What to do with a whole roast chicken please.

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Last night I cooked a whole chicken for Roast dinner but something came up which meant we didn't have time to eat it.

Dp has gone to work this morning and isn't back until Friday so there's just me, a 2yr old and a one yr old at home.

Going to do us a Roast tonight but that won't use even 1/4 of the bird so need some ideas of what I can make up today using it then stick in freezer.

We're gonna be fed up of chicken come the weekend lol!

Ps: Any good chicken soup recipes would be fab if you have any please.

Sorry I worded that wrong, I defrosted a whole chicken yesterday but didn't have time to cook it last night so will be cooking it this morning.

Make a pie. this is my failsafe, dead easy recipe. My dp even likes it without the pie crust, just serve up the filling with veg if you don't have any pastry. It's ridiculously tasty considering how easy it is to make. I may well have to get a chicken myself today, it's just the weather for it.

Chicken soup, freezes well.

If I have any leftover roast chicken, I often make Nigel Slater's creamy chicken risotto, it's delicious. Just cut the chicken meat into bite sized pieces, make a risotto with onion, chicken stock, thyme risotto rice, slowly adding stock in the usual way, and with the final ladleful of stock stir in the roast chicken,, then when it's basically ready stir in 50g per adult creme fraiche or double cream or mascarpone and some chopped parsley, then mix in grated parmesan as much as you like.

It's really yummy and good food for little ones too - they like it and it's easy to eat.

I'm going to make a chicken curry for tonight with the left overs from our roast.

Pie? Risotto? Soup?

Make extra gravy and cover enough chicken for another meal and freeze.

just shred the meat and use as sandwich filler.