HELP with left-over chicken

margaret_3

Oh dear!
I bought an organic chicken and roasted it yesterday. However, I forgot that I have a fan-assisted oven and over-cooked it! I have frozen the rest until I would get advice from this forum.
Can someone please advise me what to do [other than not to over-cook!!!] There are two of us.
I used about half of it.
Many thanks.
Margaret

Curry_Queen

Could you not use the left-overs in a saucy type dish to give it added moisture? Cook the sauce then add the chicken just to heat it through.


The tins of Campbell soup make good sauces or you can make cream based sauces from a flour/butter roux and add vegetables and herbs, or a tomato based sauce using tinned toms/passata, herbs etc. I'm sure there are plenty of recipes in the index for some ideas

margaret_3

As usual, CQ comes up trumps.
Many thanks and Happy Birthday again.

ET03

you could shred it with 2 forks and mix with curry paste and mayo to make sandwich filling

Queenie

You could also mince it up in a food processor, add some mayo and use it as a fresh sandwich filling. Vary that by substituting the mayo with a spoonful of nice chutney?

- make a sauce from milk thickened with cornflour (low fat version of white sauce), season well and then follow Curry_Queens idea OR, make a savoury crumble topping so you end up with Chicken Crumble.

- rip it into "strips" and add it to a mixed salad bowl, add a dressing.

- use it in an omelette

- make white sauce (or the low fat version above) season, make into Chicken pie.

- again, with a sauce, then top with mashed potato, brown under the grill.

Good luck, let us know what you end up with

Luis

I had a happy accident yesterday which I am going to call Sunday Lucnh Pie, born of low budget, and trying to eat less. You could use your chicken in this, as it comes out so moist.

Some cooked chicken (I used 2 froz chicken breasts)
2 cooked sausages
small packet sage n onion stuffing
couple of handfuls of peas
2 carrots
3/4 pint chicken gravy
mash

cook the chicken, sausages, peas, carrots and make the stuffing into balls and cook.

throw all that lot in a dish, and pour on the gravy.

Top with mash, and put under the grill to brown over.

Voila - very cheap, got 4 servings out of it (not bad for 2 sos and 2 chicken breats), lovely and moist too.

HTH.

Becles

We've just had the remains of yesterdays roast chicken, a stir fried pepper and some mushrooms with a tin of Campbells condensed mushroom soup tipped over, and served with pasta twists. Dead quick and easy, very filling and it's one of kids favourite meals

Instead of pepper and mushrooms, stir fry any odd bits of veg you have lurking in the fridge before adding the chicken and the soup.

elona

I have just used one tin of condensed chicken and one tin of condensed asparagus soup,with finely sliced onions and mushrooms with diced chicken - in slow cooker - over pasta for two daughters and over sliced potatoes for the other three of us - everyone loved it (thought I had spent ages concocting a special sauce!):j

margaret_3

What super recipes! Thanks a lot to everyone.
Margaret