Rubber Chicken

lilbert

Chicken cous cous with roast veggies?
What do you have in your storecupboard?
Chicken spaghetti carbonara? (eggs & cheese)

Tina20

unimaginative_user_name wrote: »

If you have any risotto rice, chicken risotto can make one chicken breast feed a family.

Ahhhh! You genius! I've got risotto rice in the cupboard thats been hanging around for ages!

Thanks to all for the ideas, definitely sparking my imagination
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chihhiro

New poster but long time lurker, hoping this is the right place.

I'm a soon to be student and my dad is trying to teach me how to cook and cheaply. He's just bought home a 1 kg whole chicken (precooked because I don't think he trusts me that much ) and has told me I'm to make as many meals as possible from it, mostly dinner but some lunch as well. Aside from chopping it up and adding some it to pasta, I'm at a bit lost, and he's particually keen for me to try batch cooking, so even more so

Bascially looking for any ideas, the easier and more inventive (if the two can be mutually inclusive) the better. I'll eat practically anything except sandwitches, white rice and cheddar cheese if thats any help. I'm also willinging to cook entirely from scratch as well, I already make my own pizza and things. Thanks

Stephen_Leak

This is the right place. Welcome to the madhouse. We call these "rubber chickens", because we stretch them so much.

I reckon that I could get 10 meals out of one chicken, 8 of which can be frozen.

The 2 legs with veg', chips, etc.

The breasts for 4 servings of chicken curry (with brown rice or on a jacket potato) or a litre (4 x 250ml servings) of chicken & sweetcorn soup.

Finally, the carcass for a litre (4 x 250ml servings) of chicken (noodle) soup.

My recipe for the two soups are on the RC thread. If you want the ones for the curry (basic or korma), let me know.

PS. I also have a new one for Chinese Special Fried Rice, which uses just 100g to 125g of cooked meat, but I haven't "test flown" it yet.

missmucksmum

Hi just a few ideas,
chop up some chicken
mix with some condensed mushroom soup or a white sauce with some mushrooms, salt and pepper
and make chicken and mushroom pasties I reckon 1 breast would do at least 4 pasties use 1 and freeze the rest pastry is very cheap to make I use T@@@o value plain flour and t@@@o baking fat
chicken curry (freezable)
sweet and sour chicken (freezable)
finely diced chicken, peppers, cucumber, onion,sweetcorn with a dollop of mayo is a good sandwich or roll filler and spreads the chicken a long way also put this on top of a jacket potato this mixture would last in the fridge about 2 days (you can also use tuna instead of chicken)
you could also fry some onions/peppers/mushrooms/ with some fajita seasoning add the chicken and serve in fajitas
you could also stirf ry any veg some bits out of the cupboard eg soysauce add the chicken and mix through some cooked noodle x

lucylema

Im cooking a chicken today. other than putting the leftovers in a sandwich what do you make with the leftovers?

Long_tall_sally

Usually use them in a stirfry or in tortillas but sometimes in a pie or with pasta.

Newgirl_2

Anything and everything. Curries, broth, stir fries, fajitas, soups, quesedillas. Pretty much anything you can think of. It's very versatile.

NG

marchio

As above really.
I always boil the carcass to make chicken stock.
Any that can be sliced is frozen for sandwiches to take to work.
Chunked chicken, left over veg diced small and any gravy is stored in the fridge and made into "leftover lasagne" the next day i.e. layered with lasagne sheets and topped with a cheese sauce. If there's not enough for that I make leftovers into chicken soup using the chicken stock.

dancingfairy

You could try chicken and sweetcorn or chicken noodle soup.
Reheat chicken and have with gravy and roast veg.
cold with chips
made into a baked potato topping -perhaps coronation chicken style?
chicken and potato bake (with onions etc in).
risotto
chicken rissole things.

I don't eat much chicken so can't claim to have tried all these but there's some suggestions for you. I'm sure there's also something called the rubber chicken, which is basically where you have roast one day, reheat the next or do curry or something, meat for sandwiches and then make soup/stock at the end. Basically seeing how long you can make the chicken stretch for. I'm sure if you search for it it'll come up.
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