Rubber Chicken

rasmus

We always buy chicken fillets which work out expensive so im interested in how many meals for 2 people you could make out of 1 roast chicken?


Sorry if this has been done before

troll35

I buy a medium sized chicken (£2.87 at aldi) and I get 3 meals for me, DH and 10yr old and 2 rounds of sandwiches. Usually on the lines of -
Roast chicken dinner- DH and I have a leg each and DS has breast meat.
DH and DS have some breast in sandwiches.
I make the remaining chunky meat into a chicken and mushroom pie or use it to make a pasta dish.
The carcass is then simmered for about an hour to make stock (with lots of little bits of meat that was left on the bones) which is then used to make soup or risotto.

Does this help?

rasmus

yep, great ideas xx

Penelope_Penguin

Hi, Rasmus! It's known around these parts as *Rubber Chicken* as it's being stretched

How many meals depends on the size of your bird. For 4 of us we have a large chicken (as big as I can get, as the meat to bone ratio is best :T ). We have it roast, then the rest goes into curry, sandwiches, supreme, etc, etc. I usually get a further 4 portions. I then use the carcase and any remaining scraps for soup - usually 8 portions.

HTH, Penny. x

kunekune

I get a freedom food chicken from Sainsbury's (prefer free range but can't afford it). Not sure of the size, it costs around £5-6.

We get a roast meal the first night. Then the next night I do something with leftover meat: either a potato topped pie or a risotto type thing or, if I'm in a good mood, I make a greek-style lemon sauce. There will usually be some left for the next day, which either goes into a mixed-meat meal like paella or "special fried rice" or into sandwiches. So three days all up.

Irisheyes648

There is 3 of us me, hubby and 2 year old......I normally buy a large chicken (if I am lucky enough to get a reduced one) we normally get

Sunday Roast dinner
Monday Cook carcass up for HUGE pot of soup for following weekend lunch
Tuesday Chicken curry
Hubby sometimes takes some for sandwiches and if we are really luck I can normally get a chicken paella out of it too bulked out with lots of peppers etc.

Try doing a search for rubber chicken :T

Pink.

Hi rasmus,

There are five of us (including two teenagers who are bigger than me), so even a large chicken really only does one meal. If the [strike]gannets[/strike] children have left any I use it to make a pie (well padded with vegetables and using any left over gravy) and if I'm very lucky I might just get enough to make a couple of sandwiches too. I always use the carcass to make stock for soup so I suppose that's another meal.

There are lots more ideas on how to stretch a chicken on these older threads:

Rubber Chicken

Bored With Rubber Chicken

Huge leftover chicken!!!!

Making Chicken last

Leftover chicken..........


Pink

conradmum

I buy a chicken but don't roast it as I find this uses up a lot of meat at one sitting.

Instead, I may make stir fry with the breasts one night, then boil the chicken to get the rest of the meat off the bones the next day and make chicken and leek pie from some of it (using stock from a previous chicken), then make chicken noodle soup the next day.

I take off the skin from the first boiling and return the bones to the stock and boil it up again. I leave it too cool, put it in the fridge, get it out again and skim off the fat, then put the stock in the freezer.

Other uses for chicken are curry, pasta sauce and risotto. The stock is used for things such as lentil and bacon soup and kedgeree, as well as chicken soup or stew.

We're a family of five and one chicken stretches to three meals!:D

conradmum

Whoops! Posted at the same time as Pink-winged. Don't want to appear to be showing off!:o
I make a chicken feed five for three meals because we don't have a lot of meat in our meals. I buy organic so have to stretch it!

Hardup_Hester

Hi
I make a roast chicken dinner, chicken ham & mushroom pie, 2 rounds of sandwiches, carbonara, chicken fried rice & soup out of a large chicken, to feed 2 or 3 0f us.
Hester