Chicken casserole - wrong temp? Probably.

[Jonette]

AIBU - I'm a useless cook and get distracted with recipes when I don't have all the precise ingredients.

So I've 5 chicken breasts, (think it's 1kg), a pack of frozen carrots, one onion and 500ml of stock. I can't fit another onion into the dish.
I've stuck it in on 150 degrees (fan oven) for 2 hours?

Should that do it or should I raise the temp and reduce the cooking time?

I can't post either. Mn having one of its moments again.

Agree with tickled - breasts dry out in a casserole and will over cook. Thighs are much easier and have more flavour. But for your current meal you just need to make sure theyre cooked in the middle. I have a feeling you might be better
Taking out the chicken and carrying on cooking the veggies without it!

Agree with tickled - breasts dry out in a casserole and will over cook. Thighs are much easier and have more flavour. But for your current meal you just need to make sure theyre cooked in the middle. I have a feeling you might be better
Taking out the chicken and carrying on cooking the veggies without it!

MN is playing up on me - finding it hard to post.

Going to link this. I make the beef one (but I add mushrooms and an oxo cube!) and it has never gone wrong

https://hammertown.com/2011/01/jamie-olivers-basic-stew-4-ways/

I once tried cooking thighs and I ended up with a fat sludge.
As I said. I can't cook.

did you literally just put 5 chicken breasts frozen carrots an uncooked onion and stock in a dish and put it in the oven?

Yes!

Why don’t you get a recipe book. I’m not being patronising. But get one with nice simple easy cook things.
Nigel slater is very good.
Nigella Lawson
Good housekeeping
Follow them to the letter - you literally cannot fuck it up.

You’re cooking the wrong meat in the wrong way. Thighs would be better, but brown them first even then they’ll only need an hour on the hob.

Have you thought about a slow cooker?

I cook them for about 20 minutes to half an hour on 200 so it seems long enough.

I would invest in a good basic cook book like Delia Smiths book. And there are loads of simple recipes online.

I cook thighs on the bone in an hour, though I use the hob, bring to the boil and reduce to a simmer. Chicken is very dry if you over cook, it's not really a meat for slow cooking - 180 degrees is low enough

I don't have a recipe book nor a slow cooker, but I used to have one called 101 easy dinners or something which was easy to follow. Will maybe invest!

If you can't cook you'd be better off with a recipe book than bunging things in the oven and guessing 😂

OP you are well intentioned but that recipe sounds I’d chuck it and order a dominos

Yes an easy to follow recipe book sounds like a plan - if you follow the recipes things like this should be easy

How did it turn out

You have the internet!!!! That’s free.
Take the breasts and carrot out now. Reduce the sauce a bit. Slice breasts. Put them back together
Serve with rice, as it’ll be a bit soupy

BBC good food website has loads of great recipes. There is no excuse - if you can read you can cook!! 😁

It's actually quite alright, though the carrots are a little al dente as they were sitting on the top of the whole thing, out of the liquid.

dash of Worcester or soya, bit of sweet pickle, teaspoon of dried thyme, half tea spoon of paprika

^^i literally read that as ‘a tampon of dried thyme’

Sounds gross OP, also vote you chuck it and order a dominos

How
How
Do cooked frozen carrots sit on top and be aldente. They’re not aldente to start with
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh

I'll have you know that my long suffering dc were reared on my nutritious and delicious cooking!

I got an A in Home Economics!!!

What is it that you are hoping will come out?

Chicken poached in stock?

But, anyway, it will be safe to eat.

Too late now but.
Get your chicken out the freezer night before and put in fridge.
When you want to cook.
Chop onion. Heat about a tablespoon of oil in a casserole add onion, maybe a bit of chopped garlic. Stir and keep an eye on it until it looks golden / light brown.
Cut chicken into chunks about 1 inch / 2.5 cm coves, give or take.
Toss with a couple of tablespoons of flour, pinch salt, shake pepper, herbs e.g. thyme, sage, mixed herbs.
Add to onions and oil.
Keep stirring until chicken looks whiteish.
Add stock.
A bit of pearl barley or lentils added at this point is good.
Bring to boil, chick in your carrots.
Put in pre-heated oven at 180 for 30 mins.
First instruction should probably have been to pre-heat oven...
You could add chopped celery, peppers etc with the onion, peeled chopped potatoes with the carrots to make it one pot meal