Chicken

shopbot

What's the best sort of chicken to buy for making up sandwich fillings such as Coronation Chicken?

Cook a whole chicken and use that? or buy packs of chicken breasts etc? From the frozen section or chilled?

Thanks
SB

Edwardia

If price is the only criterium then I'd suggest looking at price per 100g to choose. If taste figures I'd suggest cooking a whole chook yourself rather than risk buying stuff with added water.

rufydoofyM

At least with a whole chicken you can use the carcus for stock/soup and use all the scraps in the soup or add to white sauce and fill pancakes for an extra meal.

meg72

For price and taste its the whole chicken for me everytime.

ms_night_ryder

Whole chicken, ive got one going in the oven shortly, will be loads left over, i will prob have sandwiches all week! worth it though as it was whoopsied £1.40, will make a chicken soup with carcass and bits, also a chicken plait with leftovers, it's only me, so i will prob freeze some as well.

Soworried

ms_night_ryder wrote: »

Whole chicken, ive got one going in the oven shortly, will be loads left over, i will prob have sandwiches all week! worth it though as it was whoopsied £1.40, will make a chicken soup with carcass and bits, also a chicken plait with leftovers, it's only me, so i will prob freeze some as well.

How do you make your chicken plait please?

Stephen_Leak

At just £2.07 per kilogram, a whole chicken is almost certainly better value. The leftovers can be used or frozen, and you can make soup, which can also be frozen, from the carcass.

I reckon that I can get 10 meals out of a "rubber chicken". 8 of these can be frozen, as I live on my own. All I ever have left is a pile of bones.

PS. One leg hot on Sunday. The other leg cold on Monday. The breasts for 4 portions of chicken curry or chicken & sweet corn soup, or 2 portions of each. The carcass for 4 portions of chicken soup.

PLRFD

ms_night_ryder wrote: »

Whole chicken, ive got one going in the oven shortly, will be loads left over, i will prob have sandwiches all week! worth it though as it was whoopsied £1.40, will make a chicken soup with carcass and bits, also a chicken plait with leftovers, it's only me, so i will prob freeze some as well.

That £1:40 chicken will go a long way well done.

stephen77

how many days are you wanting to be fed for?

I think chicken breast works better than chicken thigh for corination chicken as the chicken thigh may be a bit rich for suttle corination.
Though if having eg chicken & bacon. thigh would better as gives more flavour.

robstersgirl

Whole large chickens are half price at Tesco this week

robstersgirl

Also you can get a huge bag of chicken breast strips at Iceland, defrost and eat