Help from OS cooks needed

Kitchenbunny

Ooh, there are some lovely ideas here. For starters, let's see the ingredients:

325g leftover roast chicken,
Sweet potatoes,
Parsnips,
Onions,
Carrots,
French Beans,
Tomatoes

Two ideas which really jump out at me were the risotto and the pie - both are very easy to make and can stretch leftovers a long way. Quesadillas are also good, and if you'd like a bit of practice for Shrove Tuesday, how about chicken savoury pancakes?

Make a white sauce by melting butter into flour, then letting it out with milk or water, and then add cooked chicken, lightly fried onions, garlic, some bacon if you have any, and a good pinch of mixed herbs. Use as a filling for pancakes which could be either just folded over and served or let to cool, dipped in breadcrumbs and fried to retro heaven. You could serve with a sweet potato mash, normal mash, green beans, etc

Ooh, how about a hot chicken open sandwich (if you have any bread rolls) with sweet potato fries, and a small tomato & onion salsa? Warm up the chicken (season if you like), pop onto a toasted roll. Make sweet potato chips and cook as normal chips, and serve with the salsa.

I'll keep thinking. I love challenges.

KB Xx

CT19720

I'd either do a stirfry, with the chicken and add frozen/fresh veg you have in with a sweet chilli sauce. I would also add a cheap packet of 3 minute nooddles to the stirfry, and that would feed 4 of use.

Or I would do a kind of jumbalya, with peppers, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, peas fried up, and the cook the rice by absorbing 1/12 of chicken stock (I use stock cubes), cooked with a little chilli powder, garlic, ginger powder and tomato puree. Another meal that feeds 4 of us.

shell2001

Chicken pie gets my vote.

I make a white sauce, crumble in chicken oxo (or 2 to taste, sprinkle in garlic granules and dried parsley. Homemade pastry top n bottom. We prefer veggies seperate on the plate along with potatoes of choice. A little bit of chicken goes a long way.

JIL

If you look at this blog, (I havent heard of Shirley Goode, but she is apparently an OS queen) and skim down theres 3 meals from one chicken and they sound nice.http://shirleygoode.blogspot.co.uk/

maman

meritaten wrote: »

I always struggle to find recipes with leeks - Aldis sell them in packs of three or four - and thats too much for my stews!

I buy frozen leeks in Farmfoods which are perfect for most recipes. No waste, no cleaning I love them. They're normally £1 per kg bag but last week were 3 bags for £2. I'll be using them in my favourite chicken casserole recipe later this week.

Butterfly_Brain

• My DS loves Chicken crumble, basically chicken with root veg cooked in a mushroom sauce or gravy with a crumble topping easy and tasty .
• Chicken in Hoisin sauce with sliced carrots, thickly sliced onion and French beans, serve with egg noodles and plain boiled rice. You can buy the hoi sin sauce or make it, but it is a lot cheaper to buy it in a jar (I use Aldis one at 49p a packet) if you have to buy all of the ingredients to make your own.
• Lemon Chicken with pasta and peas
• Chicken pie/pasties
• Chicken and root veg curry with boiled rice
• Chicken Lasagne
• Chicken stew and dumplings

aliama

I think I'd be thinking along the lines of a Thai red curry, using the carrots, sweet potato, some noodles and a tin of coconut milk.

mrs_motivated

Thank you all for some really yummy ideas. I couldn't decide but DH and DD voted for quaesadilla, sweet potato fries and a tomato and onion salsa!


The green beans are to be added with diced potatoes and feta for a frittata for me and DD to take for lunch tomorrow

The parsnips will be cream of parsnip soup


Gosh I am so pleased, once upon a time it would have ended up in the bin!

Nicki

Yay, my menu won

Actually I was just coming on though to thank Meritaten for her recipe, which we had tonight. I got to scoff double portions (which was great because I thought it was lovely) as one of the very few things my DS is fussy about is chicken thigh (he ate half of his portion and said it would have been lovely if I'd only used breast meat though) and DD had a seizure earlier today and had no appetite for anything other than a bowl of cereal. The little one and I scoffed our portions and the uneaten bits of DSs and DDs though, with some left for dad if he ever gets home in the snow tonight!

tesuhoha

I'm a bit boring but with a leftover chicken I take off all the meat and chop it into bite size pieces. I brown an onion in a large pan then roughly three quarter fill the pan with water. I then put in a quarter to half a cup of red lentils and put in the chicken carcass. I roughly chop carrots, celery and potatoes and put this in with the chopped chicken and let the whole lot simmer for two hours. I season with only an organic vegetable stock cube, a bay leaf and some pepper.

I then remove the bones etc and you have the most delicious chicken soup, a bit like Jewish chicken soup I suppose with vegetables. You can cook it for longer if you have time.