The world chicken pie atlas
Every food culture that wraps chicken in pastry, from the tsar's wedding pie to the lunchbox patty.
Australia
The Australian chicken and vegetable pie
The Australian chicken and vegetable pie is a hand-sized bakery pie of diced chicken and vegetables in a creamy or gravy-style sauce, held in a shortcrust base with a puff pastry lid.
Brazil
Pastel de frango: Brazil's crackling chicken pastry
Pastel de frango is a Brazilian fried pastry of paper-thin wheat dough folded around a seasoned shredded chicken filling, often with the creamy cheese catupiry, and deep-fried until blistered and crisp.
Canada (Quebec)
Pâté au poulet: Quebec's chicken pie
Pâté au poulet is the traditional double-crust chicken pie of French Canada: cooked chicken and vegetables in a velouté-style sauce baked between two layers of flaky pastry.
Greece
Kotopita: the Greek filo chicken pie
Kotopita is a Greek savory pie of shredded chicken, onion, and often egg or cheese, baked between layers of olive-oil-brushed filo or hand-rolled pastry.
Jamaica
The Jamaican chicken patty
A Jamaican chicken patty is a half-moon hand pie with a flaky, golden-yellow crust, usually tinted with turmeric or curry powder, folded around a spiced filling of finely chopped or minced chicken.
Latin America
Empanada de pollo across Latin America
An empanada de pollo is a filled turnover of dough folded over a seasoned chicken filling and baked or fried, found in some form across nearly all of Latin America.
Malaysia and Singapore
The curry puff of Malaysia and Singapore
A curry puff is a small deep-fried or baked hand pie from Malaysia and Singapore, filled with curried chicken and potato and often a wedge of hard-boiled egg.
Morocco
Bastilla: Morocco's sweet and savory pie
Bastilla, also spelled pastilla, is a Moroccan festive pie of shredded poultry, a lemony egg and onion mixture, and sweetened toasted almonds, wrapped in paper-thin warqa pastry and finished with powdered sugar and cinnamon.
New Zealand
The New Zealand butter chicken pie
The butter chicken pie is a modern New Zealand bakery pie filling flaky pastry with butter chicken, the creamy tomato-based Indian curry.
Philippines
The chicken adobo empanada of the Philippines
A chicken adobo empanada is a Filipino turnover filled with chicken cooked adobo style, braised in vinegar, soy sauce, garlic, and bay leaf, then shredded and sealed in pastry that is baked or fried.
Russia
Kurnik: the Russian chicken pie
Kurnik is a tall, domed Russian celebration pie traditionally filled with chicken, often layered with rice, mushrooms, buckwheat, or eggs, and historically served at weddings and major feasts.
Scotland
Chicken pie in Scotland's pie culture
Scottish chicken pie is not one fixed dish but a family of pies made within Scotland's unusually strong pie culture: bakery chicken pies with puff or shortcrust lids, home-baked chicken pies with leeks or ham, and creamy fillings under pastry.
Singapore
The Singapore Hainanese chicken pie
The Singapore Hainanese chicken pie is a single-serve baked pie with a short to flaky crust, filled with chunks of chicken, diced potato, carrot and peas in a thick, peppery cream sauce, with half a hard-boiled egg set in the middle.
Singapore
The Singapore curry puff
The Singapore curry puff is a half-moon pastry filled with a thick, dry curry of chicken and potato, often with a slice of hard-boiled egg, sealed with a pleated edge and usually deep-fried.
United Kingdom
The British chicken and ham raised pie
A chicken and ham raised pie is a British cold-eaten pie of layered chicken and ham set in savory jelly inside a freestanding hot water crust.
United States
Bot boi: the Pennsylvania Dutch pot pie without a crust
Bot boi, often written bott boi and called chicken pot pie in Pennsylvania Dutch country, is a thick chicken and noodle stew rather than a pastry pie.
Vietnam
Pâté chaud: Vietnam's hot pastry
Bánh patê sô, from the French pâté chaud meaning hot pâté, is a Vietnamese puff pastry pie filled with seasoned ground meat, traditionally pork and now very commonly chicken.