Chicken, Grape & Champagne Pies – a special treat from Maggie Beer – Jen Smith – Med Meanderings

Ingredients

• 40g (1½oz) unsalted butter
• extra virgin olive oil, for cooking
• 3-4 large chicken fillets with skin on, cut into 1.5cm pieces
• sea salt
• 2 leeks, white parts only, and thinly sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 cup Champagne or sparkling white wine
• ¼ cup plain flour
• 1½ cups chicken stock (preferably homemade)
• 1½ tablespoons finely chopped French tarragon
• 1½ tablespoons finely chopped thyme
• ½ preserved lemon, flesh removed, rind rinsed and finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons verjuice
• freshly ground black pepper
• 225g seedless green grapes (1 cup picked grapes)
• 1 quantity Sour-cream pastry (see below)