Chicken and pear pie in blue cheese pastry - SALIFE | InDaily, Inside South Australia

Ingredients

• 250g strong plain flour
• 1 tsp fine sea salt
• 180g butter, at room temperature, but not soft
• 70g blue cheese
• 100ml iced water
• olive oil, as needed
• 1kg chicken thigh fillets, cut into small dice
• thyme leaves
• 2 pears, cut into thin slices
• 2 brown onions peeled and sliced finely
• 250ml pear cider
• 250ml chicken stock
• 1 tsp grainy mustard
• 200g uncooked spinach
• 100g toasted walnuts, chopped roughly
• 4 boiled eggs, peeled and chopped roughly
• salt and pepper
• 1 whole egg for egg wash