Chicken Corn Okra Rice Hand Pies

Whenever there are leftover ingredients like roasted chicken, rice, grilled corn, and homemade chicken stock available, its fun to make some type of “short” pastry dish, so I decided to try out these chicken and rice hand pies, and included beautiful okra from the refrigerator. We usually serve this with our avocado corn tomato salsa, or homemade chimichurri.

Ingredients
2 cups left-over cooked rice
12 oz okra sliced
Kernels off 1 large (or 2 small) grilled corn cobs
1 large shallot chopped
20 oz puff pastry dough
12 oz leftover chicken
4 oz chicken stock
1 large jalapeno cored and sliced
½ large yellow onion sliced
1 red bell pepper cored and sliced
3 tbsp fresh chorizo
4 oz sour cream

Preheat the oven to 425 °F, toss the okra with avocado oil. Toast the okra on a sheet tray, turning once, for about 40 minutes. Remove when crispy but not burnt and set aside.
Heat the shallots and corn in a deep pan and cook for a few minutes, then add the rice, lower the heat and cover for 8 minutes- stir several times, add stock if required. Once the rice warms up add the okra, mix to combine, then remove from the heat.
While the okra is roasting, on a flowered surface, roll the dough into a “log” 10 inches long, then cut into 1” pieces (about 2 oz. each). Roll each piece out until about 1/8”.
Cook the chorizo in cast iron and once it browns add jalapeno, onion, red pepper and cook till they soften, then add the chicken and cook until it starts to brown, remove from the heat.
Spoon one heavy tablespoon of chicken mixture onto each dough disk, top with another heavy tablespoon of okra corn rice, then add one teaspoon stock to each, and finally one teaspoon of sour cream.
Adjust the oven to 450 °F, crimp the pies by wetting the inside edges with water, and folding them over, use a fork to “crimp” the entire edge. Use the fork to make several vent holes on each pie, place on a compostable parchment paper lined sheet tray, then place in the oven for about 12-16 minutes (rotating several times) or until golden brown.