Chrissy Teigen Vs. Lauren Conrad: Whose Chicken Pot Pie Is Better?
"Chicken pot pie is one of my favorite things on God's green earth." - Chrissy Tiegen
When it comes to food, Chrissy Tiegen can be pretty dramatic. In her first ever cookbook, she proclaimed that her roast chicken was better than Ina's. INA GARTEN - the barefoot contessa. There was also that one time that her banana bread recipe went viral after she begged the Twittersphere for six brown bananas. So it should come as no surprise that her attitude towards chicken pot pie is not very humble. According to her, "[it] needs to be in some sort of hall of fame."
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So far, Chrissy hasn't let us down. Though we slightly preferred Ina's, we really loved her roast chicken. And her banana bread is BOMB. But we were skeptical about her approach to chicken pot pie as a soup. So we wanted to pit her recipe against a celebrity with a seemingly traditional pot pie recipe. Enter: Lauren Conrad.
CHRISSY'S RECIPE
This dish proves that tradition can sometimes be overrated. We are now huge fans of chicken pot pie soup ... and buttery crust crackers. Baking the crust as a big slab to break into small, dippable pieces is not only genius, it's so much easier.
The only problem we had with this soup was how much butter the recipe called for. In total, you're working with 4 whole sticks! You can definitely halve the crust recipe (since her recipe calls for freezing half the batch to use later anyways). But that still leaves a full cup that is used in the soup, which may be why this soup is so freaking good.
LAUREN'S RECIPE
We really want to love Lauren's recipe, but we ran into some major issues. First of all, she calls for 8 teaspoons of butter. We've never measured butter by the teaspoon before, and we never want to again. Secondly, not only was her butter quantity annoying, it wasn't nearly enough. The dough was dry and it was hard to roll it out into a big enough round for just one pot pie. (Her recipe claims to yield two pies!)
We also struggled with the vegetable base, and not because of the almond milk it calls for. Unlike Chrissy's, LC's recipe isn't supposed to be soup. But that's basically what you're making. The mixture never really thickens because there's no roux and she doesn't specify how much flour to add.
THE VERDICT
The decision was easy - Chissy wins! Some testers wished she stuck with the standard pot pie format, but no one could argue with how good the soup tasted.
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