Rubber Chicken

Curry_Queen

Your chicken & noodle soup ... do you just make it from the stock with bits of chicken and noodles/pasta added or do you add anything else?

Lucie_2

When we were kids we would always have cold chicken, chips & coleslaw on a Monday after a Sunday roast chicken.

My uses for leftover cooked chicken:
Thai curry - add a spoonful of thai green curry paste (keeps for ages in the fridge) & a tin of coconut milk.
Spicy pasta bake - chicken, onions, mushrooms, sweetcorn, tin toms, chilli & garlic, mixed with cooked pasta, grated cheese & breadcrumbs on the top, bang under the grill.
Chicken Muck up - chicken, onion, mushroom, garlic, peas & sweetcorn in a tin of condensed mushroom soup. Serve with rice.

crazyhazy

Curry_Queen wrote:

Your chicken & noodle soup ... do you just make it from the stock with bits of chicken and noodles/pasta added or do you add anything else?

Well to be honest this will be the first time I've made it! My mum makes it though so will be following her method. I'll add a little left over chicken and noodles to the stock (only ever had it made with stock cubes so should be good with propert stock as it smelt lovely!). My mum also adds mushrooms to hers but h2b doesn't like them so i won't bother.

swampytiggaa

just a quickie - if i bought a whole chicken - is the best way to prepare it boil it then use the bits when cooked and off the bone?

am ashamed to admit that i have never bought a whole chicken - only the skinned boned breasts - but thought i might get the 2 for £5 that are in tesco and have a go at some stuff.......

please teach me oh wonderful ones

Curry_Queen

Slow cooker!!!!!!

Seriously, cook your chicken in the slow cooker (if you have one that is!) and I can guarantee you all the meat will just fall off the bones every time, so you can use every last scrap.

I cooked two chickens back to back that way yesterday, each one taking just over 5 hours in my MR 6.5L, and then you can use the carcass to make stock/soup afterwards

crazyhazy

swampytiggaa wrote:

just a quickie - if i bought a whole chicken - is the best way to prepare it boil it then use the bits when cooked and off the bone?

am ashamed to admit that i have never bought a whole chicken - only the skinned boned breasts - but thought i might get the 2 for £5 that are in tesco and have a go at some stuff.......

please teach me oh wonderful ones

I bought my first whole chicken this week, 2 for 5 in asda too! Have you got a slow cooker? I done mine yesterday for 9 hours in the slow cooker and it just fell off the bones when I got home. Was actually quite difficult getting it out of the slow cooker! I then split it into 3 portions and added 1 portion to tomato sauce for pasta, which we had last night. Made a curry with the other portion and the rest (the biggest portion) I put in the fridge, I made our rolls for lunch with this today, and will use the rest for chicken & noodle soup and sweet & sour chicken tmrw night.

Also, I put the bones and some veg back in the slowcooker overnight to make the stock for the soup!

Just realised if you don't have a slow cooker I've not been much help!opps!

Curry_Queen

crazyhazy wrote:

Well to be honest this will be the first time I've made it! My mum makes it though so will be following her method. I'll add a little left over chicken and noodles to the stock (only ever had it made with stock cubes so should be good with propert stock as it smelt lovely!). My mum also adds mushrooms to hers but h2b doesn't like them so i won't bother.

Ahhh right, ok

I've not made it myself before either so just wondered what was the best way. I was thinking of using stock, chicken bits and breaking some value spaghetti into shorter bits, but wondered if anything else was needed, apart from seasoning of course (I like lots of pepper!)

swampytiggaa

i don't have a slow cooker altho am considering it.....

moggins

Yes, I must get out of my habits and ruts. I boil it because I've always boiled it but I do it in my pressure cooker with the lid on but no weights and then bring it to the boil and then just simmer it on a pimple of gas for about 90 minutes.

I've never had a slow cooker big enough to cook a whole chicken in before, I must start doing it in that.

Many thanks for the suggestions everyone, will have great fun trying them out over the next couple of days.

elona

Moggins

I can recommend my cheat's chicken lasagne - even my lot love it - I got compliments!!!!!!:dance: