Chicken Quarters

FacelessNumber

Hi everyone!

I bought some chicken quarters for the first time this week. Am planning on roasting one for tea but wondering if anyone can give me any tips on how to best use everything on it....I think you can make soup or something with the carcass??

Thanks!

-taff

Boil the carcass with an onion a stick of celery, and a carrot, mayube a bay leaf, some thyme, rosemary, woody herbs, then fish out the lumpy bits, strip the carcass of any remaining bits of chicken and throw them back in.
Now you can either use that as chicken broth, or strain and reduce to use as chicken stock to freeze, or use without reducing much as soup stock.

meg72

FacelessNumber wrote: »

Hi everyone!

I bought some chicken quarters for the first time this week. Am planning on roasting one for tea but wondering if anyone can give me any tips on how to best use everything on it....I think you can make soup or something with the carcass??

Thanks!

If you are only cooking a quarter at a time I would recommend freezing the bones until you have a least four to make stock.

-taff

Forgot to say if you roast them first with a sprinkling fo flour, you'll get a richer darker stock, but there's no need to, it's mostly just in case you want to make gravy with it.