Making Chicken last

mgardner

Shamish wrote:

Please can sombody help me with 3 receipies to use with Chicken to last 3 main meals?

I bought an extra large chicken from tesco 2.5 kg and hoping it can go 3 meals

I was thinking a roast on day one but unsure about the others

Thanks

Shamish

Hi How many people do you have to cater for?
Best wishes Mary

toozie_2

Last week: Large chicken: 2 adults and 2 almost adults:

Sunday: Roast chicken plus trimmings

Monday: Chicken & Mango Curry (2 x Mango's reduced to 20p in Tesco)

Tuesday: Chicken risotto-bits of chicken, veggies, mushrooms, and last rasher of bacon (choped) with rice cooked with an oxo cube (only two of us eating this)

Sunday night, bung the bashed carcuss in the SC with brown onion skins, and a carrot, bay leaf etc-freeze for soup at a later date.

jobbingmusician

How to make a pie - rather blokey style.

Make some pastry by rubbing 2oz fat (butter is nicest) into 4oz flour, then adding as little cold water as you can get away with so that it all sticks together.

Sling plenty of flour on to your surface, and roll the pastry out.

Now comes the clever, cheaty bit for people like me who aren't good at rolling out pastry! Take your pie dish and cut out the circle for the top of the pie. That's the only bit that really shows, so that's the bit you want to look nice! Put this bit aside - ideally on a plate in the fridge. (If you keep it cold it is less likely to stick to the plate )

Bundle all the rest of the pastry up and roll out again as best as you can. Line the pie dish with this (it doesn't matter if it's a bit patchy. Cover up any holes with scraps of pastry).

Bung this into the oven and cook for about 10 minutes. This is known as 'baking blind'. If you have any of those special beads for baking blind (organised cooks have these and they weigh the bottom of the pie down) now is the time to use them. If you don't, you CAN put a little ovenproof ramekin or something in the middle, but it's not essential - I never do. I always mean to buy some of those beads....

Take out of oven, bung filling in, put pie top on, decorate if you like (little pastry leaves and stuff), paint with egg or milk if you want it glazed, and return to oven to cook (10-15 mins, just take it out when it looks done!)

Serve to rapturous applause! :T