Chicken casserole Archive

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts
• 2 onions, 1 roughly chopped, 1 thinly sliced
• 1 carrot, roughly chopped
• 1 celery stalk, roughly chopped
• 6 whole peppercorns
• 1 fresh bay leaf
• water, to cover
• 55g/2oz butter
• 30g/1oz plain flour
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 small head broccoli, cut into florets and blanched
• 1 x 225g/8oz tin water chestnuts, drained
• 1 free-range egg yolk, lightly beaten
• 2-3 tbsp double cream
• squeeze lemon juice
• 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley, to serve
• boiled baby carrots, to serve