What to serve with roast chicken

[Nuttyaboutnutella]

Has anyone got any suggestions for what to serve with a roast chicken that's not a dinner? I have a couple of chickens in the freezer from the butcher that need using. We're not a massive fan of dinners every week so don't have them often.

What else can I do with it instead?

We often have a roast chicken with just a green salad and nice bread. Or you could do a curry out of it...cut it up and take off the skin after cooking and make soup/curry to freeze.

Peri-peri roast chicken with sweet potato wedges/fries and corn on the cob or Levi Roots’ recipe for rice and peas.

www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/peri-peri-roast-chicken/

Or Indian style with the roasted squash realfood.tesco.com/recipes/indian-spiced-chicken-with-roast-squash.html

Fajitas a chicken curry

i love a roast chicken with a lemony or herby salad. i barely ever do a roast too much grease, time, effort, food.

Chicken sandwiches - with crusty bread, mayo, black pepper, and on the side some pickled onions, beetroot and peppadews.

Steamed vegetables with rice / mashed potato.

Maybe throw in a Yorkshire pudding or two

We do a roast chicken often with coconut rice and corn on the cobbs,

Some mash, green beans and gravy would be delicious.

Roast veg. That's what's on the menu here today to go with the roast chicken. I roast sweet potatoes, parsnip, carrots, onion, courgette, pepper, few cherry tomatoes and olives. I have veggie sausages with mine.

What exactly do you mean by a dinner? Full on roast potatoes and veg I guess, but anything like evening meal too? Or not?

We have roast chicken cold with baked potatoes and salad but that’s still our evening meal so is that too dinner-y?

Some lovely ideas. Rice Krispie those are perfect, going on the meal planner

Pulling my socks up yeah, I mean a typical Sunday roast dinner with lots of vegetables, photo, gravy etc. My toddler hates veg and any potato except for chips, and it's just too much effort and washing up to do one often

Make a chicken curry with rice?
Chicken roasted with lemon served with a pesto pasta
Slow roasted barbecue chicken with salads and pitta to stuff it in.
Any chicken recipe really.

Roast chicken with lots of spices (hot) and a huge pile of homemade coleslaw

I LOVE coleslaw with chicken.

We never roast chickens whole. Too lazy. I chop it up in bits first (thighs, drumsticks, breasts on the bone, wings, back as a separate strip), season, in the oven for about 40 minutes at 200 (or a bit longer at 175 if you’re mr bani, with a lecture on how it makes chicken moister). Serve with rice, use cooking juices as “gravy”. Salad, carrot sticks or whatever we have the energy for as a side.

Roast chicken with wraps and green salad , possibly some hummus or guacamole in the wrap.
Roast chicken with mash and gravy and peas
Soup
Roast chicken with roast veg

Cook them, then when cool, joint them and re freeze as it’s fine to freeze them once cooked even if they were previously frozen raw. Then you have chicken for whatever you want to make from the above suggestions or for fajitas, or over pasta, in salad / sandwiches or whatever.

I was going to suggest the same as Lostmyunicorn but instead of jointing them after roasting, to strip all the cooked meat off and freeze. Then you have a pile of boneless cooked meat that you can use to make fajitas, soup, curry, mix into fried rice, chicken pot pie, Burmese chicken salad, add to instant noodles with veg and tofu, chinese chicken with sesame sauce etc etc.

Fajitas
Curry
Soup
Salad
Pie
Pasta
The lists for chicken are endless.

Pittas or wraps and salad

Roast chicken with chips and peas is a favourite here. Gravy is optional.

Roast chicken wraps with avocado and salad

Crispy fried chicken quarters ala KFC or siuthern style, coleslaw, wedges, corn on the cob.

Fried chicken with rice or couscous.
Boil chicken shred meat and make a pie or soup with noodles (broth).

Chicken, hummus and fried onion pine nuts in pita or pesto and mozarella bread pie, you hollow the bread and slice it like cake or loaf.