Quick & Easy Chicken Pot Pie

Let me start off with saying this could be a great dish. The original recipe I used needs lots of tweaking.   Please bare with me on the recipe below as I am going to try and explain what the original said and I did to what should be done. 

I am also using the words 'Pot Pie' loosely as there is no full crust associated with the dish. But in the end it gives the feeling of one. 

The ingredients are extremely simple - shredded chicken (I used a fully cooked rotisserie chicken), frozen mixed vegetables, cream of mushroom soup, water, salt, pepper & biscuits. It IS that easy. 

Below is the original recipe with my notes and/or additions in blue.

Ingredients

• 1  3 1/2- to 4-pound  rotisserie chicken, meat shredded
• 1  10-ounce package  frozen mixed vegetables (my bag came as a 16oz. Use the whole thing)
• 1  10.75-ounce can  condensed cream-of-mushroom soup (You can be creative and use any kind of 'cream of whatever soup')
• 1/4  teaspoon  kosher salt
• 1/4  teaspoon  black pepper
• 1  10-count tube  refrigerated biscuits
• 3/4 cup of water (I used a 3/4 to mix in and added about a quarter cup more in the end)

Directions

1. Heat oven to 400° F. Combine the chicken, vegetables, soup, salt, pepper, and 3/4 cup water in a large bowl.
2. Transfer the mixture to an oven-safe casserole, cover with foil, and bake for 15 minutes.
3. Remove the foil, cover the filling with the biscuits, and bake until the biscuits are golden brown and cooked through, about 15 minutes.
4. Here is something I learned. The biscuits need to be cooked a little before you put them in the dish. Only the top half of our biscuits were cooked. The bottom were all icky and mushy. I suggest putting them in the oven on a separate pan about 5 minutes before they are ready to go into the dish. Just long enough that the bottoms are cooked and not mushy. 
5. Next time I plan on dicing up probably 4 or so large potatoes and boiling them until they are almost done and then adding them to the dish. I think that would make it a lot heartier. 

The actual insides of the dish were really good. There are tons of way you could play with this dish to make it to your family's liking. The best things are that, there is not a huge mess, it is quick to make and easy clean up. If you do not have rotisserie chicken on hand, I think you could get away with shredded seasoned chicken as well.

Over all I think this is a great dish that we will surely make again and just tweak it a little!

Here is a picture of what the final dish looks like:

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