsp of sugar in it too. Add milk or buttermilk (or yoghurt). I can look up thye recipe tonight if you need one. Sometimes i add chopped chives just for interest.

I also often do a fancy version of the pie filling, sauteeing sliced mushrooms with a pinch of thyme in butter first, remove, then sautee onion, celery, optional carrot in more butter, add flour when tender, then chicken broth and juice exuded from the mushrooms if you use them, and make your veloute' with that. Cut up the chicken and add it with the mushrooms (the best tasting pie is made with roast chicken, but soup chicken is good too, esp if you took the meat out early enough so it didn;t fall apart too much or got too waterlogged, but hey, chicken pie is always a treat anyway!).

Some recipes call for cream with the broth - i usually don;t have cream handy but it does taste good. I put frozen peas in at the very last minute as i'm about to put it in the baking dish since they only need to heat up, not cook.
I occasionally put in some corn. I like the crunch.
When my daughter and son in law (both vegetarians) visit, i'd make another one for them, all the same ingredients but chick peas for the chicken and veg broth for the broth, and corn and peas and mushrooms and all the rest. It was not bad!

Anyway, mix it together and pour into your baking dish. Make the biscuit dough and roll out to a finger's height and lay on top. Brush with milk. A few slits in a circle on top look nice. Bake till browned.

The biscuit absorbs some of the sauce, but leaves most, and it functions as bread. And fills the mouth in that way that comfort food is supposed to do!