Turkey Tips 6 November 2014 at 5:50PM in Special occasions & other celebrations 49 replies 20.1K views

pinkteapot

Yes.

Microwaving is different - when you microwave stuff you have to increase the time for multiple items.

Oven is fine. Cram as much in there as you can. So long as there's some air between each item you'll be fine. Bear in mind though that in some ovens the top is hotter than the bottom, so if doing them one on top of the other you could swap them halfway through so they're even.

Emcar

Thanks for the replies, great to know I can cook two together.

pamelab21

I am hosting Xmas dinner this year and our family all like to eat chicken rather than Turkey and all prefer the breast meat so pointless buying a whole chicken!
I love chicken breasts cooked in the slow cooker but its normally with a sauce, not really suitable for all the traditional trimmings that we will still be having.
So any suggestions on how to cook my Xmas chicken breasts in a slow cooker? (tried the oven last year but feel it dries them out and they were wrapped in tin foil too!)


thanks all

Grimbal

could you cook them in a gravy/stock ? That way, they'd effectively be poached in a flavourful liquid without it interfering with the rest of the dinner flavours

ladymarmalade

Could you steam them? They stay lovely and moist like that.

flipper_72

Wrap them in bacon, cook in slow cooker and crisp off under the grill / in the oven?

You don't need any liquid in the slow cooker the meat will be fine, if you're worried about them sticking put a chopped carrot in first

wallbash

Go American , Broil.

Put in large oven dish ( with lid ) sitting in a little half oil and half water.
Moist chicken guaranteed.

alisonBrown_2

mix all the marinate ingredients in a bowl to make a sticky sauce

bossymoo

Roasting bags are perfect for this, moist, tender, succulent. Not the bags :eek: don't eat those, lol

surfsister

easy just pour in hot stock add chopped onions and any other veg such as chopped celery (small) and the breasts and cook. i do this every year and they are moist and tasty and easy.