Serves: 8
Total Calories: 375

CRUST
1 1/2 squares butter
2 eggs
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups flour
FILLING
2 chicken breasts
2 grated onions
2 cloves garlic finely chopped
3/4 cup cooking oil
1 cup tomato sauce
1 bay leaf
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup boiling water
1 cup fresh or frozen peas
10 pitted green olives, chopped
2 egg yolk
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
1 lemon, juiced

This is very typically Brazilian.

Put the flour and the salt in a mixing bowl. Cut the butter into the flour until the pieces are about the size of peas. Add the beaten eggs and mix well. It will probably be too dry and so you will need to add a few drops of water at a time until the mass holds together in a ball. The dough should not be handled too much. Let it sit in the refrigerator for one hour.

Put chicken breasts in a marinade of the salt and the lemon juice for 30 minutes.

In a large frying pan, heat the cooking oil, fry the onion, garlic, and the chicken breasts and cook until golden. Add the tomato sauce, the bay leaf, salt and pepper to taste. Cover and let simmer for 10 minutes.

Turn off the stove and remove the chicken breasts. Pull the chicken breasts apart with 2 forks until stringy. Put the pulled chicken back into the sauce. Add the boiling water along with the peas, olives, beaten egg yolks and the parsley. Mix well and let it continue to simmer for 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Roll out about half the crust on a floured surface and put in a pie or cake tin. Cut off the surplus and put in the filling. Roll out the other half of the crust and put on top. Decorate as in the photo and pinch the upper and lower crusts together around the edge. It is also more beautiful if you beat one more egg yolk and paint the top of the pie. Make a few slits in the top for the steam to escape.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 8
Total Calories: 375
Calories from Fat: 214

More Recipes from the A Taste of Brazil Cookbook:
Roast Chicken (Frango assado)
Rolled Chicken with Mushroom Sauce (Frango enrolado com molho de cogumelos)
Roasted Chicken with Mozzarella (Frango assado com mussarela)
Chicken Baked in a Pumpkin (Frango na moranga)
Country Chicken (Frango caipira)
Roasted Chicken II (Frango assado II)
Grilled Chicken (Frango na brasa)
Chicken Pie (Torta de frango)