To ask what you can do with a chicken?

[KenAdams]

I've heard MNers can do wonderful things with a chicken

Is it roast dinner, curry, stock or do you all actually have amazing ways of feeding 18 people for 12 days with a single chicken?

a dead one or a living one?

@ squeakytoy

I am having chicken tonight. Normally I would roast the chicken and have as roast dinner. That feeds 5 of us, 2 adults one child and one teenager. Then I take every last scrap of meat off and make a curry with lots of veg. The less attractive scraps go to the cat or dog.

I boil the carcass and bones with onion, carrot and herbs for stock which goes in the freezer for the next chicken dinner to make gravy. Sometimes I roast 2 chickens at once and double the effort as it saves on gas.

This evening I am roasting with onion, garlic and peppers for warm chicken salad with crusty bread. I may use leftovers for sandwiches and a chicken and ham pie - I make that with leeks in a creamy sauce.

In the case of a living chicken I would probably run

Obviously depends how big your family as to how many meals you can get out of it but I do pretty much similar to Luis. I don't think people realise how much meat there is left on a chicken after you have had the breast and the legs for a roast. Turn it upside down and there is loads underneath. Ok it's not as nice as the breast but who is going to know in curry or a pie.

There's only me and DS, but last time I bought one, we had a roast, I kept the drumsticks to eat coldythe next day, put the wings back in the oven later to crisp up and eat for a snack, the rest of the meat I divided up into about 3 child sized portions and froze in gravy. That meant an easy quick dinner for DS where I only had to cook veg and microwave the chicken in gravy to defrostand reheat it.

I don't boil carcasses, because I don't often use chicken stock and i don't like chicken soup vert much. I find it more convenient to use stock cubes if I do want some.

Like others I get a fairly large bird (usually pay £6-7) which feeds 4 of us for a roast dinner. Boil the carcass for stock and then always have one round of chicken. Noodle soup and then either a pie or a salad or some sandwiches.

I can make a whole chicken disappear in about three minutes. Fear me!

Hold it in the air whilst sticking a deck chair up your nose?

Showing your age, Haraldlloyd.

I know, and I can remember all the lyrics which is a bit upsetting.

Luis, your making me drool badly.

I get one roast dinner, one curry/pie/risotto and usually 2 lunches out of a large chicken.

Life is too short to boil a carcass.

This recipe is really impressive if a little complicated....

I am not the best cook, would anyone mind sharing how to make a curry from a cooked chicken step by step. Am worried about how to reheat chicken without food poisoning. Also can only make curry from a jar would love to make it from scratch. ( also a risotto recipe would be great).
How long can a chicken keep in a fridge? Thanks

How much is a chicken stock cube? Really, THROW THE CARCASS AWAY.

Louis do you have recipe for your pie? Thanks

We quite often buy 2-3 chickens (depending on size), roast them up and have a roast meal (2 adults) and then use the remaining during the week on things like thai curries, indian-style curries, stir fries, pizzas, pies. We can quite often get 4-5 days worth of meals out of them.

Pearly I will think it through and post in a min, I k

In the summer I smear, it with lots of herby button and lemon, then roast it and eat with salad and bread or pita bread and a garlicy mayonnaise.
It lasts a couple of days with me and ds and the cats and dog.

Oops, kinda just do it

DP tells me his mother hit his father over the head with a frozen chicken once. Lovely lady

I usually cook a chicken for either a roast dinner or to have with salad. I then use the left over to make either a stir fry or a chicken supreme. There is usually enough to have a sandwich too, depending on the size of the chicken.

Now a Turkey crown I can do loads with. Full Christmas dinner for 5 people, Turkey Curry, Turkey supreme, turkey stir fry, turkey sandwiches for 6 people... the Turkey crown was £9.99 in December. I bought a second one at £7.99 in January so even better - cost less than £2 per meal with a lot left over.

Right, chicken and ham pie:

Fry a couple of leeks in butter then add a little garlic, salt an pepper. Add the chicken and roughly equal amount if cooked ham (ham ends are good for this).

Make a basic white sauce keeping it quite thick. If I have time I infuse the milk with bay leaf and onion. Season with pepper (no more salt) and add a pinch of sugar. Mix in the chicken mixture, plop in a dish and cover with puff pastry. Bake until golden.

Eat it all yourself serve with veg 😊

I mean

You can eat chicken cold so don't worry about heating it through once it's cooked.

Make a curry sauce with chilli powder, tomato paste, single cream, cumin, garam masala, Dijon mustard all mixed together and heated through, add the chicken to heat through and serve over rice.

Would you really eat chicken you had cooked on Monday, on Friday?